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Fort Knox, 1942. SS Empire Heritage, Malin Head. Sherman DD, Mandoli, India.<br> <font size="3"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></font>

Ordered my copies last week, they arrived this morning. Excellent pair of books.

01952 is a Telford phone number. Looks like there's more of it there than than was with your Lloyd Alstair!

Must be German WW2 week! http://www.milweb.net/webverts/59221/ UK seller too.

Herr Flick has quite a collection of afvs. He's also extremely secretive (Maybe something to do with his family history?). There are no known recent photos of this tank. This is one from http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=140923&start=255 As found in scrapyard. The most recent one available for the hoi-polloi is on P-O's list. http://the.shadock.free.fr/Surviving_Panthers.pdf

http://www.milweb.net/classifieds/large_image.php?ad=59251&cat=1

http://newoscol.ru/novosti/v-novom-oskole-naiden-nemeckii-tank-742/ H or J, I'd guess.

I saw the Blimp yesterday too, mid afternoon, near Belvoir Castle. heading towards Nottingham.

Join the Russian kit left there! Let alone the Renault FT17s, Duttons & the Hawker Hinds.

I hope you can get it out of your living room! Cracking job. Are you doing a 5.5 to go behind it?

Makes a cracking sunshade! One for the re-enactors? Make a dummy tank for a jeep.

After a spot of Googling!

http://good-times.webshots.com/album/557361586SAgZCv?start=0 One guesses it's in a French barn And found in a French wood?

http://militaryhistoryofthe20thcentury.blogspot.com/ Interesting series of photos, the Wermacht at rest. Lots for the re-enactor community to look at too. The earliest pictures are of a model or (mainly) restored Hetzers/G-13.

http://militarnepodroze.net/muzea.html If you click on the photo by the museum, it opens up into a gallery. Mostly Poland, but also elsewhere, including the IWM!

Usually quite a few, last time I went (2 years ago?) there were a couple of Shermans, a Chaffee, PzIII & Sdkfz 222replicas, a couple of Carriers, M3 & M16 half-tracks & an OT810/Sdkfz251. 8-gun battery of 25pdr too! I had to pay these two to clear off, they were chasing my customers away!

BBMF Lanc over Grimsthorpe. (Clicky image)

A few photos from the event. Click on image to enlarge. Someone's Jeep, with someone driving. Turntable with ladder not fully extended. The wife was diappointed, that they didn't use the hose. Today's schoolday experience, was finding out where the phrase "To show a clean pair of heels" came from, if you couldn't see the bloke's heels, don't extend/retract the ladder, otherwise he'd be toeless! The second fire appliance. The injured Bren Carrier. Morris 15cwt. Army Truck! (Anyone else remember Camberwick Green?) REO, complete with "Blues & Twos" M4 HST, first one of these I've seen "In the flesh" BBMF Spit did a flyby, looks absolutely superb in silver!

Was he the guy who blew the window in at the Iranian embassy?

In the pockets of the gangstas on the top deck! Oh arse!

http://www.wonderlandmodels.com/products/revell-124-london-bus-aec-routemaster/ http://www.scalemodelnews.com/2011/02/big-scale-london-bus-kit-coming-later.html Impressive bit of plastic.

Since it's only about 10 miles from me, self & the wife popped over for a couple of hours. I'll put some photos up eventually. Compact show, an elected array of vehicles, as soon as you walk in through the entrance (£5 a head, free parking), there was an M4 HST, with a Bren Carrier next to it (Brake problems, so it didn't go into the ring). Must've been 6 or so Jeeps around the place, a big REO and 2 or 3 other bib trucks, a neat Morris 15cwt and a Bofors 40mm. Also a number of cars, from WW2 vintage, up to the "My dad/grandad had one of those" 50's & 60's stuff. Two fire engines, old Austins, both in a fetching pale grey, one a van, the other a turntable. Plenty of period dressers, both uniformed (Didn't stop for the battle, but I pity the German side, only saw one & he must've been in the Volksturm!) and in civvies. A couple of passes were made by one of the BBMF's Spitfires, in a very fetching, all-over silver, scheme. A good mix of stalls, picked up a few books for holiday reading, if you were after items of uniform and the like (Wife wouldn't let me buy a Luger or general rammle, you'd probably find it. Entertainment laid on, beer tent & food, a bit of a play area for kids (roundabout & little jeep things). Dance on tonight apparently. So, enough to give us locals an afternoon's entertainment, good value for a fiver.

What's the shiney black thing? A trench periscope?

Bloody hell, that pilot earned his crust landing on that!

Top Gear had a play with it. http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/BMW-brutus-2011-07-11 http://www.topgear.com/uk/photos/BMW-Brutus-pics-2011-07-11?imageNo=0 It's on a 1908 LaFrance chassis. Certainly makes a novelty barbecue!