Bodge Deep

pot...kettle...black :n00b:

A tea bag? Interesting looking film though (albeit a bit harrowing)... never seen it... is it available?

Welcome Gents Good to see the Beckettmobile has gone to a loving home First JB Virgin soldier, now you chaps... she's gonna get a reputation if she's not carefull:cool2: Did Jack give you the bag of Volts that are supposed to go with the truck that he never seemed to get round to fitting properly (they kept dribbling out all over his drive and shocking the frogs and hedgehogs in has garden).

Hi Mark Welcome to the friendly forum No shortage of folk with a similar affliction on here...

Cool pictures mmmm Toblerone :red:

Is it a Ford Tri-Motor?

Yeah Nice one Marty Especially like the Air Force GMC :-D

Wow! Thats very sobering, not a danger I was even aware of :shocked:

The instrument panel looks amazing. It must be very satisfying to have located that, as I guess they aren't exactly ten a penny.

Thats a nice peice of kit... with a greenhouse too... there's posh!

Welcome Clive The Martian owners will no doubt begin to arrive shortly to say hi... you can tell when they arrive... the optics behind the clubhouse bar begin to rattle and it goes dark :cool2:

Welcome Cen Sounds like you have some interesting projects on the go... pull up a seat and tell us more (I like the sound of the Sunderland, having gone school on the site of one of the old assembly plants on the shore of windermere) And you may be just the man to get Jacks keys out of the clubhouse duckpond after we threw them in there to stop him getting behind the bar again :cool2:

Very good...

"an ex hated the Jeep" that's all that needs to be said really... question and answer in 5 words!!!:cool2: Like the old joke "Its me or the car... I do miss her from time to time":-D

I think there was, yes It was only latterly that they became a 'factory build' Most were conversions or outright jerrybuilds from scrap wood (packing crates etc) & whatever was to hand the diversity of them is quite amazing

Fingers crossed Lets hope the pigeon of fate decides to go cr@p on someone elses statue for a bit... You're starting to look like Nelson :mad:

Hi Guillaume Welcome to the sanitorium! Someone will be along shortly to offer you a seat and take your drink order... It'll probably be Tony once he's finished the washing up :noyay:

Off t'bed now so the 'in a nutshell' version... Basically what it says on the tin... a mobile control tower. Used by both USAAF & RAF during WWII and beyond. They were not assembled to any particular pattern or indeed on any particular vehicle...simply a case of whatever was available. Occasionally GMC's, frequently british built army office/living vans and everything downwards from a gypsy caravan to a jeep trailer and even a rickshaw...no really!! In dusk, poor visability, dawn or just because of the lay of the land the Flying Control trailer/truck was in essence an extra pair of eyes at the far end of the airfield from the tower. Driven to the far end of the active runway it would, depending on conditions and visibility, control the departure of aircraft (& return later) where the tower was unable to do so. Fitted with The necessary radio equipment (though not always) to communicate with the aircraft and utilising signal lamps and flares. The main objective (on takeoff) to see the aircraft off the runway safely and set the next one on its takeoff run as soon as the 1st plane was airborne (or at least past the point of no return!). As part of the 'make it up as you go along' or "bodged" as I like to call it, school of engineering the trailers/trucks were often fitted with observation domes for the F/C crew to observe the goings on. These were usually cracked/fogged or generally U/S plexiglass astrodomes, nosecones or gun turrets. Usually painted in high visibility chequer pattern, black and white/black and yellow. Not to be confused with the similarly painted 'Follow Me' taxi-way jeeps who escorted the bombers/fighters to and from their hardstand (although operated by the Flying Control crews again)... If there's anything you want to know shout up... I might know the answer... might...:???

A fifty cal in the loft sounds like my house too! The people without hobbies or interests other than gawping at the telly or going to the pub are the ones I find sinister :undecided:

Welcome Wayne Pull up a seat and witter away... this is the place for it No shortage of Landy-lovers on here... especially the military ones Come and share the madness oh and post some pics of y'truck!

So they're permanent 4X4? I didn't know that

Welcome Ron Sounds like you're no stranger to the order of the oily hand We'd love to see some pics of the fleet if you'd oblige us... always nice to gawp into someone elses garage :-D

Wow that's quite a discovery I thought it was only mafia informants that held up bridges :cool2:

Better than being a Mutts nuts :yay:

Nice one! Looks like fun in the making :drive: