Talk:Vickers Vellore

Velox or Vellox
It's written as "Velox" in contemporaneous issues of Flight and "Vellox" doesn't show up as search of their archive at all. Which reference work gives the double-l spelling? GraemeLeggett (talk) 16:15, 18 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Jackson's British Civil Aircraft uses Vellox and so does the CAA on the registration document of ABKY MilborneOne (talk) 16:57, 18 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Interestingly, velox is given as meaning "swift" (rapid). so a play on words Vellore + Velox = Vellox? GraemeLeggett (talk) 17:51, 18 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Enough to confuse the writers at Flight! MilborneOne (talk) 17:52, 18 December 2010 (UTC)


 * My mistake on Flights archive; I had a narrow year range - with the range restriction off Vellox is found.GraemeLeggett (talk) 17:56, 18 December 2010 (UTC)


 * No problem. MilborneOne (talk) 18:00, 18 December 2010 (UTC)


 * No Velox or Vellore in the complete OED, however many ls you use, so not English words. But old English folk will remember the Vauxhall Velox (also a Billy Bragg song): GM must have been using the Latin.  As far as I recall, the only thing it did swiftly was rot. Andrews & Morgan spell the airliner Vellox in their Vickers/Putnam book, reasonably authoritatively I guess, though they don't explain.  It seems the type was originally going to be called the Victrix, so they were evidently thinking in Latin.  If it was a pun, that's rather nice!TSRL (talk) 19:33, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Luton liked alliteration as much as the British aviation industry. GraemeLeggett (talk) 19:53, 18 December 2010 (UTC)