"How many left" website
I have a look at this website and it's rather interesting. It tells me there are now 1041 licensed Bristols, and 443 on SORN. However when I looked at individual models it seemed rather inaccurate. Are there really only 18 400s on the road? Are there only 6 412s? And one solitary Beaufighter?
Looking a little more closely I see there is an erroneous type of Bristol (BLMC)
Mine was labelled like this for many years and it took some correspondence to change this. There are 1041 licensed Bristol(BLMC)s and a further 443 SORNs.
Interestingly this number declined sharply from 4,800 in 1995 to a steady 1000 odd for the last 3 years. Was this as the genuine BLMC rustboxes dissolved away, leaving Filton's alloy aerodynes gleaming in the sun?
But this site is all done by one volunteer so hats off to him for a nice try, even if there are some sources of considerable error.
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