Welcome Topper - you'll find plenty here to interest you.
Your mention of aircraft refuelling at a garage reminded me of a picture on my Simmonds Spartan website - have a look at the picture at the top of the linked page - can't imagine something like that happening today!
Thank you for the welcome Dave to think we used to play football on the main road and when a Vehicle came along we just stopped until it had gone past now you can hardly get across the road so I am told Thank goodness I do not live there anymore
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Hello Topper, I see that you were born in 1934. Well today I photographed a 1934 Austin seven for my dad who was born in 1926. I was told by the cars owner that it is in-fact an Austin ten !! Took this in Hucclecote Road, Gloucester.
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New to the site my step-brother in law referred me (Hawkeye001). Looking to find out info about RAF Sumburgh, Shetlands from 1941-43 especially airfield info regarding crew of 404 Squadron. By trade am an aerospace engineer but am currently teaching and love spotting at bases and airwhows etc..
At the risk of straying, I can recall in my later life coming across similar trailers, one was for housing RFD crash gear (had drop down side doors to access stowed items and the other was a mobile photographic processing unit. I think both were made by Tasker.
Thank you for the welcome PNK the hangar I remember as the second one built on the airfield there was a smaller hangar near the clubhouse.I can remember being taken to that particular hangar by the Airfield manager mr Potter and my father to see what was to me a huge aircraft the wheels on the aircraft to me were gigantic and I can remember it was a pre WW2 Bomber with what appeared to me at the time a dustbin at the front with guns sticking out no idea what type it was . The other buildings could have been anywhere.After the war the further hangar to the south was occupied by Milburn Motors where I started work as an apprentice when I left School.the hangar opposite Milburns was Occupied by County Motors who assembled the little Grey Ferguson Tractors.
The first hangar in Pauls pictures was also used after the war by Air Navigation and Trading Company who used to fly Rapides to the Isle of man I can still recall the registration of two of the Rapides that they used GA-KZT and GA-KNW I think the headquarters of the Air Navigation and Trading Company was at Squires Gate Blackpool
Hello Airfield Man Yes I was born in 1934 I remember the Austin 7 which was a bit smaller than the Austin Ten that appears in Pauls photographs I remember the foreman in Milburn Moters buying a 1938 Morris 8 which had a similar body to the Austin and us apprentices stripped it down and rebuilt and hand painted it for him
Hi, My name is Pete, I have had an interest in military sites and airfields for many years, having caught the bug from an early age..wanting to know "the way things were" and why they are/wer there..!. Iv not had a great deal of experience visiting the U.Ks airfields, as I live in Germany but the ones I have visited are usually more modern (I have a keen interest in most things cold war) the ones I have visited are RAF's Upper Heyford, Bentwaters, Woodbridge, Greenham Common, Colerne, Hunsdon, Tarrant Rushton, Gutersloh and Bruggen. Usually the bigger the airfield the better applies..! but anything goes really. I'd love to find time to visit RAF Alconbury and RAF Skulthorpe. I'm thinking of visiting a few old East German airfields in the very near future so I'll keep you posted!
All the best,
Pete.
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