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Sounds like you all had a total ball with all the money you saved on the ivis!
Some of those buildings look fantastic. Looking forward to your thread on the 24hr Lemans museum too.I hope I am able to join you all on an adventure at some point, I totally loved my trip.
Limoges was a lovely place, didn’t really know what to expect before we turned up but it turned out to be a really nice place.
The very odd fireworks display
Yeah the brummie lads ended up a two brummie lads. Last I saw thumper he had took the wrong exit out of Oxford services and was headed the wrong way!
Great trip!
Just been watching a TV programme about the famous RAF 617 Dambusters squadron. It detailed some of the 100 raids they did after the famous dams mission of May 1943. One of them was to a massive aero engine factory in Limoges…you learn something everyday….
Didn’t realise they had that aero engine factory. I stopped off at Limoges this August on the way to the Pyrenees too. Very nice town, highly recommend a visit if you’re going past it.
Gnome-Rhône was a major aero engine builder for the French air force that was later used by the Germans to produce BMW engines for a variety of aircraft. It was their factory that 617 attacked
Bloch 152 fighter that used engines produced at Limoges
Messerschmitt Me232, a huge German transport aircraft that also used engines built there…nicknamed Gigant – or Giant
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