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I guess from your comments that your friend has a postal address for this Mr Potterton.? As of October 2007 there is a Mr & Mrs Potterton still registered as living in Brothertoft, as evidenced from a rejected planning application. http://meetings.boston.gov.uk/media/1/files/Delegated%20decision%20list%20from%20-%2028.09.07%20-%2026.10.2007.DOC reference B/07/0528 Should this be the same person/address, if it is the case that your friend has done all the things you say then the next step would seem to be informing the UK police regarding what seems to be an alleged fraud of some description. You should be able to get an address for Boston Police, Lincolnshire from an internet search. Leaving it for a year and a half before chasing it up does seem to be a bit of a delay though and might not help. Hope this helps, best of luck.

As I understand it, but I have to stress I am not in possession of the full facts, everything including negatives is getting junked. Some European Theatre material has been 'cherry picked' and given to a body that is willing to catalogue/preserve them whatever, but the vast majority of material goes to an incinerator (I believe). It is too costly to identify/catalogue/store any more. I did ask my contact if it was worthwhile making an essentially cold call enquiry as to whether 'any material was going to be disposed of, given the onward progress of digital technology storage etc ?' and was told not to waste my time as it would fall on deaf ears. Most likely receive a denial that there was anything to be had. Then the problems would start as to who had 'blabbed'.

Chris Pic of the truck on here http://www.hmvf.co.uk/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=38&board=27.0 If I could decide the right 'place' to put some more I'd put a couple more up.

Yes, you are going to cause trouble. If you'd just done 125 miles up the A1 in winter you wouldnt look 'factory fresh' either. The vehicle is immaculate. . . . . . . . Luckily for you I'm joking. :evil: It has been used but basically appears to be very sound. Come the warmer weather a few hours spent on it will spruce it up.

Hopefully got it sorted at zero cost via my friendly local independant motor engineer, who also turns out to be in to classic cars and was happy to oblige! No doubt wont hear anything back from the insurers until the New Year if it doesnt suit. OK cckw here goes at a try to upload. [/img]

Belter!!!! Years back a pal of mine at school had one of the WD M20's which he used to roll up on every morning. Envy of everybody. It was just as it had come from a WD sale donkeys years before to his old man. He then passed it on the John. Still had the original canvas bags on the side. He still has it now, rotting away in his barn along with too many other rotting bikes which he is 'going to do up' some day. Yeah. Good to see one in fine fettle.

Can't name names/locations but a huge Government archive of photos from WW2 onwards has been slowly, and not very systematically, put in to skips for the last year or so; for the basic reason that it is too expensive to maintain it or to pay anyone to sift through them sorting them out etc. Absolutely criminal if you ask me. The only reason it hasn't been finished yet is because they dont have enough spare bodies to to the work! Given to believe it is being done on the quiet. What people dont know about wont cause waves.

Yes, I know what you mean. That is all I needed for a previous vehicle with the same company!! Sent them the pics this time and they came back saying why haven't you sent the independant report? Mucho puzzled, I didnt think it looked that bad in the shots!

Please can anyone suggest an engineer /whatever in South/West Yorks area who they have used for 'assessment' for agreed valuation for insurance company. Also what is the going rate for this kind of work? Wish to avoid getting ripped off or picking a 'wrong un'. Cheers.

go to be that lump stuck across the top/back of the roof canvas isnt it?

Thanks for those pointers Richard. Chris pm sent. However I realise now just appropriate it is that I posted in this thread (i.e. me being stupid) as the panel is the tailgate and isnt metal. :oops: :whistle: However I shall persevere. Duncan

OK I'm definitely in the right column here, so where am I going to find the correct BS number? :?

Anyone know of any places to try for the stuff? Dont need a vehicles worth amount, just a litre or so for a smallish panel. Ta!

