Minesweeper

Mick will confirm but I think that this is the Radiator that Steve and I bought at the Yeovil Traction Engine Rally more than 20 years ago when we were looking for parts for our Thorny. We knew that it was not right for the "J" but it was too good to walk away from so we bought it!  Mick took it on saying that it would come in useful one day - and he was right Ben!

Tony

Great to see you back here again and the progress that you have made!

Tony

Just heard that we have been accepted for the "Brighton" and that there are nine WW1 Lorries entered.

Tony

The DVLA has confirmed today that all of their formalities have been completed satisfactorily and as far as they are concerned, "CC1720" is road legal. We must think of and thank the late Mike Jones who saved the lorry originally and completed all of the legal requirements with the North Wales Police back in 1983 to save the Caernarvon Registration number for it.

Tony

7 hours ago, dgrev said:

Steve

Once the Thorny is done, what then? 

I know you blokes have long ago run out of shed-age and if I recall correctly the Dennis is out to "agistment" so to speak: so space is not only at a premium, but I am guessing you would have to pay a significant sum were this also to be the case with the Thorny?

I encountered the same problem. Being in rural Australia I had just enough spare land that I could double the size of my shed and added an extra 144 sq m, but now have very little bare ground left. I am under orders that 5 vehicles is the absolute limit - actually it was 4, but one was already on an 8 year acquisition saga so it snuck in under the bar.

So do the 3 of you then go into care and maintenance mode or are there further adventures ahead if you can resolve the storage issue.

Hobby farm with some barns? 

Regards

Doug

Our next one will be the Peerless which I bought what must be more than 25 years ago and which has lived in a Car Port adjacent to the house ever since then. We have talked about bringing that one out after this summer, take the engine out of it which we will be able to squeeze into the Lorry Shed along side the Thorny and work on that first of all. The engine-less Peerless can then go back into the Car Port until we are ready to work on that. What then, we do not know! We certainly have no intention of parting with any of them.

Tony

Oklahoma!

"Isinglass curtains that you can pull right down in case there is a change in the weather!"

Again, not a Subsidy "J"!  I will be interested to know what it is when you manage to identify it!

Quite a different shape from the "J" high level radiator - I would say that your Radiator is from a totally different model!

Now that things are settling down and where we are all getting used to the changes - and thank you for your work, Joris, I wonder if you from your lofty perch at "Mission Control" if you are able to comment on the amount of useage of the new site when compared with the old site before it disappeared? I know that one or two folks initially found it difficult (me included) to open it and I wonder if there are still others? I eventualy only managed to open it by re-booting my Router - I passed that tip on to a friend who was also having difficulty and that tip to him also worked for him. A bit illogical, I thought - but that is what happened.

The Bodywork Paint looks to be original - but I am not so sure about the white lettering.

I cannot open this picture - is it me or is something gone wrong somewhere?

4 hours ago, Asciidv said:

I was just sent this rather nice picture of Steve's lorry!

Pleased to see you on this Forum, John! Great memory of you coming to Axminster to "deal" with our Dennis and I do hope that it will not be too long before we ask you to come for the "Thorny"!

Tony

]A question to the master painter. Why such a small brush when the flat areas are so large? Did you keep rotating the tank so that the flat panels were always horizontal as there doesn't seem to be a single run from any of the rivets! A general question too. What are the drill holes for in the side panels?

 

Barry.

[/i]Well, for jobs like that, I would use either 1 1/2" and/or 2" brushes. No special tricks and I expect the Professionals would say that I have got it all wrong - but it seems to work for me! With that seam, it was a smaller brush being used there as I wanted to make sure that the paint really reached into the joint.

And yes, I do prefer to paint on a horizontal surface so I rotate the object where ever possible so that I can paint on a horizontal surface - that does obviously help eliminate any runs.

There is an "Instruction to Drivers" enamel plate fixed to the side panel of the tank and that side panel was pre-drilled and tapped to take that plate before assembly. When the painting has been completed, the plate can be finally screwed to it.

