Mystery Arty Tractor

[Wayne Hingley]

Originally Posted by rob love

http://www.spitcrazy.com/Simmons-2.htm

Thanks for posting that link Rob. Very interesting story!!

[Dennis Cardy]

As some of you may or may not know, Bill Gregg also collected aircraft. Including a Yale or two from the auction.

Yale 3350 is now at the Canadian Warplane Heritage museum at Hamilton Ontario.

http://www.warplane.com/aircraft/col...?aircraftId=34

[Les Fisher]

Many years ago I was employed by the War Museum to take a look at this haftrack during its restoration to see how well it was going. The person restoring it was needing more money and they wanted to just make sure it was almost complete. Very rear !

[Frank v R]

Bruce where did the photos you posted come from? I was there for the auction,

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Frank v R

Bruce where did the photos you posted come from? I was there for the auction,

They came from a co-worker's family album. I'm pretty certain that's him in the black shorts in the top left pic (50 odd years hasn't changed him a bit).

Here's the last of the set. I'm a little disappointed there aren't any with vehicles in them.

[David Dunlop]

I seem to recall a Yale at Bill Gregg's place during the conference, along with his Moth.

Were some, or all of these Yales originally intended for service with the French Air Force, but not delivered before the fall of France. Subsequently absorbed by the RCAF for wartime training for a while? A classmate of mine in University in the late 70's had a neighbour in Morden with a Yale on his property.

They seem to have been pushed aside rather quickly when Harvard production ramped up.

David

[Dennis Cardy]

Dr. Gregg's Tiger Moth at his farm…and last year under new ownership near Saskatoon.

[Dave Mills]

Hello Bruce, we visited a fantastic display of aircraft and touchy feely displays on Canada 150 Day. Highly recommended that you place it on your bucket list if ever in BC Canada. The Bi-plane is from the museum and was flying around for the celebrations, the pilots just loved a chat. Is the yellow machine with my thumb print in the shot the same model as the one earlier in the thread?

Cheers,

Dave.

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Dave Mills

Hello Bruce, we visited a fantastic display of aircraft and touchy feely displays on Canada 150 Day. Highly recommended that you place it on your bucket list if ever in BC Canada. The Bi-plane is from the museum and was flying around for the celebrations, the pilots just loved a chat. Is the yellow machine with my thumb print in the shot the same model as the one earlier in the thread?

Cheers,

Dave.

Certainly sounds like a to-do visit. Another one for vintage aircraft fans is the museum at CFB Trenton here in Ontario. There are some rather weathered aircraft outside (but you can get right up close to them) and of course there is their spectacularly restored Halifax bomber.

I'm betting that yellow birds is a Harvard instead of a Yale based on the large intake scoop on the left front. The big giveaway (you can't see in your pic) is that Yales have fixed undercarriages and Harvards retract.

[Dennis Cardy]

Yes, The Yales and the Harvards are very similar looking. And yes the easiest way to tell them apart is that the Yale has fixed landing gear.
Looking more closely, the Yales have a somewhat crude square carb air intake on the top of the engine cowing whereas the Harvard's have a more refined version on the side.

[Dennis Cardy]

Dave,
That's CF-GME a 1941 Mk IIB Harvard. Seen just to the north of Langley airport.

[Dennis Cardy]

Dave…(and other forum members)….

A blatant plug for the little volunteer-run aviation museum that you visited in Langley.

That red-nosed biplane you took pictures of… had just landed back only a few days earlier…...thanks to an RCAF Globe Master II…

from the Vimy celebrations over in France…

Hand built in their hanger over a period of many month's

http://www.canadianflight.org/content/press

Will pass-on your kind comments