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Originally Posted by Iceman
The 'Little Hanger', is as already mentioned elsewhere on the forum, the Butt end of the range. It was used for harmonising and testing of the guns fitted to numerous aircraft assembled at Speke. At the rear is a large (about 30'tall by about 60' wide), welded armour plate shield. This is about 6" thick! It has evidence of some heavy calibre strikes on the face of it, as well as the stray rounds that appear to have struck the brick facing on the sides and the holes in the remaing corrugated roof. Guessing here, but the strikes on the armour plate vary from .303 calibre machine gun up to possibly 40mm cannon. The strikes on the brick facing would appear to be .303, although I cannot definatively say this is correct. Given the history of aircraft assembled here it is a fair assumption I think. Hope this is helpful.
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