Really chewed up the gravel on the carpark and peppered the MD's Bentley. Didn't get the gig...
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Turning up for interview in an SRN-4
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Originally posted by stek View PostReally chewed up the gravel on the carpark and peppered the MD's Bentley. Didn't get the gig...
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Follow link for Princess Anne donations page. Museum re-opens 1st April
https://www.gofundme.com/srn4hovercraft
Originally posted by stek View PostReally chewed up the gravel on the carpark and peppered the MD's Bentley. Didn't get the gig...
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Originally posted by anonymouse View Post
Frequently it would be cancelled because of rough seas and we'd have to take the rust bucket BR were running at the time, The Maid of Kent.
Fortunately I'm a good sailor.
There was another hovercraft company doing channel crossings on another route, Hoverlloyd I think. Can't remember where they went though.Comment
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoverlloyd
Therefore, Hoverlloyd and Seaspeed merged in 1981, to create Hoverspeed. The former Hoverlloyd services from Ramsgate were subsequently withdrawn after the 1982 season and the four ex-Hoverlloyd craft were thereafter based at Dover until their withdrawal from service between 1983 and 1993.
All four ex-Hoverlloyd craft were eventually broken up and none remains extant (although the two ex-Seaspeed SR.N4 craft are stored at the Hovercraft Museum). I seem to recall that they can only save one or the other (either not enough space or it's too far gone)
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Originally posted by anonymouse View Posthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoverlloyd
Therefore, Hoverlloyd and Seaspeed merged in 1981, to create Hoverspeed. The former Hoverlloyd services from Ramsgate were subsequently withdrawn after the 1982 season and the four ex-Hoverlloyd craft were thereafter based at Dover until their withdrawal from service between 1983 and 1993.
All four ex-Hoverlloyd craft were eventually broken up and none remains extant (although the two ex-Seaspeed SR.N4 craft are stored at the Hovercraft Museum). I seem to recall that they can only save one or the other (either not enough space or it's too far gone)
Not forgetting this:
Ran between Tower Bridge and Zeebrugge for a very short time....Comment
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Originally posted by stek View PostI had an Airfix one!
LookBack revisits Southport’s hovercraft heyday - Southport Visiter
As SueEllen said on another thread "You old gits"
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