Tony

Well, I did say in my earlier posting that my memory was hazey but this was 56 years ago!

So, I found the photo and written on the back was "Scottish Command C.I.Unit Land Rover - registration 17 CL 73", not quite the same as I remembered and posted earlier, so sorry about that. The photograph was taken on the 5th January 1961, the day I was de-mobbed. The Nisson Hut that it was parked against was the C.I.Unit Offices.

Scottish CI Unit Land Rover. More details to follow.

Note: Mosquito Aircraft de-bonding. The original wood glue I believe was Cascamite, My Farther used a lot of that, a white powder mixed with water, the trade mark was two carthorses straining on chains to pull a wooden sphere in half.

 

Quick check, you can stil get Cascamite--http://www.axminster.co.uk/cascamite-powdered-resin-wood-glue-ax21688

The wood bows to support the canvas over the back of our Dennis - also the cab roof bows of the Dennis and the cab roof bows of the Thorny were all made of laminated Ash strips. The strips were glued together with Cascamite - strongly advocated by our good friend, big Mark the carpenter and before him, his late father Gordon who was also a highly skilled carpenter. It has been easy to use and has shown no sign ever of giving up.

Tony

It could be tied down closer if Minesweeper can recall if the Rovers were slab-sided or with barrel waist. Mk.6 (Ser.2) were 1958 - '61 , so yes - a possibility of '58 to '60 dated , the earler S1 AFAIK were all --CE-- and probably many more in number - Mk.3/Mk.5 having FUV registrations as orders with Solihull by the Ministry of Suppy, who also supplied - 'The Ministry of Public Building and Works' , quite a history of swopping about with War Office (Army) + MofD

It was not slab sided - I have a picture somewhere - but sadly it was a side view which does not show the number. I'll try to remember where I put it!

I spent part of my National Service in Scottish Command, Counter Intelligence Unit at Craigie Hall, South Queensferry back in 1960. Our Unit vehicle was a 4 x 2 Land Rover and I think that the registration number was 19CL26 but my memory is a little hazey on that one after 50 odd years! The main part of our work was inspecting the security of armouries within the various units of Scottish Command - which included TA and ACF centres and the 4 x 2 was quite adequate for that - except it did not have a heater which really would have been rather nice during the Scottish winters when we were on the road so much!

The IRA was very much in focus at that time where raids had taken place on such armouries to steal weapons.

I can't be of any use to you with information that you require but I do remember that there were always four RAF Pinnaces stationed in Falmouth during the early 1950's and that they were always moored up in the harbour. If they had to have any work done on them, they were brought ashore on a hard concrete standing next to what was then Taylors Garage but is now Trago. I think that the concrete standing was laid down during the war prior to the invasion in June 1944, I am guessing by the Americans.

Something that I have read about but not yet discussed that with Steve. Any suggestions for an alternative?

Tony

Thanks for posting Robin, but I can't find the film when I am on your page. Facebook is not my regular domain and if it doesn't have a starting handle, I am flummoxed!

 

Steve

Same for me! Is there another way of posting it?

Tony

Hello Ian!

Very pleased to read that more bits have survived and good luck with it! We shall be glad to help in any way that we can and ask anything!

We shall be interested to see some pictures when you can manage it - especially of the engine!

Tony

A wonderful job!

I really didn't read anything into the title of that article - until I read the comments on here following it - and now I see what you mean. There must be a whole number of people with innocent minds who would not have noticed anything either but I agree that it was unfortunate. Perhaps the Editor does not have sufficient back-up staff in these days of everybody trying to cut costs, and able to look at everything again with fresh eyes for such "clangers" before going to press. Presumably, there is a Proof Reader to look at the whole magazine?

But after saying all of that, it would be wrong to overlook the rest of the contents of the magazine which I think has a very good spread. It is very easy to criticise and you will never be able to please all the people all the time.

Great workmanship, Ben!

Tony