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okay the plans are basically done and the application should be submitted some time early next year...I am hopeful that in 12 months the museum will be open, I will be retired and be focused on doing my museum every day of the week.. I have a few friends who have offered to donate vehicle to the museum, that is brilliant, they get free storage i get another item to display, its a win win situation. Just got to get the building up first...and then dig in

SO get on your bike and hit the road to Bovington, even though I think its a tad boring, you can spend a day there if you really try, on the way back you visit the Naval Air museum at Yeovilton, good half day visit, perhaps take a lunch and make it a full day...then portsmouth, see notes below, and finally go to the Imperial war museum, in London, its really good at the moment. Spend a few days in london seeing the sights...then hit the road and head for the IMW other half at Duxford. easly a full day here... then its a nice ride across country to RAF Cosford, it is a fasinating place and I COULD SPEND AT least 2 days here, and well worth the trip just to see the TSR 2 and the BAC 188... If you do Portsmouth historic dockyard you will see the warrior, the Victory and the Mary rose, what is left of her, plus plenty of history and visit the workshops, all very interesting but not really more than a days visit pushing it and reading everything you can see... Can I add a word of warning, please be very careful if you have never driven a bike on the right side of the road, the LEFT before. On a bike you have no references and you will try to ride on the wrong side of the road the right all too easily when your not thinking for a split second and then its too late... Sign posts are placed differently in the UK, basic rights aof way are different and we have round abouts, you do not have right of way when turning right on red lights as you do when turning left on some red lights in the US. Drivers will not see you so do give them time to see you, always drive with your headlight on main beam, it may annoy people but at least they see you...you can filter through traffic but be very very careful, car drivers simply dont expect bikers and so consequently change lanes without a thought... you know you have to wear a helmet but I truly recommend full leathers. Beyond these museums thee are loads of other things to see and do all depends on your interests and the time you have... might even join you at some of the locations...

okay selling one of my zil 131's nice runner not road registered but thats easy enough for these things. very original except for the specialist cargo body we fitted. new lift pump the other one failed after a 25 mile journey...annoying. tyres are a bit tyred...sorry could not resist... still have the lovely V8 petrol engine so she can go into London without bother. 3 seater with most things important working. so you can drive her as is or do a bit more work to get here even more tidy. recent respray done just 3 weeks ago. looks really cool contact me for photos and more details...looking for 5000, very cheap at that price..

the B81 went for larger pistons and volume, bigger jets, taking power from 160 in the B80 to 240 in the B81...and yes max revs 3750, if you go over you will throw a rod, not that I have ever done that gov'nor or not...I also heard that the transfer box bearings fail at 4000 rpm but no idea how true that story is... the output of the K60 is supposed to match the revs of the B81...

we are gearing up to get our first of many planning application in...its a long slow process and to be honest a little daunting because on the whim of a few people, with no vivion it could all end here...well until I find another place, its just that this place is so perfect...

Yes a good sensible article. However it will go a little bit differently to that described. Cars can now do upto 500 miles on a single charge...there is no technical reason why not...as battery tech improves and it will, in the next ten years all of the options under consideration triple or quadruple battery density...so 1500 to 2000 mile ranges, even if they just double the density then we will see cars doing 1000 miles range. if you charge at home how often do you travel 1000 miles away from home or work. not often I would say... I have three electric cars...and a diesel car...(and a load more but thats not the point here ) the twizy does no more than 50 miles range, i never charged it anywhere but at home and work...work was 20 miles away...i used it to go to and from work. now sold... the zoe 1 does upto 100 miles we have only ever charged it three or four times away from home when we rather excitedly tried to go big distances in it...it works but it takes too long so is impractical for anything other than short range upto 50 miles journeys. Zoe 2 has upto 250 mile range and the real world range is 200 miles...We have traveled to the lake district 360 miles and to Lancashire 300 miles and charged just the once on the way. that is workable... My friend has a Tesla, he has just driven to Amsterdam one way 400 miles with no charge needed on the way. He can charge his Tesla with 80% of the range in about an hour... It is possible to drive long distances without the need for using the public chargers... so the number of charging stations isn't that important, charging at home and work is likely to be the more important issues initially. However as I say above if we had a car with 1000 mile range, I have just come back from Amsterdam, 750 miles round trip...if I hasd used my current electric, no matter how many charging stations there were, with just 200 mile range it would have been impractical, but if the car has 1000 mile range then bingo its easy... in all honesty driving more than 400 or 500 miles in a day isn't very common so once we have longer range cars charge points will almost be irrelevant... i know we will hear about people living in blocks of flats and all that but that's again just a process, if you have a parking space you can have a charge point, it will just take a bit of time to do this for the people without garages or car parking at their home... the reality is that they are coming and nothing anyone says is going to change it. be excited it is really cool and really cheap too if you get solar panels and charge it with them, it costs nothing to run ....

fully agree, total pointless interfering hogwash...the government are making it a symbol of today again...they are typical of the idiocy of those who come into government today, they have petty pointless ideas that really mean little or nothing to real people...

what are the flat panels on the top for?

