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I thought it was only if you were self employed and paying class 4 contributions, I haven't paid NI since I was 65. Most transport companies will not take self employed these days, certainly in my area.

CPC, driver card, medical & licence. The rates in certain areas are good, the supermarket job I was doing has an earnings potential of £1250 per week, more if you work nights. Don't forget your pension will count towards your tax liability but there will be no National Insurance to pay. Most companies will want you to work PAYE either directly or through an agency, working through a limited company on IR35 was extended for a year but finished in April 2021. You will still have to put up with the idiots who carve you up and take responsibility for anything that goes wrong even if it is not your fault.

The Scammell coupling had a series of longitudinal springs to dampen out movement between the TRMU and trailer (or if you believe Scammell it was a kinetic recovery device to aid starting!) I don't remember seeing anything as elaborate on the CX24S although I do seem to remember it used a Wild/Scammell type horizontal spindle winch. Various reports suggest that the transporter was not a great success and mainly relegated to cargo duties.

More like Bwiskaveetsa, translates to lightning and was also the name of a machine gun produced by the Polish resistance.

Most probably Fryderyk with the surname Zakowski or Zakrzewski😎. We had a Polish lad at college named Jerzykowski, needless to say we all called him Jerseycowski.

Probably not of great interest but here is a photo I found on the internet, father is the one in the second row with crossed legs, possibly before he was a captain. They are on maneuvers in Białystok in north eastern Poland, 1937. Check out the character to his right!

Like this?

The regular answer is that there was a rumour about there being a shortage of poles for holding up the telegraph wires..... My father was one of the many that were given British citizenship after the war, one of the reasons was that Churchill was embarrassed by the Yalta agreement and the poor treatment handed to the Poles. Prior to WW2 he was a lawyer working for the Polish government and a captain in the 10th Lithuanian Lancers but spent all but 6 weeks of the war as a POW. His family were quite well off and owned a country estate and property in Warsaw, all was lost as a result of the war. He and many of his friends arrived in the UK thinking that their stay would be temporary and that they would soon be able to return to Poland and carry on as normal so most of them took on menial jobs to tide them over and did not bother to retrain for a new career in the UK. He was sent to a former American camp at Blackshaw Moor on the Leek to Buxton road and soon after met my mother on a Saturday night out in Leek. Have a read here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Resettlement_Act_1947

Have you looked at Hammerite hammer finish, looks better in black than other colours?

We haven't reached the 1st September yet, the notices on the pumps have been applied in advance.

Were the plates that should have read Leyland Motors Ltd 'borrowed' from another manufacturer?

Bogie blocking system, just what you need to do this!😵😵

Richard, what was the connection with Wealdstone Engineering, did they work directly for the MOD or ABRO?

Have you carried out the simple checks that Clive suggested? Check that you have a sensible voltage on the field winding of the dynamo. Is it significant & does it vary when running?. Check the voltage directly on the dynamo output or at least where it enters the regulator. Is it significant & does it vary when running?. Also Does it have a charge light on the dashboard? Some systems will not charge if the bulb is blown. It will have a cut out contact that prevents the battery discharging in to the dynamo when not running, is this working?

I'm not trying to defend this rogue in any way but you are back to accusing him of stealing although that is what it might appear. For instance if I gave my car keys to a friend who then refused to return the car it is a civil matter and the police would take no interest. The theft act of 1968 has a couple of paragraphs which describe his actions: A person who by any deception dishonestly obtains property belonging to another, with the intention of permanently depriving the other of it, shall on conviction on indictment be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years. Where an offence committed by a body corporate under section 15, 16 or 17 of this Act is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate, or any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, he as well as the body corporate shall be guilty of that offence, and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly. A corporate body would normally be a company, organisation or group of people, possibly the army are exempt. Either way it seems strange that a custodial sentence was not applied.

The thread title is somewhat misleading, the offence he was found guilty of was 'misconduct in public office' not stealing.

Sounds like some of the vehicles and items were still in his possession: 'No compensation was ordered but the judge ordered a forfeiture of all vehicles and items obtained by Whatley and these may now be repatriated'

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2978/contents/made

My abbreviation, Ultra High Tensile although I have heard of bolts described as being made of cream cheese......

Would metric cap screws be a good starting point, they are available in UHT 10.9 and 12.9 versions?

If I remember correctly Siddle Cook were involved with the transport of giant gas deflectors for a rocket project many years ago at Spadeadam.

Supposedly 6500 built between 1964-1982, many still in use. Named after the Shilka river in Russia.

ZSU-23-4 Shilka

A transformer is the first part but it will also need a substantial rectifier to give DC unless the BV would be happy with AC.