antarmike Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 I was going to put that one up next....beat me... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest catweazle (Banned Member) Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 I was going to put that one up next....beat me... spooky.never heard of the company might be interesting if we all tried to find out more about them so it doessnt just become a picture gallery,also any of the other firms.good hunting.:idea: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
les freathy Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 Correct on that Kuno the Armstrong was built under licence from Pavesi from 1927 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
les freathy Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 Taking a wander through some of my old mags i came across these items Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest catweazle (Banned Member) Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antarmike Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 (edited) spooky.never heard of the company might be interesting if we all tried to find out more about them so it doessnt just become a picture gallery,also any of the other firms.good hunting.:idea: They built the Gnat trainers the RAF used post war. (including the Dead Sparrows aircaft below) The Bristol Siddeley (Hawker Siddeley) name is also associated with the Gnat and the whole ides of the Gnat was its simplicity so that it could be licence build by countries not possesing advanced engineering facilities, http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/gnat/history.html Edited November 12, 2008 by antarmike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antarmike Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 Splintex still seem to be around, (as part of AGC Flat gass)and interestingly they patented a design for the globe for the Belisha beacon in 1949! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antarmike Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 I am at the moment puzzled by the 1914 date in the advert. From what I have gleaned so far these seems implausibly early for the company. British Marine Aircraft Ltd was formed in February 1936 to produce Sikorsky S-42-A flying boats under licence in the UK. The company built a factory on the western side of the Hamble peninsular with a slipway to Southampton Water. The Sikorsky deal came to naught, however, and the company was sold to Henry P. Folland , formerly Chief designer for Gloster Aircraft Company, who renamed it Folland Aircraft Limited on December 24, 1937. Folland began aircraft assembly at Hamble making parts for Bristol Blenheim and Beaufort bombers. Folland later took on sub-contract work making parts for de Havilland Mosquitos and Vickers Wellingtons. The first aircraft of its own design to fly was the Folland Fo.108 in 1940. Designed and built to meet the Air Ministry specification 43/47 for a flying engine testbed it was generally known as the 43/47 or by the nickname "Folland Frightful" from its unusual appearance. W. E. W. Petter, who designed the Westland Lysander, English Electric Canberra and English Electric Lightning, joined the company as managing director in 1950. He designed the Folland Midge, which first flew August 11, 1954, and the Folland Gnat training jet (July 18, 1955). Both were built at Hamble until the 1960s. In 1959 Folland was acquired by Hawker Siddeley who dropped the Folland name in 1963. Ultimately, Folland became part of British Aerospace (BAe). Although Hamble airfield closed in 1986, BAe continued to use the premises there for the production of major assemblies for Harrier and Hawk jets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antarmike Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 (edited) According to another source... Folland bought up the British Marine Aircraft Limited, which was formed in February 1926 to manufacture Sikorsky S-42-A flying boats. Take your pick of the contradictory dates!! First flight date of the Sikorsky S-42 is 1934, so 1926 date seems erroneous!! Edited November 12, 2008 by antarmike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest catweazle (Banned Member) Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 Well done mike great stuff. Korect instruments seem to be in france call thereself KDG-HOUDEC-KORECT DEPH GAUGE.The local croydon paper published a picture of staff outside the Croydon factory recently asking if any one recognised thereselves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted November 16, 2008 Share Posted November 16, 2008 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
les freathy Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 Not exactly wartime but a look into the end users of demobbed WW2 RAF Thornycroft Amazons Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
les freathy Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 I presume this thread is for all types of military advertising so here are some American truck ads of WW2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest catweazle (Banned Member) Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 Just so you dont feel lonely Les heres a few more. There a lazy lot of tykes on here you know:rofl: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Farrant Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 Thats a bit of propaganda advertising from Westlands :-D ...........A Lysander knocking out a 109 in a dogfight (next thing someone will say it actually happened ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest catweazle (Banned Member) Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 :n00b:It must be true its in black and white. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted November 21, 2008 Share Posted November 21, 2008 Thats a bit of propaganda advertising from Westlands :-D ...........A Lysander knocking out a 109 in a dogfight (next thing someone will say it actually happened ) Maybe not so farfetched. The Dutch used in 1940 planes with fixed undercarriage. They could outturn a 109 and actually shot some down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted November 21, 2008 Share Posted November 21, 2008 If I remember correctly the Lysander had a K gun at the rear and a fixed Vickers firing forward. the original was supposed to a light bomber (mainly 'cause it couldn't carry many bombs) then an Army Co-Operation aircraft. the idea of it as a night runner was an afterthought. I seem to rember from a soft cover thick book on the Battle of Britiain, published somewhere about 1968 a story of a lysander shooting down an enemy aircraft, but I think it was a ME110. does anyone have or remeber the book? Very well illustrated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
julezee001 Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 I've been going to post this for ages, but kept forgetting. Scanned from a wartime picture post in two sections in the Phillipines, emailed home, and with a bit of trial and error stitched together again. Main reason was to give a copy to a friend who has the real thing, but a great ad anyway! Jules Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gritineye Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 I think he'll like that Jules. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philb Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 Here's a few I found... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.O.S. Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 Here's one of a variant I'm not yet convinced actually existed. Unfortunately the text cannot be read. :confused: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest catweazle (Banned Member) Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 :-D:-D:-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willyslancs Posted March 8, 2009 Share Posted March 8, 2009 Thought the forum might like to see this sign with "modern" vehicles in it .:coffee: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Farrant Posted March 8, 2009 Share Posted March 8, 2009 Thought the forum might like to see this sign with "modern" vehicles in it .:coffee: That would be around the mid Thirties I reckon, nice find Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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