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A Gold Star ! Wait tell I tell my kids in the morning "Daddy's been given a Gold star" They'll be jealous as hell :-D Unless the oldest one thinks it's a BSA Gold Star and says "Not another motorbike ?" :whistle:

The top outfit is a Clyno. Do I get a bonus point for recognising the National Motorcycle Museum carpet ? I think that the bike on the left of the second picture is a Rudge. Pretty sure that there is at least one Triumph Model H in picture 3 but I can't see their characteristic front fork spring, nor the leather strap that most riders fitted to hold the whole lot together when the spring broke.

The problem with the SCCs is that not all of them (SCC4 included) were vehicle camouflage colours. Some were intended for buildings, airfields and other constructions so a "cup of weak tea" (which is a pretty useless thing anyway !) wouldn't help here. Whether you use SCC2 Brown or Olive Drab rather depends on the build date of the vehicle and whether you are assuming that it has been repainted at any time. There are a number of UK suppliers who can match these colours but they defend their mixing schemes jealously. If you want to get a mix locally then I think that you'll need to find an undamaged area. Modern pigment scanners seem to be capable of working from much smaller areas than was previously the case.

"I don't care if he does manage to hot-wire it. I'm not sitting on your bloody lap !"

Tim, you didn't visit that museum in South Ken with a reserve collection at Wroughton, did you ? I'd give a thumbs up to the IWM archive as well. I think these days they're really pleased to have anyone with a serious interest in. The head-count probably helps with next year's funding.

It's parked on the zig-zags. It doesn't matter who he is, he deserves a ticket ! :evil:

The results are listed now. You'll need to scroll down to 10/11 and click on the Word document. No pictures anymore though so it's heavy going. http://www.interencheres.com/ventes_aux_encheres/resultats.php

Thanks Rick, it hardly seems any time since it came out and I paid full price for mine. Cheers mate, just what I needed to see :angry:

Things seem to have been a bit more basic with the BEF during the phoney war period. British Pathé has a nice (silent film) showing an operation involving unloading a tent and a dangerous looking boiler from a 3 ton 4x2 Bedford and drawing water from a dirty pond ! http://www.britishpathe.com/product_display.php?Search.x=27&Search.y=21&searchword=BEF+mobile+bath Here are a couple of stills :- http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/9697/bedford4x2gshp9.th.jpg[/img] http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/3678/boilervj7.th.jpg[/img] Pressure Up ! http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/9482/afterburneroy2.th.jpg[/img] We have Ignition ! http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/7259/mobilebathgl6.th.jpg[/img] If this picture was for sale on eBay, it would be listed as "gay interest" ! http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/5427/mobilebath2divtx0.th.jpg[/img] This one interested me as it shows the 2nd Infantry division "Crossed keys" The Arm of Service marking "30" (on black ?) indicates Field Hygiene Section. Does this mean that bath facilities were RAMC in 1939 ?

I've never seen any reference to Noddy bikes being used by the MOD. :police: Rural Police stations carried on with them well into the 1970s. I seem to remember seeing one parked outside Edenbridge nick as late as 1978 or so. It wasn't IRR ! You'll have to kit up as a 60's policeman and pretend to be investigating another Aldershot pub brawl ! :-)

Here's a wonderful tool that no workshop should be without :-) http://www.sheldonbrown.com/tork-grip.html

Barry, as you suggest, Brooks saddles are very common in The Low Countries. The bikes in factories here (yes, really !) often have them as they are far harder-wearing than the modern stuff. Just what Tony means by "slack" depends on where he's from. If he's from "oop North" then he might mean "coal" but he probably means loose - with the tension off ! If you haven't come across the different spanner sizes yet, then you'd better start tool collecting (a worthwhile hobby in itself !) If you start using English (or 'murrican) spanners on metric bits you'll soon round everything off (believe me, I know, I trashed all the Weinmann and Campagnolo parts on my old Holdsworth because I :whistle: didn't know metric existed !

Hello Barry, I have to say that I really fundamentally like my two-wheelers to have engines but they do sometimes come from the same manufacturers ! I thought you might like to see a picture of an Enfield military Mk V http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/9292/26rz0.th.jpg[/img] I think that you could probably pin down your bike's origins a bit by checking thread forms and sizes. If there are any metric sizes then it's likely to be european but if they're mostly 26 tpi cycle thread and take a Whitworth spanner then it probably came from the British isles

Ah non eh :dunno:

It seems to have been attacked from the air. Presumably this was a blue on blue from the American Red Cross then ?

Tim, was it a Fire engine then ? Are chassis of this age numbered ? I'm intrigued as to what they had to do to support the chalet floor. Presumably the chassis had some load-bearing function when the structure was built (or was it just pushed between the supporting pillars under the floor out of the way after they'd used the (presumably hardwood ?) coachwork frame ? I still think it would've been more fun just to attach a chain to a large tractor one dark night ! :evil:

Not understanding French was not considered a defence for Flemish soldiers led by French-speaking officers during the First World war :-) I don't think that the Auctioneers have posted the results yet but the sale was over three days so only ended on monday. I have seen some figures on another site and the local paper had a report to say the saturday was busy. I think that we'll have to be patient a little longer.

All right then clever-clogs, I can't find it ! I can quote you every other french auction result for last week but not Roudeix' Pleeeeese post a link ! :?

I hope that they're writing to modellers as well then ! Do they licence "their" trademark to the world's armed forces ? I can imagine that if someone were driving a civilian ambulance with a red cross on, it could be confused with a British Red Cross ambulance and that would not be desirable. The amusing thing is that they pinched the logo from Switzerland anyway and simply reversed the colours - If a modern organisation used the Coca-Cola logo but just changed the colours, their feet wouldn't touch the ground :-)

The Norton 16H looks to have seen more than a little post-war use. Still, I'd give him a fiver for it for spares :-)

Someone who seems to have watched the film more than once has posted on this site :- http://www.imcdb.org/movie.php?id=75784 ...Just don't go searching for other films and vehicles unless you've got lots of time to spare !

Well said Clive. The Vintage Motor Cycle Club library is accessible and a wonderful asset. The knowledge contained in original documentation is the very essence of what such an organisation should be making available.

Steve McQueen's Triumph pretending to be something Wehrmacht in the Great Escape always annoys me.

The blitz of 1940 should be compulsory study for any of the revisionists who consider that Bomber Command's raids on Germany were disproportionate

Too much paperwork is not just a modern thing... http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/3495/period16hbig4periodpublnh8.th.jpg[/img]