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The letters from the MOD and Hammond seem perfectly reasonably and polite to me, you are lucky you got a reply. As for freedom in information act they legally have to disclose anything they have, and it would just be some random researcher with no interest in the back ground. Personally I bet the company doing the development would love to find 325 buried tanks and recover them, it would make world news!

so is this more about a dislike of pulling down the old airfields and building new towns then, rather than the tanks? that company in question has done lots of archaeological work on its sites, lots of roman stuff etc, no tanks though, and in the long term it is cheaper to clear up any contamination risk before building over it, so it would have been in their interest to remove them first.

1 hour ago, andy brown said:

Should anyone want to delve into this issue further the site managers name is Andy Brading company name Urban & Civic at waterbeach and alconbury  not that he or they will be very accomodating .

The Mod is involved as it was their site but even less help as my communications with them over the years can prove....Denial ...there is a airfield museum while worth a visit doesn't hold anything that remotely relates to this subject ..well can't expect them to it was a war department secret .,.

 

just messaged Andy. I expect to be followed by MI5 later then I guess!

5 minutes ago, 11th Armoured said:

What we really need is Scooby Doo & the gang - they'd get to the bottom of the mystery!

🤣🤣🤣

I'm sure this Andy Brading would be interested. it was 326 tanks wasn't it from the earlier post. restored over £250k each as wrecks at least £25k each so he's sitting over £8mill. thats worth a bit of ground penetrating radar and a digger and concrete crusher. the government will be up for that as it's broke!

20 minutes ago, andy brown said:

The airfield was closed for upgrades early 1950 to mid 1950 ..this is when the aprons I have identified were laid along with the widening of both ends of the operational runway all to accommodate the anticipated arrival of b 29s as were a number of other airfields..

pardon my ignorance, but wasn't the B29 obsolete my the mid 1950's?

so where are the plates now then?

found one

found the right trailer. came with a few tons of scrap on the back though haha

I've been in contact with RCH for my Albion CX22 among other things, they have been very helpful when all the others just said no. not kicked off the project yet but they will be getting my work.

you would think that he would show us a pic or two of the plates he bought at auction, that would be of general historical interest anyway and not give up the location of the hoard. 

2 minutes ago, 11th Armoured said:

007 plots have more credibility, I feel!

Still, he's getting attention, so I dare say he's happy in spite of being on a government hit-list...

exactly, and i was trying to help, give us the location, the government can't assassinate everyone thats been on this forum. bugger what's that red dot tracking across the wall? 😣...................................................................................

10 hours ago, andy brown said:

Hi it's not a lack of desire more to do with it being mod ground which I had access to when I was not a threat but once I disclosed what they didn't know was there I became a threat....

A threat to the MOD? so where is this slab of concrete then? 

1 minute ago, andy brown said:

Difference is I was at the. meeting when the plan for this was laid ..

ok so document that on here then.

well if you know the instigator and its a top tory and its to do with money ie corruption. spill the beans now, the media will love another story to pin on them. dought you will be found in a ditch, as we will know who did it if you tell us first haha

there are lots of these stories about, and we know heaps of stuff saw sea dumped under the terms of lead lease, this kind of thing still goes on, (if any of you have been involved in supplying kit under UOR'S you will know what I mean) most stories are just that stories and wife's tails that get written into myth, I know of a good one that has some back up. The guys that worked on hobarts funnies. up north on a big estate, after the war all the prototypes where bulldozed into a big dip in the ground, that dip in old maps isn't there anymore apparently and the old boy was very credible, But until someone comes clean about the address it is just a fantastic story. My dad had some good stories from the 1950's he used to tell us when i was young, but ask him the same thing now and its a mix of a dozen stories! and makes no sense anymore. if these things are real, document them and pass them on.

2 hours ago, andy brown said:

Hello Bob

When embarked on this saga ten years ago all I had at that time was a memory of one of many meetings when I was around nine ,until I stumbled into the tank plates ,from that point on all I could do was try to see if the two were connected not knowing if someone else had already unraveled this mystery ,hence someone out there knows ,Inthe hope that if someone knew or had unraveled it then I could drop it and walk away ..but no mention the was fothcoming .where I landed up was a long way from anything I could have ever imagined ..,perhaps it was the wrong thing to try and answer all that came at me from the forum good bad and indifferent as it was me that wanted answers but as no one came forward with info I suppose the right thing to do was pull the plug on the forum .just to say that under what one could say is normal circumstances the opportunity to carry out such a search should be relished this turned into me and them ....the grey people..initially I had a welcomed access to the site once I found it (2years) work...under the umbrella of the army ..private enterprise takes over I am thrown of but not before I had a good working knowledge of what lay under some 200 acres ,spent great deal of time trying to get permission to finish search ..but site owners invested millions and although I took to their table all I had it just got worse ..I had now become a threat ..these are people who are the movers a verbal threat from a top minister was followed by being banned from reading in or on line at the National Archives .which meant my movements are under surveillance  ,ridiculed in a local paper, and having my computer swamped with junk from a department run by the site management for eight months ... It looks as thou I've made my self public enemy no 1 and you rightly ask what I want .I will get there eventually .anything you can add I will take on board thanks Andy

So whos keeping you under surveillance then? MI5, CIA or CI5, and its really easy for them as you post stuff on the net. 

Got the "German" from one of your earlier posts in 2016. The pollution clean up from old Armor would be way less that the value of 326 odd WW2 tanks. So if you know where it is and have no desire to recover them, why not tell everybody where they are and someone else can take on the mantle and research into recovery. or at least keep the myth alive.

just read through all this, its a bit like all the story of the brand new spitfires stored in Malaysia and all the brand new crated jeeps and B17 engines buried at every old airbase round here that no one has ever found. I assume this horde of German ww2 armour is guarded by unicorns? if its for real just tell everyone so it can be found and recovered.

Yes Mike they only made the body that big for the crew, tools and spares and we wonder why we no longer have a British heavy truck industry haha. Rumour has it that they where so slow that you could change a prop on the move if you had those creepers with wheels to lay on!

if you haven't seen it on F##Book MOD prototype PGK888.

probably regulations, bit like the mixed up regulations on what you can and cannot import into the US.

Alsops are a scrap yard so I guess they won some of the bids from Fort Paull, very sad. Well at least Wally from the first sell offs by NAM several years ago via several other collectors and dealers hands first, I ended up saving the Beast! 

Does anybody know if there is a 30Ton RE Plant trailer available? would love to find one for my Scammell Constructor 5th wheel tractor.

I've still got the sand one. 👍

yes looks just like the one we stripped parts from before it unfortunately got scrapped.