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Easy enough Mike, Ill do a spreadsheet!!

So by my reckoning we have the following here (with apologies as Ive used a bit of licence on some of the categories): Engineering/ mechanics 21 Driving/ logistics 8 Architects 1 Park/ estate management 3 IT 4 Nursery super 1 Construction/ maintenance 8 Designer 2 Project management 1 Nursing 1 Printing 1 Banking/ insurance / office work/ finance 4 Music biz 3 Outdoor instruction 1 Shot blasting 1 Probation 1 Glasswork 1 Logging 1 Retired 1 Serving soldier 1 There were 11 of the above list who admitted to being ex members of the armed forces in some shape or form... Cheers Timbo

Marcus Glenn has a fairly complete project one for sale at the moment. It is POA but i am pretty sure was previously listed at £60k plus vat. I would imagine a completed restoration woukd go for considerably more. So yes, in my book that would mean some piggy bank raid!!

Bit of a tangent but Brian Boys up in Lancashire had a number of NOS silencers listed on his website which are described as possibly Salamander. Notoriously difficult to get hold of but might be worth a try.. Trades as Select Military Vehicles and is still on Milweb I think...

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Bu*ger - there goes my plan to sell my surplus J60's to the Irish then! Guess they will be good for another 10 years once dieselised....

Paul Very jealous. Ray Mears is great, much better than Bear Grylls who always seems to do things the hard way. Where Bear is chewing raw insects, Ray whittles himself a 10 piece dinner service and dining room table before settling down to a nice stew!! Cheers Timbo

Steve If that was you then I followed you !!! Up the M40 I think it was at about 2am. Police would not let anybody past so had to do the whole journey at 20mph or so - you got some cursing that night!! Cheers Timbo

Greetings Conor...you are indeed lucky to have a job like that! Will you get to play with the Scorpions? Cheers Timbo

Work in Finance for a major rail company and love it to bits...esp getting stuck in on the operational side and winding up the engineers with my amateur engineering questions...they just seem to sigh and roll their eyes usually!!

Poor little J60! would be much happier trying to power a CVRT...

Nice pics mate I have a vice for the back of mine which I stripped blasted painted and greased. Vice done, now just need to finish the Samson! There should also be a canvas cover to protect it from the elements. When I changed the sprockets and road wheels on my Sabre there were bits of mud stuck between them which had literally set like concrete. Not a problem with the roadwheels but took a while to get at all the bolts on the sprockets, i had to use. Achisel and hammer to get it out..!

Many thanks for all the advice. I had already decided against reconnecting the remote cables but was going to install these as trigger operated back ups, as well as having a ready supply of modern portable extinguishers. I will have a think but may just intstall empty cylinders for cosmetic purposes, the brass piercing heads look quite attractive when cleaned up and lacquered. Cheers Tim

They are mostly rust coloured at the moment! But i was in the process of painting them black, but red could be easily done too if needed..!

Ok so I have these 2 pyrene bottles which ive been refurbishing to go into my Saladin, and in the process of refitting the piercing head i, ahem, managed to pierce the brass disc, with the result that the bottle went off! Well at least i know it was full! Looking at the second bottle the disc looks to have a bulge in it, which is maybe what caused it to go off, as the piercing head was definitely fully retracted and the safety bolt in place. So does anybody know if the bottle can be recharged and the brass disc replaced? I am intending to try some fire extinguisher places on Monday but just wondered if anybody on here knows? Cheers Timbo

Thanks for posting Brucie. You must have felt so reassured!

Nice work indeed mate..!!! For cleaning acrylics you need the spray cans of foaming cleaner, these work really well with acrylic paints, water is too much like hard work. The normal spray cleaner works well on enamel but is not so good on acrylics..

Merry xmas m8 your bedford build is looking very nice indeed.. I got (ie bought for myself!) the Revell heinkel 219 - a nice looking kit at a good price but it is going to be bl**dy big!!!

Ditto many thanks indeed!!!

Wow thanks for posting very interesting indeed... But probably quite painful for Daimler owners to look at!

Bob Still working my way through this and thoroughly enjoying it, a brilliant read, although took me a while to get into it. I would agree with your assessment of Alanbrooke, a great man whose contribution to the war effort has been sadly underrecognised! But no Im afraid I still dont know who Stuart was! Cheers Tim

There is a modern parallel in the type of asymmetric warfare we see in many trouble spots today - relatively small actions which cause minimal disruption in themselves but which have the effect of tying up large numbers of troops and large amounts of equipment to guard against them. It has proved time and again to be a very effective means of waging war when you dont have the capability to mount a traditional offensive. But Bob I tend to agree with you the 6 month quote was rhetoric! Either way they were heroes of the first order.

I have to say Im really not convinced by this story....he seems to have come up with a random collection of words related to the war, such as 'panzer' and 'jerry' and tried to suggest that this consitutes a message, but most of what he's come up with doesnt even make sense! Or am I missing something?

Wow 120mm canister now that would be seriously unfunny..! Fourfox also told me that canister was rare and destroyed barrels, but I guess once you'd fired two of them the hordes would be seriously discouraged. As an aside I bought from him a box for canister rounds which bizarrely holds 6 rounds - odd as you would never use 6, not in one vehicle anyway..

From the looks of that crater in front of it it had a lucky escape!