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  1. This has only just surfaced on the internet :- http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/2014/adolf-hitlers-liverpudlian-half-brother-in-the-1911-census/ From WIKI :- In 1939, she joined her son on a tour of the United States where he was invited to lecture on his infamous uncle. They decided to stay and Bridget wrote a manuscript, My Brother-in-Law Adolf, in which she claimed that her famous brother-in-law had moved to Liverpool to live with Bridget and Alois from November 1912 to April 1913 in order to dodge conscription in his native Austria. She claims that she introduced Adolf to astrology, and that she advised him to trim off the edges of his moustache. She was unable to sell the manuscript and most historians dismiss the work as being a fabrication written in an attempt to cash in on her famous relation. Brigitte Hamann and Hans Mommsen say that records prove that Hitler was in Vienna during this period.[4] There is no corroborating evidence Hitler ever visited his relatives in Liverpool. Professor Robert Waite refutes her claims that Adolf Hitler had stayed with her as well as most of the rest of her book in the appendix to his book The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler. According to David Gardiner, Bridget's daughter-in-law has said Bridget admitted to her that the book was fanciful.[citation needed] The story of Adolf Hitler's visit to Liverpool has remained popular, however, and was the subject of Beryl Bainbridge's 1978 novel Young Adolf and Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell's notorious 1989 comic The New Adventures of Hitler. Post-war. ---------------- However , Adolf Hitler did receive a delayed (in trust) inheritance of substantial Austrian crowns (kronen) at just the right time. Who knows , there was a good and efficient boat-train service from Germany to England at the time.
  2. Enquire at the odd specialist crane repairer , for lattice boom / jibs - you may find they import or old stock imperial still from the USA.
  3. ISTR - you aim to get some black at the corners. You could use the DP that is used in Cyprus and North America training area , Wainright + Suffield , also UK. Sand with Nato Green. The only other British DP , is in fact 3 colour "winterized" , the NG that would be 2/3 is whitened with artic white by 50% (often emulsion) - so 1/3 , 1/3 , 1/3 IMHO a RB looks best 100% NG.
  4. Hi The sketch you show is fine , however IMHO the "Defender" door hinge mounted mirrors are cringeworthy , just trying to be constructive. As Clive describes - there are all types of owner & degree of rivet-counter LoL A S3 civvy 88" that it seems to represent would in fact not normally have the de-luxe bonnet (very few took up the "Optional Extra" ) , however it could easy be converted to a Military 88" S3 CL (commercial logistics) because the bonnet would be correct..
  5. 1/4" UNF x 5/8" http://www.lrseries.com/shop/product/listing/4335/78208-SCREW.html?search=78208&page=1
  6. The very one , as seen in action in the L'wt book by Mark Cook , defo. still fitted to new L'wt until at least - end of 1980 that I know of . GRAB RAIL 346118 Now - to release it , you have to remove a upper body side , but it is intended for use in stripped truck mode when both upper-body sides & the upper tail-gate not fitted. Presently the truck is sardine packed in a storage garage & I can't get it off. I suspect it is just a common tube size , for strength - probably not a seamed conduit or similar. Some time I intend copy of a few, don't think they are available. Suspect discontinued towards the end of production , when they stopped fitting such as the front bumperettes - there again , there was a use and it remained , the practicalities LoL
  7. These jacks when issued - they have the truck VRM branded on the base.
  8. btw , probably the RAREST L'wt tool type thingie is the steel tube BZP plated that stows in the terry clips , tub side of seat backrest , bet you don't have one LoL You are not complete without one ! I have only ever seen just ONE !! didn't know I had one , sort of half knew it was there but thought it was some sort of tent-pole of antenna extension. Best of it was , I had been looking for one to measure length , OD & wall-thickness to replicate exact some fakes LoL
  9. The jack handle (metal) fits with the starting handle under the bonnet, The two clips are shaped such with rubber anti-vibration pads (although new are delivered with corrugated card at this position also - stop paint scratching LoL. Find the hole in bonnet rib with large red grommet - for the handle location (crank) of starting handle. The wood (as in tree) jack handle - there is no known stowage LoL http://www.lrseries.com/shop/product/listing/6820/543301-WOODEN-JACK-HANDLE.html?search=wood%20jack%20handle&page=1 I should have photographs of all this , also correct jack , will post up
  10. Always quite a demand for early & late jack boxes , civvy ownership seems to demand both fitted !
  11. The older Lightweight with the "Jack-in-box" located under the rear nearside wheel-arch , far better to keep your sandwiches cool & fresh.
