Paul Drake

Spotted today at Henstridge Wings and Wheels show, posted some pics in Aviation forum as well.

Wilco, if the weather holds out I will be using it next week.

It's good to know there's someone who can supply that close to home (Ilchester).

I have just purchased some NATO paint from AesopPaint on ebay. They seem to be reasonably priced.

RAF Sea King HAR 3A ZH542 doing circuits at RNAS Yeovilton.

In Facebook speak, FFS!

I think it still has to be completed, I was looking for RMP units and there aren't any. Send them an email and tell them about your unit.

Hello all, For those who may not have found it already, I found this tonight, which may be useful in determining where your vehicle may have served, and what kind of uniform its crew might have been wearing; http://british-army-units1945on.co.uk/default.aspx

I have found some info which may be of use, but doesn't tell you if the vehicle served overseas, only that it belonged to units who were serving overseas during the periods stated. It may have spent all its life as a hack at Ternhill. 1 QLR 84. Paderborn. 33 Armoured Brigade. 1 RWF 84/85. Falklands. 143 Brigade. 2 R Welsh 93. Fermanagh. 160 Brigade. 3 Mercian 96/97. Hong Kong. 143 Brigade. Note that some of the units on the card didn't exist as those units on the dates shown; e.g. 3 Mercian in 96 was still Staffordshire Regt. Also stumbled across this tonight, looks useful. http://british-army-units1945on.co.uk/default.aspx

Anything to do with rope making?

Can you post the info from the cast document?

And very nice it is too, also sold in the pound shop in Yeovil.

There are some good pics in the Tankograd books on BAOR The Final Years and Salisbury Plain Traing Area, including one of an MK carrying a Midge reconnaissance drone. A couple of pics of those Commers in service in the BAOR 1945-1079 one, and a few various pics in British Army Transport and Logistics.

If it's internal is it anti condensation paint? http://www.bpindex.co.uk/suppliers/5171/PAINT_Anti-Condensation_./ Or this, at the top of the UK milspec list http://www.paintservices.co.uk/qpl.php

Both Indestructible Paint Co Ltd and Witham Oil & Paint (Lowestoft) Ltd are listed in BDEC as suppliers of various paints to MoD.

No, their stand was full up from the time they came (about 14.00) to the time I left at 17.00!

Saturday I was at the Upottery Wings and Wheels event. This is the old RAF Smeatharpe near Honiton. Heavy rain in the morning, so there wern't many wings about, but brightened up in the afternoon. A plethora of re-enactors, Jeeps, Dodges, plus a convoy bringing cast members from Band of Brothers, who had done a charity parachute jump. The ladies of the Legendary Smeatharpe WI were in attendance as usual. They cook a mean bacon butty.

When I bought mine, I found (after months of searching the internet) an Order of Battle of the division to which my vehicle might have been attached in the 1980s. But it does take some searching. Quite a bit of information came from old boys and reunion sites.

Flt Lt Jon Egging. R.I.P.

Ah, so it was the whole thing that was going abroad, not just the box on the trailer!

Smeatharpe/Upottery is one of the events on my calendar for next weekend, lots to choose from, but Upottery is closest.

There is a website dedicated to old cinemas. I looked up Gaumont Theatre / Regal Cinema. (It says Gaumont Theatre on the canopy). Looked at some pictures and there it was. It was sadly demolished in the late 80s. There are also a few pictures on flickr, one of which I post here.

It was the Gaumont Theatre / Regal Cinema in Edmonton, London.

I would say that some could, knowing when patterns and colours changed helps I suppose.

Visited today, exhibiting the Landy, mate from Bath brought his Mk4 Cortina. Some interesting aircraft, but needs more vehicles, especially vintage ones. I can recommend the Mega Breakfast in the cafe. And the Dunkeswell Memorial Museum is just across the road.