The response to the appeal for funds to help with the restoration of
XP984 at the Brooklands Museum has raised £1375 to date. A cheque will
passed to the Brooklands Museum when the appeal is closed at the end of
the year - so you still have time! Let’s try to make
£1500! The contributors, listed below, are thanked
for their generosity:
LR Baker, AC Barber, PG Barker,
GM Bass, PA Bedford, AT Boyd, DA Byford. CM Chandler, KFS Chard. T Davies.
RJ Fairchild, CJ Farara, for CS Flint,
JP Gardner. G Harris, N Hayler. JM Janes, AN Justin. MD Murray. J O’Sullivan,
RC Owen. LA Palmer, BV Pegram,
LW Phipps, RJ Poole, C Radley, PR Rash.
EJ Syradd. AB Turner. GE Weller,
G Wilsher, CJ Wilson, GW Wilson.
Please follow the example set by these Members and send your cheques, payable to the Hawker Association, to
Chris Farara, 24 Guildown Road, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 4EN.
Joint Project Leader, Kingston Aviation Centenary Project, David Hassard, writes…
On 20th October there were some more additions to
the public displays of Kingston’s aviation history when a 1/8th scale
solid mahogany model of a Harrier GR7 and two wall panels were revealed
at the opening of an extension to the public library in Tudor Drive,
just a few hundred yards from the Richmond Road factory site.
The Kingston Aviation Centenary Project provided the drawings for
the model Harrier II as well as information and photographs for these
wall panels designed by the Kingston Borough Heritage Team.
The Kingston Aviation Heritage Trust has previously
donated bronze busts of Sir Thomas Sopwith and Sir Sydney Camm,
sculpted by Ambrose Barber, which stand either side of the entrance to
Kingston Museum from Kingston Library, and a bronze panel, also by
Ambrose, in the YMCA Hawker Centre. There are information panels at
both the Canbury Park Road and Richmond Road factory sites and a
lectern by the Thames slipway where Sopwith floatplanes were tested.