This Newsletter contains several excellent articles by Members telling of their time with Hawkers. Thanks to all those contributors - and let them be a good example. We all have memories which others would love to read; so just settle down and write about them. It doesn’t have to be polished, just legible. It’s the Editor’s job to make the piece read right.
It’s time to be thinking about our Christmas Lunch. Prices are not yet fixed but should be similar to last year. Just ’phone Ken Batstone on 01932 229938 for full details and to book. Alternatively see him at the next meeting.
Subscriptions for 2011-12 are still awaited from 36 of you; your names are in bold in the Membership list on the last page. Please send your £5 cheques to Barry Pegram, 12 Becket Wood, Newdigate, Surrey, RH5 5AQ.
For those of you who missed Graham Tomlinson’s talk to the Association on test flying the JSF, he will be giving it again to the RAeS Weybridge Branch at the Brooklands Museum on 9th November at 6.30 pm. Visitors are welcome.
David Hassard has been researching the history of the Richmond Road factory and has discovered much unpublished material. He is giving a talk to the Friends of Kingston Museum in the Museum Art Gallery on 22nd November at 7.00 pm. - tea and coffee from 6.30 pm; admission is free but donations are welcomed.
I am embarrassed to say that a Member sent me an article entitled “March 1943: a Very Brief Resume”. Unfortunately it is not signed and I have lost the covering letter. Dear author, please let me know again who you are!
In spite of the above please continue to send your Newslettter contributions to:
The Editor, Chris Farara, at