Tony B

Not a lot has changed with the buses then. All engines should be allowed to soak for a couple of minutes before switching off. Very good advice given to me years ago first couple of miles steady in the middle do what you want, last couple of miles steady.

Reading the manual, Oh WOW, that's serious :schocked:Good luck.

Hi Phil the restoration bill on the OB was phenomenal. The interior is beautiful, but the old lady does earn her corn.There is only one old chap who drives her, if you go near the driving seat he starts to shake, God help if you touch the steering wheel. One day maybe i'll get the chance to play. :-D

I do belive you, trouble is worked with VAT so know how sneacky they can be. The cheapest way is to go round the back of the local chip shop, but this is 'Waste product' etc etc. Unfortunatley there seem to bhe very few outlets for Bio disiel, not wholly convinced of SVO.

Travel East, travel West, holidays with the green machine are best. :evil:

Sanctuary Wood, the German Underground hospital (HO8) in Jersey and funnily Hampton Court palace, 3 palces that make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up :shake:

I KEEP telling the cook, be more careful about those mushrooms he serves for breackfast. :dunno:

Hitler's commando order is alleged to have been as the result of landing operations, couldn't really be called Commando raids, on the Channel Islands, specifically Guernsey. Churchill pressured for a series of operations codenamed Anger and Ambassador. None produced anything of any value to the Allies. the result was the Commando Order and the deportation of all non Island born civilians to internment camps in Germany. Churchill isn't that revered in a lot of quarters in the Islands. The order applied to all small clandistine raiding forces regardless of which unit. the supposed justification was the finding of a dead German soldier with his hands bound after such a raid.

If you truly want a gauge. Have a look at the kit car market. Wouldn't be period though.

Land Rover and diesel have never been the happiest of partners. My Range Rover has a 2.8 Isuzu lump al-la Perentie. I dare say it would run SVO, runs on damm near anything else, but I think your right use the professionally mixed stuff. Pity there isn't more available.

Trapeze artists latrine? Starting to see a pattern in theses :roll:

Proably because the whole area is a building site. Ieper is not standing still, there seems to be a massive economic upsurge. One of the problems of archeology in a living community.

How times change. In my day we used to fly Dakotas out of Jersey belonging to Cambrian airways, BIA also had Pionairs, which look similar. We were glad when Viscount's and Vanguards came along. Intra also flew Daks out of the Islands in the 1970's. my memory is of NB November Bravo, if I remember correctly 1944. Evil old bitch, all the radio gear was valves, forever giving grief that and the 28 volt inverters.

Wasn't there some firm had a lot of grief about keeping unregisterd vehicles for spares a while ago? Something to do with some weird EEC end of life regulation. So to keep politicians happy, don't smoke don't drink Don't eat and above all don't breath the air. Why bother to vote? The goverment always gets in. :cry:

How about 'OWELL' in 'Owell it's brocken down again' :-D I know OYs were named because OY isn't working this time. My Dodge is named after my mother 'Ruby Baby' just before she died we had a conversation and she said to me 'When everything is sorted out, don't save all the money, buy something you have always wanted.' The ambulance is called 'Elusive Lady' as she always has elusive reasons why she isn't working.

Very true. The best defence is a well trained eyeball.

This is the Dugout trench system. North of Essex Farm, smack in the middle of an industrial estate. they were some of the first trenches dug. There were also Levin's gas projectors found there.

Yes I know what you mean. One thing I did was change all the fluid. I'm in the throws of finding another cap for the master cylinder to attach a pressure bleed. An extension to the cylinder would be an assisit on a Dodge.

Got an OB :-D Friends of mine at Tantivy run one commercially. 5 years ago Terry was ranting he was going to get rid of the thing as it cost so much, now he's looking for more as it she is booked 6 months in advance.

Intresting line in Sassoon's 'Memoirs of an Infantry Officer'- 'I was fighting for an oil well in Mesopotamia'. Not a lot changes then. The Great War was based on two plans, the German Schillifen Plan, though by that time he was dead, and the French Plan 17. Both envisaged movement and a conclusion in 6 weeks. In fairness to Haigh, he did not want to attack on the 1st July at the Somme, but was pressuered into it by politicians and the French. the same at Paschendale, the French Army was in collapse after Verdun, and again the British were expected to distract the opposing forces. That plus Lyodd George's hatred for Haigh over the East -west issue and his interference in reinforcements and diversion of supplies to the East put him in an impossible position. Why is the soldiers get the blame and pain the politicians just walk away?

Essex Farm cemetry, alongside the dressing station. Just outside Ieper.

Essex farm today, where the poem In flanders Feilds was written. the idea of the poppy went back to Canada thence to America and back to UK.

What you get up to in your social life is entirley up to you :shake:

Now your getting carried away Tony. Also can you please give the dates you have in mind?

Is there a way of putting a float into the tank? You could use something like a Land rover unit. the problem will be the length of the float arm. you may not get accuracy but at least it would mark the embarrassment level. As yours is 12 volt there are plenty of candidates. Wiring is easy earth, tank unit, gauge power. A hole can be cut in the tank with a pipe cutter drill. WARNING- Any drilling on fuel tanks, empty and inert tank first, one way of inerting is to take the exhaust gas from another engine and feed it into the tank. Another way is a co2 extinguisher fired into the tank. PS do any of this outdoors.