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Post by rossjools on Feb 13, 2012 18:19:56 GMT 10
, What a wonderful job you've done there Jodel. Is there any interior detail? I'm also a modeller, mainly aircraft though. I have plans to scratchbuild a couple of Australian aircraft from the late 20s through to the late 30s, the single engined Lasco Lascoter and its bigger trimotor brother the Lasconder in 1/72 scale from the same Evergreen plastic sheet you've built Wanda from and using similar material for the flat windscreen and windows on both aircraft. There were only one of each of these aircraft built in 1929 by the Larkins Aircraft Supply Company (LASCO) at Coode Island in Melbourne. The Lasconder crashed sometime in the mid 30s and the Lascoter was removed from the old LASCO hangar at Coode by the RAAF during WW2 and scrapped. What a waste, if only they'd realized how much it would be worth today especially with its original inline engine, but that's military management for you. In 1973 I joined the RAAF Richmond Gliding Club and we were cleaning out the hangar one day (a work day) and there was a locked door into a back room. I was told to go get a pair of bolt cutters and cut the padlock off it and turf whatever was inside. when I returned with the cutters and cut the lock off there was a complete Mk 8 Spitfire prop inside. I begged the sergeant to let us keep it as there were a number of Mk 8 and Mk 9 Spits under restoration around the world at that time and it could make the club some money. "Nah, cut the b..... thing up and just dump it", was his reply. When again I pleaded with him I was ordered "LAC, just do as you're told, got it?" I got it. The prop was cut up and thrown in the skip. The pitch change mechanism still worked and all. 15 years later at the Bicentennial Airshow at Richmond when the late Col Pay stood his Mk 8 Spit on its nose about 100 yards from the Gliding Club hangar that Sergeant, by then a Warrant Officer was standing 2 metres from me and looked over his shoulder at me and said,"Don't say a b..... word Corporal Blackford, just don't say a word." My cheeky reply was "I don't have to Sir, the look on your face says it all." During my first posting to Richmond in the early to mid 70s we had a Britannia visit us one Saturday and I happened to be on Duty Crew at the time. Down the side it had printed A&AEE BOSCOMBE DOWN. During that posting we also had a visit (ironically another Saturday when I was on Duty Crew) from a Transport Command Belfast with a cargo of a Mk 8 Spitfire for Australia. I don't know it that was the one Col Pay restored or not. Cheers, Ross.
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Post by rossjools on Dec 7, 2009 6:09:24 GMT 10
:)Thank you for that humpty2. I live in Newcastle as well.
Cheers, Ross.
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Post by rossjools on Dec 5, 2009 19:12:05 GMT 10
Does anyone here own what I would take to be a 1960s Olympic van, maybe about 15'-16' being towed by a fawny and white Vauxhall Cresta (wraparound windscreen and rear window spotted by me at Glendale in Newcastle this morning (Sat. 5th December 09), just south of the Crossroads and heading towards Toronto. Both car and van looked to be in excellent nick. Didn't get time to have a look at the plates as was I was waiting to come out of Glendale Centre at the time, so concentrating on the traffic, but it did pass in front of me. Cheers, Ross.
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Post by rossjools on Dec 5, 2009 17:34:15 GMT 10
, I think I can just read 'FREEWAY' in the shot of the back of the van. Would that be right? None of the pics is really all that clear. Cheers, Ross.
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Post by rossjools on Dec 5, 2009 12:04:30 GMT 10
, g'day ronnie, Although your van doesn't qualify for membership of the Vintage Caravans forum there is a forum listed below in the main index for Classic Caravans (those made form 01 Jan 1970 to 31 Dec 1979). Come on over and join us there. I have a 1974 Viscount Royal 16 footer that I'm about to start doing up in the early New Year and am a member over there. Come and join us, you'll be most welcome. The Subject name is The Road to Classic Caravns. By the way, it would be nice to see some photos of your van. Cheers, Ross.
