Excellent – thanks for that !:cool:

I’ve just built a simple website (with my zero experience in such things) for the Tocumwal Historic Aerodrome Museum. The gallery is basically all scrapyard pics and also the end results – lots of aluminium bars. They may have already been seen by many but you might like a look. Its a work in progress 😉

http://www.tham.org.au

I know I’m 20 years too late with my pursuits but I made the trip to Tocumwal to have a look at “the” dump – it has been totally picked over, the stuff that is there is purely rusted thru, as you can see by the panorama shot I have done, it has water in it, and you also have to contend with grumpy ants, and 6ft snakes – both of which I encountered today (glad I had my shovel handy!)

But for me personally, its great to have been able to backtrack the stuff that came out of the shed to its point of origin. At the very least I can show this to my kids when they are older and they will have a better understanding of how I ended up with all the parts I have…

There are still a few floating around in Gippsland, but again, attached to machinery.

Though not strictly speaking a scrapyard, I found this in the backyard of a farmer amid the odd bits and pieces of derelict farm equipment. It’s a Lockheed Hudson aft fuselage, A16-128, with the original USAAF serial showing through the Australian colourscheme. I believe this was rescued for the Tocumwal base museum, but have no idea where it is now.

This part has gone to the AWM – there is a pic of it on their blog

http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/

Don;t know if its Beaufighter – the pair I have (while Olympic tyres made in Australia) are 14.00