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Originally posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball
While we in the colonies have come to hate those insidious little biting insects, I can't help feeling the appellation for the aircraft is entirely apropos. Clouds of Mosquitos indeed!
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Quite so.
Rather off the thrust of this thread, but occasionally the British trend for naming army kit is so apt as to be uncanny; some farsighted person in Alvis I deduce saw this coming and managed to stake off the S names it seems for Alvis alone.
Now I'll probably miss some, and some may not be instantly recognised although a Google with Alvis as a "prefix" will do, the name and vehicle application/nature is almost perfect:
Salamander, Saladin, Saracen, Stalwart, Scorpion, Striker, Scimitar, Samson, Sabre, Spartan, Samaritan, Sultan, Stormer, Shielder, Scarab and likely some I've missed.
R.