THE recent disaster at the Shoreham Air Display took me back to the one at Farnborough in the 1950s when the DeHavilland DH110 crashed into the spectators, killing 31 people including the pilot John Derry and his observer.

I was one of a coach party of engineering apprentices from Penketh firm Electro-Hydraulics Ltd.

One of our party, my friend Stan Morris, was tragically among those who lost their lives that day.

Following the disaster, the company presented a trophy in the shape of the DH110, to the best allround apprentice of the year.

This was an annual award known as the Stanley Morris Memorial Trophy and I won it in 1955.

I left Electro-Hydraulics in 1958 and the company closed down in the 1960s.

I am trying to find out if the trophy still exists and its whereabouts if it does.

It was made in the apprentice school and I would like to photograph it and to see who the recipients were in the years following.

I would be most grateful for any information.

MIKE ASTILL
Whitley

 

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