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Post by rossjools on Oct 30, 2009 18:21:06 GMT 10
G'day whippy, Sorry to hear about your problems with the foulcan. Shoulda bought a Holden mate. LOL. You mention that the timing runs 10 degrees retarded because of the cam. In a previous working life I was an aircraft and auto electrician. I had a customer once with an XM with a V8 in it and he'd removed the engine driven fan and it would hardly get from his place a few blocks to mine to have a termo fan fitted and that was with nothing behind the car. I fitted the thermo fan but the car still overheated. He took my car back to his place and got the original fan and we put that back on and just used the thermo for a bit more airflow. This bloke intended to tow a van with his XM. He had modified the engine but I can't remember what he'd done. Just a couple of points on engines running hot. Retarded timing and lean mixture each by themselves can cause engines to run hot and possibly overheating and if those two are combined you may have that problem to the point of it boiling its head off under a heavy load. Also the cam may not be suitable for towing a heavy van/trailer. I'll be honest, without having a look I couldn't make any definite diagnosis, but retarded timing and lean mixture can cause overheating. I'd be heading down that path first in the search. Cheers, Ross. ps The falco looks great with its new hubcaps.
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Post by rossjools on Oct 23, 2009 19:56:35 GMT 10
, I remember that place well. I live just across the railway line in Waratah and it's not much more than a mile and a half from my place which ever way you go, either via Hanbury Street and Maitland Road or via Maud Street and Maitland Road, either way you have to cross the railway line. That Vanguard Spacemaster with the caravan with the boat on the roof is an interesting shot. I've seen cars with boats on the top of the car towing caravans but never a boat on top of a what was then a fairly full sized van. Very rare and interesting shot. Thank you for posting that shot cobber, it brings back memories of a slower more relaxed time. A time when people generally had more time for one another and our community was a real community. I was talking to my manager the other day, (at the moment I'm working in his office on light duties) and he told me there were 50 or 60 kids lived in his street when he was growing up and everyone knew everyone and they all played together (on the road, even I can remember that) and had picnics and barbeques together. He said that he has lived in his current house for 14 years and the neighbours 2 doors down have been there longer but he doesn't know them or have anything to do with them other than to say g'day occasionally if they happen to see each other, our lives these days are so busy. Perhaps it's harder to make a living or perhaps we just want more these days. Cheers, Ross.
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Post by rossjools on Oct 17, 2009 21:41:44 GMT 10
, I'm not sure where to put this so I'll put it here. If one of the mods would prefer it somewhere else feel free to move it. As I was driving home from the Hunter Valley Gardens with my elderly mother and an elderly neighbour we were driving through Neath when coming the other way I spotted a cream FX Holden. As I got closer I notice something close behind it. It was a yellow teardrop, something like a Cub Sportsman, although I didn't get a good look at the TD, the era would be right for an FX. Both were in pristine condition but unfortunately no photos. Anyone here own this rig or might know who does? cheers, Ross.
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Post by rossjools on Oct 13, 2009 7:44:42 GMT 10
, Hi Col, Ah, yes, that would explain the military appearance of the towing dolly. Thank you for the info. Our NSWGR workshops at Eveleigh in Sydney built the nose sections of Australian produced Beaufort bombers during the war and I believe SAGR workshops in Adelaide built the rest of the fuselage. Cheers, Ross.
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Post by rossjools on Oct 12, 2009 16:25:18 GMT 10
, That towing dolly looks a lot like a limber for an artillery piece, at least to my eyes. Perhaps the man who designed it took his inspiration from WW2 artillery pieces. Do you know if he was in the Army during the war kaybee? A long shot I know, but there is something familiar about the design concepts of that dolly, not that I was a gunner, I was a Blue Orchid from 1972 till 1989. I worked on and around C-130 Hercules aircraft at Richmond for a number of years and saw a lot of different types of cargoes loaded and unloaded during my time there, including some field pieces. Cheers, Ross.
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