Newsletter 7
Autumn 2004
Updated on 12Oct2004

Published by the Hawker Association for the Members.
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Duke Portrait Preserved
The following letter dated 2nd September 2004 has been received by the Association from the Royal Aeronautical Society Librarian at 4 Hamilton Place:-

"I am writing to inform you that the pen-and-ink 'cartoon' of Sqn Ldr Neville Duke that the Hawker Association kindly 'sponsored' under the Library's 'Adopt-a-Picture' Appeal has been restored by The London School of Picture and Frame Restoration.

It is now on display in the refurbished Members' Bar/Lounge at the Society's headquarters at Hamilton Place alongside other 'sponsored' cartoons of test pilots from the same series. A plaque on the picture records The Hawker Association as its 'sponsor', the text of the plaque reading as follows:-

Sqn Ldr Neville Duke (Hawker Aircraft Ltd.)
Restored May 2004
Sponsored by The Hawker Association

Thank you again for your very kind donation and interest in this conservation project.

Yours sincerely,
BL Riddle"

If you are up in London, why not call in and have a look at the cartoon which your subscriptions have helped restore? If  Members hear of any appeals concerning Hawker aircraft, people or artefacts, please let the Editor know so that the committee can consider supporting them.