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Old 6th May 2016, 09:53
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Originally Posted by vintage ATCO
Four Percival Proctor Vs awaiting delivery to the Arab Airways Association at Luton in 1948. First control tower on the right and the chimney in the distance is the boiler house of the Spittlesea Isolation Hospital. Credit: BAE Systems Heritage Centre, Warton, Percival/Hunting Archive
Lovely picture vintage ATCO but to be pedantic the chimney is the gas decontamination building used after the war with the white buildings as the flying club. The Spittlesea Hospital is just visible on the far left skyline.





Here 'tis - Aerofilms photo taken in 1946. The Tigers are G-AHDE and G-AHDF

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