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Old 28-08-2018, 17:19   #7
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Re: Wellington Bomber production in Accrington?

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Originally Posted by landhusweg View Post
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A small anecdote:
I served my apprenticeship at the English Electric in Clayton-le-Moors from 1958 until 1963. At the beginning we were still producing the Canberra Bomber, later the Lightning and at the end the prototype(s) of the TSR (another sad story).....
You got me reading about the TSR-2, ironic that a Labour government cancelled it causing much redundancy, caused many skilled design engineers to move to America and put the UK years behind the USA in aircraft development

TSR-2: The Plane That Barely Flew
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