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Graeme Wall · March 6th 06, 09:12 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london

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(Andrew Robert Breen) wrote:

In article ,
Chris Read wrote:

Shirley Concorde is only half British?

IIRC the structural design had a lot of Aerospatiale input, but the
basic configuration - ogival delta wing and all - was pretty much
straight Bristol. The pity was that the build wasn't the same size as
the original 6-Olympii Bristol design. That might have been a better
commercial proposition.

I seem to remember (from a promo film in 1962!) that the name was actually a
British suggestion.

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