#Boulton Paul

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If the Germans had copied the Defiant, would it have been a success against Allied bomber formations (particularly at night)?

@Tempest_books via X

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Boulton Paul Defiant. RAF 264 Squadron

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An air-gunner of No. 264 Squadron RAF about to enter the gun-turret of his Boulton Paul Defiant Mark I at at Kirton-in-Lindsey, Lincolnshire. He is wearing the GQ Parasuit, supplied exclusively to Defiant gunners, which incorporates a parachute harness and life-saving jacket within a smock overall. Four .303 Browning machine-guns are mounted in the Boulton Paul power-operated turret.

👇🏻 https://www.jetsprops.com/fighters/british-turret-fighters-boulton-paul-defiant-and-blackburn-roc.html

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The Woman in Green (1945) Roy William Neill

March 10th 2024

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12.156 The Right Thing

The last episode of series twelve gives us Jamilla’s first episode (credits aside) and a guest appearance from Paul Bettany.

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Airfix - 1/72 - Boulton Paul Defiant - Model Building Video

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DSC_9982 - Boulton Paul P.111, VT935, Midland Air Museum, Coventry, 29th October 2022. by Martin Laycock

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Boulton Paul Defiant

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August 25th 1819 saw the death of the engineer and inventor James Watt.

Born in Greenock overlooking the Firth of Clyde, Watt suffered from poor health and did not attend school regularly. Instead, he spent time in his father’s workshop, learning engineering skills and making models. He trained as an instrument maker and in 1756 the University of Glasgow employed him as an instrument maker, providing him with lodgings and a workshop.

Watt styled himself as ‘Mathematical Instrument Maker to the University’. In this role Watt was exposed to the vibrant community of experimenters and theorists in Enlightenment Glasgow. The Professor of Natural Philosophy was John Anderson, who would later go on to found Anderson’s College, which ultimately became the University of Strathclyde asked Watt to repair the University’s Newcomen steam engine and he then identified how to improve the efficiency of this machine while out walking. But as it was a Sunday, and the strictures against working on the Sabbath were still very prevalent, he had to wait till the next day before he could write it down. His idea was to separate the condenser from the cylinder and enclose the cylinder in a steam jacket.

Although Watt patented his idea, his early business had production problems and he sold the patent to a Birmingham entrepreneur, Matthew Boulton, and went into partnership with him. This proved to be highly successful and Watt retired a wealthy man in 1800.

Watt never stopped inventing right up to his death and he created a steam locomotive, a chemical document copier, advised Josiah Wedgwood on pottery processes, surveyed the Caledonian and Forth and Clyde Canals and deepened both the rivers Clyde and Forth. He also gave his name to the Watt unit of power and introduced the term “horsepower”. But it is Watt’s development of the steam engine, which was the springboard for the Industrial Revolution for which he is rightly famous.

I never realised there were so many statues to Watt until now, they are, in order, at George Square, Glasgow, The Hunterian, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt’s University Edinburgh campus, William St, Greenock, Leeds, Yorkshire, and my fave with his partner, Matthew Boulton, and subject of my post last week William Murdock, at Broad Street, Birmingham, Birmingham also boasts a second statue at Chamberlain Square, there is another in front of the People’s Palace at Glasgow Green, and one in Edinburgh in the National Museums of Scotland .St. Paul’s Churchyard, London and Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester. Further afield we have another at Montevideo Railway Station, Uruguay.

There are also busts of Watt in The National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh and The National Wallace Monument. If I have missed any out please let me know!

You can read more of James Watt’s life here

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Boulton Paul Defiant Mk Is (including L7026 PS-V and N1535 PS-A) of 264 Sqn RAF based at Kirton-in-Lindsey, Lincolnshire, late July 1940.

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Blackburn B-25 Roc II. A carrier-based turret-armed fighter. Basically it was the RN equivalent to the Boulton Paul Defiant which had seen success with the RAF. Type first flew in 1938. Photo of a formation on 9 August 1940

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Tony has been busy the past few days making a box to house the history and visitor book for Brynllidiart (the little ruin on the hill). The book was compiled by a local author and historian. She is absolutely thrilled 😄

It has a breathable but waterproof base and just needs a lick of varnish before he stakes it out at the site.

Additional. Lanac Woodworkers-(Third generation). Lanac is Canal spelt backwards. Lanac Woodworkers was Popop’s carpentry business. Popop (Arthur Llewellyn Green) was one of the few, military exempt, master craftsmen of WW2 and joined the Boulton and Paul factory in Wolverhampton where he helped design and then trained teams of female carpentry apprentices to build the Boulton & Paul Defiant - A two crew, plywood spitfire, with a heavy rear gun. There were 50,000 work hours in each aircraft. Dad was born in 1945 and grew up (to be a boat builder, cabinet maker and master craftsman) next to a canal in Woodley near Stockport. Lanac also stands for Leonard Arthur (Dad 💙) Nellie (Nanna 💔) and Arthur (Popop 💙), Carpenters.

“There’s a lot of work in a box.” Dad said.

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Bracket is up! Matchups are in text form under the cut. Reminder that all of these matchups were chosen randomly, and that this bracket will be run in a double elimination style, so a character failing out in round one does NOT prevent them from proceeding into the tournament.

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Helen Richardson / The Distortion (The Magnus Archives) vs. Calanthe (The Witcher)

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Boulton Paul Defiant of No. 264 Squadron RAF based at Kirton-in-Lindsey, Lincolnshire, July 1940

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A Brief History: Boulton Paul Defiant