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Thread #100604   Message #2020381
Posted By: GUEST,Jim Martin
09-Apr-07 - 07:56 AM
Thread Name: BS: Vimy.... 90 years.
Subject: RE: BS: Vimy.... 90 years.
Thanks Skipy.

Although I'm not old enough to remember them, they used to build them in the old Morgan Coach Works in my old home town of Linslade, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire. After construction, they dissembled them, transported them by road (horse & cart I think), then reassembled them in a suitable field just ouside the town from where they took off.

I think the Wright Bros used one to cross the Atlantic. There was no enclosed cockpit then!

The Morgan Works used to build wooden bodies for motor cars before they got involved with the 1st World War aeroplane work.