eddy8men

As many of you know in january this year i travelled down to dorking to find a covenanter that was buried there in 1943, the full story is in the "dorking covenanter recovery" thread. the tank is now back in my yard in manchester where it will be restored to running condition hopefully or failing that a static cosmetic resto. 

we did a bit of work on saturday to clear out 3 tons of chalk and make an assessment of the damage caused by it's wartime usage as a training aide for tank demolition. i was hoping some of the damage would polish out with a bit of T cut but that seems unlikely now i can see it more clearly, however i always like a challenge  

just busy with building work over summer. don't worry the covenanter will not jump the queue  

in theory yes mate but i haven't got my hands on any yet

i'd like to thank lauren for donating one of her road wheels

thanks tony it was a little bit chilly even by northern standards but at least it didn't rain!

tank is now safely in my yard in manchester after a 22 hour day and the resto starts tomorrow with a good clean. the plan is to have a good shufti at whats there and what isn't then put it into light preservation while i find the parts. but i'll start a new thread on it tomorrow.

we're ok for recovery as i have a local guy with a foden to winch the tank on. i'll be down there from midday on thursday and hopefully be on the road for 4 pm. if you want to lend a hand or just watch you are welcome

thanks tony i'll see if they are up for it .

ian the holes in the tyres are about 3" deep and are there to improve cooling of the rubber as the tyres were seperating from the rims on high speed runs. the cromwell also suffered from this and eventually the final drive ratio was altered to reduce the maximum speed from 40 to 32 mph

don't know mate. got to arrange a wrecker or something like that to get the tank on the low loader. if anyone knows of somebody local that could help out please get in touch. cheers

i'm going down to denbies next week to collect the tank and bring it back up north to start the resto, so if any of you southern types haven't sen it yet now's your chance.

i never thought  when i took this pic i'd own a covenanter one day

great work

excellent

i thought it was a good show and was pleased they didn't try to take all the credit. i plan to go back down soon and bring the tank back to manchester

don't know if i'll do a review but certainly be something to talk about

i'll be there and going to have a bid on a tank or two

the tank episode will be on the history channel at 9pm on the 23rd, hope it's more fact than fiction!

there were another 2 that i know of. a conqueror and a chieftain

i have 2 or 3 so not very rare.

thanks robin great to see the tank in action. i had wondered why it seemed to glow in the dark and now i know

i had a few and thought they were great trucks.

looking forward to seeing it

by the way the british gunners didn't need to move their heads whilst aiming the gun as the 2 pdr had free elevation and the gunner used his legs (assisted by a spring loaded seat) to aim and control the whole gun and mantlet. those early gunners were a special breed

that's a very impressive bit of fabrication.

the esiest thing to do would be to have a fiddle with the volume control screw on the carb (not the stereo) might be a rich mixture making it hunt

good luck with it mate