Can anyone identify this photo?

[invicta]

I'd be grateful if anyone could tell me where the following photo was taken. My grandfather is sitting on the right had side next to the exhaust.
I assume it's taken at the end of the war but it's nowhere I recognise in Kent.
Thanks Nick

[wwrsimon]

Some good clues there: 'Nortax' on the right, and the 'Football Echo' building behind.

Cardiff, Southampton, Sunderland and Liverpool have/had a Football Echo, and Norwich today has a Nortax (although they may not have been around in those days!).

Any ideas?

[PeterA]

Northampton.

A low back XVI could be SL54* or SL64* perhaps

http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/Search/...ssetType=image

PeterA

[PeterA]

FOOTBALL ECHO weekly in season Northampton no.1 3 Sep.1898 - 2 Sep.1939 (not published 26 Apr.1914 - Aug.1919) (Sports ed. of Northampton Daily Echo) BL 267-8 Sept 1906-329 18 Apr 1908; 363 4 Sep 1909 – 413 31 Dec 1910 Not published 18Apr 1914-6 September 1919 no.482 4 Jan.1913 - 2 Sep.1939 Nh rsi 1898-1939 lacking season 1909/09 and season 1911/12 to season 1919/20 inclusive. (C&E deposit). Bound, poor, early years worst. Filmable with care. Most lost in fire.
microfilm BL 1906-1910 Nh Lib Sept. 1898-Sept. 1939 Negs location:Local notes:

[PeterA]

Company name - NORTAX (NORTHAMPTON) LIMITED


Company incorporation date - 12/11/1976

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Registered Number:01286181 - Registered at Companies House on 12/11/1976 Type of business:Unknown Address:5 REGENT SQUARE
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[wwrsimon]

Originally Posted by wwrsimon

Some good clues there: 'Nortax' on the right, and the 'Football Echo' building behind.

Cardiff, Southampton, Sunderland and Liverpool have/had a Football Echo, and Norwich today has a Nortax (although they may not have been around in those days!).

Any ideas?

Or it could be Northampton...

Good job by the way!

[Dave Wallace]

It looks similar to some photos I have seen of RAF bombers doing "Wings for Victory Week". They would roll an aircraft into a main location and have Aircrew on duty to talk to the public. My Dad did a couple of these in 1943.
http://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=h...CNGTnQe44dGrBw


http://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=h...M4GanAfm1sSCBw Dave Wallace