Whittingham warrior

Perhaps a medium would do or a simple séance?

Wanted-three of the above, the spring is optional as it is the bolt I'm interested in. The fittings can be found anchoring the radiator on post-war British AFV etc. Whittingham Warrior

Despite all the quality entertainment that Combat Dealers is, the fact that there was a Panther tank in the workshop seemed to have been ignored by the various characters. Last year in a model makers' magazine there was a photographic feature on the Panther and it was reported that vehicle is being restored to be exported to Australia to join 'the only Hetzer in Australia', another scoop missed by CMV?

[quote=draganm;. The projectiles launched likely duds. [ATTACH=CONFIG]122401[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]122400[/ATTACH] I don't think they were the only duds in the show.....

I'm glad to see the show hasn't dropped its standards. The PIAT piece was most instructive, in Blighty there is a PIAT which is missing a few parts but thankfully in le Belle France there is a Bren mag' box which is stuffed with all those missing parts! Like the three bears' porridge, the parts are just right not to many of one component and nor to few of another. I think it is time a better scrip writer was found. On the long term ward where I work the patients as well as reading the HMVF website also watch Combat Dealers, with the latter this has caused a split in the ward. There are those that maintain that the programme is a documentary whilst others believe it is more a mockumentary, with actors pretending to be taking part in an in-depth program about the restoration of military vehicles. To me it is the latter group which holds the greatest sway. The program does have some rather weak writing and the skill with which the characters have been been drawn is less 000 paint brush and more yard brush. The actor that plays 'Bruce Crompton' is the only one with any real talent, although his scrip is rather repetitive with such clichés 'The only Hetzer in Australia !' 'Gor blimey I can make some money out of this!' If his dialogue is weak he throws in a few adlib gurns. One of the patients swears blind that he saw this actor in pantomime playing Mr Toad in the 'Wind in the Willows' for which he frequently wears his former pantomime costume in the show, Parp, Parp, Parp! As well as the main character there are satellites to orbit around him. Because the subject is new to most TV viewers the character 'Hus' was created also know as the 'Mad Turk'. It is his job to play the man in the street that knows nothing about military vehicles this the script writers have done well creating a gormless character that likes nothing better in using weapons and explosives. Two characters that act in supporting roles are the twins. It is their job to restore the vehicles. To date they have tightened up a battery earth lead on a Hetzer, put back two wheels back on a bicycle that had them recently removed, Put a spring on the throttle of a kublewagon which also had been recently removed. The two actors play their role in the pantomime style of Tweedledum and Tweedledee with bickering amongst themselves and with the main character 'Bruce'. One of the lesser characters is the armourer Freddy whose lines are rather short, the dialogue going something like this; Bruce character, " What's this Freddy?" Freddy character " A gun Bruce" Bruce character " Fair enough me old cock sparrow!" I think this sums up the program and it at least it keeps the patients calm for a while.... Although some are now looking forward to restoring a vehicle....................

'Come back Pat Ware, all is forgiven:-D ' A much better writer although he did like to convert all vehicles measurements in to Metric.

Wanted Belgian FN Mauser rifle Model 1924/30 or Model 1935, 7.65mm. Can collect from Malvern show on 20th November.

'Before the SII production was ended it was decided to convert the last tanks into SPG and these 18 SPG produced 1944-45 had the longer chassis and was designated Sav m/43. Another 18 Sav were produced 1946-47. In late 1950's it was decided to use the old tanks and convert them into APC, the lower part was used and on top of that Some Sav has been modified to Pz 38 T and they are sometimes sold as original, but if you know where to look you can tell what is original and not. The 38T in Munster is definitely a former Swedish Sav m/43. I have no problem with rebuild as long as you are honest about what you have done, but when people are lying I get really angry. Stefan Karlsson, Director Swedish Tank Museum' Was there not one of theses Swedish Sav M/43 II masquerading as a 38(t) few years ago on Milweb?

Having read the above I wouldn't bother and I wouldn't bother to get out of bed either. I thought Job had it bad in the Bible but poor Rick should be frightened to leave his front door let alone pick up a spade. It is almost like a list of things why not to do anything, is this the attitude that encouraged men to set sail and discover 'new' countries and enslave millions for the British Empire? How many projects on here would be done if a risk assessment was carried out first? Every vehicle I've bought I have had doubts about as in Why? But then just got on with it. Surely the simplest thing to do is ring up the owners and ask can I dig up your tank, if no then game over...... But if yes!

