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Ongoing and growing respect.

I am delighted for you, and love your Jerboa, as is. What a fright with the transmission, panic time or what?. You must be justly proud and extremely happy. Well done again

Well done, a very nice restoration, and well documented. Good luck today.

Hi 6X6 and Andy, what a wonderful day you clearly had, and what a wow the Scammell looked. I am so pleased that it went well and sad to have missed an opportunity to see more of it. However, the balance on the day was better as it was, with the elements well matched in terms of experience and expertise.

Hi Mike, well done indeed, I am increasingly impressed with the engineering skill and ingenuity of you guys.

I love your style Mrs. Becket, I think I heard something once of a possible ancestor of yours, Thomasa?.

It was indeed, but on the American vehicle track record on this thread, if it had been a Boeing, it would not have got off the runway. Lol

One can only hope that it is an Airbus and not a boeing, what say you?.:-D

PRICELESS:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

Please do not ask for one of those tyres for Christmas, as the way house prices are going, it looks as though, a set of six, would leave little change out of a re-mortgage arrangement. Lol

Ah well, better late than 'the late', is what I say. Lol:)

No doubt Energumen will be watching this with interest, so I'll do my best to keep the ball rolling with the restoration. Thanks for taking the time to read my posts. :coffee: Hi there, surely will, but then again, so will many accomplished restorers. Personally, my previous efforts were very amateur to what I see reported on this site and I am honest enough to say, that nowadays, I am happy to read of others, stirling efforts. Good luck with the manuals, and the big task ahead.

Well, that has taken a few hours from start to finish, including re reading bits, to get it into my head. RESPECT!

Hi Mike, as a now retired, rank amateur in the field of mechanical engineering and restoration, I am compelled to congratulate you, not only on your obvious knowlege and improvisation, but mostly, on your undaunted application. It must be said, I would probably have given up and sought a buyer at an early stage. Well done you.

Thanks Andy, I was not aware of today's events before.

Understood and much appreciated.

Hackneyed expression nowadays, but it really will be my pleasure.

Just picked this tit bit up, thought it worth sharing. NOW OLD NEWS http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7857643.stm

Ah, you have gone and spoiled it now. I definitely qualified for the first description, but have to say I am interested in most military vehicles, some more than others, and the Scammel Constructors and 10 ton Albions, more because I have a direct associaion with them, over 40 years ago. But I am no longer into spending hours underneath them, as I was never a mechanic, and what my Brother and I did, came very hard, ten years ago, and would cripple me now. So not exactly a nutter. Nonetheless, if you are down wherever you keep your vehicles one day and are happy to let me have a little look. I would appreciate it.

Cor, I used to be through that area all the time, with a dry cement tanker, going to a Block?brick plant just outside Norton Radstock, Holcombe Block works and the ARC Quarries at Mells. Small world, is it not?.

The London Circular Ah well, may as well finish it. Now, I was never any good in London and that has not changed to this day. However, I was not the Shepherd, the modern day equivelant of whom, do not carry crooks, but rather, carry 'pips', and are crooks. No that was not true, but it just came into my head. Seemed funny to me. So this sheep in Olive green steel and canvas attire, is faithfully tagging on to the end of this noisy gas guzzling chain of similarly housed humanity, as each with their own thoughts, they roar, clank and crack their way through the shadowy streets of the Capital, in that half light that signals a new dawn. It is at this time, that I, always thinking myself 'the wit', happened to spot a Metropolitan Police Officer, swathed in his cloak and with the reflection of our passing headlights, playing little dancing patterns on the chrome of his helmet badge. Well, could I keep my tongue between my teeth ?, so to speak. Well actually, yes, but only because I needed it there to whistle the theme to Dixon of Dock Green. You know the one; dah de dah - de dah de dah- de dah de dah dah- dah dah dah dah. then it came loose, as I shouted, 'Evening All'. Then, "have you got the time Mr. Policeman", we had slowed to a crawl, as the 'pips' studied the 'charts'. Well I was only young. Would I be that silly today? You bet. Good old boy, he waved and took it in good part. The dawn fully unravels and the road sweeps are out, the Daily Mirror vans are flying round disgorging bundles of papers every so often, without stopping. (how did they do that?, there must have been two of them). I digress. So London is awaking to a new day, and we are still about 55 miles from home, I say about, because, just then I thought, this street looks familiar, you ever had that deja vu feeling when finding your way through an unfamiliar town?, yes?, well I had it now, as into view, not twenty yards from where I had last seen him, came a vision in dark cloak and tall helmet, standing on the opposite pavement and doing an Acadamy Award rendition of 'The Laughing Policeman'. Alright, It's not that funny. The poor bogger was absolutely hysterical as 'The pips' asked him the way and I tried to get down between the pedals with embarrassement. We did get back to Brighton about four hours later, having had our ten minutes break every two hours. Don't get too relieved it is over. I was in the TA for about sixteen years in total. Ha ha. Energumen