Two WW2 staff cars for sale with H&H Classics
Campbell-Formy Staff Car.
LONDON
.- For sale by auction with H&H Classics at Duxford Imperial War Museum on Apruk 14th these two historically important WW2 staff cars both deserve a place in a military museum or a military collection.
A hands on director of Lincoln Cars Ltd, Sir Malcolm Campbell MBE kept Blue Bird K4 (his World Water Speed Record achieving boat) at the companys Brentford premises on Londons Great West Road. Well known to the senior Ford hierarchy on both sides of the Atlantic, he was able to secure a brand new, overseas market example of the Mercury Eight Series 99A upon its 1939 launch (Lincoln and Mercury were both Ford subsidiaries).
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 28, 2021
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At first glance, the concrete piles lying off the coast of southeast Essex, near the town of Shoeburyness, looks like the exposed columns of an old pier, but in reality is a defensive structure erected across the mouth of river Thames to prevent ships from crossing into. At one time, this so called “boom” extended all the way to the other side of the water channel to Sheerness in the Isle of Sheppey.
The Shoeburyness boom across Thames estuary. Photo:
The Shoeburyness boom was originally built during the start of the Second World War to prevent German ships and submarines from striking Britain at its most vulnerable place shipping. At any given time, the island nation had about 2,500 freighters sailing from around the world bringing in goods. The British also used ships for the movement of goods within the country, via the Thames and its numerous canals, as well as along the east coast of the island.
LEN Davidge, 96 year old D-Day veteran and holder of the Legion d’honneur (the highest French order of merit), died from natural causes whilst walking near his Winchester home on Sunday December 27. A service celebrating his life was held at the Charlton Park Crematorium, near Andover, on Tuesday. The celebration, led by Wesley (Weeke) Methodist Church Minister, Revd Canon Dr G Howard Mellor, was attended by his close family members. Len was born in the seaside town of Eastbourne in 1924. His father Walter had been an RNVR reservist who volunteered to serve in the Royal Navy during World War 1. With this background it was, perhaps, unsurprising that when the Second World War commenced, Len, while still a teenager, was anxious to ‘do his bit’. Upon reaching 18, and now living at St Albans with his parents and brother, he volunteered to join the Navy ‘until the end of the period of the present emergency’.
The Holocaust and its impact has reverberated through the past decades, and has lessons for us today.
Twenty-one years ago, in January 2000, the senior leaders of 46 countries met in Stockholm to discuss Holocaust education and remembrance.
They signed the Stockholm Declaration, which became the cornerstone for remembering the Holocaust around the world.
The declaration said that “the Holocaust shook the foundations of modern civilisation” and that it “must have a permanent place in our nation s collective memory”.
The then Prime Minister Tony Blair returned from Stockholm and set up Holocaust Memorial Day in the UK.
This sign created inmates at Auschwitz-Birkenau with inscription Arbeit mach frei (work liberates) (Image: DPA DEUTSCHE PRESS-AGENTUR/DPA/PA)