If only life were so simple. There are no stamps/reference nos. on mine at all.

The reference to “Top Tier” and “Bottom Tier” puzzles me. Bombs on British aircraft weren’t normally stacked in tiers. Sounds more American to me. Maybe a Brit Liberator?

I think you’ll find that Sandbach Car and Commercial Dismantlers have had experience of historic scrap. They may be intending to offer the cockpit for preservation?

But Paris just mentions the film – so what are you disputing?

I’m merely correcting his statement that:

Both films deal with precision attacks on industrial targets

which suggests that the film features something rather “nobler” than an area attack on an industrial city.

Just a selection of the models created by my late dad.

They started life as very crude, unfinished wartime castings, which the N.A.P.S. obtained a load of sometime in the early 70’s.

I bought one of each (were they really 10p, or is my memory at fault?) but never got around to doing anything with them.

When dad retired, he fancied having a go at them. He spent countless hours, carefully filing, then sanding, then polishing the basic casting. Even then, the surfaces were pitted by imperfections, so he developed a technique of filling each one by hammering in tiny slivers of aluminium, then sanding them flush.

Then he decided to add more detail, so all the guns, aerials, wheels, and props were fashioned out of scrap.

The results might not stand up to professional scrutiny, but I think they’re works of art and they are one of my proudest collections.

Sunbathing on a fairly crowded beach in Norfolk, circa mid-1970’s. It was a hot day and I’d just sat up to take in the neighbouring ‘scenery’ (as you do), when I spotted a sharks fin rapidly cutting through the wave tops from right to left across the horizon.

The music from Jaws immediately came into my head and I remembered that one is supposed to do something urgently in these circumstances.

I sprang to my feet, from where I was able to see the rest of the Vulcan sailing along at what looked to be about 100 feet altitude a few hundred yards off shore…

F. Watson & Sons, Stone. Rose Cottage, Little. Stoke, Stone.

The above was taken from a Staffs Council .pdf document about waste management, and it seems to fit with my memory.

Like Nick Wotherspoon, I’ve not been for many years. The fatal accident certainly led to a sharp reduction in the level of access visitors were afforded.

Don’t remember the searchlights but I do recall bins full of sten guns, still in the manufacturer’s grease. Trouble was, they were all cut in two by a torch!

Denys,

Your fusebox is a Type C, Stores Ref. 5C/758.

The cut out in the panel needs to be 3 3/4″ x 1 7/8″.

I can sort you a box out if you need one (and much cheaper than Airsam!) :diablo:

Good luck with the turret project.

682al