Minesweeper

Many thanks for posting that but I think that it is nothing to do with our Peerless. "Peerless" seems to have been a popular name over the years and used by several quite different firms in several locations for different things - but do please keep your eyes open for anything that you might think to be of interest! Tony

A Craftsman at work!

Nice!

Great stuff - and looks lovely! What's the story behind it?

Well done - very nice! Tony

Some folks would find it difficult to enthuse over all of that but that is absolutely marvellous. A great find and a great project - well done you and good luck with it all. A whole lot of people will be watching with great interest as you progress with it. Tony

That's a lovely story!

I think dealing with museums really does need extra care as although everything might be done and agreed by all the parties involved at the onset, museum personnel can so often change and after a passage of time those earlier agreements can be overlooked or forgotten. I do not think for one moment that there is any dishonesty involved, it is perhaps just that the agreement is not known about and in mind at a later date by different new folks involved since the agreement was made.. I know of one incident of an owner offering to give wheels to a museum - they were fitted with good tyres when the gift was made and the gift was made on condition that the tyres would be taken off by the museum and returned to the donor. After a period of time, an enquiry was made to the museum about progress in returning the tyres and the simple answer was that they had to be cut off the wheels to get them off and thus ruined. The earlier agreement had been forgotten, overlooked or simply not known about by the different folks later involved. Cutting the tyres off was the quick and easy way out to get them off when it was just the wheels that were wanted. All a little disappointing when one tries to be helpful.

Great stuff - I admire your fastidiousness! It is going to be a wonderful job. Tony

Great stuff! Tony

I think using nuts and bolts to replace the rivets is fair enough - in service in the field, if a rivet had to come out for whatever reason and be replaced, then it could be difficult to re-rivet away from a workshop and a nut and bolt would be an understandable and acceptable alternative! Tony

16mm is close enough - it is now just satisfying Steve wh is a Purist! Tony

Superb video which I very much enjoyed! What a different way of life it was. Tony

That made me laugh as well! Tony

I know that you loaned yours to Steve, Andy and he did say that it was marvellous! Tony

That made me laugh! When I got hold of the Dennis Diff a few years ago, the bloke who sold to us had a Packard and it was available. I did not take it up as we had enough to get on with! He may still have it - I have not seen it since! Tony

Tim is a Joker and he likes to pull legs! Tony

These last three postings made me laugh again! Tony

Made me laugh! Tony

Thanks again, Ed for all of that! I have read through that long article on AACA and very much enjoyed the story and the culmination of it all. A great entertaining few hours! Well, we are not pushed into finding the second Peerless engine as we have plenty to get on with but we know that some things turn up when you least expect them - so just wait and see. Tim would know for sure but I don't think that we have heard of any Peerless stuff in Australia or NZ and if there are any bits around, they are likely to be in France. And thank you for your offer of help shoud we be fortunate to find anything in the USA! Tony

Tim has summarised the non-availabilty of Peerless "bits" very well but we are always surprised that there is so lttle around when the British bought so many of them during the Great War. Tim found and bought four front wheels recently at an auction but we have been unable to find out where they came from so do not know their origin. The only thing that we found in the USA was a Radiator which had been retained by a family as a "keepsake" from a Tanker Lorry that they had owned for many years and had used until it died when they scrapped it but used the chassis frame as a "drag" on their farm! We shall keep on looking as we do have enough parts for a second Peerless but no original Peerless engine for it! Tony

Wonderful - that's a date! Tony

Hi Ed! Thank you for your most interesting and fascinating posting - what a lovely car and a what a marvellous "find" - however did you manage to find such a beauty? I remember that you have said in the past that you come to England from time to time and that you favour the Cotswolds - should you do that again, then do please let us know as it would be great for us to catch up with you during your visit! Tony

Thanks for that, Andy - I thought that you would know! Tony