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    buried and abandoned tanks

    in Tracked vehicles

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    BTW, did you find the guns?

    Only the upper turret one, the plane nose dived straight in so a lot of it went deeper than they could safely dig.

    The historian gave me some unfired bullets from it that he had made safe... they were all crushed and bent but to me they were as good as gold :)

     

    Approach Land Owner - find out if there are plans to recover the vehicles, If not, find out if they would support a plan.

    If the winery is still owned by someone who's name begins with AW I know someone who's mum was his PA for many years, could be an in, I will inquire.

    buried and abandoned tanks

    in Tracked vehicles

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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"!

    I probably shouldn't laugh; but:-

    in MV Chatter

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    Didn't Volvo take the Varimatic on?

    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:

    Somebody out there knows all about this !!

    in Archaeology - WW1 to the end of the cold war

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    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

    GM invested in two new 800,000 square feet (74,000 m2) double story factories, built between 1955 and 1957, which covered an area of 46 acres (19 ha).

    They would have poured a lot of concrete there.

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    in Tell us...!

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    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.

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