ashley

Hi all,

i hear Jack is going to create a `Trophy`winners section :whistle::whistle:

Ashley

Yes it is Tony, i just applied must admit i never saw the music in the title but still seems like a good event all they asked for was the vehicles to be pre 1958 ?

They given me 2 vehicle passes and 4 arena participant passes so once i have checked with my mate to see if he wants to go if not there may be some tickets up for grabs.

will have to wait and see.

Ashley

Wish i had done that

when i had my tea it he had to go round the other stall holders to borrow a cup :shake:.

It was really good to meet you at last Andy, but can you tell me.......Is Jack a....? (.........know what i mean......)

Ashley

Hi all,

any one from here attending this show, has you attended befor ??

Ashley

See you there Jack :wave::coffee:

Ashley

neither did I,..........tell us more, Ashley.

From what i can rememder asbestos was used in the top pad of these helmets, this was discussed with a freind some twenty years ago. I shall see him @ Beltring and will endevor to get more info.

Ashley

As this one is fairly local i am defiantly interested. Please post for next year as early as you can.

Thanks

Ashley

A local chap i know has a substantial steel helmet collection to include plenty of WW 1 British types which he would gladly show off to interested parties........untill it was pointed out that the top protective pad had quite a high (crumbling) asbestos content :shake::shake:

They now rarely leave their cabinet unless gloves and masks are worn :rolleyes:

Ashley

There are a lot of ww2 tanks just lying around near me (Salisbury Plain). I had a friend once who tried to get a sherman but the MOD wouldn't him. I did have one of those I know where some stuff is buried conversations and even got permission to dig from the council but I discovered the tip had in past dumped Asbestos where I wanted to dig.

:idea: Just get a digger and some dust particle masks and work upwind

Ashley

is this connected to a glider being towed over France in 2009 ??

PS just checked and it is not as the plane quoted is a C47

Ashley

Tim,

 

Those steel wheels on the Model T chassis, look something like those on the Paterson tractor conversions, for use on golf courses, parks, etc. They did do them on the T.

I agree with Richard as we had a several Patterson tractors on Bournemouth Parks Dept befor the fuel scare of the mid seventies.

They still run a 1929 Barford rollerbut converted to diesel with the hole for the starting handle bored through the front of the Brass radiator:mad::mad::nono:

Ashley

Certainly looks nice from what can be seen in the photograph

Ashley

. These were abandoned after the revolution, so some could have survived.

Hi all,

i am sure there was an article recently in either windscreen or one of the popular reads regarding the British tanks lent to Russia.

Ashley

A new rule is being implemented for next years skittle night. If the Plain Military team don't win, a five mile gaunt with full webbing will be on the cards for everyone.

Tony

Why do you want to come last on both competitions then :n00b: :-D

Ashley

I found something different while going through our halfopen storage...

 

A bloody WASPS nest...the damn Bas**rds used me for targetpractice landing 4 hits on me. :argh:

OOHH i wondered where i left them :cool2:

Ashley

Hi should arrive on Tues afternoon, usually camp in the Americas field in the first space i can find. Trouble last year was that everybody seemed to have moved around........or are they trying to tell me something :confused::confused:

Ashley

Hi all,

as usuall the case crew will be there in some form or other :shake: hopefully with jeep and not too wet !

Ashley

Are you not tempted to stick a twin vee belt pulley on the rear wheel and bolt that spare Briggs & Stratton engine which you found in the same barn behind the saddle? :shake:

These were quite common in Germany when i was there, but had a small 2-stroke engine mounted to the handle bars. You fired up the engine (pull start) and released the safety catch and it sat either side of the front wheel :cool2:

Always good for a lift home back to school if you were going to be late for lights out.

Ashley

They were apparently taken at East base in the Antartica. Built in 1940 and closed in 1948. The base was partially restored in the early 1990`s when the pictures were taken.

Thanks to all for your replies.

Ashley

May be with all the scrap metal they been sold recently they want to recycle it into the collectors spares / restoration market.

Ashley

Hi all,

here are a couple of cariers to i.d. it looks to have differnt tracks on each side of the vehicle?

Can some one here positivly identify ??

Ashley

Great site and still great photo`s posted here :thumbsup:, being at school in Hamm we often sat by the side of the raod to see these vehicles being brought in for re-furbisment at a local camp, and quite often visited the base on school trips.

Ashley

Hi all,

not long done the jeep online no problems what so ever, i once did try at the local DVLA office and that was just an exercise of incompetence and beaurocratic time wasting. hen i voiced my thoughts to the counter staff they informed me i would be removed from the building unless i changed my attitude....so went home and did it online tootsweet :thumbsup: .

Ashley

I belive that most of us have heard/read the daring exploits of these aircrew,soldiers and naval personel, but untill you can actually visit this and other places where the famous battles and encounters took place can you grasp the intensity/significance of what all those men and women involved accomplished.

I have visited the three dams (1970-1972) and have crossed the lower part of the Mohne see by waking (on 3 feet of thick ice )during a school trip :shake: and even then could only wonder at what made these men brave enough to carry out such a daring exploit, along with many other situations in the combat areas during world conflict,

The same can be said for the sites of the WW1 battlefields,and cemetaries .

Though satallight imagary, historic programmes can help to actually attend a site is will leave the visitor stunned and in awe of the people who fought, died, survived, for our freedom.

Ashley

So guys who are attending, which day are you going or are you going to both days. I shall probally attend on the sunday hope to see you there.

Ashley