A lost Greater Manchester "gimmick" saw a former RAF plane transformed into a restaurant with a 'cockpit' cocktail lounge.
Back in the 1970s, customers would venture to Pomona Docks to board a 21-year-old plane - known as the Comet - to enjoy a delicious meal or have a drink in its 'cockpit' cocktail lounge. The brainchild of Liverpool businessmen George 'Jud' Evans and Colin Peers of Compass Catering, the Comet was built by De Havilland Aircraft Company Limited at Hatfield and is said to have first flew in 1953.
After being struck off charge 1974, that same year the former RAF plane was acquired by the Compass Catering and flown to Manchester by a crew of six from the Wyton air base in Cambridgeshire. The plane cost £10,000 and had its wings, tail and fin removed to take a 12-mile road journey to Salford.
