B24 liberator found in australia

[Keith Webb]

Hughes Trading were involved but the main scrappie was RH Grant. There were smelters set up on site. Hughes were mainly interested in the mechanical parts they could resell to farmers such as cabling, chains, that sort of thing. They once cut the wings off an Anson and towed it to the yard in Coburg.

Here's the Hughes Trading F15 in action at Tocumwal.



The same truck in the 1970s at the yard in Coburg.

Originally Posted by Mike Kelly

What a shame that those B24's at Tocumwal were chopped up in situ on the old airfield . Early 1950's ? I think it was Hughes at Coburg who did the actual scrapping - ax chopping . If only somebody back then had the foresight to save one or two of them . But , at the time, hanger space wasn't available I guess .

Or maybe the US govt. made a demand that they be scrapped . A lend lease requirement or something .