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  1. Tony B
    I think you'll find it is a Hobday tool. Named after Sir Fredric Hobday MRCVS. The device was used in an operation named after him to cure Roaring or Whistiling in horses. It was also routinley done on cavalary horses, mules and donkeys. An incesion is made in the trachia to open the wind pipe. The spike is then inserted and twisted. The rseult is to destroy the animals vocal chords. The knife standing slightly proud when closed ensurse the spike can be cleanly removed, otherwise the tissue closes and binds. And yes the operation is still used in some cases.
  2. Tony B
    You been raiding the local vets then? :-D What's the length of the blade and circumfrence of the spike?
  3. Tony B
    The leather looks like pigskin. The veined apprance with distinct hair folicles. Very expensive leather, not normally used on military kit, you get very little of it per skin and tan. Sometimes cow leather is facked to make it look like pigskin. There is just something about the stiching dosen't look right. I've spent many years trusting my life to leather saddlery and fittings. It is just to fancy to be military, but not quite good enough to be a European leather.
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    Looking at the construction, there are things that don't look quite right. The leather and fittings look to have been artifically aged.
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    It is most definitley originally design to be attached to a saddle. The D's and position of the buckles etc prove that. I was hoping the G was ornate, as that is the trade mark of W. A. Goold. Nice and simple. The leaer looks to be a top quality vegtable tan, but the big brass fittings aren't typical of English saddlery.Are those screws in the front?
  6. Tony B
    This looks very like a civilian Hunting Canteen. Is it diveided? You say there is a G in it, is it a sort of double O one on top of the other G.?
  7. Tony B
    In view of recent events. I'm thinking of upgrading my Dodge side lights , preferably the headlights, and using a a trail board on the back when on the road. I am also thinking of replacing the filament bulbs with LED. Has anyone done this, or can recommend a supplier. I'd like the type of LED that just replaces the filament in the same holder.
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    I'd recommend going into the local art shop and buy a proper stencil brush. Only a couple of quid and is a lot cleanear than a sponge. Also get some soft stick masking tape, doesen't take existing paint off. Frost's do it.
  9. Tony B
    Work outside of stencil in towards middle.
  10. Tony B
    Yes, and Hitler had no intention of ever giving them up. If he'd won they would have eneded up as a Strength through Joy holiday camp.
  11. Tony B
    The Ancient Greeks belived: 'Whilst a man's name is spocken, he never dies.'
  12. Tony B
    Go with Tony being generous! He does good kit!:-D
  13. Tony B
    You can get proper stencil brushes. The other one British Army approved was an old fashioned shaving brush.
  14. Tony B
    MY OLD LADY!! OH wow!!!!!!! She did go to the right home! :iloveyou::clap::clap::clap:Just wish she and Katy would have got together.
  15. Tony B

    Your fired!

    Tony B replied to Jack's topic in Other Chatter

    The white and the red :-D Oh SORRY, the who, not the what!
  16. Tony B
    Welcome along Andy.
  17. Tony B
    You lucky ..lucky....... :mad:
  18. Tony B
    Just spocken to Phil. The Humber Heavy were used as Y Service intrceptors, they mounted a generator and a HRO reciver. Also the Yanks used them for the same purpose. Phil has pictures if your intrested. Sounds like you are going to have a lot of late nights deciding what your toy is going to be. :-D The Post War Brixmis option is intresting as well. All sorts of unusaul markings, including a big Unioun Flag on the roof.
  19. Tony B
    Welcome in.
  20. Tony B
    Frost do an inline battery disconnect. Attachs to a round pole .
  21. Tony B
    Yes, got a pair of trousers somewhere. Any use to you?
  22. Tony B
    God to have you aboard Dan.
  23. Tony B
    Welcome in Adrian, very nice truck.
  24. Tony B
    Take the IR switch circuit staright out of circuit! Well known problem with the things. The other classic I've seen is an MOT inspector screaming about all the ligfhts not working, only to find he turned the 6 way switch the wrong way. Just leave switch in place to fill hole.
  25. Tony B
    Problem is when you see the type of car your mum or dad drove being driven a spotty oik saying 'Look at my Classic Car! :-( Back in about 1975 I bought a beaten up old Triumph Herald for £10.20, sold it few months later for £20. Saw it two years ago for sale in a Classic car Club newsleter, £5000 ono. :banghead:
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