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LeEnfield

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I found this photo of an aunt who built airvarft during WW1 when you look at the plane is is quite large for its day

daisyaeroplane0003A.jpg
 
It looks like an Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5 but the exhaust shape is different to the A model.

Incidentally they are sitting down, standing up they would be about the same height as the aircraft.
 
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The female staff of Fairey Aviation at Heaton Chapel, Stockport in 1940.
Amongst the aircraft they built was the Swordfish, Fulmar, and Beaufighter.

My maternal grandmother is the furthest on the right on the back row, she was employed as a crane driver ;-)
 
I found this photo of an aunt who built airvarft during WW1 when you look at the plane is is quite large for its day

daisyaeroplane0003A.jpg
The aircraft is the two seat Bristol Fighter F2b, a large but highly successful late WW1 fighter.
It remained in service until the early 1930's as a general recon and ground attack aircraft in various parts of the Empire
 
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That would certainly explain why it looks "modern" for the era, and why the exhausts to match up in shape.
 
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