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How would this apply to the unlikely scenario of someone wanting to carry a load on a vehicle with solid tyres as no date on the tyre would mean no MOT? Also, is there a dispensation for solids not having any tread?

Early 228/236/248/270 used an exhaust valve with these dimensions, 0.3402" stem is for a 0.3437" or 11/32" guide. Later types had a bottom taper on the retainer groove for the Rototype cap and retainer. Seat angle is 30 degrees. Head Dia.: 1.4270" Stem Dia.: .3402" OAL: 4.8850"

Do you still use the press at Woburn and have you ever had to tack weld the tyre band to the wheel band due to insufficient interference? I seem to remember Barry going to the rescue of a vehicle that had a tyre slide off the wheel.

After seeing that HM has a marmalade sandwich in her handbag I would believe anything. Joking aside I had an impromptu meeting with HM at Windsor Castle in 1969 while installing a juke box based sound system for a party that was laid on for the four princes/princess every year, it involved me swearing at a royal Corgi that was tugging at my shirt and giving it a backhander only to see HM grinning from ear to ear. She took the trouble to come over and engage in conservation and later the two younger princes appeared and were concerned that they would not be able to play their music of choice as they didn't get any pocket money.

BBMF Lancaster passing over Lathbury this afternoon, saw our street party and treated us to three circuits of the village.

Bit more info here:

Postie delivered a box containing a cup, saucer and plate which my wife won in a competition, they are all marked 'The Platinum Jubbly of Queen Elizabeth II'. Apparently the entire batch of over ten thousand were printed incorrectly in China.

Siddeley-Deasy, I spotted that too!

The other slight problem is that if the ERA does explode there is even more shrapnel flying around to masacrate anyone standing in the vicinity.

You could try Tanks A Lot at Brackley, not far from MK.

I found a picture of a Stearns Knight which uses a junction ring (known as a junk ring) to seal between the head and inner sleeve, it also looked like the cooling for the heads was on a separate circuit from the block.

I should have known that having worked at the Ford plant at Langley in the mid seventies, we were still building the odd K series to special order.

If you mean USY 546 it is showing as being on SORN and having been issued with a new logbook on 23/06/2021. Originally built by Vass and fitted with a TFL 20 crane, what was the aftermarket cab?

From this thread the bottom one looks like being for a Ferret.

About as daft as tyre sizes, width in mm and wheel diameter in inches. Somehow mpg makes more sense than the number of litres to drive 100km while ft lbs torque is easier to get your head around compared to Newton metres.

On a similar theme, a Foden Flipper that IIRC rolled out of a TA depot in South London complete with a 20 ton recovery trailer when the driver failed to apply the parking brake.

Afraid not, it was only the mention of James bikes that jogged my memory.

Good grief, can you imagine riding one of those 32 miles each way during the winter? Coincidentally my grandmother was the local midwife in Leek, perhaps it was originally hers.

You could be right, Comet was just post war.

Out of interest how popular were the James bikes, I remember my mother telling me about a 2 stroke James she used to ride from Leek to Manchester every day during the war to uni, I suspect it must have been an early Comet?

RAF Cranwell?

Have you seen these, they are runflats? https://www.milweb.net/webvert/a6031/102164

Looking at the photo again it has a high level seat and what looks like a footboard, was it horse drawn at some stage?

House movers?

Presumably the 37mm gun also counts as a repro weapon, the legislation does mention dummy weapons for which a licence is required?