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Post by madmac on Jun 20, 2015 21:28:53 GMT 12
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Post by errolmartyn on Jun 20, 2015 22:00:50 GMT 12
A surprising 'trade' indeed! The radiator looks to be the genuine article, all right, but the seller's accompanying text features some silly errors: "Brothers Leo and Vivian Walsh built a Howard Wright biplane in 1910 and flew it on 5 February 1911." Not correct – see Chapter Four of Volume Two of my ‘A Passion For Flight’.
"In August 1911, the aircraft crashed" Ditto ". . .but it was later rebuilt by the brothers and converted into an entirely new aircraft." Not so. Nothing to do with the Walsh brothers at all. It was rebuilt and heavily modified by Billy Miller and Esk Sandford."The last of the Walsh Brothers designs, the Type D of 1919, was an aerodynamically and hydrodynamically advanced machine, with a powerful Beardmore engine." Of course this was the re-engined version of the original Hall-Scott-powered ‘D’ Errol |
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Post by saratoga on Jun 21, 2015 9:14:09 GMT 12
I suppose it was found in the tunnels, next to all that ammunition..  |
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Post by ZacYates on Jun 22, 2015 8:47:16 GMT 12
I was trying to figure out a way to mention the Boeings!
Definitely not something I'd expect on TM. Hopefully it finds a good home and is able to be sympathetically displayed.
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Post by The Red Baron on Jun 24, 2015 20:42:32 GMT 12
........  One would hope there was some provenence with it and your not just getting an old car radiator. |
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