Thanks Mike.

An interesting point about the site is that i was told it made a crater in the field on impact, but although hilly there’s no dent or deviation other than natural lay of the land. They must of made a good job of filling it in.

It may warrant a closer look when the weathers warmer.

Rob

Rob – Get a Forster or two-box on it – Even if it didn’t go in, if there was any hole it would have been a good place to dispose of parts when they were “clearing” the site.

Incidentally we are also on the trail of a Wyvern – only witnesses traced so far were only young boys at the time and only allowed close enough to see scattered parts – only found a couple of tiny bits so far and we reckon they have indicated the wrong field + now found out a single engined aircraft came down hard in another field close by during WWII – so now the weathers picking up……….;)

I think its a 9mm browning but im not a gun expert… 😉

Does it not say on the deactivation certificate?

I guess that’s one good reason why the winner is now anonymous – though I would be surprised if that was the reason EBay introduced it!

I have used ebay for buying & selling for longer than I care to recall and seem to remember that the big issue being discussed everywhere around the time they announced the privacy for buyers regime was schill bidding – In fact things were getting pretty heated, including on here IIRC. The only way ebay would actually take action was if someone reported (with proof) that it had occurred – It may seem a bit simplistic, but ebay made buyers identities invisible and hey presto you had no idea who you were bidding against and the problem suddenly disappeared! 😮 However, anyone with any intelligence just has to look at the number of items that get bid up to high values – “Sell” and then reappear at equally high starting bids or BINs.

However, its not all negative (glass half full & all that;)) – I confess that I collect WWI Trench Art and there was one particular bidder who seemed to go for every item I did and I never beat him – despite going absolutely silly on a couple of occasions – True I did get really worked up about this – though I would never consider the actions already described on here – and it got to the point where if I saw he was interested I would not even bid – Take away my knowledge of who I am bidding against and things get a lot more rational – I don’t even join the crowd in the doorway at the back of physical auctions anymore 😎

One things that does irritate me slightly though is the current trend for private auctions – I can see why ebay introduced them – personal items, underwear etc and at first that was the only place you saw them. Now they are everywhere – as far as I can see there can only be one purpose for this and that is the seller wanting to hide some dodgy bidding activity – be it from other bidders, the taxman – whatever – I am sure there will be sellers on here who will now defend the use of this – but they should be aware that whatever their reason – from a buyers point of view it can only look suspicious and I am certainly not alone in being very reluctant to bid on such auctions.

Yes absolutely. Bit confusing whether the items actually belong to the seller or will be purchased from the MoD on the buyer’s behalf. From my viewpoint hard to see how some of the items could possibly sell for even a fraction of the asking price.

Does seem odd I agree – The inference ceratinly seems to be that these are direct MOD disposals, but if you looks at the sellers “ME” page, there is the following:

“XXXXX is a supplier of UK Military Surplus stock, located in Staffordshire. We specialise in Aviation and Land items and all of our stock has been issued as part of a UK MoD surplus asset contract.”

So it would seem not!

As for pricing – the BINs are certainly ambitious – but all seem to have the “or best offer” option, so if anyone is interested in anything bid what you want to pay – when enough low bids come in, they may get the message? or perhaps not? :rolleyes:

Gunsights

Thought these look nice – don’t seem to turn up that often any more – though am a bit puzzled as to how much of them is “replica”?

Glad I bought mine years ago though! :p

ww2 raf spitfire/hurricane/beaufighter mk2N reflector gunsight

ww2 raf spitfire/hurricane, mk1 oval glass top, reflector gunsight

I suppose the real problem here was the concentration of contaminated instruments in one place – far more than even a museum would ever be likely to hold + many seemed to be stored outside in long since deteriorated packaging with little weather protection + they were in the middle of a residential area. An unusual set of circumstances that perhaps could have been explained better?

The comment about the forklift needs to considered in the context of the amount of protective gear everyone was wearing to avoid ingestion of radioactive material 😮

Good point smirky – working in close proximity to plant equipment with restricted movement and limited visibility is not a good situation + as someone else pointed out there doesn’t seem to be much in the way of hi-viz to aid the drivers of the plant to see the personnel!

All in all, apart from the waste of historic material, it seems odd there are so many H&S inconsistencies in what is obviously a H&S promotional video!

Certainly sounds like an interesting book – will try to persuade work to buy a copy 😉

Excavated an ex 41 Sqn. Spitfire XIV a few years ago – RN 210 which was carrying out daily armed reconnaissance sorties whilst based at Eindhoven with 41 Sqn. On the 25th April 1945 it was involved in an incident whilst on operational flying which resulted in it being classified category AC. This resulted in the aircraft being returned to 409 Repair and Servicing Unit – Always wondered what had happened?