Help dating fa cup programme

[holtie96]

Hi
Hope you can help
I have a single sheet programme M.P.R.D v Banbury spencer 4th October first qualifying round fa cup played at airfield ground littlemore
Can anyone advise of the year and also who MPRD are / were?
Cheers

[holtie96]

Hi again
It is 1947!
Still no idea who MPRD are or what it stands for !

[Ruud Van Driver]

Holtie,
Found this online so reckon it stands for Metal Processing Reclamation Department......

"RE the crash! I was I think about 3 years old - so obviously not that aware of what went on. I do remember seeing Tiger Moth airplanes on the field - unfortunately don't remember seeing much aircraft actiity- given I was taken for walks round part of it. I remember a crane lifting up biplane (Tiger Moth) and pieces falling from it!!! NO idea why - just one of those scenes. But pile of 'junk' from the crash is vivid in my mind. and the people around myself and mother who looked that the remains (from a locked gate it seems) So - yeah it was real! But what and when remains to me a mystery!

I also read that the airfield and and factory were used to refubish Spits and other smaller aircraft.


Remains of dozens of planes were kept - even for years after the war - at a scrap yard on Garsington Road, for the MPRD (Metal Processing Reclamation Department) - a fancy MOD term for recycling plant! part of Morris Motors I think".

Hope this helps.
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[BAZZABAGGIES]

Oddly enough its Metal & Produce Recovery FC.Morris Works, Cowley, Oxford
I had a home one from the same year in the cup Banbury Spencer v Osburton ? Radiators..

[holtie96]

Many thanks

Should be of interest I would suspect