So, That's where they went!!

Chas. Not long before going into Addenbrooks,(Just in case things went pear shaped) I visited my son in Bodmin, some 340 ish miles away, I drove there and back, stopping every 100 miles for a break.If you wan’t something bad enough, you will do it. Anyway, your too old to give up yet………:highly_amused:

Jim
Lincoln .7

Point taken, Linc, and I quite agree with both of you, but it’s not as though I have never been and sadly, these days, 3 to 4 hour car drives are a distant memory.

Chas, Get your 6 down there, I agree with Warren, it’s possibly one of the, if not THE best Tank museums in the world.
Put it on your bucket list, it’s a MUST SEE, MUST DO item.
Jim.
Lincoln .7

Yes quite true CD – I used go to the Tank Museum when I visited family nearby but haven’t been for a few years. But I like Land Warfare very much.

The exhibits in the Land Warfare Hall at Duxford are somewhat differently displayed than those in the Tank Museum. It may be that they have original aerials fitted, or something ‘cosmetic’ fitted for display, I do not know, but the overall appearance is pretty good. On balance I think I prefer the display of the exhibits at the Tank Museum; I like to be able to walk right round the tanks and get a bit more ‘hands-on’!

I stand to be corrected but I am sure that several of the WW2 exhibits in the Land Warfare Hall at Duxford have aerials, as do some reinactors tanks.

Probably all been made into fishing-rods! 🙂

As with many museum exhibits, there are lots of pieces missing from the tanks on display at the Tank Museum; it is still one of my favourite places and has an absolutely world-class collection.

Incidentally, what are the aerials (or fishing-rods) made of?

Radio aerial? ‘Little Willie’ / WW1 tanks…..I hope you’re joking! 🙂

Radios weren’t commonly fitted to tanks (except for special radio-carrying tanks) until about 1930 or later.

Warren,I agree about “Little Willie”, but I have to agree with Tony, inasmuch that there were no tanks in the Museum fitted with aerials, including the WW2 exhibits.
(BTW, I will have to send you that photo, but have been out and about of late.):o
Jim.
Lincoln .7

It seemed like it Chas. Spares though were hard to come by.
Jim.
Lincoln .7

I must admit I didn’t realise they had aerials Jim, I was looking at Little Willie at Bovington last week and I never saw one, same thing with male tanks they had.

Radio aerial? ‘Little Willie’ / WW1 tanks…..I hope you’re joking! 🙂

Radios weren’t commonly fitted to tanks (except for special radio-carrying tanks) until about 1930 or later.

Great times – I was offered a Buick, I think it was, for peanuts but had nowhere to put it……I am sure that during the 50s/60s East Anglia had more US cars per m2 than most other places outside the US.

One thing I do remember, and which was given to me by a Yank from Alconbury, was a green Bomber jacket, with a bright orange lining, it was reversable, to make a “Downed Pilot” more visible, wish I had it now. Also, I used to get from their PX, a pack of 200, Camel, or Lucky Strike ciggies, for peanuts. Great lot of chaps there, they could buy anything from their PXs, including cars. I used to go around with a chap who had a Chevrolet Impala, like riding on air, however a bit heavy on the ole GO JUICE. Many left their cars here, when posted back home, Peterborough had no end of American cars running around.
Jim.
Lincoln .7

Indeed not, Linc….the stuff my father and later I used to find there – an aladdins cave!! Do you also remember the various auctions of ex-MoD stuff that took place around the country? – we got a couple of sturdy office desks I recall. I also used to go to the USAF base at Molesworth which, amongst other roles, was the centre for recycling all the European materiel as US forces withdrew form the continent. Perhaps it still is….

I, and many other kids collected the German items, I had a large badge with, NARVIK on it, together with a medal that was given to German mothers, for having given birth to “X” number of kids. I also had a Sword edged bayonet.
I was caught at school with several, unfired rounds of 50 Cal bullets, and was frog marched down to the local Nick, by the Headmaster, where I was given a Ticking Off, by the Fuz Sgt.
Oh Happy days.

Jim.
Lincoln .7

Nowt like the old E&M as I knew it Chas
Jim.
Lincoln .7

Back in the late ’60’s there was a farmer near Iver, who had a Walrus float with a hole in the top, that he used as a boat on his duck pond. My grandfather, who worked at Fairey Aviation in Hayes, recycled bits into toys for me. There was the duralumin double bubble transport aircraft, the model railway bridge, formerly an axle stand (Gannet?) and several perspex based items ranging from shaped and reverse painted parrot broaches, to kaleidoscopes made from 3 tapering bits of perspex, rolled up bits of coloured foil and lashings of brown paper masking tape!

Pillock…I knew there would be a “Catch” in it, knowing you…..:D

Jim.
Lincoln .7

You’re the first :eagerness:

I well remember they were widely available in Exchange & Mart (Is that still going?) for conversion to fishing rods in the 50s, later I bought a couple for my Ferret

Only YOU Moggs would have a Ferret that went fishing…….:D Did it ever catch anything??.
Jim.
Lincoln .7

It is indeed but on-line and predominantly vehicle based. I am not sure if the magazine still exists. But I was looking for something on-line barely a month ago.

http://www.exchangeandmart.co.uk/items-for-sale/miscellaneous