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

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

Why thank you kindly, abn. Yes, they are exactly the same flavour as those on my Norwegian jimmy And the N.O.S. set I got for the Chev M6 are the same (so quite possibly Norwegian stock?), now they all match!

Oh dear, Richard, looks like salt water has got into your thread too :-D:-D:-D

I don't know Marty, but it has to be a better proposition than this one!!

Looks like you beat me to it, abn deuce!!!!

Hi Marty, we're all slowly turning green too (with envy :-D ). Well done so far. Your photo of the engine shows a red block in the water hose between pump and radiator bottom connection - is this anything to do with water pre-heating or some another Norwegian modification? Tony

A CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD The Illustrated Poetry of the First World War ISBN 978-0-9545267-8-8 / 0-9545267-8-3 Published by Transatlantic Press 2007 £14.99 but available for £9.99 This 180 page book is far more than the title suggests - it a very evocative and varied selection of photographs of WW1, with matching poems. The two media combine well to paint a very graphic and realistic picture of the conditions endured by troops in the Great War, in a way in which stuffy historical analysis simply cannot do. If detailed written histories are not your cup of tea, this book might be the best way to get an insight into the war. Highly recommended.

This is shaping up well to be another of those "lifetime experiences" Accepting that in Oz they don't have quite the same bureaucratic rubbish that we have to content with (can you just imagine trying to organise a similar train the length of the UK?:shocked:), this trip must still have taken some serious planning and organisation!!! Great that some folk are prepared to do this out of sheer enthusiasm. More, more!

Well, thanks to Bodge Formby I've just spent the entire day humming (and occasionally singing very quietly) the Tank Transporter song. Couldn't get the bl**dy tune out of my head. A load of us went walking this morning and over lunch in the pub they all joined in too (loudly), with my wife surprising everyone with a good impression of a ukelele. Anyone else had similar problems today?

Every WLF needs an Explorer as a mate, to take the winch rope out to the thing stuck in doodoo :-D:-D:-D

Erm, err, well, on the conservation side I've just put a better tarpaulin on her (over the heavy old one, so didn't get chance to take body pics for 6x6,). However when time allows I'll free off a stuck rear brake and get her out for some fresh air and a proper photoshoot - maybe put a couple of batteries on her too? Will let you know. For what it's worth I've already rebuilt the air tanks :-D

I'm having a job keeping up with you mate! The last pic is the TRS unit of Porth (now on Anglessey) before it was signwriten and the wooden lockers fitted. I'll post a pic when I get permission from the photographer. Keep 'em coming!

Andy, the first grey one is an Oilfields Consructor. The Avonhill pic just shows the Explorer from your earlier pics on the left. No doubt this Explorer will have been saved too Oilfields trucks are very rare! Also it was not my RAF truck next to the Explorer as I had thought.

That (BKH 905X)is a pic of the RAF Constructor I bought from Peter. It should be yellow, not orange - typical film processing!! A funny thing happened when I went to look at it (it had stood for several years). Peter backed his Fiat Allis loader up to it and I put a set of jump leads across the Scammell batteries - then the positive onto the loader battery terminal and the negative I just "touched" momentarily on the towing jaw of the loader out of habit to make sure it was safe to clamp on without a load of sparks. I got a shock when the bl**dy thing fired up and just sat there ticking sweetly away :shocked: As mentioned in another thread, that Scammell decided it wanted me!!

Andy, I think you'll find these photos were taken in Peter Court's yard - the second pic shows the Explorer next to 'Avonhill' with the large red anchor spade, and I think that was my RAF Constructor to the left (going by stripes on bumper and the position indicator stalk and target). The blue Contractor survives I'm sure.

Jack, do you remember that idea of a prize for the best post each month? Think we have the first nomination :coffee:

Cough cough - please note the registration number matches Stan's truck - the very first post on this thread :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::n00b:

I'm not a member! I was hopng he would sign me in!!!

Anyone else getting fed up with the constant knocking nosie coming from upstairs in the Clubhouse? It's been going on for days now. Had a look today and it turns out to be Catweazle, he's been tapping away at the 1,000 Poster Club Room door, but there's such a party going on in there nobody can hear him - can someone help please?

Interestingly, the WLF manual has a detailed section on wheel balancing, so yes even on big slow trucks they stressed the importance!

You can't give up yet - take the wheels off, drive to a friendly sand quarry and put them back on, then pretend you've got to get off the beach PDQ!!