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Tornado fuel tank found in Lancashire garden centre

Presumably it was empty

plenty on ebay a none story really.

It must be a desperately slow news day. Meanwhile, in other news, "Aircraft seen landing at airport - hundreds of passengers involved".

It looks in better nick than the one G** R**** left in Downham Market at the start of the SMS issue. If I recall, the chap in whose garden it landed had formerly worked in the Victor Fuel Bay and wrote to the Stn Cdr saying he stopped taking work home years ago.

Hardly a 'Mystery' was it! The article identified who it belonged to and why it was there!

And here I’m thinking one came tumbling down from the skies after having sheared off a ‘nader cranking and banking....chasing a bandit or two...
Little less exciting really..

Two additional aviation connections there. The garden centre is close to Barton Hall, the former site of Preston ATC centre. Barton Hall was built for the Shuttleworth family. The tank probably felt quite at home there! :)

I bet this was draughty hurtling along on the pylon

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Probably full of Red Diesel

Good to see a big jug being put to some useful purpose for a change......on the F3 they were officially labelled 2250 ltr Drop Tanks; use them then lose them - a good thing in view of the limitations imposed by carrying them......

Can't beat the use petrolheads put many a war-surplus P-38 aux tanks to in the late 40's to '60's on the California dry lakes and on the salt flats at Bonneville :ok:

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I thought the P38 tanks were made of cardboard unless I've got my P's mixed up?
I might be thinking of P51's.

Yep, P-51's used British manufactured cardboard/paper 'use once only' aux tanks. They also used metal tanks as well for ferry flights etc. Both tanks were identical in shape/size and the easy way to tell which is which is the paper ones had a shiney finish to them as they were finished in silver dope.

The mystery is where our allegedly overstretched and underfunded police found the time to "investigate" this non-story