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1 hour ago, johann morris said:

Evening All,

One thing that I never throw away is Oak, I can always find a use for it. The panzer needs a jacking block as part of it's tool kit and as I had some large off cuts left over from when I built our extension, out came the chain saw.

   

Most of the original blocks that I have seen have been made from several pieces joined together but I decided to make it out of one lump.

 

The block in its holding bracket.

I decided to use a new fire extinguisher painted to recreate an original, my thinking is, if there is a fire it would be nice to know that i have the equipment to put it out rather than to look good.

 

The two other items that I have also have added are, the pinch bar and this enclosure that holds a box listed as an Zubehorkasten MG34, so far, i have been unable to find any information on the latter.

 

 

Night, night,

 

Jon

Hi Jon,

haven't read this web page in detail bit it lists different accessories for the MG34 and one of them is the Zuberhorkasten, and has various pictures of lists of associated equipment.

Hope it may help.

https://www.bergflak.com/ezvkasten.html

Cheers

Julian

I think this thread would make a great book once the project is complete.  It's much more detailed than what has been published to date on the TWC Panther. 

It's great, and often overlooked, the important contribution to keeping historic information which would otherwise be lost.  Kudos to you Wally, your friend and everyone who squirrels away stuff that would otherwise be lost to history.

Neat solution on the red reflectors 👍

I think the blue thing is a dovetail jig for use with a woodworking router, similar to this found on the web 

 

she's alive 👍

Hi Rotes 75,

do you have additional information on your fathers regiments/battalion as this may help tie down where he was being sent.

Like a lot of other I have been finding this thread very interesting and it has prompted be to do much more investigation/reading on the web with  couple of books on the way too.

I thought I would share this web page that I found (getting better at this tech stuff)

http://www.wwiiequipment.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=125:british-equipment-losses-at-dunkirk-and-the-situation-post-dunkirk&catid=50:other-articles&Itemid=61

Why lists what was lost but also looks at was was left in the UK and how the equipment situation improved between 1st June and later in the year when an invasion might have occurred.

the headline numbers on the National Army Museum web site are given as:

 the BEF had suffered 68,000 casualties. Most of its equipment was lost, including 64,000 vehicles, 20,000 motorcycles and 2,500 guns

This also chimes with the information in the Bovington Tank museum video (on youtube) about just how mechanised the British army was, particularly in comparison with the 'modern mechanised german army'.  IIRC he listed the german army as having 120,000 vehicles for the whole army of approx 130 Division (can't recall the exact number) So 10 British divisions has the same amount of vehicles a the whole german army.  No wonder captured vehicles from the fall of France continued to be used throughout the war.

As always a pleasure to see the detail and quality of your work.

waiting for the next instalment 🙌

Piccies please 🙂

just watched a really good youtube movie by the curator of Bovington tank museum on the battle of Arras.  Well worth watching.  If I wasn't so poor at tech I would post the link - sorry 

22 minutes ago, Morris C8 said:

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Can anybody shed more light on 'little ship' at 6.22    Gwen Eagle.

   Here is the photos of it from my collection.

 

Quick 'Google' found this.  Gwen Eagle was a 40ft long twin screw motor cruiser built by William Osborne Ltd in Littlehampton in 1938. Her owner, Donald Hudson, lived in Hove and was a member of the Sussex Motor Yacht Club in Brighton.   

There is also a brief mention in the book 'The miracle of Dunkirk'

Thanks for sharing those.

Fantastic job as always.  Sadly it looks like I will have to wait until next years show season to catch up with her somewhere in the UK 😞

As for knees and backs, as the saying goes 'Old age doesn't come alone' lol

Another gr8 and innovative solution.  The upper hull looks really fab. 👍

Quality Job as always.  Had a little laugh to myself when I re-read your opening line in the first post 🤣

had spotted that in the background of some of your other pics.  Looks fit for purpose so what more do you need 🙂

have you joined the facebook group for the snatch.  There's lot of help and advice and they are a friendly bunch.

what pattern would the original have been?

Hi Nick,

thanks for doing that and posting on this thread and on the other.  I hadn't checked the other thread today and thought it best to start a new one.

I agree it is good that you have had that response, I would just say thought that it wouldn't be difficult to post both the information about awaiting further government clarification and the commitment to a refund on the front of their website where the current statement on COVID 19 is.

Cheers,

Julian

I know the subject of cancellations has come up on the Dorset Steam Fair thread - I thought it best to start a new thread.

Just browsing Milweb and was surprised to see a 'new' advert for the W&P show.  I followed the link and the web page says they are monitoring the coronavirus situation.  However they are (or appear to be as I didn't complete the process) still selling tickets.

A quick check of their T&Cs states the following

10. TICKET RETURN, REFUND AND CANCELLATION POLICY
There are no refunds available on any orders.

While I appreciate that this is a commercial event I do feel that to continue selling tickets with a zero refund policy is not playing fair.

I do hope that no more people get stung at this stage......

any extra info on the 'challenges'.  Is it just a case of the value they put in a vehicle differs significantly from the value a prospective buyer might be willing to pay?  or is it something different.

It is a common thread across this site that sometimes the seller has significantly different view on the value of their asset.

Hi,

suppose it depends on the available pennies.

This seems to have various 360 degree nozzles for spraying and various lengths of rigid pipe to get the distance.

https://www.carlisleft.eu/library/devilbiss_extensions_EN.pdf

Uk part of the company is based in Bournemouth so might be worth a call.

Carlisle Fluid Technologies, UK LtdRingwood Road, Bournemouth Dorset, BH119LH, UK

+44 (0)1202 57111

If something cheaper is required there are various references to cheap version from the 'far east' and one that use the modern airless spray systems used of fences etc.

apologies the bold formatting got stuck 🤪

Grand job there 👍

It's alive 🤩