MUSTANGS I think ??
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MUSTANGS I think ??
phredd
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"Thanks for posting the photo Taffy! Brings back a lot of fond memories, especially the view of the Plaza Cinema" That pic showed some of the smaller planes. there were larger one's, minus wings, so that they could make the journey along the dual carriageways. Can't say what type but not Mustangs, they had a different nose arrangement, look like 'Defiants' or 'Skua's' to me.
I've got a 10 x 8 print of this photo, and the caption says: "2/15 American Mustangs going down Allerton Road".
The 2/15 could refer to the number of the photo. (I think it was in a book, but don't know what).
BTW. I don't know one plane from another.
Last edited by PhilipG; 12-01-2007 at 09:57 PM.
They look like Grumman Hellcats but I could be wrong...
It is Accomplished
definitely Mustangs. Hellcats and Wildcats had radial engines and no
bubble canopy. I built and flew all these planes albeit as models when I
was a lad
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Sent a copy of this picture to my Uncle who used to work at the Dunlops factory - this was his reply:
This leaves me confused! The Dunlop Speke factory was built as I understood it, as an aircraft factory. When I workrd there it still had the huge sliding doors for getting planes out and was tall with cranes running the length of the factory so that they could lift planes over each other. It was facing the old main runway so that finished planes could be taken across the road and onto the runway.
I do not know which aircraft company had their name over the door but I always assumed that it did not become a Dunlop tyre factory untill after the war. But this is clearly wrong in view of this picture unless that dates from after the war.
Its a bit of a suprise that the roads were wide enough without lamp posts or trees or post holding tram wires, to be able to bring planes along them
Incidently did you realise that the trees along Allerton Road were planted there as mature trees after the roads had been modified, presumably after the tram tracks were taken up, say 1951.
The planes being towed down Allerton Rd are P51 Mustangs with the props and spinners taken off. The same as the plane being towed past Water St.
The planes once assembled at Speke would be delivered to their destinations by teams of girl pilots.
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Deprived of its unique dockland waters Liverpool
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Great reading everyones memories about these planes.
The last trams to run along allerton Road did so on 6 June 1953.
The road was widened and made into a dual carriageway in 1966.
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Sorry thought you said "Can you pass the sauce please Chippie?"
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The planes once assembled at Speke would be delivered to their destinations by teams of girl pilots.[/QUOTE]
I read an interesting article some time back written by some of these girl pilots....one of which used to fly Lancaster bombers... she had flown all her life and after the war she wanted to continue flying and her ambition was to become a commercial pilot....only when she applied for training she was told that females were not recruited for training.....
These girls risked so much during war time as so many did..only then to get a pat on the head and sent back to the kitchen
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Yes I remember reading that as well......I found it absolutely fascinating....I really must see if there are any books these women have written
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