27,000 you say Vicky10!
If only you could get a similar deal with Rolls Royce as the BBMF, the VC10 C1's are good for at least another 80 years then.
...and there's some twit on Aviation History and Nostalgia who claims that British built airliners are all failures. Tut, tut! Not the most beautiful airliner ever built (a close competition with the DH Comet), that's for sure.