Wednesday 23 March 2011
What's 50MU????
In 1939, the Air Ministry decided that Maintenance Units (the MU bit) would be renumbered in the interests of tighter security. The number represents a designated area. My dad was based at Cowley I think (he did work at the Morris Motor works pre war) and his unit was 50MU. I am referencing David Thompson on The Aviation Forum where he lists others.......My dad was the gang leader of 50MU and they recovered aircraft from many places, often in difficult circumstances sometimes with the use of horses, including Chesil Beach, Cornwall, Wales and even one (at least) somewhere half way up Snowdon.
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Interesting stuff rosie xx
ReplyDeleteHi Rosie
ReplyDeleteI found your site http://diaryofa50mu.blogspot.co.uk/ - and am extremely interested in your dad's diary for March 1941.
To explain - for a long time there has been a serious effort to locate the site of two 'disappeared' rare aircraft, the two Whirlwind fighters that crashed on Dartmoor in late December 1940. The wrecks, and bodies, were found on March 9th 1941 - and one aircraft was taken off the moor by the RAF. Unfortunately all records as to where have been lost - although our team at the Whirlwind Fighter project (www.whirlwindfighterproject.org) have a fairly good idea of where we should be looking, in a very broad sense, and that the generally accepted location (Fox Tor Mire) is wrong.
What I have just worked out is also wrong is the assumption that 67MU attended the site. I believe it would have been 50MU
Hence my interest. I don't suppose by any chance there is any reference in your dad's diaries at all?
This is a fairly major project, linked to a Whirlwind re-build and a forthcoming documentary, and involving UAV's and remote sensing via the University of Birmingham - with the support of Prince Charles' office (the landowner).
With very many thanks in advance,
Matt Bearman
bearmat81@hotmail.com