….also available in Blue!!..circa 1967!

Look at the state of the “trolly acc” in the picture, pram wheels and dexion, British engineering at its finest…

I disagree – it looks like an early link leg to me – no holes halfway up for the attachment of the internal spline.

Early link legs did have the two lightening holes in the retraction arm. Pintle bush diameters remained pretty common until late production IIRC.

Bruce

Bruce you maybe right about the leg, but as far as I am aware, the pintles were modified for the mkV, the leg being basically the same, but the pintle bearing surfaces being enlarged, basically to increase metal thickness at the (potentially) weak point ; the legs I have, are internal spline mkV’s, and one pintle is mkIX which fits , the other pintle is too small, by the stated amounts, that I have been given to understand is mkI.

The liners changed when the split head/banks came in ; early ones went in from the bottom, and late ones went in from the top (because they could!),I’m sure Merlin Pete (he who knows most) will fill in the blanks.

Sorry I’m late I was in a phone box changing clothes…

Trespass is a civil tort, that is to say it is not a Criminal Offence though it was a moot point for years whether it was under Common Law.

So by trespassing on someones land they could sue you, they could even call the police to get you ejected (but only on the grounds of say public disturbance etc) but the police cannot charge you.

Unless, cunningly, as happened years ago they get you for criminal damage in infiltrating or exfiltrating the premises -(and of course it depends what you intend to do when you get there ie steal, burgle, make arson [sic] etc) one famous case many moons ago a trespasser was charged with criminal damage to blades of grass!

That’ll be tuppence ha’penny and a pickled egg.

Plus VAT :p

TT

Grass is very important to farmers, if you are a livestock farmer ,grass is considered a crop, and as such criminal damage would be the out come of treading on it; rule of thumb ,if the property is fenced with a locked gate ,what the owner of the land is trying to say is KEEP OUT, if the gate is unlocked ,open ,or else not there at all ,then they can’t be that bothered.

If the property was securely fenced but it now has holes in it, or other unrepaired damage (maybe from forced access), then the onus is on the landowner to repair his boundaries, (again for a livestock farmer the onus is on them to keep their stock in, not for others to keep them out of their own properties)

I know of several instances where ww2 buildings have been demolished by the landowner to stop repeated trespass,and also derelict machinery scrapped for the same reason; remember many landowners do not value these old military buildings,(but are aware of the possibility of litigation, as a result of personal injury, sustained on their property) you have to ask yourselves the question, “are you contributing to the demise (by visiting without permission) the very thing that you would preserve”.

I’d like to thank Dave T and David Burke for an informed contribution, I myself would have waded in with similar critisism as others, looking at the A/C from a “face value” point of view.

It is in fact a lesson for all of us, that preservation doesn’t end with saving an airframe from the scrap, indeed all you are doing, is delaying the inevitable, unless a regular program of refurbishment is undertaken (or said airframe is located “indoors”).

The proof of their intentions (as preservationists)will show as and when serious offers to purchase, relocate and restore the various A/C are forth coming.

Many of these A/C could have been purchased for amounts way beyond their true worth (then and now), and offering market price, would then be seen as an insult; I know I’ve tried to buy “that Swift”!!

2024 T3 or “0” here in Auss.But we are doing a static though.Originally the spec was called DTD 390 and the majority of the frames were 20 IWG or .036″.

Except for low backs which were/are 18g aft of f11.

Demurrage (of Figaro).

From the French word, meaning to marry someone during an opera?

Forgive my ignorance, but what website is that?