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    Wessington Cabin's Comet

    in Tracked vehicles

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    Read about this on the .pdf from Surviving Panzers, http://the.shadock.free.fr/Surviving_Comets.pdf

    Googled Wessington, dropped them a line & got the following from Andrew Blackford, the vehicle's owner.

    "The Comet Tank in question is mine and at the moment it's under going full restoration in our workshops by myself, I have owned it for about seven years

    but only started work on it last year, I do have some history . It's war time number T335222 built at Leyland late1944 it has the 'A' type hull ,it's original engine number 41490 later re engined at 13 command workshops Aldershot 14/6/1956 to 41094. It's post war number 15ZR05 we think that after it was re engined it may have been transferred to other duties or moth balled not sure which? it was brought back on census and then finally released 1/7/66 which was quite late. I know it stood as a gate guard at the museum at Winchester for many years until it closed and was sold to a dealer from whom I brought it from."

    I'm having no joy in uploading photos to here or my Pixa account, I'll try and add one another time!:mad:

    buried and abandoned tanks

    in Tracked vehicles

    Posted

    steve

    all i need to obtain a covenanter, is a wheel and a few springs, this will then put me in the right frame of mind for asking round to get the rest of it and you know how it is once you start asking round the parts will come to you, although i will admit the hull is a fairly substantial part to found but they're out there, all you have to do is find them :D

     

    eddy

     

    Here you go Rick, two of them here, get your bucket & spade!

    Tank remains, Titchwell (5)

    Lurking in the loft

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    The "Tank Battle" game was released in 1976, "Battle of Britain" in 1975.

    The latter date is quite surprising, as I'd thought it would have been a tie in with the immortal BoB film from 1969, I remember getting the Dinky Toys Spitfire & Stuka for Christmas that year. The Stuka's bomb was probably lost by Boxing Day! It was metal and you could put a cap between the nose and body, so you got a "bang" when it hit hard ground.

    Eeeeeh, nostalgia, it's not what it used to be.:D

    TSR2 video

    in Other Chatter

    Posted

    <object style="height: 390px; width: 640px"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXdJxjvQZW4?version=3"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXdJxjvQZW4?version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="390"></object>

    sherman still buried under leeds post office

    in Tracked vehicles

    Posted

    There's even rumour of a Tiger 1 buried under a Holden car factory in Australia.

    Mind you, there's also one in every swamp, bog or river between the Oder & Moscow!

    I found some photos of a very large hole that some enterprising Russians had dug in a road, to find one of these mythical Tigers, cutting off a village in the process.

    There is most definately, a Tiger II buried under the D913 near Mantes-la-Jolie.

    http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://251.pressflex.net/news/fullstory.php/aid/4651/Le_Tigre_dormait_sous_la_route.html&ei=aYh6TJP2OMvn4AbkoqHRBg&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCQQ7gEwAQ&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522Bruno%2BRenoult%2522%2Btiger%26num%3D100%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26prmd%3Do

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