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Jethro_uk wrote:
On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 12:11:29 +0100, charles wrote:

In article ,
Jethro_uk wrote:
Living in Brum (with "spitfire island"), I hear odd tales of how and
where they were built.

Never quite grasped the logistics of building the planes in one place
and having to fly them to another place to have guns fitted ?

Although in a way it was a great way for women to get to fly - all
power to their joysticks.

The Hawker factory in Kingston on Thames didn't have a runway. Every
plane left by road.

There's something surreal about seeing a tube train on a lorry ...

Many years ago I saw a loco of Eurostar on a lorry going round the M25.
Load was too high for the Dartford Tunnel!

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from KT24 in Surrey, England
"I'd rather die of exhaustion than die of boredom" Thomas Carlyle