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$2500 for An hour flight in the lanc was the price when I visited in the winter. http://www.warplane.com/visit-cwhm/vintage-aircraft-flights.aspx

I saw her in Hamilton ON back in the winter when she was having her engines rebuilt. there they were offering flights in her, but a bit rich for my blood. wishing her all the best for an uneventful crossing.

In fishing we used otters consisting of a small log to travel along a stuck line downstream with the intention of overrunning the jammed line and pulling it free. Perhaps this device fulfills a similar purpose in floating a cable across a river, steered by the reins.

Which reminds me of the old joke: What's the difference between an Abrams and a Hoover? There's only one dirtbag in a Hoover.

Have a safe and pleasant flight home Mike. I bet it will be awash with free booze!

Barbed wire. Also useful for telephone wire.

Beautiful bike.

I know that Mercedes-Benz dealers have a factory supplied "special tool" which will take cyl heads. They refer to it as the "10,000 dollar pizza oven" and use it to cook their daily cookie batches. This will certainly take an MW manifold.

Looks like gas patches.

Nice box of Thompsons. Are they shoot able in NZ, or are the govt getting jumpy as they are here in the US?

"No alignment between the two cardans? :embarrassed:" That at would be correct. the bind that occurs every 90 degrees on each joint needs to be offset about 45 degrees from that of the other joint to prevent locking the shaft during rear suspension movement. Looking at your photo the offset of the two joints looks about right to avoid that problem.

Seems every third person I meet here in the states has at least that many guns in their collection. One guy even had his house built around his walk in gun safe.....like a mini armory.

Hmm, a 75mm is approx. 3" bore, so that would be out. I recall he mentioned "punt guns" as the justification for the bore, which may be why they now limit it to 2".

I'm sure someone will be along with more up to date info, but when I lived in Swindon in the 80's there was a chap near me with a fantastic collection of armored cars all with firing ordnance. All had the rifling bored out and were licensed as shotguns!.... Even the 75mm on his Saladin. :-)

May you get your jeep back swiftly.....with the thieves goolies hanging from the mirror.

Sammy Miller in New Milton Hants. has whole buildings full of parts........

Ahh, should have recognized that there are two of them on the stool. Possibly containers for oil samples from aircraft engines to be sent for testing?

Standard British early war petrol cans that leaked like sieves from the seams, especially during fast, bumpy going in the western desert. These led to the desirability of Jerry (German) cans, which became the loot of choice for Tommies.

Not sure about Daf's but usually works a fuel cut off in the injector pump.

You did, of course, bleed out all the air?

Maurice, that farmhouse with the shutters was used in the opening scenes of the movie "The Longest Day" as the location from which the crazy Frenchman in the pompier helmet watches the fat German with the breakfast mess tins ride towards the beach just as the opening barrage lights off. Great pic!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Valkyrie-Hitler-Philipp-von-Boeselager-ebook/dp/B002VBV1KY/ref=la_B0034Q4TV8_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1401571787&sr=1-1 had this book on CD for my recent drive back from Central FL. Rather Germanic unemotional, but an excellent account of cavalry life on the eastern front, as well as the plot to assassinate hitler by one of the last living conspirators. Recently found Tramp in Armour by Colin Forbes on the web as a PDF. I read this as a youngster many moons ago, and it is still a good novel about a Matilda cut off behind enemy lines in France 1940. https://openlibrary.org/books/OL5444980M/Tramp_in_armor Belton Cooper Death Traps. While many armour historians dispute his conclusions, this is an excellent memoir of his time spent recovering damaged Sherman's in the ETO, plugging the holes, repairing them, hosing out the previous crews and getting them ready for the next shift. After that duty I believe I'd be rather critical of the equipment and the brass's decisions too! http://www.amazon.com/Death-Traps-Survival-American-Division/dp/0891418148

Seen at a small military museum in Kissimmee FL, just south of The Big Rat Kingdom:

While visiting the Mercedes dealership in Fort Pierce FL last week I fell into conversation with the shop foreman. Turns out he is the proud owner of a "Deuce and a half". Here she is in all her glory, though perhaps running under false colors. Then driving home through the more rural areas of Central Florida, where there are more cows than people, I ran across this beast.

Finding that old champ was amazing. Guess those old buses are hard to kill. Any idea where your MWR is now?