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Details
| Description: | A Thorn Coal Gas Balloon, serial number 2, named Eccles. Built from transparent plastic. Was last inflated at the BBM&L Inflation Day in 1988, as in the picture, with cold air. |
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| Name: | Eccles |
| Type: | Thorn Coal Gas Balloon |
| Serial No.: | 2 |
| First flown: | Not flown as was never completed. |
| Donated by: | Mike Allen and Nigel Ponsford |
| Image(s) credit: | Richard Hands |
History
12 July 1965
Owners: John Thorn, Ronald Peek and Patrick Mulholland
1 July 1966
(approx date) Construction abandoned
23 June 1981
De-registered as withdrawn from use