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Bruntingthorpe Cold War Jets - additional images added.
Posted: April 20th, 2017, 9:58 pm
by shangos70
Re: Bruntingthorpe Cold War Jets
Posted: April 20th, 2017, 10:22 pm
by Gregers
Now that's just awesome. One nice day at work. Awesome pics. Cheers for sharing.
All the best.
Greg
Re: Bruntingthorpe Cold War Jets
Posted: April 20th, 2017, 10:55 pm
by shangos70
Re: Bruntingthorpe Cold War Jets
Posted: April 20th, 2017, 11:18 pm
by jssel
Very cool. Thanks for sharing.
Re: Bruntingthorpe Cold War Jets
Posted: April 21st, 2017, 5:51 am
by Clashcityrocker
Nice pics. What are 22,000 cars doing there?
Nigel
Re: Bruntingthorpe Cold War Jets
Posted: April 21st, 2017, 4:44 pm
by iggie
Great piccies! I've not been to Brunty sonce Bob had his last Victor flight; good to see plenty of classics being looked after
Re: Bruntingthorpe Cold War Jets
Posted: April 21st, 2017, 9:21 pm
by shangos70
Clashcityrocker wrote:Nice pics. What are 22,000 cars doing there?
Nigel
The site is home to Mannheim car auction who handle a lot of top end motors, Maserati,Porsche , Jag etc plus it is also a storage /pdi and refurbishment site for some of the big car hire firms, one of which I work for. When the cars finish their rental life they come back for refurb and then either go into dealer approved networks or sold through auction. As March is new registration time all the older vehicles come off fleet as the new ones go out hence the large amount sat there. Plus the manufactures can't shift them quick enough either. They did say this was the most they had ever had on site, as a rule they don't like to store vehicles on the grassed areas.Even at 600 acres they can run out of hardstanding.
Also the site has a race / test track, when I was there Bentley were setting up for a drivers day. A lot of TV companies use it to film on. Royal Enfield are building a new R+D center there and there is also a refurb center for heavy plant machinery.
Re: Bruntingthorpe Cold War Jets
Posted: April 23rd, 2017, 3:58 am
by Clashcityrocker
shangos70 wrote:Clashcityrocker wrote:Nice pics. What are 22,000 cars doing there?
Nigel
The site is home to Mannheim car auction who handle a lot of top end motors, Maserati,Porsche , Jag etc plus it is also a storage /pdi and refurbishment site for some of the big car hire firms, one of which I work for. When the cars finish their rental life they come back for refurb and then either go into dealer approved networks or sold through auction. As March is new registration time all the older vehicles come off fleet as the new ones go out hence the large amount sat there. Plus the manufactures can't shift them quick enough either. They did say this was the most they had ever had on site, as a rule they don't like to store vehicles on the grassed areas.Even at 600 acres they can run out of hardstanding.
Also the site has a race / test track, when I was there Bentley were setting up for a drivers day. A lot of TV companies use it to film on. Royal Enfield are building a new R+D center there and there is also a refurb center for heavy plant machinery.
Sounds like an interesting worksite. Thanks for the information.
Nigel
Re: Bruntingthorpe Cold War Jets
Posted: April 23rd, 2017, 6:52 pm
by shangos70
Re: Bruntingthorpe Cold War Jets - additional images added.
Posted: April 30th, 2017, 9:18 am
by IronMan129
I love this plane!
I go atleast once every couple if months.
Great pics mate!
The Stripped out Jumbo is the ex Olympic Airways bird, apparently they have swapped her for a complete L1011 tall go into the Cold War Jets collection for fast taxi runs with the VC-10.