Tony B

So far its taken about One Hundred and seven years to get the Short Magazine Lee Enfeild right! :-D And Feret Fixer is quite corect, when first introduced amongst other arguments was the 'extravegence' of a ten shot magazine, and repeating fire. By the by, one of the pistols I learnt to shoot on was SS marked Browning. Apparently it was preffered to Walther P38

Always if you buy a second hand liquid fuel pressure fireiron. Get a new set of seals. This palce is very useful for such bits. http://www.base-camp.co.uk/default.htm

There was also a book on how to plug a Big track into a Sinclair Spectrum. Neither survived my attempts! :computerrage:

Joys of the 101! :-D

A lighter version was used for running out phone lines.

Yeah right! I get great delight watching a stretched Hummer trying to navigate round our local area.:-D

Better than battering the door with a sledge hammer. Just drive straight in up the stairs.

Well? You can get done for speeding on a horse!:-D And on the River Thames!

Bloody true! I could tell some tales. So, I had an old series 3 Safari, fitted with a 90 engine and gear box. She was a right cow to start. One morning about two o'clock I heard the engine kick outside the bedroom window., Dived out of bed yanked window open, there was some **&%^%%$ in the drivers seat. I yelled grabbed something heavy and dived out side, thirty seconds max. In that time the aforementioned had got up the length of the vehicle and out of one half of the BACK sliding window! None of the doors had been forced. I called the Plod, and wondered why anyone would want to steal it, it was a heap. Following night the then new John Lewis at Nugent retail Park was ram raided.

Welcome Jesse

Welcome Bob

:cool2:Hey Shaun! You a bus enginer by any chance? Ether start use on these vejicles is strictly forbiden!!!! :cool2::cool2:

Nice picture, though I notice not taken in the trenches.

Ignoring it! Its not green.:-D

Yeah, the other boys made you do it! :-D They are one of those machines that went out of fashion. Everything went bigger and flashier, then whoops! the new ones are to big and complicated. In Jersey the feilds are measured in Vergees, about 1/3 of an acre. The Cotils, are slopes often about thirty degrees plus. One way of ploughing was a tractor or Landy with a winch on the back, throw the plough down and winch it up. The little Ransome's were ideal for the work.

At least you care!:-D Best wishes to you and the rest. Mulled wine ?

Runway shut due to snow! Christmas cancelled! CAA demanding that suitable De-icing procedure be instigated. W&P have put a definte block on any unathourised flying movments. (I'm of to hibernate for the day. Six large boxes of Humbugs):yawn:

What was your fisrt contacts with Military Vehicles?, My first personal hands on would have been a SWB Series 2 40amp FFW. This wagion ended up at the stables in Jersey so I drove it about. Evenyualy it was hitched with a Rice Horse trailer to the Jersey Drag Hunt & Race Club, in the colours of the sponsors. Benson & Hedges! Well I thought it superior to the JPS Formula one cars.:-D First owned was Series 1 ex Feild Party.

When's the audition for X Factor then? :-D

Don't laugh Richard! They were a versitile little machine, very powerful for there size.

Feeling old, used to drive one when I was about ten. They were exceptionally good in small steep feilds.

True about the heavy vehicles. A bit disturbing when you stop a double decker bus, finally. Set the hand brakes, get out. Then three of you can push it sideways! One of our drivers stopped an Optare road rat on the top of a hill. Set brakes, got out to check the hill, and was overtaken by the bus! :shocked: :-D

Boxing day was, and still is my day! Out with horse and hounds or shooting.:-D

Wishing you and the rest a VERY quiet day.

New tyres may be expensive but, cheaper than a wrecked vehicle. Far nicer than spending Christmas in intensive care.