Reading this thread I suddenly remembered that there is a statute of Thomas Fletcher Waghorn in Chatham, Kent:
Thomas Fletcher Waghorn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Perhaps related. The statute often sports a traffic cone perched on its head at a jaunty angle.
A couple of years ago I took my Dad to the excellent Solent Sky Museum where we were allowed up to the flight deck of their Short Sandringham. Later I drove him to Calshot and saw the old hangars and names. Dad had gone with his family one year to watch the speed record runs, but we do not know which year.