IF YOU want to impress in Glasgow, you've got to think big.
That's what brothers William and Harry Slack did in 1930 when they upended their Waldorf Aero Auto shop, in Sauchiehall Street.
Not only did they sell cars but you could also pop along to pick up a runway ready Blackburn Bluebird MK 4 aeroplane.
Parked up in the city's most famous shopping street, the biplane certainly made for an arresting sight.
From the looks of it, all you would have needed to make it airworthy was an adjustable spanner, to fix the folding wings in place. Mind you, we think we'd have got a professional in to do that. And if you couldn't fly it, you'd have to take it home on the tram!
No Bluebirds survive today, the last being scrapped in 1947
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