There was also an Eley-Kynoch factory at Edmonton in North London. I remember the Shot towers where the lead was dropped to form shotgun pellets. not sure if that factory ever produced 303 ammunition though.

I don’t know how it is there but here we have ‘Off’ switches on our radios, and other such devices. 😮

Some dont have a choice in the station they are forced to listen to all day!

i’m over it

You and me too, I even started this thread as well! I never cared for him or his music, nor did I give a flying fig for Elvis, Lennon, Bolan, or Mercury.
Our local radio station spent all day Friday blaring out his records, and as you say, there have been more tributes on TV than you can shake a stick at and still it goes on.

I Lets hope the funeral is soon eh?

Sad to hear as she was the poster girl of the 1970’s.
I admired the very brave way she handled her illness preferring to keep herself to herself.
RIP Farrah

They have the tiny holes for enabling a needle and thread to pass through. If your ‘doughnuts’ are in a good shape its just a simple case of sewing them to the helmet together. Dont worry about how neat your sewing is, apparently any/all sewing styles were the norm on flying helmets!

The only one I can find is a B-17 serial number 4231068 , from the 612th Bomb Squadron of the 401st Bomb Group (H), The crew baled out due to bad weather. The pilot was Jere W Maupin, and the aircraft crashed at Potters Bar on the 31/12/1943.

Source of information is http://www.aviationarchaeology.com

Another muddy enigma we will never get to the bottom of.

Blimey! first the Stork Hotel..now Enigma! was it the Americans who discovered the use of the Stork hotel?…or was it the crew of U-571 who found the hotel floating off of Liverpool…or did the Stork sink the U-571 with the enigma or maybe it was the other way around…..confused:confused:

I have been a user of Ntl/Virgin cable broadband for close on eight years. In all of that time I have suffered just one ‘outage’ as they call it. that was caused by a car hitting the green box thingy that sits by the side of the road.

When you do call India for their customer services, they are polite and helpful, once you get past the bit where they think you know zilch about computers, and how they work. They can run what is called ‘Blue tools’ on the system to troubleshoot where the problem lays.

This was better when you had the private phone number of the engineers at the Swansea hub;) but overall the Ntl/Virgin service has been as good as gold. Wouldnt swap them unless I really had to. Second choice would be BT, my brother who lives in a small village has faultless BT broadband by phone line..nuff said:)