One of the photographs acquired by the author showing a little-known and perhaps short-lived innovation for refuelling light aircraft at de Havilland’s Stag Lane airfield in the early 1930s. Seen here is the pipeline after being raised from its housing in the concrete surface covering the fuel tank

One of the photographs acquired by the author showing a little-known and perhaps short-lived innovation for refuelling light aircraft at de Havilland’s Stag Lane airfield in the early 1930s. Seen here is an engineer refuels Moth G-AADI using the system.