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

this valentine was dragged out of an indian river in 2008. i don't think they know what type of tank it is so i'd bet it's still sitting in a corner of an indian army camp waiting for someone to make a decision.

here's a link to the story http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/web1/11june08/news.htm#top

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

 

 

'Yes, wet down areas where you suspect markings, I've clearly seen remnants of markings on wrecks which were soaked after a good bit of rain, which were nigh impossible to see when they were dried up!'

 

I've seen this Churchill a couple of days ago and as you say the rain has shown evidence of markings on a rusty weathered vehicle. On the Offside hull just below the air intakes an inscription can be made out,

 

 

'St JUDE'

 

 

Which as some of you may know is the Patron Saint of lost causes. Sadly I had no camera to record it. Unless Rick has, he may also be on first name terms with him.

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

 

Eau de Nil (literally "Water of the Nile") was quite a popular colour for interior decorating, though once the Establishment got their hands on it it's become "Institutional Green" with a psychological aroma of boiled cabbage attached to it.:D".[/quote

 

Also used in the cabs of British Railways Class 76 electric locos for its calming effect and of course could be seen at Whittingham Asylum and more modern general hospitals

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

My Vulcan is Chassis No16 and MP8874, so its not one of those. I must crack on with it but that chap who is into Lunacy

keeps stopping me with the cup that cheers but does not inebriate...........

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.

Back In the day AC made a 350cc powered invalid carriage and a mate of mine used to work in the garage where they serviced them. Being toung and stupid, he and his mate 'tuned' the loan vehicle. The next customer in left his car for service and took the loaner. He got to the main road, gave it a fist full of throttle and wheelied it into a lampost on the opposite side of the road ....... :rofl: :rofl::stop:

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