From the Edgware Rd end of Oxgate Lane however, more significant is the view from Horseshoe Close (ie the Coles Green Rd side of the factory looking towards Edgware Rd) which matches the profile of the factory in the Whippet shot – note also the similarity of the roof mounted cowls. Then by taking a tour round the area using Google Maps Streetview, it appears that the factory which features in the Whippet image (which may or not be the McCurd’s) lies with its frontage on the Dollis Hill Lane side of the modern-day Oxgate Lane.Ĭlick for view from the Coles Green Rd end of Oxgate Lane It conveniently adjoined the McCurd lorry factory, now dilapidated but still standing near Staples Corner. He was promoted lieutenant-colonel and for the rest of the year he shuttled between Bermicourt and the MWD Experimental Station at Dollis Hill in North London. After reading the following in The Devil's Chariots': The origins and secret battles of tanks in the First World War by John Glanfield (2006)
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