Demise of a Superfreighter

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Demise of a Superfreighter

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Pic taken of G-AMWA on the day it suffered an engine failure at Guernsey CI in September 1963

Extracted from the middle of a 2 1/4 inch slide that had suffered almost total colour fade..

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Sad to see but a great find. I'm sure I've seen this or something similar in B&W and even though the colour is damaged, it does add a lot to what is a very sorry sight ;)

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I once showed a poor newspaper cutting on the test thread.
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Ah.. that must have been it ;)

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Poor thing. :( I hope the crew was ok.

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Hope nobody was on the main deck!
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No injuries, but the single, posh American car was mashed.
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