  12. John Logie Baird: a life by Antony Kamm & Malcolm Baird ISBN 1 901663 76 0 A thick tome in comparison to the book (that IIRC is abt. 2 years newer) - Television and Me: The Memoirs of John Logie Baird The last chapter from memory was very interesting , (I have 4 qty. JLB books) You may ask , well that has sfa to do with WW1 , WW2 or MV's , - well there is the speculation that he was well into military Radar , & TV secret squirrel TV signal transmissions during WW2 until his death , also pre-WW2 research for the ministry(s) , he kept a lot very close , things just seem to dribble out a little over many years.
  13. Perhaps you need advise , or to read up on how to study the form for Shill bidding (bidders past history - now badly presented on eBay UK , I did read the reason was to make it very difficult / almost impossible for interested parties to gain evidence for wire fraud in the USA)
  14. 278766 Packing Piece They go at top feet of the oil cooler & under the top plate of the radiator / front panel
  15. I hope it went to Oz early , because in civvy life - boy did they rust quick . Great vehicle - the best , I would like another , missed a good chance on a minta over 20 years ago , the price was high and I was short. In retrospect I should have had it , viewing a property , opened a barn door and it was stored there, his brother's who was working in Saudia Arabia and it had to go, it was in my mind, that if I had made a bid on the place it would have been conditional LoL 1970's I watched one slowly dissolve to almost nothing of a body / chassis, abandoned on a local pit-heap , stripped of mechanicals. My luck was in , the FV headlamps were kicked in but the rareish fairing rims were in place - still on a Lightweight I have LoL
  16. I understand that from Mk. 5A onwards engines , they had a cast iron head (+ other changes that were final standardized) and were manufactured by BOTH Rolls Royce and Austin , by far the majority were Austin. I also understand that they were painted by Sky Blue (it was a FVRDE truck that Austin were contracted to construct) , however all the auxiliaries were not fully overpainted , that was a BASE overall. Or it was a preserved engine crated cartridge (every truck was supplied with a spare engine). So IMHO , you paint what version you wish to represent , factory fresh or re-powered. I don't know anything about the Australian Contract (and probably the UK Contracts in rivet counting detail) , because when I had mine in the late 1960's there were sfa books available. I only picked up a load of info many years after sold. Possibly to simplify Austin supplied Oz with exact same Spec. as UK , however I have my doubts ,, Most photographs of factory assembly etc. IMHO are very very early , probably Pre-Pro stage.
  17. If you are restoring to replicate the example of one of the 400 qty. Champ FV.1800 sold to Australian forces , then I doubt if a base overhaul (Oz) would ever see the colour BS Sky Blue. If it is to pukka restore to British UK forces , then the decision are you to assume original factory engine ? or proper authentic Base overhaul / preserved unit fit ??
  18. http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/search-burma-spitfire-go-2014-4864356 LoL
  19. Probably the same swing-away as Solihull fitted to various models of the Italian Carabinieri Land Rover Defenders, unit-fit as they are playing safe with a extra lower securing. The soft-top Carabinieri models would be fitted with the Optional Equipment (Export Spec. (Germany) side-hinged tail-gate (lower half door) that was rather expensive to buy in comparison to a basic tail-gate, I have one of these and IIRC , a rivet-counter can point out it is not just a factory converted standard tail-gate (hence the price).It only had provision for a upper standard door handle / latch assembly just under capping level.
  20. ruxy

    D-Day Gun Boat

    I did not like the BBC propaganda film , a "skipper" with a rather large Stilson at work (does that tell a story , to me it does , but then I was a MN engineer) , if he had been described as the "engineer" with a Bahco wrench no longer than 8" in his hand , then it would have looked better LoL
  21. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25483778
  22. And the DM http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2526946/A-monster-British-coast-Rusting-hulk-World-War-One-German-U-boat-marooned-Kent-island-century.html
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