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I drive past the winery every day, just lacking the GPR For many years I worked alongside a local historian who knew of the tanks. he had lived in Dorking all his life and saw them burried. Sadly he died 30 years ago so no chance of more info. He had his own maps of all the downed planes and V1's that came down in the area. He took me on a dig once, they were trying to recover the guns from a Heinkel 111 that crashed in Blackbrook, as a kid he had got to the crash site before the home guard got there and recovered the top end of the steering yoke, and discovered that the ball races were marked "made in Birmingham"!

Yes they did Volvo 66? my father had one, ghastly thing. My abiding memory of the Daf variomatic was when a group of us sat outside a pub one night watching, with some mirth, a customer who was sat in his Daffodil winding and winding the starter motor over and obviously getting very angry that it would not start...then suddenly it burst into life and the guy floored the accelerator, the car shot backwards srtaight into the pub sign. It seems that when the car got a bit older the slack in the gear selector made finding a neutral a bit hit and miss :cool2:

Seems ok now....that engine sounds very nice, keep up the good work, lets see it moving under its own steam!

Hi, welcome to the forum, for the nitty gritty of fettling your landy I would suggest you get registered on the LR uk forum http://forum.landrovernet.com/forum.php There is a wealth of knowledge on there, I used it a lot to sort out my SER 2A.... I had a stirry gear selector and bad brakes too, all the info I needed was there. From then on you are are in the right place for any military info you want right here

Wow, that is some parking lot! Nice collection.

Nice little Jag straight six then maybe? Workable ones still come up for not too many beer tokens, good luck.

Welcome to the forum. Come on then, what engine for your project, anything lined up?

This one? http://tank-photographs.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/king-tiger-tank-fontenay-saint-pere.html

Restoration blog section is my favorite place here, I look a lot and post a little, keep up the good work and the more photo's the better!

We will be here waiting

I love the way the 2 guys are holding onto the Christmas tree to make sure it didn't get blown away

Ditto that! keep us informed!

That is cute, it would be nice to see it run..... just off to youtube.....

Reo box body in red oxide and genuine oxide.... clockwise on the M25 between Redhill and Leatherhead.

I am glad you posted about the trailor as I had missed the last installments here, well done, that is very nice!

A big day! Thanks for the link.

I always liked the little Haflinger since seeing them on "London car club V the army cross country" on the TV when I was a kid. Welcome to the forum.

I have uploaded the photo for posterity, I know I have seen that crane arrangement before, would it have been on an airfield wrecker?

I find this one very interesting, it is described as a Matador, the cab looks very SUCOE FWD to me and the crane is a work of art. http://www.cheffins.co.uk/lot/-1190109-vintage-0

Nice project, good luck with your research, I am sure someone here will be able to fill some gaps for you.

We like photo's, welcome in!

Would the disposal coincide with the building of the Bedford factory on the site of the 1930 Rootes factory in Dunstable where I believe they used to repair Churchill tanks? Quote from Wiki They would have poured a lot of concrete there.

ME <---------------->Dead horse <----------------------->whip :nut: It was only a suggestion, it was not intended to stir up such a storm, I will continue to use it on forums where it is available and just post, "very nice" here to show my appreciation of a job well done if I have nothing better to add to the thread.

I think I have read these comments correctly if I assume the comments are suggesting that the button will turn the forum into a facebooky sort of thing. I do not "do" facebook, I will have nothing to do with it or its ilk . The "like" button is just a very useful tool for saving webspace/bandwidth/cost on the forum, rather than a whole procession of posts saying how great someones post is, the users click the "like" button and their login name appears at the bottom of the post so that the postee can see how appreciated it is. I will go search for previous discussion on this to see why the idea was rejected as I cannot think of a downside..... Unless: That I can understand. *Edit* Found it in 2011! and Joris said If that is the case then I can understand why it was rejected then but that was 5 years ago, is it still a problem?