Was the Lanc PA474, or a cut and paste job from the Dambusters The latter methinks. A pretty weak plot with the bouncing bomb idea, could have been any other sort of weapon. Undermines poor old BW’s idea a little eh?, oh well, only a TV program.

Cringingly awful, bad television, girly or no girly, with yet more **** poor cgi effects.

Mr Jackson needn’t bother with his “Dambusters” remake, ITV just did it for him.

The only episode of Foyle’s War I’ve sat through, and I feel like breaking a few windows.

Utter, talentless, dross.

Hi Elliott,

I’ve had a quick look but cannot find any AGS904 Union Nuts. I have a few to pattern AGS1187, but I don’t think these are right for your project.

If it’s definitely a 1″ pipe bore, it’s AGS904/H you’re looking for.

Thanks dhfan,

I’ll have a root around in the shed for something that fits!

Presumably a BSP thread, in which case it would be more like 1 1/4″ or 1 1/2″. Any idea what material, brass, steel or alloy?

Where did you go supping then as there weren’t that many pubs in the city centre that sold Shippos.

Pete,

It’s so many years ago (at least thirty), that I cannot recall the places I used to drink in anymore.

However, an evening out with the girlfriend may well have ended with a visit to the Blue Dolfin, then a call at her local “offie” which dispensed Shipstones from a hand pump into whatever receptacle you’d taken with you.

The Trip hadn’t yet become the touristy place it is now, so it was worth calling in every now and again. I recall bits dropping off the ceiling into my beer and bubbling away in the bottom of the glass. Cheaper than a vitamin pill!

(The pub is built against a cave for anyone who doesn’t know).

Once a second home, due to girlfriend/wife, I went back to Nottingham last year and became totally and utterly lost while trying to re-trace well beaten paths of the past.

Still a great place but not what it was in my yoof (imho).

My pal used to be the architect for Shipstones in Nottingham

Aaah, Shipstones, an excellent pint in it’s day (afore said take-over by the brewers of truly disgusting beer, Greenall Whitley).

Several pints of Shippo’s, then a deep fried mackerel and chips from the Blue Dolfin on Mansfield Road….

…ey up mi duck!

…but seem to remember that low oil consumption was a feature of the Bristol sleeve-valve engine designs.

Perhaps they consumed so little because most of it leaked away! 😀