The problem with Oxfam is that most of the staff know little about books, the first thing they reach for when pricing books is the internet. This was exposed for those that always thought Oxfam was a charity rather than a multi-million pound business some years ago on Radio4 'You and Yours.' Here books priced by Oxfam were held up to ridicule for their extortionate prices. For those that want books at reasonable prices why not search online for local book fairs and you can haggle over the price!

I must admit at the mental hospital HMVF is a popular site for the patients on my ward to look at. I've lost count of the number of times that a patient has asked will any of the people on the HMVF be coming round to see them or stay a couple of months as an in patient? Some wonder if anything does get done Perhaps the question of carrier track is a classic example. The logical way to try and make carrier track is to get a piece and take it to a local foundry and talk to someone that does the job for a living. He would look at it and no doubt say ' You'll need core boxes to produce the sand cores for the undercuts in the track horns.' He will also laugh himself senseless if you mention about using sand cores for the two parallel holes, unless of course you don't want them parallel or a track pin to go down them. Having calmed down he will refer you to a pattern maker for the obvious reason that using the original track link as a pattern will produced a finished component smaller than the original. Carrier track was produced using sand casting because it is cheap and quick, the lost wax system as used for artificial hips gives excellent results but is very expensive. So lets say the track has been cast in SG iron, the casting with no holes would then go to a machine shop and be mounted in a sliding jig. This would be attached to carriage of a capstan lathe with the long series drill in the headstock. The jig would travel forward be machined out return back and the second operation would commence once the track had been moved across for the next hole. And there you are one finished track link. I'll have to get back to the ward some of the patients need enemas...

Carriers are massively overpriced. One carrier that seems almost constantly for sale at over £50,000 and probably remains so started off at £9,000, as seen in old copies of CMV, it didn't sell then......

It was fortunate that the Germans had already anticipated the need for armour piercing 7.92mm ammunition and issued it before the tanks had even been become known to them...... That said at least the Germans spoke in their native tongue.

CMV has certainly gone down hill. One page which I assume is there because it is quick and easy to do is 'The military vehicle price guide' for vehicles as advertised on Milweb, whose adverts are no longer included in the magazine.... But CMV hasn't got the monopoly on such. Someone has already alluded to on the dullness of some of the MVT Windscreen articles such as wiring for rare radios in Land Rovers. Many was the time I was expecting a piece on 'Shoe Laces of the British Army 1919-1939 with supplement on Plimsolls of the Phoney War' or 'British Army cheese graters on the Western Front 1915-1918-the years of entrenchment' and finally 'Envelopes of the Warsaw Pact Forces 1955-1956-The struggle against poor quality gum.' And last but by no means least 'Hitler's Thimbles, Nazi ceramic thimbles in the years of struggle 1919-1932'.

I found them totally unhelpful. I asked for the serial number of a gun I wanted to bid on, the answer was, you'll have to come and see it, so much for the internet... So I didn't bother bidding

Where on earth did you get the scrip from?? Although by the look of it it's the same one from every proceeding show !

One can hardly wait for the contrived half baked tripe to be served up.

One of the patients in the asylum once had one before he was admitted. Since it has been sold he is slowly making progress.

It appears that the 37mm hasn't been deactivated to current EU standards................ Oh no I've mentioned the EU in a derogatory manner...

Really? I had the misfortune to purchase a Military Muckabouts GPMG they mentioned the above act and I mentioned my military vehicle and sent a cheque, the 'gun' arrived. I bought both a replica Sten and Thompson at Malvern, for which I had to give my address no mention of what military vehicle it was for. The only problem you would have with a replica is if you go around sticking it in other peoples' faces, all that is required is a bit of common sense.

Wise words indeed

Does anyone have a list of what things went for? The small Belgian anti-tank gun, lot 61 for example or the collapsible boat?

The fire didn't do the torsion bars much good either as heat has caused the suspension to collapse.

They also built an early prototype of what became the Churchill, the A20. It mounted a Matilda turret and was fitted with mini-sponsons. I suspect there is a picture of it in David Fletcher's 'The Great Tank Scandal.'