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Just out of interest, have you ever been to Lincoln High Street, especially around the war memorial?
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Have to agree with a number of other posters - hugely disappointed with it after so much anticipation. Seemed the very epitome of style over substance, concerned more with arty cinematography & (attempted) clever directorial tricks than actually telling a believable & compelling (& true, let us not forget!) story.
My partner & our daughter thought it was very good, but I've just watched a sub-2-minute trailer for the 1958 film that left me feeling more satisfied than this entire film did.
Horses for courses, though, as they say...
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Now, that's just showing off!
Beautiful thing (which a strange thing to say about a tool trailer...).
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Excellent job! I had to replace the rear arches on a much more modern vehicle recently & wish I'd thought of doing it this way...
Kevin
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Very nice!
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You just run out of superlatives to describe how good your work is - an absolute inspiration! :wow:
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Costs £6,500 + VAT, I think...
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Google found this image of a Morris-Commercial DCTM (obviously somewhat changed from its military days):
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Just read through this thread for the first time, & it's all fascinating stuff!
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Not too much space wasted between the door frame and the cab!
And I have begun to modify the frame to allow for a more sensible clearance.
Shame you can't just let a bit of air out of the tyres...
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Ah - now therein lies the problem - the screws holding mine in are standard plain head screws that need a conventional screwdriver to hold them!! I'll have a look next time I am over to see if the holes also line up on mine and if so whether or not a normal stubby screwdriver will fit in there. Too much has varied from what was standard on mine to be able to say definitively a standard solution will work.
Rebuilt steering wheel arrived today - it was totally FUBAR before, in addition to the cracks around the rim there were a couple of nasty ones along the ring that caught the hand nicely as the wheel was fed through thus slicing the skin like a razor blade. Wheel has been rebuilt using modern materials so the cracking should be a thing of the past as should the outer coat wearing away. It was probably one of the most expensive single jobs on the vehicle but well worth it!!
Just a thought, but could you use a 1/4" ratchet drive with an appropriate screwdriver bit to hold the head in place - always my 'go-to' tool for tight spaces.
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The pattern of dents on the front o/s wheelarch looks quite similar in the first two photos to my eyes (albeit the bright yellow is distracting). There appears to be remnants of the black detailing around some of the panels, too...
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Also wearing his private purchase Regimental side cap so obviously his best BD for walking out.
One of those strips on his arm is presumably an Essex Regiment dress distinction.
I've just read that the 2nd battalion wore a 'Pompadour blue' strip (apparently a dark purple-blue shade) under the standard scarlet arm-of-service strip as a regimental distinction, so perhaps that also applied to the 9th battalion?
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I've only carried out the briefest of searches online, but the only device I can find that seems to fit the bill (8-inch, muzzle-loading projector still in use by the Second World War) is this, the 'Livens Projector':
Basically a big chemical mortar that according to the article, remained on the books until the "early years of the Second World War", but obviously wouldn't have had much use operationally. Possibly a prime candidate for 'repurposing' the boxes?
Kevin
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As Tony says, 77th Infantry Division - more info here:
The cap badge is the Essex Regiment, I believe:
From the divisional order of battle shown in the first article, that would mean that your uncle Ron served with the 9th Battalion, Essex Regiment, which belonged to 203rd Infantry Brigade (the senior brigade of 77th Inf. Div.). It would appear that the 9th Essex was part of 77th Inf. Div. from its formation on the 1st of December 1941 until September 1942 (after which it was converted to artillery), which nicely pins the date of the photo down to a 9-10 month period.
Hope this helps,
Kevin
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Excellent job!
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As widely publicised the 'Elefant Tiger' has been loaned from the Aberdeen proving grounds in USA at a cost of 80 Grand for shipping, part of which has been sponsored by the computer gaming company "Tank World".....Of which I know nothing!
Ron
Just a slight correction Ron, but the computer game in question is 'World of Tanks' (which is really quite good, if you like that sort of thing
) - they seem to have quite a healthy relationship with The Tank Museum & have also supported several other museums & armour projects around the world, I believe. There was even talk of them paying for the restoration to working condition of the Maus at Kubinka, but things have gone very quite about that since the initial announcement...Kevin
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The flag on the shirt is in the same orientation as the one on the wall, is it not?
Incidentally, I'm not convinced that's an actual print on the shirt - it looks like a superimposed image to me.
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Definitely one to watch - cheers for the heads-up
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It could be one of these...
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No help with the query, but when I first saw your photo out the corner of my eye, I thought the axle pictured was either really small, or you had REALLY big hands...
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" "[German authorities] told me that the planes were resistant to corrosion and could fly if they are unearthed," he said. "
Yep...
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C'mon lottery win!
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Guy Martin - Mk IV Female Tank replica
in Pre WW2 vehicles
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You're right, anything is possible, but in that location there's effectively a natural choke-point on the High Street with a number of substantial brick-built planters restricting access - you can get an artic through, but only really first thing before anyone's about. What's the width of a Mk.IV with its sponsons deployed? Because presumably you'd also like some people (of all ages, including kids & the elderly) there to witness the procession? Well, you'll struggle... Road access is also a nightmare - you'd have to run the tank at least 300m along a fairly narrow congested street, through crowds (who may or not care about the Tank itself), and across a medieval bridge just to get to & from a point where you can park a low-loader (with a tight 90 degree turn at at least one end). All relying on whatever forward vision the driver can get between the track horns (even with CCTV cameras, it would be dodgy).
At the end of the day, it's not the downfall of Western Civilization, it's a slightly regrettable but practical decision that the council had very little choice over. I'm sure if the council had bent over backwards to make it happen & spent tax-payers' money removing planters & bollards, closing roads, paying for insurance cover and then paying the coppers their fee, people would have been VERY quick to slag them for that too.
Rather than lay all the blame at the door of the council, people might want to ask Channel 4 why they put out a press-release announcing this pie-in-the-sky scheme just two months before the event, when they obviously hadn't secured any form of agreement for it to happen. One might also want to question why the only on-site recce that anyone's aware of comprised Guy Martin & a bunch of feckless media luvvies who couldn't even work out how to set out a square of f*cking string to try to check available clearances prancing up & down the street. You could ask why it wasn't suggested that there was an event featuring the replica Tank on one of the two commons, which could have re-enacted the testing of the real things, instead of trying to attempt the practically impossible on the High Street.
If you're that bothered about seeing a First World War Mk.IV in the birthplace of the tank, then pop over to the Lincolnshire Life Museum & look at a real one. I note from the press-release that Channel 4 didn't even mention that one, instead choosing to go to Cambrai to see the wreck of one...