I can’t get the photo attachments posted earlier to work either…..and I am itching to see them! 😀

Who knows, what we don’t dig up and flog today might one day become famous…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northwest/sites/celts/pages/llyn_cerrig_bach.shtml

Llyn Cerrig Bach has been the source of the largest hoard of Iron Age objects yet to be discovered in Wales. The amazing collection was found during World War II during the construction of an RAF Valley airfield when workmen recovered over 150 bronze and iron objects from the peat which had formed in a former lake.

The hoard includes iron swords, shield fragments, spears, horse-gear, a bronze plaque, iron chariot wheels…

It is believed that these valuable objects were thrown into the lake as offerings to the tribal goddess.

I bet that goddess will be chuffed to bits with the ‘later’ offerings…

…jeeps, trucks, aeroplanes, helicopters! 😀

Photographs of the wreck of HMAS Sydney from the ‘The Australian’.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,24897,23482883-601,00.html

The Cry bit is easy…the end of Operation Daybreak.

Yes, very moving indeed.

Agreed TT, based on a true story as well, weren’t those 2 played by Anthony Andrews and Martin Shaw, it’s a while since I saw it, put it back on TV instead of showing endless repeats of Under Siege.

An amusing scene in the film, albeit a very black one, is Heydrichs corpse, inevitably played by Anton Differing, being prepared for the funeral, ie: Jack boots being screwed onto a body in rigor mortise, you may think I have a wierd sense of humour, but it’s nice to see such an evil Nazi piece of filth, one of the worst in fact, being treated so unceremoniously.

It’s not Martin Shaw but Timothy Bottoms in the crypt with Anthony Andrews. As you say though I haven’t seen it shown on TV for some years.

The end credits (if that is the right phrase) get to me every time; where the fate of all the patriots (and traitors) is revealed. The courage of these people who knew that they risked not only their own lives but those of their families is almost unbelievable. Tragically in this case (although it didn’t happen exactly as shown in the film) most of the family that hid the assassins (including their young children) died in concentration camps…..and of course the Nazis murdered the entire population of the village of Lidice.

It is possible to visit the actual crypt. One day I would very much like to do so.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:CyrilMethodious.JPG

…there are no spark plugs evideint, nor are there any apparent mounting holes for them, the overhead ramps going down into each cylinder appear to me to be the mountings for pressure relief valves, as they appear to feed directly into the cylinder chambers themselves, which would make compression for a combustion engine impossible without some sort of pressure valve.

I think the ‘bolts’ on top of the cylinders are the (broken) spark plugs.

As for the connections on top of the cylinders, these I take to be the outlets for the coolant. The coolant inlet (as Stuart says) is visible below where the inlet manifold would be (if it wasn’t missing). The inlet ports are visible above the coolant manifold.

Looking at the use of what looks like Bronze and brass on a lot of the bits . would say its got some marine history to it.

Would at a guess say it could be a early diesel . this just a hunch by looking at the top of the head and what look like some kind of compression screws either side of the pots. in relation to the inlet and outlet valves . or its a petrol engine. ??

The two large brass plugs on top of the cylinder heads are to allow the inlet and exhaust valves to be removed, a very common arrangement for side-valve petrol engines.

Also I wouldn’t say the use of copper / brass pointed towards steam or marine engines; these were very common in early engines.

XH132 Canberra PR9 🙂

XH132 Canberra SC9 :confused:

OK, what is an SC9? Is it that unique canberra with a pointy nose?

Methanol surely?