an interesting shed ( website)

Hi Ewan
I thought that was your forum name but i just couldnt find it in the search!
Lack of skill here i would say.
The odd part from the shed is also making its way into my Vampire.
Let me know if you need MK 3B info as i have some here.

Glenn

Ewan’s clearing out the last of the great salvage/war surplus/disposals sheds of Melbourne, but having visited him, his own shed is becoming a bit of an Alladin’s cave too!

I can safely say that having just parked a Martin Baker Mk3B in there over the weekend, I am all out of room :rolleyes: Time to move house !

Ewan’s clearing out the last of the great salvage/war surplus/disposals sheds of Melbourne, but having visited him, his own shed is becoming a bit of an Alladin’s cave too!

Smiles

Mark Pilkington

That would be my shed I believe 😎

Well, my grandads actually. He bought tons of stuff after the war (also train, machinery and telco stuff) but yes he had a bit of gear – hes been dead over 20 years and the place was sold etc etc so I finally got in there and cleared it out…saved this stuff from the scrapheap at least, but we did send over 16 tonnes away (rusted n busted machinery)

In relation to good homes – yes it has. I wish I’d started on it years ago but many reasons I didnt… anyway I can tell you with some confidence that probably every Boomerang in Australia now has parts from the shed, along with the Beaufort Restoration in Qld. Also a very large percentage of aircraft on display at the War Memorial in Canberra have parts from the shed.

My personal fave stuff that I’ve hung onto are parts from the CAC Woomera and also the DAP Beaufighter, of which I have a fair few bits. Looking to do a panel in the not too distant future – anyone got a spare cockpit laying around:rolleyes:

Just to clarify, the Beaufighter wheels are not from the shed, but in fact from the old Hudsons stores, which I am also clearing out, having finished the shed a few weeks ago. They also bought loads of stuff after the war, and along with the Hughes family – it was kinda like a triangle of places to go if you wanted ww2 aircraft gear.

The wheels need a bit of an overhaul but thats ok with me, I figured they may be uncommon. 🙂

If any of you are so inclined I put stuff up each week on eBay – user ID is bellarine2010. You would be suprised though – there are a number of people on eBay all selling stuff from the shed, more the dealer types (though I suppose I am one as well?)

And thanks for taking the time out to read the blog, I must get off the old backside and update it with some of the stuff I have been finding ..

Cheers

Ewan

The owner of the shed is a forum member and posted a thread about it a few months ago.
Just cant recall what his forum name was at the moment.
Will post again if i remember it.

Someone was busy collecting all that stuff!

Hi

1) hopefully it all does find good homes.

2) who knows what is in the piles….

Makes me wonder what else is still waiting to be found around the world…….

cheers
Jerry

So the missing Stirling is still missing? :diablo:

….absolutely staggering, and here in Melbourne too..!!

Hope it all ends up where it can be most usefully used..I might be wrong but seem to recall that Beaufighter tyres had been extinct until now..???