Military ambulances would be covered I giuess, as they are not weapons of war but are aid vehicles or whatever they call them, and so are allowed to use the red cross, ie don't shoot me I am here to save people...

I have three full electric vehicles. they are the future its just fact...

yes I keep them all mixed well with diesel so they never run on neat petrol...

agree that john, we have a spare engine or two but this is the later engine which was not so bad reliability wise...but we will do our best to keep her running...

My only idea is to run contaminated petrol diesel mix, my 432/434 run very happily on it, and the Berliet runs on just about anything although i have only tried, old oil mixed with petrol and diesel, and contaminated petrol diesel...all have been run for the past 10 years without fault... I guess if I dilute the mix with good levels of diesel it will be fine...thanks for the input..

guys is she multifuel like the K60...dont want to use mixed fuel if she isnt safe running it...

hmm no info, its very rare, full working barrel and rotary, very cool, could do with installing pyrotechnics to make it bang...

any electrical item as well...fuse boxes and covers anything

Hey guys dont know much about these but has anyone else had one for sale or seen one for sale...just want to get a feel for its value...

Hi I am after the bins for the chieftain again. I know a few of you had them and I was keen to have them but events took over. so now am in need of the rear body long bins and the two triangular bins and one of the square bins... I think i can restore the long bins i have with a lot of work but if anyone has them it would be a lot easier... I also need the mug guards over the top of the tracks if anyone has these...

i can make them my son is a hose maker...we are building an engineering business down here...connected with the museum

the chieftain ones are flat face...but you may be right...I may have to change them...does anyone know the pressures..

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjPi9CWyafVAhUIlxQKHaJiAEcQjRwIBw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.britmodeller.com%2Fforums%2Findex.php%3F%2Ftopic%2F50502-leyland-l60-engine-ref-pics%2F&psig=AFQjCNGAL-fF7uMgkWZHkkkQueZvXoS8Tw&ust=1501179849459264 if you look at this engine you can see the two fittings on the right hand near side one larger one the smaller lower down...

no this is a push to fit quick release type connector but looks very large maybe an inch across

the problem will be that getting diesel and petrol will become so hard in 10 years we wont be able to run them much at all... battery tech is good enough these days for cars to have 400 mile range and relatively fast charging. Lithium air batteries promise 4 times the capacity for a given size and weight so I suspect this will be the next push...but who knows...its all behind closed doors at the moment. Truth is we will find a way as there are well known techniques, its just making it all work together. A car with 400 kwh battery packs will travel close to 1600-2000 miles on a single charge...if you add to that a solar panel on the roof of the car which will give say 1 kwh per daylight hour of charge and you will be unlikely to need a charge for a very long time, assuming you do the national average of 800 miles per month...if ever at all...depending upon your usage and if you have a 400 kwh battery pack at home charged purely by your 4 kw solar panels then you will be able to charge the pack in 12-16 days..and have perpetual free travel...why would you want petrol or diesel... in 10 years petrol and diesel cars will be dead...no one will be designing a petrol or diesel car in 5 years and in 10 they will stop making them as people stop buying them...diesel and petrol will then quickly disappear at the forecourts...all petrol forecourts will become car parks for electric charging vehicles and shops...and once we have in road charging the world will be completely free of the ICE.... our hobby is doomed...we will need a licence to operate an air polluting machine...the future is very interesting I have two electric cars, I have just got rid of my first electric car. they are brilliant.

I don't have the two hoses so no...its a really rather large press fitting like a normal hydraulic fitting but i don't know what its pressure is or its size...the fitting on the pump is smaller than the fitting on the motor but they are push fit types but just large...I could photograph the fittings my son says he has never seen them and he makes hoses...

Guys does anyone know where I can get hoses that connect from the hydraulic pump on the GUE TO THE HYDRAULIC starter on the Chieftain.