BREAST Jobs - The Brooklands Recovery Engineering And Salvage Team Website

<body link="#FFCC00" vlink="#FFCC00" alink="#FF9900" text="#FFCC00" bgcolor="#006600"> <div align="center"> <center> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="871" cellpadding="0" id="AutoNumber1"> <tr> <td width="871"> <p align="center"><font face="Arial" size="5">BREAST - The <b>B</b>rooklands <b>R</b>ecovery <b>E</b>ngineering <b>A</b>nd <b>S</b>alvage <b>T</b>eam Website<br> <br> </font><b><font face="Arial">This site is best viewed with a frame equipped browser</font></b><font face="Arial"><br> (this page is for those that don't have one)</font></p> <p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="871"><font size="4" face="Arial">My name is <b>Andrew Lambert,</b> or<b> Andy Lambert, </b>of <b> Locks Heath</b> near Southampton, England and for nearly thirty years I have been involved in collecting exhibits for the <b>Brooklands Museum</b>. Those of us involved in this work are know as the the<b> Brooklands Recovery Engineering And Salvage Team</b> or BREAST for short. I have created this website to tell you about some of the more interesting Recoveries we have undertaken.</font><p><font size="4"> <font face="Arial">Because my background is in <a href="http://www.vehiclerecovery.org/">vehicle recovery</a> I have been able to call on my contacts in the recovery world to assist with some of the work ane between us we have been responsible for transporting most of the museum's major exhibits. I have now lost count, but the number of aircraft road transportations I have been involved with, but it must have exceeded one hundred by now. This includes aircraft as big as the Vickers Viscount Stephen Piercey and as special as BA's Concorde.<br> <br> The volunteers are a unique bunch of people and you never know just who you are working with on a project. To give you one example - one day I was unloading the cockpit sections of a Valiant 'V Bomber'. Quietly watching me was an 'old boy' cutting the grass. After an hour or so he had finished and come over to where we were having a break. We chatted for awhile and he seemed to know a bit about the V bombers so I asked him if he had worked on them. "No" he replied "not really, but there are a lot of other volunteers here who did if you need to ask something" he added. <br> <br> In the months that followed I got to know this unassuming and gentle man better and found out that indeed he had not worked on them. He was in fact Capt. Jock Bryce OBE, the test pilot who had first flown it, along with the 'first flight' of the Varsity, Viscount, VC-10, Vanguard and BAC 1-11. Talk about respect! </font></font><p><font face="Arial" size="4"> Please enjoy the site and feel free to contact me if you have any questions.<br> <br>  </font></td> </tr> </table> </center> </div> </body>