Whittingham warrior

The only people to make money besides the dealers is the widow of the dead enthusiast........

The idler adjusters look very much the 'chunky' Swiss pattern. Mark

Wash fully in a bucket of petrol, use it as a dry cleaner but fully air and don't smoke. A method as used on some RAF bases in the Middle East

Is it variation on the symbol for 'this vehicle has anti-freeze?'

The length of the machine guns appear overly generous especially the co-axial in the turret.

Suppose it beats the 4,000 holes in the roads in Blackburn, Lancashire.

It must be true if it is in the Daily Mail, and they should know having supported both Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy between the wars. Not forgetting Oswald Mosley and his own Black Shirts.

£750,000 to restore a bus! sounds more like everyone is jumping on the band wagon

Its an American T-16

A story well worth reading being written in the style of 1950's British newspaper and slightly more accurate than the modern tabloid.

'The History of the Calderstones Hospital Railway 1907~1954', How a county lunatic asylum at Whalley, Lancashire is converted in to a Great War military hospital, Queen Mary's. Plenty on building the place and the military ambulance trains that visited from Dover. Followed by life in the Calderstones Certified Institution for Mental Defectives. These later patients were compelled to wear the 'hospital blue' you couldn't make it up. As seen on Amazon

Thanks for getting back to me on that.

Hi does anyone know the diameter of the front mounting hole on a 0.50 Browning and the width of the gun at this point? Many thanks Mark

The Finnish location of the railyard explains the Stug III on the back of a railway wagon.

Time to stop all that Mr Grundy and take your paraldehyde otherwise you will be purchasing an Austin Champ or worse still dressing as an eighteen your old of the 82nd Airborne Division

I've replaced an inner cork seal on a ferret sometime ago. Before you start the job strip it down so that the large brass seal holder (21) is still in place, centre pop the edge of it inline with the steel casting this will allow for it to be refiited inline with the dowels (19). The design of the seal holder (21) is a tapering fit and the dowels stop it turning they are also too short and once the casting is pushed in place it jams before it even reaches the dowels and has to be prised out again. This job can take either minutes or an age. The cork seal comes as a ring and should be soaked in oil overnight as it has to be stretched over the seal holder (21) and pushed into place.

Does that sand blaster do gates?

I remember being told of one that was totally destroyed by a snow ball so that may be well one of the reasons they were withdrawn.

Where have they all gone?

I think some of the tanks came from kubinka and later returned to became exhibits in the museum. The 128mm gun on the early pre tiger chassis certainly did.

ITS IN THE PAPER IT MUST BE TRUE! In Lancashire the Chorley Guardian only a month or ago reported on a collection of war time uniforms donated to a shop, one was made in 1950 and the other 1955. The 'war hero' in the following weeks paper mentioned he hadn't served in the war and that the conflict had indeed finished in 1945. A few weeks later it was about the bombing of Bamber Bridge (nr Preston) by a Dornier, lovingly illustrated by a Finnish one wth a blue style swastika on the fuselage, if it looks like a Nazi it must be one! still at least they didn't show a Finnish Blenheim The Lancashire Evening Post on 11/05/11 ran a feature on a book about Arnhem illustrated with a picture of the bridge 'The realitities of war:the devastation after the conflict at Arnhem 1944' Shame it was a still from a 'Bridge to Far' with the mocked up tanks. The daughter of a glider pilot mentions he was taken prisoner at Arnhem and held for fours years. ' She said he rarely spoke of his experiences as a POW afterwards'. No wonder held an extra three years after the war ended in Nazi Germany. Just think about the articles you know nothing about how accurate are they?

Your not kidding! in just England and Wales in 1914 there where 97 county and borough so there is plenty of room for members and their vehicles...

Hello, It all started with the youthful introduction to Airfix kits then followed by Tamiya. Things really went down hill when I visited a tank yard somewhere in the Northwest of England to look at a Matilda mk1 that was being restored from a range target. Just as I was leaving I was given a track link from the vehicle, it may have well been the black spot! After that there followed Saturdays helping in the restoration with a picture on the front of WHEELS & TRACKS, well inside the turret moving it and the gun. The decline got worse with a Ferret, Windsor carriers, Chenillette Lorraine and an RBY. Thankfully with an interest in lunatic asylums and certified institutions things are looking better. Mark