Rootes75

Its all looking very good. 

That would make sense, a simple viewing platform. I wonder how they got up there? Must be a ladder somewhere!

The railing doesn't look like it offers much protection! I wouldn't fancy sitting up there whilst descending a very steep hill!!

The Battledress Blouse I bought arrived today, superb condition. 49 pattern date stamped 1951.

I collect Royal Navy Uniform usually but wanted a battledress that fits me for some choice when we do events.

Trousers, shirt/tie and a beret/sidecap next on the list.

Did you have the other 2 bikes aswel?

Superb looking machine.

I have just bought one off ebay for myself, I found there are plenty on there to choose from and plenty of varying sizes. I would say that buying the battledress Blouse is fine but finding battledress trousers is another matter, they seem to be thin on the ground.

That could have gone sooo wrong. Good lesson learned though. We all must keep the simple things checked.

Lovely vehicle by the way.

Your Carrier looks superb, I really admire it.

I also very much like the photo of the Churchill, being in colour adds so much life to it that you simply don't 'feel' with a black and white.

That looks really good, I love the stance of the driver!

I notice there are a few on ebay at the moment?

The Beverley dwarfs everything else!

So is this memorial all year round? 

Yes it is hard to imagine. I wonder how many Transits will be still around in 100 years?

I suppose having that sort of money available would make any type of vehicle no matter how rare etc to be within your grasp.

There is a lot of fun to be had in the chase aswel and following leads up!

So do you have the home movie in full? I bet thats good viewing.

Just imagine having that amount of money, imagine the list of vehicles that could be in your collection!

But would there be any fun in simply buying up restored vehicles rather than actually getting hands on and doing it yourself?

The rear window recess I did took ages and lots of bad language! It looked really great when complete and with paint on it.

The problem came when we fitted the rear window in its new channel, it sat proud by a good few mm at the bottom corners. 

Because there was very little pattern left I based the bottom corners on the top ones, the shape was right but it didnt take into account a slight camber on the actual metalwork on the back of the cab!!

It was too late to do anything the the painted metal so we ended up very very carefully using a file to take some rubber off the window channel, in the end we did enough to make it fit and it does look right.

I totally understand frustrations in this sort of situation and think all the more when you see results like you are getting.

That would be a good idea, some of the displays last year were very thought provoking.

I do like the remembrance soldiers. I recall the village had a Nurse one too.

Superb metalwork. Seeing it progress like this is very good.

Well done, thats a really good find and some good contacts made for you.

Thats a neat piece of metalwork, from experience getting the shape/contour of window or screen recesses is quite tricky. 

I had to fabricate a complete rear screen recess on one of our lorries, it took a lot of patience and in the end a few attempts!

Good luck Al, hope you get some leads.

So would those German graves be removed to a designated cemetry after the war?