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Tony B

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  1. Welcome, come on in, the Aussies are busy tiying Kangaroos down, the two Rosie's were last seen heading off to put the world to rights. The Old codgers are still trying to get up the stairs to Jack's new penthouse. Everyone else is probably under something green and oily.
  2. Thanks! hopefully I've found a Nissan unit that will fit. Trouble is It will be a while before I can get back to it.
  3. Welcome John, your organising talents..will be totally wasted on this mad house.
  4. Well done! Another future MV addict! :yay:
  5. Well I'm going to be difrent! My vote is for the Liberator. This aircraft was responsoible for the closure of the Air Gap during WW2.
  6. I'd buy a standard holder and fit to the screw holes. Won't be seen and woulf fit a modern bulb. Try the Maplin web pages. or Frost's classic car parts.
  7. Snapper, have you ben at the mushrooms again? :-D
  8. Invest in a good quality thread file! The buissness for salvaging old bolts!
  9. Post war story was Colonel Charles Blashford Snell. He was educated in Jersey at Victoria College, during the early 1960's he was in charge of clearing the items that had been stored up post Liberation in the Tunnels at L'aleval (The German Road) Due to the presence of noxious fumes and being underground, the team always worked in pairs. On one ocasion he entered the tunnels with his collegue behind him. They worked for a bout half an hour then Col Blashford Snell came out and asked his companion a question. The bloke looked at him blankly and said' But I ddin't come in with you'. From his book Mammoth hunt If anyone saw the Antiques Road Show episode from Jersey the guy who brought the Sticky bomb in. His name is Eric walker BEM, his book is called Don't Annoy the enemy.
  10. I'll trounce you all with Children's Favourites on Saturday morning!
  11. :-DWe would tell you more but....... Rosie 1 has a mean back swing with a twelve inch stiltson wrench.
  12. Ah the mob is banging at the door though! :argh:
  13. Coronation Street, still. Peyton Place, Combat, Garrison's Gorillas (AND that is the spelling) Hogan's Heroes F Troop Car 54 Get Smart. And top of the pile Wrestling on a Saturday afternoon. Mister Ed , the Buccaners, Roger Moore as Ivanhoe! Z Cars. They don't make 'em like they used to (Thankfully)
  14. Welcome, and another You Know Your Old: When British aircrasft were registered G-A
  15. Cadbury's Dairy Milk to those younger than a certain age. The The other advert that comes to mind (well it is me!) is the Playtex Living Bra. It was the first advert broadcast on the opening day of Channel Televison, followed by Lorne Green, as Robin Hood!
  16. 120 degree cathode tubes, 405 line VHF, the little Rediffusion box on the wall. 5 amp and 2 amp plugs, with round pins. Esso Blue parrafin heaters. 2 star petrol. Esso putting a Tiger in your tank, the new fangled 20/50 mutil season motor oil.Being shoved in the cockpit of various aircraft when flying as 'Unaccompanied Minor'.
  17. Oh gawd! I remember when they got their FIORST proper Brtten-Norman Trilander! We all qued up outside the hangar to watch it land:shake: You look through the Pathe News site, OH old films about Jersey! In the middle of which is a little short trousered little oik driving a kidde's go kart at Bellevue. Eric who owned the place bribed me with half an hours free go. Half a crown for Birthdays, Ten bob note at Christmas. The first Action Man, 3 speed sturmey Archer bike gears, AND, with telly in background, Knight Rider first time round!! Anyone remeber SUPERCAR!!
  18. As we now have 'Ladies present' does that mean you lot will be bringing some of the excellent local wines to the club house parties? :yay:
  19. As for being pregnant! That entitiles you to wee in a Policeman's Helmet!
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