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    Perhaps one of vehicles lurking in the background in the first picture.
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    That last picture is perculiar its of a different vehicle.
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    I can confirm that the one on ebay was sold and delivered. It is going onto a Bedford restoration project
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    Thank you for posting pictures. I am amazed at its condition.
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    Get to the page with HMVF on the top left and you should see a row of options underneath, then just go to browse forum or one of the others. If you move the page up on the right will come up the recent posts in any of the areas. Good luck.
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    Looking for some track plates for a Vickers Vigor any condition.
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    An Aircraft carrier the Campania used in the Festival of Britain was scrapped about a half mile from where I live. Also several Cruisers and Destroyers met there end at Battleship wharf as well. Before it closed some Russian Naval vessels including Submarines were scrapped there.
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    I find magnets are usefull when setting pieces in place for welding.
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    Welcome back!

    john1950 replied to Joris's topic in A new home

    Glad to see you back, you have been missed. Thanks for all the hard work in the changover. Good luck with the new site.
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    Some of the people who say Britain is dead should be made to read this Forum. There is also a geography lesson seeing where in the world overseas members ply their trade as fastidious dedecated restorers. Turning out imaculate work. Inovation making tools and then making complex parts to infinate tolerences. Succeeding against the odds, Producing high quallity work, with in most cases minimal equipment. It is a pleasant education to read these posts.
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    Watching a vehicle come back to life is fasinating. No 2000 tonne presses then. You have mastered many trades to perfection.
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    If they are the only cracks it should not be to hard to fix them.
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    I do not have any information but my late mother worked in the camouflage department of I think the Air Ministry at Brooklands. Lord Haw Haw said that the Germans were going to bomb it on the day that they did.
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    Thanks for that Richard. My old grey cells are not as bad as I thought. When the original film was made in the early 1950s the Upkeep and smaller Highball projects were top secret. That is why the shape of the mine in the film is wrong. It is depicted as a sphere but in fact is a cylinder. I think storage for the mines was Wooky Hole. After production they took several days to cool.
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    I have some recolection of a dam in Wales on a redundant reservoir being blown up during bomb testing, the end towers are still standing.
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    If you turn the reduction box around what then becomes the input does not get proper lubrication. This leads to premature bearing failure.
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    There is that German Shepherds again.
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    Welcome. This could be described as a club you do not have to go out to join. No vehicle necessary, just read or add a comment if you feel like it. Quiet moral support. Every day is a day at school skinned knuckles and all.
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    My copy reads (enhanced by actual newsreel of the legendary raid). I always thought that they used the Derwent Reservoir For filming, same as 617 used for practice.
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    We have remembered them here today. What a Forum.
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    If I recall correctly there is a submarine off Denmark with suspected cannisters of Uranium in the wreckage. It was sunk in a Submarine on Submarine action, while allegedly heading for Japan. There was a proposal a few years ago to encase the whole area in concrete. There is also in a Norwegan Fjord evidence of heavy water production. Flaskes of the product lying in the wreckage of a ferry a lasting reminder to the bravery and sacrifice of Norwegan people.
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    Great pictures, it is now a vehicle with a purpose. If you use a tyre black it will help stop tyre wall cracking, it feeds the rubber and keeps it supple.
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    MW and O type different front hubs, Axle beam may be the same. I think O type rear axle is rated heavier, larger brake drums.
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    I would stick to the oil spec for the pump. ATF oil is pretty benine, any problems with seals would probably have happened anyway. Pump lubricant is the most important as it has to cope with high speed and heat.
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    I will talk to John this weekend and ask him if he knows any more. I dont get BBC very oftain since transmisions went digital. I hope they do better research than they did on the cable. If it comes ashore at Blyth it will be like the scene from Only Fools and Horses with the Chandeliers, as it is supposed to come ashore at the mouth of the river Wansbeck about 3miles away. At a place called Cambois.
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