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Postby RLN » Wed Feb 04, 2009 10:04 pm

It's not a guess the aeroplane, but I thought this was a great picture.

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Re: What's this

Postby Saracenman » Wed Feb 04, 2009 10:05 pm

got to be Wellington's surely?

Barnes Wallis' unique geodesic design is the obvious feature me finks

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Re: What's this

Postby RLN » Wed Feb 04, 2009 10:09 pm

Yep. It was taken at one of Vickers' factories in 1939. I just thought it was a good pic. :)
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Re: What's this

Postby Saracenman » Wed Feb 04, 2009 10:12 pm

indeed it is

i stand to be corrected but i think that all Wellies were built at Brooklands - the early ones if not the later ones (and that's an early snap) - and we all know what else was built there don't we Mackrick \:D/ :D
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Re: What's this

Postby RLN » Wed Feb 04, 2009 10:13 pm

Sorry, I don't know, I was just going by the copy that accompanied the pic in The Times :-??
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Re: What's this

Postby Spitfire » Wed Feb 04, 2009 10:21 pm

Wiki ;)
Nevertheless, in the late 1930s Vickers succeeded in building Wellingtons at a rate of one per day at Weybridge and 50 per month at Chester. Peak wartime production in 1942 saw monthly rates of 70 achieved at Weybridge, 130 at Chester and 102 at Blackpool.
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Re: What's this

Postby Saracenman » Wed Feb 04, 2009 10:25 pm

Oh - Weybridge! :ymblushing:

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