From an Idea by Sir Sydney Camm and Tophe (finished)

[TallEng]

Thanks everybody, 
But now I have a bit of a puzzle
The Royal Mail is or was operated by the Government, and staffed by Civilians, so what sort of registration markings should the Post Hurricane wear?
I suppose the Aircraft could Carry military serial numbers and still be flown by Civil Post Pilots, but I could see that
This might cause problems when flying over or too Countries that had a strained relationship with Britain and or the Empire, or for Intelligence reasons would not allow an Military Aircraft to land/overfly the Country. Because by implication if the Aircraft has a military serial it could be in use by the Military. Despite wearing a very Civil looking colour scheme.
If it has a Civil registration as supplied by the CAA, I have a problem in that the CAA issue registrations consecutively, (so no handy blocks of unused registrations unlike military serials)
For example, Hurricane PZ875 (the last of the many) entered the Civil register as G-AMAU, so if I move a few letters away say to G-AMAX to use on my Post Hurricane, a quick check on the Internet shows that Reg. to have been used by a Miles Marathon.
Another idea I had was that the Royal Mail Aircraft would have been issued with an out of sequence Registration,
For example G-POHA etc, although I must admit I favour a proper Civil Registration from about the time when the Post Hurricanes would have been registered ( about 1946/7) I would be interested to hear your views
That is if my ramblings haven't completely lost you

Regards
Keith

[Tophe]

The code G-TALL would be good, I think. If ever Google finds another aircraft with this code, Google's one would probably be fantasy, as the very truth is here. No? This is my vote anyway.

[PR19_Kit]

A civvie reg would definitely be the way to go, big white letters, tapered on the underside of the wings too, that'd look great. 

There were some reggies that were never taken up, even though the CAA issued them and a search through their G-INFO web site could be worthwhile.

http://www.caa.co.uk/application.aspx?catid=60&pagetype=65&appid=1

Aircraft that have been de-registered could also be worth looking at, G-AMUZ might be worth considering as it was a DH104 Dove 1B and was de-registered at some stage.

[NARSES2]

I think you could use a separate registration number system for Royal Mail - although civilian is was a quasi govermental organisation

[raafif]

Military aircraft often wore civvy rego for ferrying over foreign countries - I have a photo of a Mossie with rocket-rails & civvy rego in Egypt, 1947.

RM... or PO... for the serial if free would suit, then G-HMPO or G-HMPS for the civvy registration ?

Or, for something completely different, HMPO-1 (no country designator, like some interstate truck plates) .... or G-CPS1 / C-HMPO (Commonwealth Postal Service) ?

[Briar]

You should have given it a butt load of guns on that nose  . You could have even drafted the guns and their setup right off A P-38 of their scale. 

[TallEng]

Right it's taken awhile but I think this one is finished.....
So here we have The Hawker High speed Airmail aircraft.

Registration G-AHQK (apparently there are no 'G' registrations with a 'Q' in)
And normally flown by Post Captain 'Pat' Paterson 
On with the Pictures









Hope you like and that Tophe approves (it's all his fault anyway )


Regards
Keith

[Cliffy B]

Very, very slick man, me likey a lot!!!! 

[Logan Hartke]

I agree!  Lovely aircraft!

Cheers,

Logan

[Jay-Jay]

Splendid !   

[sequoiaranger]

I *REALLY* like this "bizarre bird" you have created! 

[pyro-manic]

That's a beauty, Talleng! A real looker. I can't help but feel it might have benefited from slightly more tail - longer booms, or maybe just bigger/taller rudders - but it's cracking nonetheless. And the paintjob is very sharp.

[Tophe]

Wonderful! Congratulations!

[NARSES2]

That really does look the business 

Wonder what Royal Mail would make of her ?

[PR19_Kit]

Now that is EXCEPTIONAL! Super job there.