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Someone asked before about the 87 date on the pic. It somehow stuck there. Pic taken on July 14, 2002.

Hi All, Might as well continue on the subject of Gordon Murray. In mid-2002 Gordon asked me if I could find him either a GSM (Glassport Motors) Dart or Flamingo. My first reaction was to ask why a man who designed the McLaren F1 and was working on the new Mercedes-Benz McLaren SLR would want a...

Hi All, Do you know what STP stands for? SPINNING TAKES PRACTICE! He, he, he Andre 40

Hi Chris, The reference to ex-McLaren people and the Surrey telephone code of 1252 could mean that 2 + 2 = 4. Tell me about the car you are designing. Us crazy car designers and builders must stick together. Perhaps we can help you in come way. E-mail me on [email protected] and I'll...

Hi All, That’s me with Gordon Murray at a dinner party during his and his wife, Stella’s, recent and last visit to Cape Town. I’m busy drawing a McLaren F1 on a paper napkin. ‘What’s that? It looks like an F1,’ he says. I say, ‘Supposed to be!’ ‘Ah, now I see’, says he. What a diplomat...

Hi All, I tried to post the aerial pics but the files are too big. I'll have them reduced and will post tomorrow. Onwards and upwards, Andre 40

Hi Paul, I've just read your post again. I took the pics of Keith at Thunder City about two weeks ago but about 40 years ago he could have been photographed at Boscombe Down in almost identical poses. Despite a few wrinkles, I mean lines of distinction, he's aged well. Good news for my...

Two Buccaneers. A vicar saw a little boy wearing a pirate's hat. 'Where are your buccaneers, son?' asked the man of the cloth in friendly manner. 'Under my bucking hat,' was the reply. Hi Paolo, No the ME 262 is not at Thunder City. I think it's at the Air Force Museum in Johannesburg. I'll...

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Typo - an not and! Two English Electric Lightnings

The business end of and English Electric Lightning

English Electric Lightning

Thanks Paul, Keith might have been stationed at Farnborough at some time but he was definitely at Boscombe Down. He grew up in Woking (McLaren country!) as did my wife, whom I met in i965. He was educated at Ardingley, Sussex, as was incidentally the late Mike Hawthorn. At the time he fancied...

Mean Hawker Hunter

Oops, Royal Aircraft Establishment I should have said. No, I'm not on Shell's marketing payroll! Next pic, Keith next to a Hawker Hunter. Amazing that that aircraft saw the light of day in 1951.

Keith Hawes next to a Buccaneer and appropriately under 'Royal Air Force Establishment' which establishment he belonged to once upon a time.

A 1950s South African Air Force (SAAF) Vampire, not in a position to ever fly again!

Hi all you high flyers (as opposed to low flyers), A visit by an old friend from the UK, a former RAF test pilot from the 1960s era, Keith Hawes, was a good excuse to re-visit Thunder City, which adjoins Cape Town International Airport, South Africa. Thunder City operates the world’s largest...

I have received an E-mail asking whether the Pressurite System infringes another similar type of tyre pressure monitor. The answer is no.Pressurite has two unique features which are unlike any other in the world and consequently the patent application is now in its final stages in the US and the...