messerschmitt owner

Hi all,

haven't been here for a wee while but I am wondering if someone who has a Sherman would let me and a photographer come and take photos of the interior for a new book on Shermans. In the UK if possible.

You can PM me here or contact me on 01285 760032 during the day.

Thanks in advance

Campbell

what's wrong with a welbike or a corgi?

IN a case like this, as you were not at fault, the third party's insurer should put you back into the position that you were in before.

Do some digging about on ebay and autotrader and get ads for similar LRs that have sold and show this to them and tell them to revise the offer. Never, ever accept the first offer.

Any land Rover that it T&T'd is worth four figures!

www.crowood.com also do some good books!¬

I'm sure that much of this camouflage must have been based on Norman Wilkinson's dazzle paint colour schemes for ships during World War One. The idea was that you could not hide a ship at sea but you could confuse the enemy as to its size, and direction of travel by painting designs on the hulls and superstructures, as per this link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage

I have hundreds of antique postcards and photos of these types of vessels, as well as views of ships converted to be dummy aircraft carriers and battleships.

Central Vehicle Depot Aschurch is just up the road. I heard tales of Harley Davidsons being buried inside the depot somewhere

it is indeed. Oh and Beaufort's Dyke contains so much more than old ordnance - they used to take the odd aircraft carrier out of Cairnryan and liberally dump equipment and vehicles off the flight deck

If you want the address you could pop along with your metal detector,

who knows wot you mite find?

supposedly, at the back of the old cattle market in Gloucester, between what is B&Q and he railway line, a lot of stuff was buried at theend of the war!

True? or false? Who knows, but it's a great story.

supposedly they dumped a huge pile of American soft skin and armour in Gloucester at the end of the war - dug a hole next to the railway at St Oswalds and dumped it all.

Should also mention all the stuff jettisoned off aircraft carrier flight decks into beaufort's Dyke too - all shipped out of cairnryan. I believe a few fully laden ships were scuttled too after the war.

lol - a little trivia for you (sorry if some feel it's off-topic).

 

ME163 built by Messerschmitt

ME262 built by Messerschmitt

JU87 built by Junkers

JU88 built by Junkers

DO17 built by Dornier

FW190 built by Focke-Wulf

etc, etc, ad nauseam ...

 

... but Bf109 and Bf110 - why?

Bf 109 was the official Reichsluftfahrtministerium (German Aviation Ministry, RLM) designation, since the design was submitted by the Bayerische Flugzeugwerke company, and was used exclusively in all official German documents dealing with this aircraft family. The company was renamed Messerschmitt AG after July 1938[4]when Erhard Milch finally allowed Willy Messerschmitt to acquire the company; from that date forward, all Messerschmitt aircraft were to carry the "Me" designation

that's a nice Trojan - there used to be one about fifteen years ago in camoflague that I saw a couple of times.

I once found a set of brass weights - Victorian with VR stamps on them, weights went from 1/4 oz to 14lbs - about twenty of them in total. That was in Auchinleck. Value today - about £300-400 the set

In Ayr I found a whole pile of Edwardian photos which I sold for £350 in the local auction house a few weeks later.

I have rescued copper pipe, wire and all sorts.

Welcome return! Do you have reverse on the Bubble cars?,or must we make sure you don't park into the walls?

lol - the messerschmitt has four reverse gears and can go faster backwards than forwards due to the aerodynamics - I once trook it to 35mph backwards in third before I chickened out.

And thanks for saying hi, everyone.

Hi everyone

been here before but you seem to have moved and changed since I last logged in back in february or march.

Anyway, I'm Campbell - I like green stuff but don't own anything military just now.

My wife's dad has been through the green thing - having owned everything from various jeeps to a K2 ambulance, Dodge Weapons carrier, Big Jimmy, Humber Staff Car, Daimler Dingo, etc. I remember going to Sorn to Bobby MacIntyre's collection and have been to various shows at places like Kemble and Glamis (where my wife's dad's jeep won best in show about twenty-five years ago (reg was TMO ***).

I've a collection of bubblecars and microcars (so any nonsense and I'll straffe you with my Messerschmitt) and work in publishing, based in Ramsbury for work and living in Gloucester.

Best wishes

Campbell