Post by Taxigirl on Nov 11, 2003 19:15:32 GMT
Concorde fans will be able to bid for spare parts from the British Airways' fleet at an auction next month.
The biggest draw is expected to be a radome - the pointed end of the supersonic bird's distinct nose - which could fetch up to £35,000.
More than 120 lots will come under the hammer at the Bonhams auction at Olympia exhibition centre in London.
The machometer, which measures the jet's potential 1,350mph speed, could fetch £5,000.
Children's charity
The sale items will be on view at Olympia the weekend before and on the morning of the sale - on 1 December - which begins at 3pm.
BA is donating the first £500,000 profits from the auction to the children's charity Get Kids Going!
Concorde goodies for sale
Captain's seat - £1,000
Wedgwood ashtray - £75
Cabin trolley - £900
Model signed by crew - £400
Case of wine - £180
Lambswool blanket - £60
Lisa Perez, marketing director of Concorde Collectables, which has been selling Concorde memorabilia online for three years, said: "Concorde has a very special attraction for all kinds of people.
"It's beautiful, it's exciting. It's a 20th century style icon. And many people feel sentimental about it. We're all very sorry to see it go."
On Sunday, crowds of Parisians turned out to view Air France Concorde parts which are due to go on sale at another charity auction this weekend.
Air France has asked Christie's France to sell off a number of mementos, small and large, from tool kits and photographs to kitchen items, parts of the Olympus 593 engines and, again, that famous nose.
The very last Concorde flight will be from Heathrow, via the Bay of Biscay, to Filton, Bristol, on November 26.
It was from Filton, in April 1969, that Concorde first flew in the UK, and it was there that the plane was manufactured.
Several Concordes have gone to their final resting places to be preserved for posterity, including one to Manchester Airport and two others to museums in America - in New York and Seattle.
Two have not flown since the devastating Air France Concorde crash of July 2000, which claimed 113 lives. One of these will go on show at Heathrow, and the other will be taken to the Scotland Museum of Flight in Edinburgh.