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andy brown

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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.
  13. Not that I have had enough time to read through the last batch of replies and remarks in depth but it would appear that the gist suggests some are a little upset or could it be suffering from a touch of sour grapes, not that it surprises me ,however the level of a few of the remarks suggest the vendor thinks we all dress in sack cloth , one remark ( don't annoy your MP ) well who is my MP ? What's more a MP is elected to represent the interest and well being of their constituents and answerable to those they represent this is the twenty first century not the seventeenth ..as a point of interest Milton high Street was at the time the A10 ,the A10 as it is now goes through the area of the pic of the prison of war and tank park and runs parallel with Milton high Street so. In the day everything on the A10 went through Milton village including tanks . Yes I expected to get slagged of for as it was put lack of evidence but even when I field an original mod picture of the subject matter "howls of derision " .
  14. Hi didn't think to mention it ,tractor belonged to Ground work who were based at stanwell middlesex just off the end of the runway at Heathrow they had a number of tractors plus gang mowers with the contract to cut the acres of grass at Heathrow also had a large cuttings drying plant at the time
  15. Hi I'm inclined to agree with all you have said with a couple of exeptions ,,this was the height of the Cuban crisis not that anyone here took much notice as there was a continuous diet at that time of atomic or hydrogen bombs as they put it tested by almost anyone who could afford To do it.what set the ball rolling really was the arrival of the RAF military policeman bouncing across the airfield in his well worn mk 1 long wheel base land rover , almost bursting at the seams he kept out shouted we are expecting to go tored alert at any moment case this place is bound to be on there list of targets ,lept back in his machine and bounced back.recalltelling him I better eat my cheese and beetroot sandwiches then case there isn't a lot you can say when faced with oblivion,I'm at the tree line south west corner of the airfield furthest point from main gate from that poin lookin east the houses rise up a hill over which a vulcan appears ,from my standpoint it looked as though it was skidding across the very roof tops and was shifting no sedate approach belting out black smoke with what I assumed were air brake flaps down if he had been any closer to the main gate he would have been in the Farnborough road got to end of runway spun left onto taxiway stil with bags of throttle blew two olboys and their fire slithering into the done another left cross the runway towards the back of national gas turbine centre ,this aircraft looked as the cars do on the east African rally ,,,five six minutes bomb bay doors open and as I am quarter of a mile away couldn't count how many men in white overalls were ther may be ten or twelve ,best described as a cradle on wheels positioned underneath while others either hooked or strapped a white canvas screen around the cradle and suspended fro m I think the bomb bay door s slowly was lowered what looked at that distance spherical although that said I am looking from ehind and could not see it side view but had the impression that it had some length as I could see figures. Ataching cables or pipes whilst standing on the front of the cradle,still others were having trouble closing the end of the canvas facing my direction seemed to short to go round ..finished fitting pump coupling on tractor and left .....
  16. Hi re pic of digger the thread was split you'll have to scroll Back on the main listing as I had split the thread in two.from the out set I came to gather information not to impart it in the hope that someone would be able to through some light on the subject ,this through no fault of my own due in part people asked question as you might expect and I answered them to the best of my ability not that I was determined to bludgeon those who inquired into accepting my answers it was just common decency to reply ,wether or not they took it on board was niether here or there...1400 well you have like everybody else wouldn't want to here the rest of the details .it's up to the individual to decide what to make of it .
  17. A few excerpts from.. August 1948 cabinet preparations for defence Memorandum by the prime minister The defence of the United kingdom Defence of essential communications Defence of middle east Bases for u.s strategic air force in UK and middle east stocking of Airfields in EAST ANGLIA Should war break out ,or its threat become imminent at any time in the next six to nine months ,fairly extensive plans have already been prepared ,and are being perfected every week - for a crash mobilisation.. Specific attention to the recall of war time A/A crews where ever possible Actions in response to the meetings of foreign ministers in Moscow promote the need to safeguard what we have and under take to supply what will be needed Anti aircraft ammunition The rate of production should be built up to the following level 5.25he. 10.000 per month 3.7mark 1v he 5000per month 3.7mark111 he. 30,000 per month Small arms ammunition should be raised from 200 million rounds to 400 million Bomber airfields .... Four additional airfields should be prepared in the UK for the use of U/S heavy bombers Fighter aircraft Additional orders placed for jet fighters venoms and or meteors ,..piston engine fighters held in sock to be bought to a state of readyness and supply's of spares will be required for same... The lists go on covering everything from steel production shipping refurs ,radar up grades , labour distribution ,.construction materials ,production of respirators ,vehicle produçtion , etc,ect So this was pie in the sky ....according to the g and t Oxford brigade ....
  18. It would appear that I am not flavour of the month in some people's eyes but as yet there hasn't been much other than assumptions and a will to do a demolition on me. a concerted effort one my say , not that I expected to get a smooth passage with the ever present shadow of Hammond hovering in the background .not that anything that has come out of this that's to my detrement just a few showing their frustration , an example of this came by way of the rebuff against my mention of the buffalo and what it represented ie ,russian invasion ,that set them off ,something else of my fantasy world ,
  19. Correction I did not know about tanks and burials when I was nine I just recall the word water beach as I stirred the ashes ,not until some ten years later did he draw the map and explain what was there,
  20. It would seem gentlemen that if there is a wrong or right to this it will only be revealed when the aprons are lifted so you will have be content with the fact that until that happens am right...
  21. Don't be afraid it's alway interesting to see what's on people's minds , the shame is most is of no consequence .
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