😮 Now look what you’ve done re tractors ………… – note to self, ‘keep calm and roll on November 12th!’

As for ‘aviation collectables’ I’ll resist the urge to add a weblink and leave it at saying – “Saturday December 8th 2012!!” 😀

I cannot think for one minute why you should think like that Mr Rocketeer!! 😀

The real reason it caught my eye was that with some of the educational activities I help with at NAM we have similar items for the young people to pass round and look at in the ‘World War II / Evacuee’ sessions – whilst obviously not in original boxes etc. perhaps they’re more valuable than we thought. Perhaps they need re-assessing!! 😉

During the day I also came round to thinking about an object that’s on display – a hand carved and painted wooden aeroplane. This was made by a German POW for a schoolboy who lived on a local farm and this item always attracts some interesting discussions with visiting school parties! 🙂

The last time I saw the owner of the ‘Movember’ it was of similar stature albeit slightly greyer in tone!

Back to NAM, details of a ‘Pre-Christmas Aviation Die-Cast & Model Sale’ on Saturday 8th December 2012 have been added to the news page – this relates to a bequest of 200+ military aircraft die-cast models and 200+ made up plastic kits that has just arrived and it may be of interest to some collectors / modellers. 🙂

Also three extra photos have been added to the Restoration & Behind The Scenes album – these feature the Rallye restoration, Jaguar cockpit and Lightning stencilling. 🙂

Hi Mike, that’s an excellent picture of Shackleton WR977 being reassembled with the ‘then’ owner Stuart Stephenson; it would have been taken sometime around late May / June 1977 – it’s also one that I don’t recall seeing before.

As you may know at this point in my reply my reputation dictates that I say, it’s in the book(s) – as the saying goes around these parts!! 😀

Result!

He’s resigned!!

His ‘biog’ on the BBC page make interesting reading!!!