The Hawker Siddeley HS.681 formerly the Armstrong Whitworth AW.681 and its unofficial name was the Aldershot and odds are had it been but put into production it would probably would have had the name Aldershot C.1 or Cargo Mk.1 as the UK designate them.

HS.681 Aldershot C.1: https://preview.redd.it/d148aqc3ss661.jpg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6cccacecd5a28e19245e5a209b89066836886e5d

Think of this aircraft as the British’s answer to the USA’s experimental YC-14 and YC-15 aircraft

It was designed to meet Operational Requirement number 351 which called for a Transport to replace the ageing and growing obsolete Blackburn Beverly and Handley Page Hastings and the design drew heavily on NATO Basic Military Requirement number 4 so it was decided to make it a Short Take-Off and Landing Transport but it was cancelled in 1965 and the UK bought the C-130E as the C-130K Hercules or Hercules C.1.

That’s enough of a history lesson now time talk about the model which is very good especially the detail of the vector thrust nozzles and the livery which is the design used on the Hawker Siddeley HS.780 Andover light Transports.

credit to W879SP2 for the amazing model

Now I’ll leave a question for ya

Had HS.681 Aldershot C.1 been produced and gone into service would the Brits have bought the C-130 Hercules?

Personally odds are yes the UK would probably have never bought the US C-130s had they had the Aldershot C.1