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I went to Heaton Bridge and met a guy who owns an Austin K9 he wants to know what goes in the area by the passenger door.

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I not particularly keen on this type of headset as I find it to be quite heavy on the head and it doesn't seem to have any strap for holding in onto the wearers head. The only way that you can switch the mike to live all the time is to switch it to live IC on the drivers box (CB2). Otherwise you're stuck pressing the ptt to talk which isn't much use if you're driving the vehicle.

ferrettkitt;330108]HMS Warspite should have been saved for the nation but when HMS Vanguard was scrapped I'm presuming that was all that was left to be saved in regards to English Battleships / Battlecruisers.

 

 

I am sure you meant British, after all Vanguard was built by John Browns of Clydebank as were many others. :whistle:

 

Rant over before it really begins! :blush:

Damn and blast the PC brigade :-D of course I meant British lol!

Didn't even realise that it had gone from Ricks drive look forward to seeing it restored

You mean like this one?

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Shrek on the move (not my vid)

Watch out for the cadet at the end being smoked out :-D

HMS Vanguard didn't have any combat history. If one Battleship should have been preserved, then it should have been HMS Warspite.

A veteran of Jutland, Narvik, Calabria (where she hit the Giulio Cesare at 26,000yds!), Matapan, Normandy landings, & Walcheren.

HMS Warspite should have been saved for the nation but when HMS Vanguard was scrapped I'm presuming that was all that was left to be saved in regards to English Battleships / Battlecruisers.

Turkey still had a Moltke class Battlecruiser which survived until 1971 which should also have been saved.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moltke_class_battlecruiser

HMS Vengeance should have been saved but the nation wasn't willing to spend any money on a potential museum ship. If it can't make money for a potential owner its not happening. Now if it was a football club it would have been saved because every discerning millionaire wants to throw money into a bottomless pit.

Not a tree hugger I take it

Like it a lot proper job!

I'll sort it and post if anyone is intrested?

Post up

and neither should our last 'proper' carrier HMS Ark Royal either come to that

Which Ark Royal the last one just gone or the previous incarnation which I would class as an Aircraft Carrier with steam catapults, angled flight deck and arrestor gear. I would prefer the 'Through deck cruiser' to survive but I bet it doesn't but I would really like to be proven wrong on that one

Without wishing to stray into the dreaded realms of the "P" word - it always seems to me that most Gov'ts since WW2 have had no interest in preserving the past but rather actively seek to destroy it!! :cry:

If it costs the government money and its a possible stick to beat said government with by an opposition party its gone without sentiment.

Have a wander over to the owners club I'm sure that they would be happy to hear off a Champ in Botswana http://austinchamp.com/

They say you can paint it directly over rust but would you really want to? All you're doing is hiding the rust behind a coat of paint not the best way off doing things proper preparation is the key ie have the rust blasted off or use a needle gun.

I've used it in my Ferret on top of a primer so its fine in that respect

I posted this to the Keep Them Rolling email list and on their forum, thus another couple of 100 people made aware.

 

I hope they catch the bastards. :mad:

Any chance that we can have a stolen items section in the Community service area of the site (for sale, ebay, wanted and storage and transportation)? Good chance that this has been talked about before, it may even be on the site somewhere.

Mud - what mud????

 

 

Image copyright Stuart Gould.

Like that a lot

Just my opinion but I would like to see the vehicles in the arena doing more circuits and maybe pull one out at a time to give details to the audience ! On several occasions I was rather bored as they had all lined up for ages after one circuit and then after a lengthy chat about each vehicle it was one more lap then out ! The vehicles get very few opportunities to show their paces during the week and can easily be seen at rest any other time ! Having said that I wouldn't miss the show for the world ! Warts and all ! :-D

Suspect that the drivers of the vehicles would like more time as well, sitting and waiting isn't much fun either.

I wonder if it was the same scum that tried to have Rex's .50cal away the first night on site??

I think you hit the nail on the head when you said it was 'likely to be one of our own that had helped with its spiriting away.

With the successful "remaking" of the Collapsible Workbenches by Neil using plans I drew from the originals at Bordon; we thought others might like to use the plans so they can copy to the original design.

 

We met at least two people at W&P who are planning to restore/make similar trailers, so here are my plans:

 

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If anyone would like a higher resolution copy please PM me.

 

Excellent work its nice to see these kinds of drawings being posted up and free to use I wish more people would do it.

Total and utter waste of humanity lets hope it comes back in one piece. It seems to have been planned as a low loader was involved speculation I know. Perfect time to take a vehicle when so many low loaders are on site.

Many places advertise the No.12 as Multifuel, i.e. Petrol, Kero and Diesel.

 

Now I've tried Diesel, its ok but it needs to be preheated like hell and run as hot as possible. It tastes the food too, I wouldn't use it as my first choice of fuel.... :-(

 

My mate runs his on Kero and it runs very well. :-)

 

What about petrol? Has anyone tried?

The burner looks similar to the later Mk2 No2, but the jetting is probably different.....

 

Alec.

Works fine with kerosene and paraffin but I would steer clear of diesel its too smoky and it doesn't seem to burn all diesel correctly as it leaves a black film/carbon beneath any cooking pots. Petrol the No 12 isn't designed to use it but if you search this forum http://www.spiritburner.com/fusion/index.php it might give you some ideas or help in that direction.

The jet is the same as the earlier no.2 mk 2 and can be swapped over to the no.12 if need be.

If you look halfway down this page you will find some info on the No12 http://www.ferret-fv701.co.uk/useful_info.htm

Im going to the Military and Flying machines show at Damyns Hall Aerodrome on the 4 & 5 Aug with my Ward lafrance and friends Scammell Explorer and being a country boy all of this LEZ is new to me , are we exempt as both lorries are historic ???

Thanks Adrian.

Think so but the answer is to get it from the horses mouth so to speak. My RB44 isn't exempt as its only to Euro 3 standard and I think it needs to be Euro 4

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/roadusers/lez/default.aspx

Check you're reg below

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/roadusers/lez/17700.aspx#tkt-tab-panel-3

Perfect Ron and stunning bike you have there.

 

I passed my bike license when I was 17 and used to ride big bikes but decided to get off them when the family arrived :angel: Have been looking at a bike for a while but ££££ is getting in the way but next year is the year of the Mans Bike and think its about time the British were as represented as the Yanks.

 

GAME ON.

Now I thought you were a 'Yank lover' I'm impressed and as you said its Game On

Not anti Yank would prefer the British side to be bigged up by the press and the general public and then the re-enactors here endeth the lesson from the grumpy one

Not a military vehicle but declared to be so and then found out to be a civvy vehicle after an accident said person will be uninsured and could potentially have so much to loose in monetary value, visits from debt collectors, bankruptcy and possibly marriage breakdown so on so forth. I don't think idiots would quite encapsulate how I think off them

. First pic is of my Ferret with my daughter in the turret.

Sorry not the best pic I realised that I was taking the pictures into the sun and switched sides I had meant to retake it on the way back down the line.

This should be the last of my pictures and its all Ferret :-D I apolgies beforehand if this isn't you're thing but a 60th Anniversary is a good sign of a great military vehicle. The Austin Champ didn't make it to sixty years in military service but somewhere in this world I suspect that the Ferret has...... somewhere.

Rock n roll on the Ferrets

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yep went in the arena on sunday now cleaning ferret!

I think I managed to take a picture of every Ferret as it stood waiting to go in. I'll post it up on the W&P thread 2012