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Robert Sorry to hear about your loss. Sorting out an estate is something most of us rarely have to do, so it's perfectly understandable that you're not too sure about things. It's difficult to give sensible advice without knowing more about the complexity of your mother's estate, whether or not she had a Will, and how the estate is to be distributed - detail which I wouldn't want you to reveal on here. Also your (or the appointed executor's) ability and desire to deal with the associated paperwork, and your relationship with the beneficiaries of the estate will also be factors. That said, and setting the emotions aside, in my (limited) experience a reasonably intelligent person should be able to deal with straightforward estates on their own. I suggest you start by reading here, which will give you an insight as to what's required: http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/inheritancetax/intro/probate-process.htm Broadly, before probate is granted you must satisfy the Courts Service (probate office) that either no Inheritance Tax is due or that it has been paid. If the latter (tax being due), you have to fill in form IHT400 (in England and Wales), along with any schedules, and send them to HMRC who will give you a certificate that tax has been paid; if the former (no tax due) most people can fill in the simplified Inheritance Tax form (IHT205 for England and Wales) and give that to the Courts Service at the same time as applying for probate, though for the more complex estates form IHT400 will first need to be completed and given to HMRC, even though no tax is due. Contrary to what the Daily Mail may lead their reader's to think, only about 3% of estates are liable to Inheritance Tax - in simple terms, no tax is due if the estate is left to a surviving spouse or to charity and gifts in the previous seven years have been minor. In other cases it is due @ 40% on the value of the death estate plus gifts in the previous seven years that, combined, are above the Inheritance Tax threshold (normally £325k but can rise up to £650k depending on whether the deceased was pre-deceased by their spouse and what happened to their estate). My biggest tip is to establish quickly whether or not there was a Will and to obtain valuations on the more valuable / contentious items before market price changes and everyone forgets what the price was at the time of death The Probate and Inheritance Tax helpline is here, should you need it: http://search2.hmrc.gov.uk/kbroker/hmrc/contactus/search.ladv?raction=view&fl0=__dsid%3A&sm=0&ha=34&as=1&sf=&sp_scope=hmrc&sc=hmrc&nh=10&sr=0&cs=ISO-8859-1&tx1=&tx0=49659 Good luck, and my condolences to you and your family. p.s. Just to elaborate - a straightforward estate is one where it consists, essentially of a house, cash in the bank a normal pension and some stock market share investments. Things get more complicated if there is agricultural or business property (which can get tax relief, subject to conditions), trust arrangements, strange pension arrangements, tax planning arrangements, etc.

Are the photographs here of interest, in particular the 1919 type H: http://www.fondationberliet.org/galerie/luc-court-constructeur-lyonnais/

MWW still has a column in The Automobile magazine (and other old car magazines) and can be contacted via the editor. He'll be able to forward on your enquiries. Sounds like GTM has already been asking, so could be worth getting to know them as well. http://www.the-automobile.co.uk/home.html Extra: Just realised that 'clicking' on "contact" from the above link gives you MWW's direct details. Extra (2): Look under Australia here: http://www.hcca.org/old/regional.html

The discovery of an early Halley (and also a Hallford) in Australia was reported in the May 1999 edition of The Automobile magazine in Michael Worthington-Williams' Finds and Discoveries column. This is what the Halley looked like: The report makes for interesting reading: We hadn't heard from Noel Adams of Noosaville, Queensland, for some time. His latest letter makes up for all that. He's discovered a fascinating cache of Veteran and Vintage commercials... The second is a real rarity in the shape of a Halley. Survivors of this once well-known Glasgow make are few and far between. Halley's Garage, in Glasgow, own one incomplete example, which is in the Glasgow Transport Musuem. Nigel Atkinson found a chassis converted to a farm trailer back in 1991. The 1911 ex-Leith Fire Brigade 60/80hp fire engine, registered WS 113, which was formerly in the Sword Collection, survives in the Lothian Museum, I think. In 1994, I found another fire engine chassis supporting a recluse's caravan at Aust, near the Severn Bridge. A 1912 fire engine, ex-Aberdeen King Street fire station, was displayed in incomplete condition in the Grampian Museum in 1994, and a 1929 laundry van (ex-The Frederick Laundry, of Brixton), UU9762, in completely restored condition is owned by an HCVS member. It was featured some years ago in my By the Way column in The Automobile. The newly found example is early and could also date from the 1912 period. It still has the vestigial remains of its front wings, sits on all four wheels, is complete with engine (singly cast four cylinder), gearbox and transfer box, chain drive sprockets and chains, steering column and box, petrol tank, scuttle, pedals, brake and gear levers and much else. In the UK it would have been the subject of a retoration project years ago... If there are any brave souls out there I can put them in touch with Noel. There was then a follow up in the August 1999 edition: The reports of the early Halley and Hallford lorries in Australia prompted a number of letters including one from Halley's Garage, in Milngavie, Glasgow. This is run by Ralph Halley, a descendant of the original Halley family. He sends us this photograph [not reproduced] of the Halley truck which his company preserves, and which was built by the same company as the truck we featured. The Grampian Transport Museum also expressed interest in the Halley. I've put them in touch with Noel Adams, in Queensland, who first reported it to me. Hope this helps! And seems I was wrong in my earlier assumption that the GTM had only the one Halley. Apologies for that.

