john1950

Sorting hardwood jacking blocks and wheel chocks, Scoches.

An adjustable slips into a pocket unlike a vice. A diifferent bolt is because someone did not have enough correct ones and substitution to get the job away was the order of the day. If you are climbing down 60 feet or so vertically into a ships hold at sillyoclock in the morning with not mutch light an no harness, you carry as little as posible to get the job done as on the way back up I am sure those top rungs get further apart. None tween deckers had nowhere to take a breather. I used to take My favourate screwdriver/chisel, one or two adjustables a smallish hammer and an assortment of combination open ended/ring spanners. Usually all the information was, its broken down or if I was lucky there is a leak no fluid specified. A problem I have had in the past with rounded nuts and bolts is people using point drive sockets instead of flank drive ones in high torque situations.

Date on wire cutters folding 1980. Adjustable spanners may be the tools of the devil but they save a lot of time if you are working any distance from a tool box or at height, or down a hole. They are handy for holding 2 pieces of metal in place to get a tack on, very versatile. You may find 7 nuts and bolts the same size and one different some distance from a correct spanner, gives an option. I have scotch locks in a box somewhere but have never used them. Maybe one day, never say never. A rusty nut is an adjustable nut.

Last time I used locking wire was either a Foden dump truck diff or an AEC 7.7 engine. and I did not have any fancy pliars. 1970s I think.

As well as the normal pairs of pliers blunt and pin nosed, these two examples have surfaced.

Adjustable with the handle cover and the Kennedy next to it Helixs work the opposite way to the others.

Ambidexterous and Impimet compatable.

I have been looking for my adjustable and other usefull tools. These are some of the lazy ones that have not grown legs and run off.

Thanks for the reply. With a manual start push button on the starter. I presume basically the engine that fits in the Morris Quad FAT.

Now with a new custodian

I hate to be pesamistic but I think any show that goes ahead will not be until near the end of 2020 at the earliest. This is a time for using the potential of sites like this to talk scense, and supply reliable information using the written word to keep members updated, and on vehicle engineering progress, also helping in the bigger picture of combatting four wall syndrome. Stay safe and keep the pictures comming.

I have this compressor to identify, so far I have not found a part number. Then is it any good to anyone.

If you have some numbers I will have a look to see if I have any.

Welcome with your enthusiastic post. I think the last time I was near a Foden steam wagon was in the 1960s at Parky Bates at Lanchester County Durham.

I was only going of a very old memory in the grey matter.

On RR Merlin it is a one piece head and cylinder block. Same as later Leyland 500 fixed head diesel engine. Unlike Packard Merlin engines.

If you want to edit your content there is an edit click next to quote at the bottom of the item. I just click that then click to put a cursor in the area I want to edit with a left click, then just add content or delete.

A couple of pictures I have no history on. Except that Campania D48 and Nairana D05 were near sisters converted from merchant hulls under construction. Post war Campania was used as a Festival of Britain ship and the Atomic bomb test of Australia, later broken up at Hughes Bolkow Battleship Wharf on the river Blyth. Nairana was transfered to the Royal Dutch Navy post war then converted to a merchantman and eventually scrapped at Faslane.

It was moved from Beverly to Fort Paull. I would think Elvington is the obvious destination, but transport cost may be prohibitive.

This is a Pre production Cat 966F I shared the driving on. Here working the Coal stockpile at Stobswood OCCS in Northumberland.

No brakes but a Ford V8 powered Scammell winch

That is a really usefull piece of kit. Do any survive?

Great collection of photos. That would have been quite an endevour to get that rig out of France.

In the first picture my father is reducing the sheer clay face erosion had left at the mouth of the river Wansbeck. An area used as a clay tip for excavations building Blyth Power Station. Sea coal washed up on all of the beaches mainly south of Cresswell, A lot of Bedford QLs Ford WOT6s Commer Superpois etc gave stirling service retrieving the bounty. There was a coal washing plant on the sea shore at Seaham washing the colliery waste tipped onto the beach.

Taken in the 1960s at Druridge Bay I think the serial number is XP404. Flying SAR out of RAF Acklington. A concrete block house can just be made out in the background to the left. Making its way onto the beach as the dunes erode.