Tony B

Your welcome. :-D

Welcome along.

Do you mean smearing glass with oil then adding sand to stop reflection?

So , you got your'e application in?

Not that the house would be used as a perfect marker for Enemy Artillery of course! :-D As for Hessian, that was used during the Great War in large amounts to screen roads and bridges.

Never had a problem with DVLA using the build card. My WC51 was on the VL5 as 1945. Her build date was 24th October 1944. Being picky I wanted the 1944 date. DVLA changed it with no problem. The WC54 is 4th February 1944, so yours is the middle sister!

Blimey! Ask the answer to the life and universe. A Bus Lane can be marked retricted at all times, or at the times displayed at the start of the lane, to the vehicles on the sign, Taxis (By which at least TFL mean Hackney Carragies licensed by cab office not mini cabls.Addison Lee just had a very expensive court case over this) Bus or bicycyles. The motorcycle bit was an 'Experiment', then apparently THEY needed more information of acidents caused by vehicles turning right!(Sorry meant LEFT, original very early after long night work) Then you have Guided bus lanes, which is trams on the cheap. In that case the lane is edged by kerbs and the bus has two guide wheels on the side which engage and guide it. In that case the bus also has to be registered as a Locomotive! The down side is , swing into a standard stop catch the kerb and boomerang out into traffic. Then you have Contraflow bus lanes, ......... Coaches are not permitted to use bus lanes, though David Ives will clarify. Basically if the vehicle is not a Stage Fare bus serving the local authority, it 'aint a bus. The God's in this are the Transport Commisioners who licence the firms. PS, Don't balls about with D1 do the full D test, it is the same test as D1 and you get to drive any number of seats, regardless of vehicle weight! The theory tets for D and C are diffrent though, as for the Hazaed Awarness test , as the Examiner said to me 'Drive like a tit and you'll pass it. However if you got into the situation where you had to brake or swerve, I'd rip you another ***** you should have seen it coming a long time before'. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/traffic-commissioners

Welcome in. Any pictures?

Probably taste the same as well! :-X If you didn't have cork, Wilton carpet was alternative.

Sort of flexible then expanding again. Surley you can still get cork gasket marterial? http://www.ramgaskets.com/gasket-materials/cork-gasket-material/

Welcome , nice toys.

The chains look very like the type used to attach braking wedges on horse drawn vehicles. The wedge fits under the wheel and drags going down hill, and stops rollback if going up hill.

When making wads for muzzle loaders out of old corks, the answer was to deep fry it for thirty seconds. Made it just the right consistency the ram down.

A bit of experimental archeology now? Stick loads on and see how they tie and balance?

Seen that done as well! Harvesting potatoes is considered almost an extreme sport. Apparently Mils Bombs go through the system very effecintly.

I was luck enough to attend a lecture by a DVLO Operator at Ipers. He reckoned it would take about another one hundred years to clear all the Unexploded Ordanace. As an unusual fact which country has the largest stock of Chemical weapons? Belgium, courtsey of our good selves and the German's. As for ploughing, the guys seem to just take it as read. The ploughs are reinforced.

Welcome in.

Welcome Ian.

Great grins everywhere! Mind you being paid to drive that about! :mad:

The proffesionl advice for preserving antique bare metal blades is use clear wax furniture polish. Though waxing a whole vehilce would take a lot of Mansion Polish and dedication! :-D One of the nicest WC52's I know looks like it has been driven through a hedge with the owner wearing a suitably tattered uniform. After all MV's are built to work hard in any situation and just keep going.

Yet people pay a fortune to have brand spanking new vehicles 'Proffessionally Distressed'

Welcome in, your right intrest in The Great War is getting quite heated.

Nah, I think you've cracked it! The main users of such kit were RAF 100 group. The first airborne elint.

Found this picture, around 1944. The thing on the back is an airborne jammer code named Jostle. What's the vehicle though?

Technically only when the bus is 'In Service' :-D