lenseye

Welcome to this site.

I see you have the same interest as me in churchill tanks.

Please contact me at jim_chapman@email.com to swap photos & chat.

Jim Chapman AKA lenseye.

Trooperjim

Please contact me at jim_chapman@email.com

I look forward to hearing from you.

Jim

PS......There is an underscore between the first two names in email address.

Cannot help with the history but I am working on restoring a Churchill if you want to have a look.

Hello John

Many thanks for your interest in my thread/post.

I attempted to "have a look" at your tank as suggested but only got 3 pages of adverts for tools from a well known internet selling site.

I'd still like to see your snaps though.

Regards

Jim Chapman (aka lenseye)

right then fella's here she is in all her glory, this little fixer upper has been mine since the end of june but it's still sitting in shrewsbury awaitng collection, unfortunately i can't collect it until the land i've just bought is sorted out but i'm working on it so it should be up in manchester by the end of this month which is when i can start to really get a proper look at it, most people think it's beyond economical repair but to me it looks do-able maybe i should take my rose tinted glasses off anyway i've already decided that i'm going to get it running so that's that.

 

all the best

 

eddy

Hello Eddy

Thanks for the interest my thread.

You certainly have a huge task ahead of you.

Whilst I have never been involved in restoring tanks, I am retired from the heavy crawler crane industry & have in the past been involved in some significant undercarriage & slew ring restoration/repair.

Heavy,dirty,tiring work,but worth it when you put the track belts back on & watch it roll out of the workshop so I have an insight to the work you will have to do.

I wish you the best of luck,& hope you realise your dream.

Good luck

Jim (lenseye)

Hello

My main interest in this site will be gleaning any information I can about Churchill tanks that fought from Normandy through France,Belgium ,Holland & on down into the Ardennes into the Reischwald forest.

My father drove a MK1V A22 Churchill named Billericay during this phase of WW11 attatched to 153 Reg. "B" squadron

8 Troop.

Any one who may have any knowledge regarding this please feel free to contact me,facts seem to be a bit sparse in this area.

I thought i'd attatch a photo (the only one I have) of my father's tank he is on far right looking at photoHis is the top photo

The second photo is of his brother (bottom left) crew.

The bottom is of his brothers squadron.

It would be interesting if anyone out there recognises any of these men.