Tony B

It shows one thing, even nintey odd years ago Civil Servants were creting complication to justify their existance.:-D

What!! DERA gave excellent value for mioney! Put 'em up put 'em up! :box::box: £190 ,000,000 at Bristol; ring any bells? The MOD are quite capable of .... things up internally!

Useful site, I like the tow ball/winch attachment. simple and useful.

DERA was much more fun. :-D

I wish you hadn't poasted that!!:-D Saw a guy today with the smallest MP3 type player you can imagine, then I looked at the rest and thought S**t! It's a transvetitie Princess Leia! He was wearing a pair of headphones the size of dustbins! :nut:

When DERA was to be brocken up the Goverment spent £50,000 on 'Consultans' to come up with a logo. The answer was Kinetic, then the real world came in' Seiko registered Kinetic years ago for their self winding watches. Undterred our over paid muppets carried onand got a blue background (Representing the sky high thinking ...etc..futher gobblygook ) and in white letterin (Clouds etc) QinetiQ. Have to say the proggramme glossed over 'The company, despite some contrversie over it's launch', that is describing an atomic exploson as a slight bang. Anyway feed QinetiQ into a word procesor and see the results.

Hummm or has it? :cool2: Would we be that lucky? there is a lot of old tat still on the legislative books.

Good oldbBRITSH war films, they don't make 'em like that anymore! Possibly because the British Film industry has popped it's clogs. There was an old black and white B movie type thing about british Paratroops in WW2 on the box a few weeks back. The guy's drill was spot on, then I realised they would have srved in either WW2 or Korea, or at least National service. As for Battle of Britian (Leaving aside the 1960's facade on the cottage) The aircraft from Spain staged through Jersey, we all skived school to go and se them. As my bedroom window looked ove the airport and the wind was in the right direction, fabulous alarm clock when the left the following day very early. BBC two now proggramme about QuinetiQ /(The fifty thousand pound spelling mistake but that's anothe rstory)

Is that the beast that was based on the WW1 artilley tractors? The articulated ones?

Ouch! Might you get away with judicious positioning against timing?

Waht about the tail board and sides of a trailer Mike? Or the partion in a horse box? Slide off loading ramps? All fit the same sort of description as the table. and how many Angels dancing on pins are you allowed to carry? Care for join me for a pint of Brandy and a Vallium snadwich? :-D

Turn table is intregal to the gun. It is attached by mechanical fittings. You can get them off but it would be a 'mechanical ' job.

Sorry Mike, it's the only British aircraft bomb I can think of that was the shape. Any chance of identifying the station from the vehicle marks?

That's why the word 'reasonable' is considered the lawyers retirment fund. Unfortunatley you normally only find out what 'The Law' is when you are standing in the dock. I'd say a gun is a triler for all Neil's reasons, plus you don't normally push it.

Very useful, I've jut confirmed our SWB FFW as 1964 acording to VRN.

Isn't the tractor a David Brown? And I belive the bomb is the 2000lb Cookie.

Yes, I see what you mean. Crown Exemption.

The angelus in the back ground is an autogiro, or sometimes described as a kite. It has an unpowered rotor. There is one at Headcorn, the plan is to make it flyable. Apparently it needs a wind of 32 kph to fly. To be a Helicopter, the sircraft must have a powered mainrotor, be capable of vertical take of and landing, and hover.

Mike, most Change of construction and use regulations have an inauguration date. Vehicle manufactured and/or registered before are exempt. Might it not help to post such dates? As far as practical advice for towing a limber and gun. Depending on tow vehicle, the Morris' especially the early ones are a pain. The Mk1 has the accelerator pedal in the middle, the battery by your right eye, and zero peripheral vision. The later ones are some improvment, the CMP is a far nicer beast. The combination can be towed happily by a 101 or I've done it with a LWB Safari Land Rover. I have sen guns towed alone, but wouldn't be keen to try it myself. Better to put the gun on a twin axle bracked trailer. Another problem is those behind getting to close and going under the gun barrel when braking. I've not yet found and answer to this, stupidty can't be cured. Th best defence is to make a muzzle cover with a large warning triangle attached, then add a red warning light in the middle.Seperate strong straps around the gun table to attach it to the carraige are also a must. The fitted locking handles aren't clever and the hooks can straighten Due to the lousy side/rear visibility a second person out the top is advisable in tight corners.

Welcome James, you like a challenge then?

Any Peaceniks this year? :cool2:

Driving licence? :-D For a go bang gun, a Class 1 firearms certificate. I've got the old rights so no problem driving. The 'trailer' is definitley over 750 kgs. the gun is unbraked so the Trailer No 27 brakes the gun. Remeber the early Quads have the acelerator in the midle, can get very exciting.

Suppose they'd hold the grease in place! Don't tell me you haven't at some time got home on a gasket made from a thick brown envelope. Eggs or poridge in the radiator? :-D

South African Saracens? Try Tom Sharpe's Riotous Assembly. :cool2:

They can be backed, if youa re very very good. when I was at college the pig man Pete Mountain was ex RAF, he'd ben driving the RL control vehicles with four wheel trailer fore and aft. Made the rest of us sick! He could make a four wheel trailer dance! :drive::banghead: