ajmac

Shocking, our monument tanks are shells, those in the former USSR were literally driven onto the concrete plinths!

That's right, the perfect replica wasn't used in the end ;-(

Careful Rick, it's all too 'fancy' for Adrian, Sherman suspension is just bolt on the outside of the hull and forget. :-)

Sounds good, photo?

Surely the kindest thing for the Germans to have done was simply put the A13s out of their misery. The british crews derided them for poor reliability and lack of spare parts, god only knows how the Germans managed to muddle through!

Thanks to HMVF my friend made a visit to measure up a trooper body and has made big progress building the back body to which all the hard to find fixtures and fitting will be attached once blasted and painted. He was very fortunate to locate and purchase a complete QLT body last year but the corrosion was too severe to save any of the main load bearing structure. Luckily is contained all the original seat frames, side panels etc..

How was Tankfest this year? I haven't see any remarks so far on the event which yet again I failed to attend.

The very good Tiger 1 replica was built for a Russian movie which I think was called 'White Tiger', I watched it on youtube and only saw a shoddy Tiger 1 pastiche in shot, I later read that the really very good Tiger 1 replica was never used in the film, so it was built for nothing!

The Catalyna was flying over duxford all of last week, I had plenty of opertunitys to watch it in detail. Today we have had Havards, nothing more

Just popped out of the wood work, see below: Needs lots of work to get it to original condition, but hey, its the second Loyd to come on milweb this year! http://www.milweb.net/webvert/73286

Two more British built track return rollers added to the Loyd parts stock this weekend. I found them hanging on a steel wire looped over a corrugated steel roof on a shed, holding down the sheets!

Many thanks Mike, I have passed the details on.

While I've been working away in Cambridge the Loyd Rear Axle has continued to be repaired by Pete as a very generous favour! See the photos below. The axle is the later type increased diameter unit, thus the one I found in Belgium earlier in the year was no use. The original range wreck axle has been hit a few times, one hit had pinned the LHS stub axle in place, another had sent a crack around 2 ft along the tube and another had punched a hole right through it. I cut out the damage pinning the stub axle and this has now been welded back in. I recovered a stub axle from the second Loyd wreck which was machined down and used as an internal sleeve when re-welding the axle tube. Finally the crack was ground out and welded. superficial range damage was left for posterity. Thanks again Pete, beer is on me!

A friend has asked me to post a question concerning his QLT restoration. This week he has started stripping the rear body frame and around the forward access doors the frame has rotted to such an extent that photos of another QLT are required to see what needs fabricating. I have attached a photo showing the original rear body frame stripped down, this photo is taken from the rear tail gate end....at least I think they are as I've never seen a complete original QLT! Any photos you could post or mail or info on an original we could look at in or around Lincolnshire would be great.

Some interesting lots, including some reasonable restoration projects, also a pallet of Carrier track. Does anyone have any idea of prices reached on the day? http://www.youblisher.com/p/905592-Vehicules-auction-Sale-June-2014/

hmmm he would Looks like a great event, brings back memories of 1994....I met Major Howard, just about where you were sitting outside of the Pegasus Bridge Cafe.

Looks like a fantastic project mark. I don't suppose you have pallet loads of NOS carrier track knocking around do you :cool2:

You may also see NORS which is New Old Replacement Stock, this is used in America more than here. All this means is that it was made as a pattern part, but donkeys years ago. NOS is great so long as it has been well packaged and stored.

I found that the indoor toilets behind the grand stand were reasonably quite and clean on the day I visited.

They have been around Europe since WW2 but these British Carrier bogie track return rollers are back in England now. Thanks to a parts swap with Radek in the Czech Republic. In the back of the Land Rover today...just need to find one more to complete the set, if I can't find another then one of my NOS Canadian ones will have to do.

Here they are... This one looks to be in the UK: Something went wrong... Adrians at A&E 2010: Something went wrong... Belgian Tank Museum's: Something went wrong... Something went wrong...

I can confirm that the Loyd in question will NOT be attending :cry:

I have been told that there was one running at the show back in 2000, anyone know who's it was and if it's still running?

My Grandmother and Great Uncle told me how back in the early 30s he stole a box of dynamite from the quarry behind the house, my Grandmother found out and told there Father, once my Great Uncle had recovered from the considerable clip round the ear that he received he buried the box in the garden in case the Police came around asking questions! Both are dead now, but the house still stands in Quarry Bank, West Midlands.....and somewhere under the flowers...

I have probably mentioned before that back in 2000 I was working on a university project at an Aluminium foundry and helped out in the first off prototype cast of some Merlin parts, we did the Head and Cylinder Block. Clearing out the loft I just found this early digital photo that I took and then printed, hence the poor quality. It shows our first Cylinder Block cast that morning, it has had the running system sawn off but apart from that is as cast.