11th Armoured

There was a Great Indian Peninsula Railway Volunteer Corps:

https://wiki.fibis.org/w/Great_Indian_Peninsula_Railway_Regiment

7 hours ago, draganm said:

thanks Neil's, i think you got it.

I couldn't reconcile that peg with the gun pivot lugs (if that's what they are?), on the front to each side of mantle plate. didn't realize they had one dead center in the back. 

Hi,

the lugs either side of the mantlet are also lifting points, allowing a three-point lift to keep the turret balanced & level when it was taken off - I found this photo on the 'net showing the process: 

 

Less than 10 years old & originally cost £1.5million each...

I'm at a bit of a loss exactly how, if the limber carried 32 rounds, the back of the Quad managed to fit in three times as many, to be honest.

This photo, showing the rear locker doors open, doesn't seem to show any ammo storage.

https://www.shutterstock.com/editorial/image-editorial/world-war-ii-quad-for-the-25-pounder-gun-and-limber-waggon-1323529a

Playing the devil's advocate, just for a second - if someone with ill-intent (for whatever motive) obtains an intact fully-armoured military vehicle and is determined to do harm with it, exactly what are the authorities going to do to stop it?

If it's the choice between potentially having to deploy anti-tank weapons on the streets of Europe's towns & cities (and have them locally available, for use at a moment's notice, in the first place), or taking away a few people's toys, you know which way they're going to go...

Damn speed cameras get everywhere!

😉

Never fear! Putin's already on the back foot - we sent a hydrographic survey ship to show him what's what...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46657470

9 hours ago, Highland_laddie said:

As one who is amazed at the quality of this project I have been left wondering how it can be completed without resorting to bank robbery to fund it.

 

I remembered that there was the really nice reproduction late war Lynx in America.  Does anyone know whether the track on that was the same as the earlier Panzer 2.  If it was is there any benefit in contacting them to see how they addressed the manufacture of track and some of the other challenges that are to come?

The track of the earlier Pz. IIs is quite a bit different from that of the Luchs unfortunately (the latter used interlaced road wheels, which resulted in wider track to begin with).

These are 1:35 scale model tracks, but they show the differences fairly clearly:

Pz. II

Luchs

41 minutes ago, ferretfixer said:

Just a snippet of information. The Correct term for the WD Arrow is a 'Pheon'.

As we live in a sad politicly correct age now, I thought that might be 'Appropriate' (?)...😁

Although the quoted Wiki article disagrees:

"The broad arrow as a heraldic device comprises a tang with two converging blades, or barbs. When these barbs are engrailed on their inner edges, the device may be termed a pheon. Woodward's Treatise on Heraldry: British and Foreign with English and French Glossaries (1892), makes the following distinction: "A BROAD ARROW and a PHEON are represented similarly, except that the Pheon has its inner edges jagged, or engrailed."^[1] Parker's Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry (1894) likewise states, "A broad arrow differs somewhat... and resembles a pheon, except in the omission of the jagged edge on the inside of the barbs."

Not sure whether that's 'politically correct' or not, but seems to simply be 'correct'... 😉

The only way that will fly again is if they fire it from a catapult...

I have little doubt that there will be a brand new Spitfire built that will bear an ID plate here & there pretending to be the actual plane (just like with P9374), but I think it's disingenuous in the extreme to suggest it's the same one.

It's good to honour the people that risked everything to fight tyranny, but the cynic in me suggests that big pound signs are more of a motivation sometimes...

Hi Rod, possibly of interest to others as well, so I'll ask here rather than via PM - where would one obtain a copy of the book?

Kevin

Wonderful!

17 hours ago, Old Bill said:

However, we had a brainstorm this afternoon and had a look in the spares collection and came up with this.

It is an earlier pattern sump which doesn't have the holes drilled for the oil pump but the boss for it is there. Dad is going to clean it up and see if it looks promising. Fitting a good one might be the easiest way out of all! To use it, we will have to remove the old sump anyway so that will be an opportunity to have a good look at it.

Steve 

You are probably the only people in the world who can 'nip into the back' and pull just about the right 100+ year old part off the store shelves - outstanding!

