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Re: Cowley aircraft dump........

Posted by TonyD on Thu Mar 28, 2002 01:56:54 PM

In reply top Cowley aircraft dump........ posted by Cees Broere on Wed Mar 27, 2002 09:28:32 AM

When I lived in Oxfordshire, we used (in good old (?!) BL and Rover days go looking for bits (with permission). Came up with a few nice bits (but small) including various plates (I still have a nice one off a BP Defiant) and a Typhoon exhaust trough complete with a/c no.. As time went by, the factory encroached our 'digging' area. A surreal moment was pulling up a mossie prop (in terrible condition) from between two brand new montegos! Not possible anymore, covered in cars and buildings

TonyD

: Looking through the FlyPast forum archives I found another
: dumpstory:
:
: .........Cowley during W.W.II and are full of stories rega
: rding the factory and the aircraft graveyard. Apparently m
: any wrecks were off-loaded from trains and trucks at the W
: atlington Road railhead and then ultimately dumped (someti
: mes ammunition and all) in trenches dug on the land betwee
: n there and the Garsington and Horspath Road and on the "n
: ow" Blackbird Leys side. Some of these guys were apt to li
: berate metals and compass components from the trenches for
: "onward" recycling and personal profit. Makes you wonder
: if some salvageable components still exist under the earth
: around there............
:
:
: Probably known, but who on this forum lives nearby to chec
: k this out?
:
: Cees
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