The remains of another Crossley FWD, reported in the June 1992 edition of The Automobile magazine in Nick Baldwin's column. Located (then) near Stroud. It's said to have its 4 cylinder petrol engine. Better details from Nick.

http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?24931-Horse-drawn-collection-including-WW1-Howitzer-and-Field-Kitchen

Halley fire engine here (Lauriston Place Fire Brigade Museum): http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/0_my_p_edwk_d/0_my_photographs_edinburgh_at_work_-_fire_brigade_ta04_museum_halley.htm

I don't think it's the one in picture 20 - it looks as if that has wooden wheels. A picture of the GTM Halley appears here with painted cast wheels: http://www.aboutaberdeen.com/grampiantransportmuseum.php

The remains of a Fordson WOT6 and an Austin K2 amongst that lot...

Bob, I've now found where I read about the other Vulcans: The Automobile magazine, July 1985 - This [photo] is one of two 1928 Vulcan VSW 6x4 models found by Paul Bowyer... They belonged to a farmer who had used them for hauling thrashing tackle. Both were fairly rough and when some rather similar but more restorable Morris-Commercial D types were acquired Paul sold the Vulcans. The new owner did little to preserve them and when last heard of they were in the Basingstoke area... Their chassis numbers were VSW 13 and 51 with registrations MP8871 and MV5925... I don't know where I read about Paul having three of these vehicles. Perhaps I read something elsewhere!?

Tim, Did you work out what chassis Timken axle is supporting? In 1930 the Automotive Products Company was promoting Timken axles and boasted: As used on Atterbury, Clydesdale, Columbia, Stewart, Day Elder, Essex, Federal, Palladium, Vinot, Garford, GMC, Hudson, Trafford, Wallace, Jordan, Moon, Rainier, Seabrook, Republic, Selden, Traffic, Denby. I hope that helps!

da da da daaaa = V (for Victory!) Almost certainly an addition by the driver - nothing official. A fantastic find and well worth reinstating in due course. I mentioned in an earlier post that the remains of a FWD were sold at auction about 10 years ago. This is what it looked like:

Spotted http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?24931 ...and Pzkpfw-e has given it a mention on Landships. Hopefully word is getting out to the serious collectors. Do you think that big wagon is German army as well?

If you have Microsoft Office Picture Manager as part of your package, there should be a "compress" function. Simply use the relevant option to take the file size below - I think - 250Kb; and save as new file name. It's not sophisticated but does the job and avoids the need to download other software.

Some snippets from Motor Transport from 1927 & 1928: February 21st, 1927: Test report on Vulcan type VSW "a new rigid-framed chassis designed to meet War Office requirements". (This is probably very similar to the Commercial Motor report of a similar date mention by Richard.) May 30th, 1927: Vulcan 17.9 h.p. six-wheeler demonstrated, along with six-wheelers of various other makes, to delegates from the Colonial Conference across the Chobham Ridges and Long Valley. August 8th, 1927: Report of War Office orders during June for six-wheel chassis divided between Vulcan, Guy, Thornycroft and Morris Commercial. September 5th, 1927: Report of War Office orders during July for six-wheeled lorries from Karrier and six-wheeled chassis from Vulcan. December 26th, 1927: Report of Vulcan recently receiving orders for six-wheelers from the War Office, India Office and South Africa. September 24th, 1928: Report that the Army Council has placed an order with Vulcan for a further batch of six-wheeled chassis.

From Motor Transport March 12th, 1928:

Bob, I'll put something in the Vulcan thread.

I found this picture recently, which suggests that the twin radiator was a factory option (from Motor Transport June 20th, 1927):

A worthy prject there. I hope you have a water pump as these are nigh on impossible to source. A decent steering wheel on Milweb: http://www.milweb.net/classifieds/large_image.php?ad=57592&cat=8

I'm not sure I know what the pre-war estate version looks like. Is it similar to the Hillman at post 18 here (essentially a converted van)? http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?20811-RAF-staff-car-gallery./page2 Speedy Spares can help with some things: http://www.speedyspares.co.uk/ROOTES/SVMINX/s_v%20minx%20report.html Otherwise, try the Hillman Owner's Club for starters.

Nice photographs. The first one shows a Hillman as well as the Vauxhall.

Ta! :blush:

Chieftain art by Allora & Calzadilla http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2011/06/03/americas-allora-and-calzadilla-crushing-competition-at-venice-biennale http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/arts/design/allora-calzadilla-gloria-venice-biennale.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/jun/05/venice-biennale-review-laura-cumming Look away if you're of a nervous disposition...

Some more pictures here: http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=55048 And the C8A HUW here: http://www.qsl.net/pe1ngz/army/vehicle/Chevy.html

I think these are Hillman Minx. There are two or three preserved examples in RAF colours.