Last Blackburn Beverley at risk

[Tempest_5]

Hello,

Not a good time for large historic aircraft in the UK what with the situation at Bruntingthorpe. The last Blackburn Beverley is up for auction in Sept. It's been moved by road before but it's a mammoth task.

Auction link here

https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalog...

[The Brummie]

As big & ugly as it is I want that so much.

I would happily dump it on the communal grassed area where I live which would stop my cretinous neighbours using the green as a car park!!!

[Ayahuasca]

I want a cannon!

[FunkyNige]

What a depressing auction
https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yor...
"Members of the public have been speaking of their shock and upset after the sudden closure of a popular museum – and the reason why has been revealed.

In a statement on Monday, owners of Fort Paull announced the museum would not be reopening this coming April because of "unforeseen circumstances"."

But I'm tempted by an AA gun for the front lawn.

[BrettMRC]

Looks like you can buy half the royal family for under a tenner!

[The Brummie]

FunkyNige said:

What a depressing auction
https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yor...
"Members of the public have been speaking of their shock and upset after the sudden closure of a popular museum – and the reason why has been revealed.

In a statement on Monday, owners of Fort Paull announced the museum would not be reopening this coming April because of "unforeseen circumstances"."

But I'm tempted by an AA gun for the front lawn.

I quite fancy the idea of the Argentinian anti aircraft gun. What an awesome thing. Sadly I have been forbidden to bid on any of the AA guns.

Mmmmm. We will see when the auction draws too a close.

[Dr Jekyll]

Tempest_5 said:

Hello,

Not a good time for large historic aircraft in the UK what with the situation at Bruntingthorpe. The last Blackburn Beverley is up for auction in Sept. It's been moved by road before but it's a mammoth task.

Auction link here

https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalog...

I did read years ago that it can perhaps be dismantled and reassembled once more without falling to bits. Unless someone has the facility to store it indoors I don't think it'll last long in any case.
I still remember the one at the Southend museum which you could go inside, one small section still exists at Duxford.

[LotusOmega375D]

There used to be one outside at the Hendon Museum. Is it this one?

[Tony1963]

LotusOmega375D said:

There used to be one outside at the Hendon Museum. Is it this one?

No. The RAF let that one deteriorate beyond recovery. Scrapped.

[Eric Mc]

The one at Fort Paul is ex Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough. In the mid 1970s it was sold to Court Line who bought it as an engine carrier for their then new Lockheed Tristars. A year later the airline went bust and the Beverley was sold off by the liquidator.

[Yertis]

It's quite cheap at the moment isn't it I briefly imagined 'the conversation' with my wife.




Weird selection of 'objets' though, isn't it? I'm quite tempted by the Centurion tank workshop manuals. I haven't got a Centurion, but then I haven't got a Lotus Excel either, but nevertheless have bought the Lotus workshop manual.

[Eric Mc]

I've got manuals for -

the Saturn V
the Space Shuttle
the X-15
the Spitfire
the Mosquito

plus lots more similar

[Tony1963]

Except they’re not manuals, just coffee table picture books?

[Condi]

Shame its all going under the hammer. The displays must have taken someone a lot of time and effort and yet are worth very little to anyone else.

[Simpo Two]

Tony1963 said:

Except they’re not manuals, just coffee table picture books?

Knowing Eric they are the real ones, not Haynes Christmas presents... (of which I have the Empire Flying Boat one)

[aeropilot]

Eric Mc said:

The one at Fort Paul is ex Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough.

Many people forget that the RAE Farnborough sister Bev (XB261) to the one at Fort Paull (XB259) was flown into Southend airport in 1971, for display, and then slowly deteriorated out in the coastal air for the next almost 2 decades before serious corrosion issues saw it being scrapped, ironically the same year that the Hendon Beverley was also scrapped, 1989.

[Eric Mc]

Tony1963 said:

Except they’re not manuals, just coffee table picture books?

They are mostly Haynes books, I admit, but they are excellent references.

I do have one genuine manual for the Boeing 720 airliner.

[Ayahuasca]

That Hawker Hunter would make a nice garden ornament.

[WAVman]

Eric Mc said:

The one at Fort Paul is ex Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough. In the mid 1970s it was sold to Court Line who bought it as an engine carrier for their then new Lockheed Tristars. A year later the airline went bust and the Beverley was sold off by the liquidator.

This plane was situated outside the fabulous Museum of Army Transport in Beverley from 1983 until it closed in 2003.

It then went back to Paul, which was where it's last flight landed in 1974.

[dhutch]

Such a shame.

Along with our marine heritage these sort of things are at serious risk of being lost.

Large, costly or almost impossible to move, costly to maintain, and of no material use beyond a static display. As members of the public we can do our best to support these things by visiting them and stuffing a decent amount of paper folding into the donations box, but beyond that, few have the space or resources to house such as item.

Sadly many museums and collections hang in my the skin of their teeth, relying on inexpensive accommodation and short term leases, which in turn often pivot on a single elderly land owner.

Daniel