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thanks you simon, if you know anyone else who is about and can lend support doesn't matter who they are as many as I can get...its very slow, 3,000 have seen the facebook post and hardly any have posted...

a few more coming...I hope, not a great deal of support from the Military community so far but we have 13 weeks so hopefully a few more will have a go at offering a bit of support...

hi thanks to those who have posted...if you can find the time guys... the link is https://planningpublicaccess.easthants.gov.uk/online-applications enter code 27887/010

thanks...need as many as we can get...planning is a major pain but with everyones support it can really get us there... the link is https://planningpublicaccess.easthants.gov.uk/online-applications/simpleSearchResults.do?action=firstPage

Hi Guys its live, please please please as manay as you can please put in a good word for me, I have over 80 major vehicles for the museum, bombs missiles MIG21, frog & missile launchers, chieftain t54, MTLB, FUG BRDM, british stuff galore some american and tons of other stuff uniforms etc. etc... the focus is not just military its also about the period so i plan to document the kitchen the history of dance and much more, there will be an extensive library and model railway of the era and work groups working on the artefacts restoring them to museum standard... the plan will be to attract thousands of people to the museum and grow it into the largest collection of cold war memorabilia in the world... so please please please can you offer me a bit of support and drop a note onto the East Hants District Planning portal application number 27887/010 please please.. the link is https://planningpublicaccess.easthants.gov.uk/online-applications/simpleSearchResults.do?action=firstPage

and this is a real photo of when she was in service...

okay Yes deal done on the MIG 21, just sorting delivery, hopefully using the same company that will deliver the BTR60pb. we will be well buggered if they turn up and the museum is then refused... the mig is already a you tube hero...take a look...I know but the second one is real

SO I need to collect a milly mk 1 from Neil, a Militant Wrecker MK3 from Iain in far away north scotland, an old army tank trailer from derbyshire, an OT-90 from down here and a BTR60 from Poland...plus I am at last close to a deal on the MIG 21...hoping it will be here some time in January Lets hope the planning application moves forward.

brilliant news...

Plans will be in next week....as soon as I have the number guys I will be posting it, any support you can post on the East Hants District council planning portal will be brilliant and very very helpful...

so we collected another Saraccen today, this one road registered and a reverse airflow model..will be painted back to sand colour, we have to refit the cooling system fire up the engine change the points to jolly engineering points and she will be one of our demonstrators, with the musuems name on it hanging around the place...free advertising will be the plan, she will drive around each weekend in different areas...well that's the plan...

Woo hoo, Monday, we put the application in for the museum, we are ready to go...we have every thing ready..we have the site ready, the coffee shop building ready the car park ready the entrance planned the reports all done...if we can now get planning we will then level off the initial storage area and build cheap open sided sheds or a single low story shed...the latter being my preference...once this is done we should then be opening sometime next year...the big moment is nearly upon us... I have a lot of work to do prepping some of the vehicles but the plan is that i want to use the museum to restore many of the artefacts and use visitors and volunteers to help build the museums fleet...and make the museum interesting for all people... the first resotrations will be the frog 7 missile launcher, needs its engines sorting and then prepping for launch, the strikers needs rebuilding after being stripped ready for paint...the chieftain is a forever project...the BTR60...needs light work, the BTR50 needs a lot of work and will be a major long term project, just collecting parts will be hard enough...and likely we will use the MUnga jeep, as an easy build project for beginners...

looks simple enough...

I have two pumps in need of overhaul...if you find it let me know....I sent mine to Marcus but the one he sent back didnt work...really time consuming. and that reminds me not sure they replaced that one.....

thanks Adrian, it bizarre I was just moving my spares yesterday...

hi guys anyone got a spare exhaust pipe, the one fitted to the engine block, it goes down from the first bend on the manifold to the next section on the side of the engine... also need a new injector pump and maybe more...anyone breaking an old engine...

i have a pair of torsion bars but cannot tell you if they are left or right handed...i actually cant remember the difference...

havent tried to get mine going yet but i am going to have a go soon...will keep you posted...

ah Andy, sorry I confused you..., it is the same one he was selling but it was not his...it was his late bosses...

Hi Andy no it was not Mark's Abbot....

\SO its been an interesting month. We took delivery of the Frog 7 missile launcher, a ZIl 135 part of the 9K52-Luna M missile system.. We have bought a T54 An FV433 Abbott A Volvo antitank unit L4151 A luaz 967M amphibious and a 969m pickup utility. A KMZ Dniepr 650 and a 750 motorbikes and a A Rover 3500 P6. Its all preparing for the museum day...planning is now just awaiting the final survey due in days and we will have change of use to a museum and planning to widen the entrance...than we will apply for the sheds for phase 1, get the museum open and start restoring to museum quality the exhibits and all the other paraphernalia I have collected...its going to be a very busy time...

are you sure it isnt the head gasket which is common, the water pumps can fail if you dont grease them...but that's rare...flush the whole system first...radiators can be re=cored easily enough...

three more trees to go, it looks like we have aother two dead ones so we will get those out too, massive trees interesting that they have died....one i was thinking would be in the way has gone and died for us so that will be okay, the two other ones the tree surgeon asked us to take down its close to power lines...will get that done by the insured boys, my method of controlled downing is cutting the tree part way through attaching a very long rope and pulling it down with a truck... As long as there is space anyway... and the other three are sadly too close to items of interest, fences and the power lines already mentioned so cherry picker needed....we will then have good access to the site and once we get the next planning permission we will level the ground pack hardcore and build some simple sheds for our first pass at running the museum...its not what I want but planning is such a palaver I am taking it in stages.. in three years i will have the buildings I want...however some of the plans may have to stay outside for a bit longer....

oh talk to me please...

the Type V111 torpedo was the first burner engine built by the british in 1925 and was effectively a diesel engine not a petrol engine like the BRDM2..it generated about 322 bhp..see below... Britain held a technological lead in torpedo development for much of the period between the World Wars, but they were overtaken by the Japanese with their use of pure oxygen. However, the British remained ahead of all other nations. This success was mainly due to the adoption of the Brotherhood burner-cycle engine. The burner-cycle engine was in effect a semi-diesel. Typically, air pressurized to about 840 lbs./in2 (59 kg/cm2) was heated to about 1,800ºF (1,000ºC) by burning a small amount of atomized kerosene-type fuel. This hot air/gas mixture was then fed into the engine via poppet valves and more fuel was injected into each cylinder a little before TDC (Top Dead Center). The spontaneous ignition of this mixture powered the engine. not sure where you think the BRDM2 fits in...but i ask has loads of what tell me more...pm me please...