N.O.S.

i didnt even know it was missing , dont live far from it , and used to empty the skips in t.c harrisons yard , how upsetting ,:shocked:

Not the Scammell steel transport Harrisons by any chance? Are the Scammells still in use?

Better stop before this becomes a trainspotter's website!

The 2008 Golden Anorak Award is currently held by a Scammell nutter - you'll have your work cut out getting it off him!!!

So long as it is military related nobody on here will mind in the slightest!

I saw the dismembered Duxford Baldwin whilst under protracted repair at Leiston, Suffolk - sad really......

Nice paint job on that ground anchor!!!!

Now I'm not trying to spoil the fun here, but what about the subjects of LIABILITY and INSURANCE?

Are you INSURED for what you propose to do?

If not, who will be held LIABLE if something goes wrong?

Wasn't it fun when we could act responsibly under the protective umbrella of "Sh!t happens"?

Sadly we now live in the world of "Sh!t happens and someone has to be held responsible and someone has to wipe it up and someone has to pay for it to be wiped up"

I'll shut up now. :cool2:

PSU 439 was subsequently sold, by Bernie, to a well known commercial vehicle recovery operator. Does anyone know where it is now ?

Yes, it is with a well known commercial vehicle recovery operator. And very nice it is too!

Nice painting, Les. There was an eastern european guy, by the name of Palav Holy or something like that, who did acrylic paintings in a similar style. He was at W+P some years back. I loved his work, and almost commisioned something from him but was stuck for choice of subject (and money!) at the time. He did one of a similar DT negotiating a railway crossing in the rain. I wonder if he is still painting?

Tony

There seems to be a view that a return to National Service might go some way towards curing our ailing country of its "behavioural" problems, but perhaps best not go down a 'political' alley on here.....

However I for one would be really pleased to see a return to steam power on the rails :yay:

Anyway, this sounds like a great idea for an event - shame I just missed out on National Service :whistle:

Not sure about it being at Disneyland, but yes, the Goose moved from its original home in a dome in Long Beach, California, near the Queen Mary. ....... An engineer can walk down the inside of the wings to work on the engines in flight!

 

Steve

Steve - yes I should have said that the dome was owned by Disney Corp who wanted it back (as per the article on the website I posted). That bit of info about working on engines in flight is just amazing!!!

Tony

......but I'm blowed if I'm going to pay the insane prices the dealers are asking for restored genuine ones.

- Mike

I think I was very very very very very very lucky with the one I got direct from the States Don't expect you could get another like that now!

I've checked through some manuals and can only see the 'hole vent' type as per my photo, so I'm fairly certain this was the original pattern. I can't find the Tankograd book to check some wartime pics and series 5 pics yet though.

I can't lay my hands on it yet, but I'm certain there was a story about this very truck , mentioning its use as an army prototype/demonstrator, in one of the vintage commercial vehicle mags a few years back :confused:

I met someone today who had been to see the Spruce Goose on display at a Disneyland site some years back. I didn't know it still existed. It has since moved to another site - try

www.sprucegoose.org/aircraft_artifacts/exhibits.html

for the story behind this 8-engined monster of the sea/skies! Just need an excuse to go to Oregon now.....

Thanks Kuno!

That front ballast box must be about 2 1/4 tonnes, Norman :shocked:

There's a clever old chap in Norfolk who might bring them back to life for little or nothing, but no guarantees. But I expect you're a fair way from there? PM me if you can get them somewhere close, I might be able to help, and if you decide to replace with Optima batteries he might collect them when he drops your new ones off......

Norman, TTM's motor also has some very interesting, non-standard, and top secret rear brake chambers (not that the scrutineers would stoop so low :cool2:) - you may have noticed them on an earlier thread, might be a job to find now the forum library has got so big!

A Suffolk agricultural contractor had several short wheelbase 6x6 Trader tippers, wouldn't be surprised if one still survives in the back of the shed!

No individual stones but only the pure names laid in mosaic. No rank nothing. The names in alphabetical order...

Yes, I'd like to see this too if possible please, Kuno. Sometimes the simplest ones are the best, the idea of no rank makes sense - they were all in it together.

I'm glad you asked that question re. painting chrome Mike - begining to think I'd have to get the rest of the truck chromed to match :-D. A shame in a way that the Sirenlight restorer had re-chromed it all, but it was the last one left so I took it. Suppose I could leave it as is? Was the chromed windscreen surround on hard cabs painted or left chrome finish I wonder....

Use an etch primer maybe? Perhaps that is what the galv. primer is, calling Richard Grosvenor.......advice please!

Hmm, it the WLF would look nice all chromed up, wouldnt it?

A long way back in this thread I recounted an incident of replacng a front diff with high speed one by mistake on a Matador dumptruck front axle - easily done!!If you cannot find any ratio marks Ed, it wouldn't take long to jack up first a front wheel, then a rear, and count how many times the propshaft rotates for one wheel revolutuion in each case.

I forgot to mention that the photographs in this book are taken from 'the unique archives of the Daily Mail' - I've never seen any of them before, and they are stunning images. I've always felt that illustrations in books of WW1 do not do the subject justice, these certainly do!

Anyone want to add to my thoughts.

Markheliops

Well - :whistle: if someone hadn't mentioned the possible non-originality, I'm not sure many folk would have noticed - me included!!

I reckon you probably got a bargain, and given the scarceity of the things you could fairly say 'if it's a sirenlight, it will do just fine'. Enjoy it!!

But, having done so, you've now got me wondering if mine is right....I picked it up as a fully recon ex. US fire engine of wartime vintage. And that's a 50p piece holding the front up!

Sincerely,

Worried of Elmira Heights :confused:

Are the children shown these type of photos and the history of previous generations sacrifices for us as part of their education at schools today as I don't remember being informed of recent history when I was at school twenty odd years ago ! Luckily my parents got me interested in this powerfull and emotional subject which never ceases to move me !

Well said Andy, and I have to say it was HMVF which brought this subject to my attention - well done HMVF!!!

That trailer was fascinating - did you see that the lower side was covered with veterans autographs with dates & place of service ?

Dave, I spoke with one of the French guys (well sort of, they spoke absolutely no English!!) and he showed me the vets' signatures. One guy had signed it back in '74 or '84 and again in 2004. They were very proud of those ones!! Note the trailer has been repainted a couple of times, but the signature areas are left original. What a wonderful tribute to the vets!

The trailer is a WW2 10T stake trailer, as used on Red Ball routes behind International and Autocar tractors, but rebuilt post war as a van by the Dutch (on top of the original flat bed floor). I was fooled by it - it looked so WW2 American that I had ventured across to take a whole load of detail photos, thinking I could make a demountabe living van body for my identical trailer. Still thinking about it!!

Get yourself out and sit in your jimmy cab with a beer, and drink a toast to the deuce of you :yay:

Cheers to you both

That looks a very nice timber truck, Ed. Quite a neat jib compared to some. Are you planning to keep it as a timber wagon? That will please a certain gentleman from Elmira Heights - he'll probably be along soon to make you an offer you can't refuse :cool2:

P.S. Are you going to introduce yourself in the section for newcomers? You know, chassis number, date of manufacture, any major modifications :-D

Looks like the crane operator had no intention of getting wet when it rained, Les!:-D