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fv1609
09-10-2007, 12:19
What & when?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v684/fv1620/strimmer2.jpg
Tony B
09-10-2007, 12:21
Rolling mine detector bar. Late 60's possibly on the front of a wheel barrow.
fv1609
09-10-2007, 13:31
Rolling mine detector bar. Late 60's possibly on the front of a wheel barrow.


Yes well done Tony. Dam it these are getting far too easy or the audience is getting far too clever :dunno:

Anyway I thought I was being very cosmopolitan with my choice of vehicle ;-)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v684/fv1620/strimmer1.jpg

1958 US Army Engineer Research & Development Laboratories, Fort Belvoir
Tony B
09-10-2007, 17:40
:banana: :banana: :dancinggirls: :dancinggirls: :dancinggirls: :yay: :yay: :yay: :kissoncheek: I finally got one!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cheating a bit I saw something similar being tested and the wires in the top gave it away.
fv1609
10-10-2007, 07:20
:banana: :banana: :dancinggirls: :dancinggirls: :dancinggirls: :yay: :yay: :yay: :kissoncheek: I finally got one!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cheating a bit I saw something similar being tested and the wires in the top gave it away.


Tony, don't spoil it! "Cheating a bit" -and we thought you were clever ;-)
Tony B
10-10-2007, 15:50
Just a dustbin memory full of odd facts, a Nininologist, ie some idiot who does the Micheal Caine drawl 'Not a lot of people know that....' :roll:
One interestin device that was tested and proved very effective was Richard Branson's Blimp. D.E.R.A. as it was then did extensive research.