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LancashireLass: Welcome to the Nostalgia thread on Rotorheads! Yes, you've come to the right place and, well done on your inaugural post!
At the time of your photo the craft in question was jointly owned by A. Smith Ltd (as mentioned by CharlieOneSix and TRC) and by F.V. Alderman, also of Lancashire. Hopefully before long, someone may come along and identify the pilot for you.
Smith and Alderman sold the aircraft (a Brantly B-2B) in 1974 to A&B Cars of Newton-le-Willows in Merseyside. Towards the end of the 70's the aircraft was bought by one of the UK's celebrated helicopter personalities and a regular contributor to this thread - Dennis Kenyon.
If you skip back to page 16 you can read Dennis' comments on this aircraft (post #310) and on the same page in post #315 you can see what the aircraft looks like today.
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