Originally Posted by treadigraph
Interesting thought SSK - had the Manchester been more successful, I wonder whether it might have sounded better? Avro York and Handley Page Halifax make good aircraft names as well, don't they?
And just think, it could have been Avro Leeds or Avro Liverpool... (Apologies to the good folk from those fair cities!). Or Handley Page Hull...
'From Hell, Hull and Halifax, Good Lord deliver us'