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This Gun was built in 1938 !

 

Rob...............rnixartillery.

Yes, you mentioned that before, but thank you

Congratulations

It looks like one of the early Swedish produced guns. The book 'The 40mm Bofors Gun' records that the Portuguese Army brought 54 in 1939-40. 48 British produced guns were supplied at a later date.

Thank you, that narrows the date down a bit

Why not use a silicone sealer ?

Last few pictures look like a recovery to me .. 1920 s ?

Hi, welcome from essex

And it was nice speaking to you too.

I will take the Austin truck, you can have the Land Rovers

Me too!

I suppose that if previous generations had thought this way, then there would be no Norman Castles, nor a Hadrian's Wall, or even many of the 16th century country houses we hold today as our precious birthright.

That aircraft alone is probably worth a couple of castles. I went some years ago to see the remains of the very last Blackburn Skua, rescued from a Norwegian Fiord, fantastic. Much better, I think, to spend the cash on a project like that, then give it away to nuclear powers as so called 'foreign aid'??

Well said !

Excellent !

Well, there's one in my garden !

Great pictures - I presume this was at the Glos/Warks railway at Toddington? Any chance of you posting a picture of the QL lurking in the background? The War Department 8F looks great too, and interesting to see that the builders plate is circular, as far as I was aware, North British always used diamond shaped plates on their locos. Mike

The north British loco plate on my wall is certainly a diamond shape

I started on what I thought was going to be an easy job years ago, but it also turned into a task. Anyway, we are still married .........

Hiding from a ferret ?

Greetings from essex

Where was this Bofors manufactured?

To be honest, I know nothing about this other than its gun number 17 and I was advised by another hmvf member it was from Portugal. It certainly has portugese brass labels on it.

Everything has got number 17 stamped on it !!

i have got to get the tyres replaced ( they actually have WD and the arrow on them ) and althought the bearings seem to be very good, I will get some spares just in case

That's sounds great, I would like that.

I will p.m you when I get home

I personally think that if somebody is willing to use their own money to bring it up, then it's up to them.

Like most of us, I had family that fought in WW2 and we all lived in the east end of London - we got well bombed, but saying that its still a hunk of metal littering the sea bed at the moment, and if its raising makes more people aware of what occurred 70 odd years ago and the sacrifices made, that's a good thing.

this is just my twopence worth and I am not arguing with other people's views.

Any pics ?

Thanks for joining in

Nice- are you expecting trouble?

Not yet, but if they keep flying those big jets out of Southend airport and waking me up in the middle of the night ......!

Great old picture

Well pleased , the suns shining an me new bofors has just been delivered

Welcome in.

You should fit in very well, welcome !