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Old 27-12-21, 12:55 PM
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I just thought I'd share my Grandpop's TAS badge.
He was a civilian aircraft engineer during WW2.
They built Hampden bombers, as shown on the badge, later Lancaster bombers.
Many thanks for looking.
Chris
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Old 27-12-21, 01:03 PM
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Very nice badge indeed. In such lovely condition too. Thank you for sharing.
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Old 27-12-21, 01:24 PM
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Thank you James.
Yes, it is in good condition, although not in my scope of collecting, I do see a lot of enameled badges on the forum chipped or cracked.
I'm going to pop it in a small frame at some point, preserve its condition.
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Chris
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Hello
I just thought I'd share my Grandpop's TAS badge.
He was a civilian aircraft engineer during WW2.
They built Hampden bombers, as shown on the badge, later Lancaster bombers.
Many thanks for looking.
Chris
A very nice badge, Chris. Always loved the Hampden since I tried to make an Airfix kitset of one.

I don't think that my fondness for it was shared by those who flew and fought in it however...

Sometimes called the "flying suitcase"!
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Old 28-12-21, 10:45 AM
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Thank you dumdum.
Hmmm, flying suitcase doesn't sound good ha ha.
I've done a but of research on the place itself, not the plane, I'll look more into that.
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Chris
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Old 28-12-21, 05:21 PM
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Very nice indeed!


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I just thought I'd share my Grandpop's TAS badge.
He was a civilian aircraft engineer during WW2.
They built Hampden bombers, as shown on the badge, later Lancaster bombers.
Many thanks for looking.
Chris
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Old 28-12-21, 05:23 PM
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Thank you Frank.
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Old 28-12-21, 09:37 PM
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Hi

Glad you approve! The "flying suitcase" was not meant as a compliment as you've guessed and referred to the somewhat "compact" nature of the aircraft.

I've been told that the aircraft was vulnerable to attack from below and I recall a rather tragic account from a Luftwaffe pilot recalling the look of wide-eyed terror on the faces of the crew as he approached the Hampden from below....

There is also the slightly happier story of a crew member retreating from the burning front of the 'craft and trapped in the tail section which broke off and rotated to earth.

He survived but wasn't given the Irwin gold caterpillar as he hadn't used his 'chute to make his descent!
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I am wary of differing slightly from the grandson of someone who worked at Tollerton Airfield, but I think that TAS repaired and overhauled aircraft rather than built them. My belief comes from having read, over several issues of the journal of the Nottinghamshire Family History Society, in 2014/2015, 'Tollerton Airfield during World War II' by Bryan Hancock, being memories of the author's time working for TAS. Outside my usual fields of interest, I found the articles very interesting and as the author mentioned a change of the company name, this post may even be of slight relevance as to setting limits to the date of the badge!
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Thank you so much for your input in my thread, greatly appreciated.
Yes, I agree, they repaired and overhauled aircraft, a recent things I found out about TAS.
Are there any photographs of personnel in the book please?
Chris
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Very nice. I have a brass Hampden that is either prewar or early war, but guessing prewar due to the use of brass. A strange but great looking plane in my book!!! The Lanc, obviously the most majestic bomber of the war.





This is not the original base for it I am sure, as I have a Spitfire also and it has a vintage base to it that is also brass. However, this is a nice base for it. 49 Squadron received the first Hampden's in September 1938, thus the date on the plate.

Terry
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Cheers Terry,
That's a really nice brass you have there.
Thanks for sharing it on my thread.
Hope all's good over there mate.

Chris
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There were five articles by Bryan Hancock spread over that many issues of the Notts FHS Journal. There were two photographs which together constituted an employee group photographs at May 1945 (although Mr Hancock said some people were not on it). The quality of reproduction while as good as in most publications of this kind was not by any means' high resolution'. If interested it might be worth a query of the Society, which had for some time been offering the alternative of e-journals, so may have the relevant issues in electronic form.
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