Ha!! Owda Savvener like you know that? :? :-D Yep that's the one. North America Farm is indeed no more! I shall have to look for a few spent rounds next time I'm up there! Cheers, I shall sleep much sounder tonight and impress everyone in the pub tomorrow with the excellent piece of successful detective work which I conducted entirely unaided :whistle:

I've seen these 'roads' on the local moors since I was a kid, never yet managed to drop on the local farmer who now owns them and who probably knows all the answers! The main pattern are concrete and the only 'providers' of concrete roads locally that I know of were the water board. These dont look to have anything to do with them. Anybody recognise any similar pattern in them to access roads for artillery practise positions (WW2)? Anti aircraft? But this seems a lot of trouble to get a few AAA guns on to the moors. AAA was positioned locally for the steel works. Some of the smaller tracks are later and are to do with the grouse shooting etc.. There is no obvious local military presence so I'm guessing that period. If you've got google earth and study the moors to the left and top of the location, beneath the pattern fo the later heather burning for grouse to me there appears to be a lot of 'spotting'. Grown over impact craters? Or am I imagining things? Opinions chaps. Google earth type in 'Langsett' and the location is just 'below' the very obvious reservoir. [/img]

Fort Paull is at Paull Point on the Humber estuary. Started life as Paull Point Battery in 1800 as a 'napoleonic' fort. finally abandoned in 1946. Now restored to public opening. http://www.fortpaull.com/ccm/navigation/home/ A bit further down the estuary is the site of the starfish decoy site featured on one of the Sky history documentaries. Forget which series.

Cor! What a collection , far better than what I came across!! I wasn't particularly going 'hunting' when over there some years back, but in conversation with the hotel owner it turned out that his father was active in the resistance against the Germans. His village up in the mountains had been bombed by Stukas on a number of times. He drove me up there one day to meet him. He turned out to still have a very full and active arsenal of weaponry both British and German!! I've no idea if it is legal for farmers to still hold that level of ordnance over there. Had a right good hour shooting off with all manner of stuff at the usual tin cans, bottles, rocks, passing planes and German tourists (joking) (sort of). :whistle:

Bloody good thinking there. Better still, take the nasty neighbours wall down and park it in their front room :-D

Thanks for that, I pretty much was sure you'd know the config.. Now just need to track down some storage as it looks a not bad beast at all from the pic. Maybe sell the house and just buy a large shed :-)

What do you make of the 'body' arrangement on the back of this? Is it a correct configuration? If so what is the technical description? (other than bitza :-))

Does the land rover in the distant background in El Cid count ? :-D :-D

Yes Tim I spotted the Higgins boat and the scaffold holes too. Her ladyship of course wished I hadn't spotted any of these and drew the line at going hunting for Matilda- whoever she was : )!! Do you know if she is still there?

What a clever bunch! Definitely England. Saunton Sands, Devon. US training area, four of these concrete landing craft with a now overgrown/unrecognisable ‘beach’ in front of them. The adjacent headland is interesting in that it retains some of the mock pillboxes it had on it. Again these were part of a ‘beach’ scenario, but were attacked from landward, as the cliffs are too steep. At least one of the boxes has/had (it’s a few years since I was there) discolouration that suggested flamethrower practise to me – but I could be wrong. Others have extensive battle damage, some of them repaired and re-used. One has the name ‘Augustine’ written in to the concrete. A local told me he was killed on D-Day and is buried in the cemetery at Omaha Beach. Not checked this though. Tim, I’m surprised you were able to get vehicle access as I thought it was a restricted nature reserve. Certainly the pontoons are now on the County list as scheduled monuments.

[/img] I'm pretty sure some will know this, but let's hear the other guesses first! :-)

I've got nine large flattened rounds from 'something' of a largish caliber (too big for MG) which were very easy to remove from a line of impact holes in some soft rock on Malta. Also got a photo somewhere of the holes! A stack of quite good nick spent bullets from an area of sand on the same island near St Pauls Bay. I'm guessing these were fired from an aircraft. Also have a piece from the PR B-29 which took the film of the bomb dropping on Hiroshima. This later crashed in the UK on local moors, lots of the good bits have gone in the last 20 years. Three live .303 rounds from a Defiant shot down by 'friendly fire' ( reputedly a Spit.) from the same area.