I've had trouble in several motor factors getting parts for our hatchback 🤣

It was a grand 'do', and no mistake - so pleased I went in spite of it being too bl**dy hot! 😅

At least I wasn't wearing khaki serge though, or the winter overcoats that the bus crew had on... 😮

Here are a few photos of your Marshall - it was nice to see a fellow traveller from Gainsborough:











Still working my way through the photos I took, but the first batch are on my Flickr page: https://flic.kr/s/aHskF9KVi9

I sadly missed the previous two events, but will definitely be visiting this weekend, whatever the weather 😄

3 hours ago, Tarland said:

Whats the plan for the tracks?

Cunning & incredibly well executed, if what we've seen so far is anything to go by!

Probably WAY off, but my first thought was that it looks like a telephone lineman's belt...

I'm not at all familiar with the real thing, so please excuse me if I have the wrong end of the stick, but if your carriage bolt is correct then I would have thought that the only way it would work as intended is if there's a counterbored hole to drop the bolt head below the surface of the wood.

Kevin

Just by dragging it out of the ground, you've done a hell of a job! Anything you manage with it now is just the icing on the cake.

Having seen your Cromwell though, expectations are of course sky-high

I finally managed to catch the programme on 4Seven last night & thought that all-in-all it was pretty good. The tank itself looked superb & definitely is something I plan on seeing next year. Mr Martin's happy-go-lucky folksy act wears a bit thin after a while for me though, but that's just personal preference. The fact he seemed to have deliberately not even done the most basic of reading-up about the subject at hand just came across as a bit daft as well.

Hopefully the footage of the state of Lincoln's High Street & the lack of room to manouever/clearances might put to rest some of H&S/PC gone mad brigade. As should the fact that they couldn't even keep it on the dead straight road they eventually did drive it on...

1 hour ago, 4x4Founder said:

Conscripted soldiers are admittedly a grey area. In one sense, being a voluntary citizen of a country (when you are allowed to leave your country in protest of it) knowing your country conscripts troops...

 

The slight problem there is that no-one in the UK had experienced conscription in the modern sense until it was introduced in 1916 (or probably ever expected it, given the contemporary propaganda that we were still 'sticking it to the Hun'). It's reckoned that well over 2.5 million men were conscripted in the UK by the end of the war.

This quote is interesting when one is considering the response to conscription, "...compulsion did not go smoothly. By July 1916 93,000 (30%) of those called had failed to appear, that summer and autumn likely-looking men in public places were rounded up." When you think that a large proportion of the conscripts were fed into the meat-grinder of the Western Front, Bob's comment is perhaps sadly quite apt.

42 minutes ago, flandersflyer said:

In regards to my question as to if you worked for a local authority...you seemed defensive...i thought it was a familiar old pattern developing... 

Not at all, I just can't abide misinformation being presented as fact, especially in the present 'post-truth' world.

2 hours ago, flandersflyer said:

Do you work for a local authority...?

No, I don't.

I do however know a few people who do, and surprisingly they're just normal folks doing their best to get by under very trying circumstances, rather than some new incarnation of either the Gestapo or the Anti-Christ as some would appear to suggest...

I also work alongside construction and demolition companies, and have worked on & off in Lincoln for 30 years, so I like to think I know a bit about manoeuvering heavy machinery in & out of congested sites in the middle of this particular town centre - more than Channel 4 & some others seem to, at least.

I also saw Guy Martin & his assorted bunch of whatever-the-hell-they-were mooching about town at the last minute trying to work out if they could actually fit a bloody great big tank down the street after all - they obviously decided they couldn't, but of course it's better if they make out that it's all the council's or 'Elf & Safety's' fault, eh?

As you originally said, "everything is possible" - it's just that some things are so bloody stupid that you'd have to be an attention-seeking fool to consider them in the first place (in my most humble opinion, of course...). I'm reminded that this is the same fella whose 'world record attempt' in a human-powered hydrofoil on Lincoln's Brayford Pool was curtailed because he hadn't considered that the weeds might foul his pedalo... And he wants to drive a Tank through crowds of shoppers?

The Lincoln one is a little bit more original, though, as it never had a sub-station built into its bum...

Yep, and looks very nice too