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As I understand it there will be a large update to the list of shows and whether the Canadian Lancaster will stay for a bit beyond the end of august coming soon. There is also supposed to be an airfield tour similar to that which B17 Sally B took part in the other year so hold on and see what happens, aside from East Kirkby and blackpool there simply aren't any big shows in the north during August and so far neither of the big show airfields local to me have got the pair. (Shuttleworth and Duxford)

Glad to hear all went well and thankyou for the great pictures, I couldn't make it down but my brother and some friends were supporting/stalking the McCurd and said it was fantastic to see the line up on the sea front, look forward to seeing the vehicles later in the year.

Thanks for the picture Tony, really embarrassing but in 9 years of ownership I haven't looked properly at the data plate to say if it even has any rebuild info on it. Must remedy that next time I'm up the storage.

Where abouts was your rebuilt? My WC54 has a US , German rebuild plate for the sane period, then to Norway.

The engine was rebuilt at the Karlsfield ordnance factory (ex BMW aero engine factory) can't remember a plate on the body or chassis though and when we knocked the paint back on the drivers door we found a painted rebuilt notice but where we cut the rot out removed where the rebuild happened unfortunately. Do you have a plate as well as the engine one?

Our WC54 sits nicely at 40mph on runs and gives around 14-16mpg which suits us as the jeep and trailer don't like much more when in convoy. We were recovered a few years ago after an oil leak and small fire and despite telling the recovery firm the weight they sent out a truck slightly bigger than the dodge, as they winched her on the truck's wheels cleared the road by two inches for a split second. Once we were moving and had full fuel on the recovery truck it was a little more stable on the road. Ours is about august 1942, must get round to applying for the build card, but was rebuilt 1952 in Germany then to the Norweigans.

Just a quick bump to say that it's a lovely sunny morning here and if you find yourself short of something to do with the family come and have a chat with us about restoring and maintaining our aircraft and vehicles. The storch will be flying later as well so hope to see some of you.

Hello on the 10th of August the Shuttleworth Collection in Bedfordshire are holding a WW1 Commemorative airshow and as well as our four original WW1 airworthy aircraft and our airworthy reproductions the management has asked for me to ask if anyone who has vehicles of the correct period would be interested in bringing them along to join with our vehicles ( 1913 bull nose Morris, 1912 Crossley staff car, 1912 Wolseley, 1914 Clayton and Shuttleworth traction engine and on loan 1913 McCurd lorry ). If anyone is interested could they drop me a message on here to discuss details we'd really appreciate it.

http://www.shuttleworth.org/event-calendar.asp

Thanks in advance

Steve Panter

Really sorry to hear about Ray's passing my thoughts and prayers to his family at this sad time.

Just a quick bump to say this year's engineering open days are the 28th and 29th of December if anyone fancies avoiding the family and enjoying some mechanical escapism.

Here's the link if anyone is interested?

http://www.shuttleworth.org/tickets/event-details.asp?ID=217

Our dodge wc54 decided to split the fabric braided oil line to the filter as we were going around the m25 at the m40 junction, we had good oil pressure but I could see the view out the back was getting hazy and my eyes were starting to burn, when I let off the throttle and killed the ignition to coast to the side across the extra four lanes oil poured into the cab from the floor plates. When we had a look the pipe had been chaffing on the dip stick but with the engine turning over with the starting handle the oil wouldn't show the leak, consequently I changed out all the flexible lines just to be sure.

Just as everyone else has said; what condition is it in? you say it's been cut to fit inside a school so I would imagine that will have a big effect on value. If you can put some pictures up or tell us what is marked on the side of the hub it will be fairly easy to give you a list of types it was used on.

Steve.

I found the show to be good in the main it was very disjointed at the start (Saturday) with the lack of set up toilets but the marshals all seemed to be doing all they could. The set up for the traders could have been better as the fences divided the fields a bit too much but the home front displays were brilliant. We had a really good show with a few good bargains and finished it with my uncle's halftrack winning best wheeled armour so I am more than happy with how the new site worked out. If the organisers listen to the marshals and to some of the suggestions from the visitors then I'm excited to see how much it can grow.

I've been watching this thread from the start and am in awe of the standard of the restoration, well done it was great to see it in person, was surprised by the turn of speed as you went away from the prize giving. I was driving the halftrack following you and decided to run away from the arena as I'd of either got in your way or been lapped.

This girl was camping opposite us on the back straight and made for some good evenings at the camp as she was also doing tricks, standing on the saddle with one foot with the other stretched out behind her. Very nice

Fantastic, great find well done for posting it.

Before we set off tomorrow and barely look at the Internet because of all the great green vehicles, has a day/ time been chosen for the photo or is it still a fluid situation?

Steve

I would hope that they will fly together as we seem to be concentrating on unusual formations this year but I can't be certain. I understand how people feel about paying to go into a show with your own vehicle but there are worse prices to be paid at other similar events and all the money raised from the shows does go the registered charity to ensure that the collection continues, I can assure you no one gets rich on the back of the shows at old warden. :shocked: I hope to see some of you there.

Steve.

Very nice looking forward to seeing and hearing it

Bit of an update on the flying visiting display acts as well as several of the based aircraft the flying display will include; an Extra 300s aerobatic aircraft, Jet provost, Avro Anson, The Red Sparrows display team, Spartan Executive. Douglas Dakota from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight and a flypast from the Red Arrows display team.

Hope to see some of you there

Steve

In the welcome pack we had sent through it does say if by Wednesday the roped off spaces aren't occupied then the marshals will look at re-allocating the space and I have seen them doing this in the past few years, as it always seems to be the same individuals trying it year after year. If they get the time to do it this year remains to be seen but with the weather being as it is and a lot of people wanting to see how the show copes with a move I think it will get very busy.

Looking forward to seeing your Cromwell there, a friend of mine was a driver of the horse artillery commanders tank while on his national service so will try to get some pictures to show him. Really can't wait til we come down on Saturday

Sorry to hear that snort, it took some fighting to get them to agree half price for passengers, and with the children up to 16 free I hoped I'd got it cracked this time.

Hello on the 28th of July we are hosting a joint flying display/ pre 1960's car show at the Shuttleworth Collection near Biggleswade in Bedfordshire, the driver and vehicle of any pre-registered pre 1960's cars can get in free and pre-registered passengers can get in half price (£12) for more information click this link http://www.shuttleworth.org/tickets/event-details.asp?ID=201 I have been told we are trying to set aside areas for vehicle classes so I will bring along the family's Dodge WC54, Ford GPW and M3 Halftrack and try to put some of the collection's vehicles with us for a military section and it'd be great to see some of you guys and girls and your toys. Closing date for registration is 19th July and if we have weather like we had last night it'll be a great show.

Alex Henshaw comes to mind http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Henshaw although not an RAF pilot.

I had the honour to meet Alex Henshaw on several occasions due to some of the aircraft I helped to maintain, and he certainly kept flying post war although he did seem to work on the previous idea of flying in other peoples aircraft where they had put fuel in it themselves. He was an amazing man to talk to with a never ending pile of stories to draw from. I also had the opportunity to meet the late John Jordan who was an ATA pilot during the war and a pre/during/post war daredevil pilot who was flying his stearman well into his senior years even while his pilots licence had lapsed, during the war he was famous for pushing aircraft a little too far including flying a Vickers Warwick inverted. Once I have my engineering licence sorted and some proper money coming in, I will probably aim for my NPPL.

Fantastic bit of kit and it even has an early P-38G control wheel