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Re: More Slides.See if you like these.
Posted: 05 Apr 2010, 17:36
by Tomliner
Hi Chris.As far as I recall the flying club at Hucknall was the Merlin Flying Club.Among my miriad of slides I there some shots of other people who regulars at Hucknall.I'm sure there will also be more as I work my way through them but they wont neccessarily be of general interest to folks here..The period is from approx 1974 to the mid nineties.Incidently,sometime later on I may upload some images of the superb homebuilt Sopwith Tabloid which you may know was built by the late Don Cashmore.EricT
Re: More Slides.See if you like these.
Posted: 05 Apr 2010, 22:19
by DispatchDragon
I do believe its a VW powered Nipper the odd protrusion out the top of the cowling houses the generator -- we had a couple of RV3's in a EAA chapter I used to belong to that looked the same.
Leif
Re: More Slides.See if you like these.
Posted: 05 Apr 2010, 22:53
by Garry Russell
Re: More Slides.See if you like these.
Posted: 05 Apr 2010, 23:24
by cstorey
Sorry, you are quite right, Merlin . No, Leif, I don't think it is either a Stamo or a Rollason Ardem VW conversion, which was what the vast majority had . That's why it looks unusual to me. ( And the Nipper had no electrics other than a battery powered crystal set, so no generator) . It looks almost as if it could be a flat twin set up, with that hump covering the carburetter , but what??
Re: More Slides.See if you like these.
Posted: 05 Apr 2010, 23:57
by Garry Russell
Re: More Slides.See if you like these.
Posted: 06 Apr 2010, 22:38
by cstorey
Well that's interesting, Garry. I think this must have been an early DIY VW conversion which kept the fan of the car version. That would explain that extraordinary hump in the cowling, which certainly was absent from the Stamo or Rollason versions