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  1. Hi ruxy Hi can cast almost anything In brass,iron,Ali ,stainless,bronze , if you can supply a pattern , if the order warrants the cost or, the initial cost is for one as would be for ten due to set up time and calcs for wastage ie slag loss and spurges , also does machining polishing ,chroming , engraving....etc.albiet he is based in solo city java Indonesia , not to say it isn't cost effective..although shipping is currently a bug bear until biden sorts his mess out.....
  2. Yep still there and will be for the next few years ,as I said not much to see just the hull which is for the greater part complete...
  3. Hi John..thanks for the reply, yes I had checked the. engine no; and deduced that it was 45 ish but no more than that , as most of my info gets ripped to pieces I thought I best to put a pic on of the number so that those that wish can check it out rather than take my word for it ...thanks anyway .
  4. As there seems to be a little disparity between what constitutes Naval and military I thought I better ask permission to speak or write ,don't want to get my writs slapped again.. Seeing reference to the little ships might start me off on another marathon as this is something I have been involved with for more than a few years , For the greater part my son and I have repaired remade rejuvenated the fixtures and fittings on more small boats in the last sixteen year than one can wave a burnt sick at and we are still doing it ,my son even casts the association brass plates as would be under licence.. strictly metal fitting remade to match the original when ever one can establish original as many of these boats had led a very checkered life long before ww2 and had under gone many adaptations during that time plus a few bullet holes . Back to lightoller the most senior officer to escape the Titanic alive it was he that at the point of his gun that the male passengers and crew should give way to women and children before clambering into the life boats, his life is well documented on line along with his boat the Sundowner so I will leave that to you apart from saying he was one of those irrepressible soldiers of fortune that the Victorians had a knack of turning out just to punctuate Britishness incase some hadn't got the message... The Sundowner is in a yard completely gutted and I mean compleat just the keel and hull but still in one piece. , However I do have at my disposal the engine and gearbox a monolith of engineering a Gardner six cyl complete with gearbox marine version ,runner ,, !! Well it pushed this boat some fifty miles up the thames not long before covid ,it's not the ww2 engine I believe it's just post war ,will post some pics if there is any interest.......
  5. It would appear that I have touched a nerve here ,thing is whose nerve is it ,? Just to clarify a couple of points ,one the Canadian Churchill's I through in earlier if you read it through you would have seen that I did so just to prove that it didn't matter what I said it would be pounced on like a bone to a hungry pack of dogs , my thinking in doing so was that it would demonstrate a certain level of intelligence in not grabbing the bone , but no grab they did which goes to prove to how much thought goes into it before they pounce .... Citing 300 + tanks as some one has as being a stretch of imagination of a child ,well what do they know as I've mentioned many times before I came looking to find answers and there are none hereabouts maybe your all to young to have first hand experience of how things actually worked back in the day , here you have linikear .speaking his mind back in the day he would have got five years , not so long back you had Simon Dee who was never heard of again , no you cannot possibly compare the last twenty years to what came before ,Ruth Ellis, my point is that you have never had it so good when it comes to information so much so that when you venture outside the box that they give you to answer yes or no in you've moved into dangerous territory as I found with the national archives , it is for the greater part designed as fodder for the many, so don't be surprised if I don't swallow what comes at me from those who were not there ,,just ask your self as I did when I came across the 1400 / 1500 chiselled of brass tank plates back in 98 Why When Who....?
  6. Like I said I came here to gleen information but it would appear that there's nobody at home ,can't say I didn't try ,........
  7. Re Canadian Churchill's ......it really didn't matter what I fielded did it ..the response was to be the same ,so I added a little market research ,see how many responded to this ...I personally wouldn't have bothered to respond ,when I saw that there was a response I realized after all my years (what an uphill battle the apostles must have faced for the New testament to be compiled .......no never happened ,nail em on upside down ,so I could see how "life of Brian " came to be.... I never professed to be an academic. Nor I suspect did many of the reader ship but they do have enough wit to make up there own minds based on there own experience without being told otherwise.......... Ok answer needed ..where about on the hull of a Churchill is the model and chassis no; brass plate ,is it bolted through with nuts on reverse side or drilled and tapped to take a bolt , Did all.marks of Churchill's have the plates in the same place and how hard were they to get to..
  8. Another pic of tanks at the none existent Milton Cambs not good I agree but a couple of frames on from the last pic I posted waterbeach is situated two miles distant in this pic and to the right..
  9. Just in case what I had previously mentioned regarding the strangle hold the U.S had post war on the UK's financial situation the above shows the result ,not that the UK paid back the lend lease money immediately as the US relented at the time so long as they could pick from universities and research establishment in the UK anything that they thought they should have , the lease money was made in yearly amounts the last paid by ed balls in or around the year 2000.
  10. Hi , you have asked the questions that I took with me to the national archives some twelve years ago , I must have touched a nerve because they withdrew the records I had ask for and became insistant that two files listed did not exist ,in their words ( these can only be red under ministerial supervision ) my reply ( I will go for that then ,) (that request would take at least two years to go through the appropriate channels and even then you could be refused access ) came their reply ..just to put the nail in the coffin three months latter on a nother visit they called me to the reception desk and said I could read said files ....went to third floor and was given a folder with the ident ,on it only to find it was empty.......what was it someone didn't want me to know ? Ps not all Churchill's were manufactured in the UK.and I found they at the time Canada was rather laid back re pay back times on l.l but ifound that the US started to put the squeeze on Canadian gov; to push UK to pay for what they owed ,this late forty seven ..one thing to bear in mind the US saw the labour gov; as a bunch of commis with there national health scheme and trade union council ,US had waited years for the opportunity to nail the UK to the floor and here it was on a plate...... To be continued......
  11. He was bilited.in Milton along with the rest of the team along with Five amourers .the donkey work was carried out by what he referred to as pioneer corp but they were not from the UK ....,as for churchilIs i don't recall saying they were all Churchill's his words were the majority.are.....as for why bury them , it appears from dowith lend lease repayments that were agreed to with the us who later renaded on theagreeement due in part that the government here couldn't agree to devalue the pound down to a level the us demanded so they demanded that we pay up on the debt now or we would have to stop scrapping ,selling or using anything we owed against the debt ,to pay would break the country the only thing they left untouched was shipping that had been on lend lease ,scrapping was out of the question as this was income ,income that the U.S wanted ,so the UK found out the party was over we could no longer trade with the world Australia New Zealand ,south Africa , Canada had a new outlet the top dogs were the US we were left importing beef from Argentina and whale meet from Norway and chile.and rationing just ground on ...
  12. Hi thanks for the input ,,it was never my intention to give away the whole story.as I new or suspected that there might be some one who held or knew of some thing regards waterbeach tanks ,,yes I was looking for info , my father was on reserve when war broke out and had twenty one days to go before release but they refused to let him go in 1946 he was on reserve again until 1954 between 46 and 54 he worked as a civilian in the 10command reme wks Mill Hill nw7. ..in forty eight he became vehicle inspector traveling round London inspecting vehicles static and road Tests at barracks ,reme wks, vehicle stockpiles ,docks, and ministry vehicles , as he said he was neither on the radar or off the radar ,having had what he saw as a raw deal ten years before he used his time and expertise to level the score ,taking on a wide range of mod or ministry cover ups so long as there was an inducement to do so .. hence the meetings at our house at the time and eventually waterbeach and brigadier Slim.
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