Looking Back: Eros statue's links with Feltham - Get West London
DeepestSouth, it looks like you are right. Mechta Senior completed his apprenticeship at General Aircraft, having moved there when Short Brothers moved from Rochester to Belfast. I'll ask him if the name is familiar, but the likelihood is that Mr Colarossi had retired by 1948 as he would have been seventy three by then. Having said that, if his colleagues knew that he had modelled for the statue of Eros, he may have been a bit of a legend around the company.