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1 hour ago, Rob-M said:
There is an option to purchase a National with Hampstead ?
who in their right mind would want one of those...…….!
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Fore end done by Charles Watts in Rugby
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3 hours ago, Pluto said:
I always find this preoccupation with 'exact' colours strange. When looking at how to paint L&LC craft Kennet, I could not find two schemes the same, and talking to Sam Yates, who did the painting at Whitebirk boatyard, he assured me that the colours were knocked up each day, so that there were always variations in the colours used, though they were similar. We are talking about a time when skilled painters would mix their own paints, so there would always be variations in tone. Pantone colours are useful a as a guide, but will never be truly 'correct'. It does give people a good opportunity to complain though!
and I dare say different paints would fade to different degrees.....
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Capitals B and W 6inch : ritish and aterways 5 inch: Motorboats names 4 inch. All shaded light green and black to RHS. ( As transfers when applied)
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9 hours ago, Traveller said:
Good find, David. Yes that's the one. Not sure what my options are now as from that thread the coupling appears to be no longer available!
I might still have one - I'll have to investigate......
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I had a B-type out of a road roller similar to that pictured. Although it looked like a D-type, everything was a different size and I don't think anything was interchangeable with a D-type.
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I think it's a B-type National
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2 hours ago, David Mack said:
So what were Nuneaton and Barnes carrying that can't be seen in the photo below (and confused the caption writer) yet was heavy enough to load them down almost to the top guard?
Steel bars for Tyseley. That's why, in the last picture , he's having to use the notched end of the beam to force the sides apart so his wife can knock the beam into place.
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As far as I know, Hostelcraft, running the "Pamela", ended up in the ownership of a gentleman called Neville New who I believed lived in Slough.
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Thanks for this. We all know that navigation is at the bottom of the priority list for CRT, they seem incapable of maintaining water levels anywhere, clearly they don't appreciate how critical this is. As regards dredging generally they seem to want to use any excuse not to do any, I dare say the budget for the PFC has been spent on the aqueduct railings at Marple (- as well as the locks!). I'm beginning to wonder why we bothered 50 years ago...…….
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The stern wasn't cut off, the counter round was removed and the sternpost extended upwards, two new plates fitted to raise the height of the swim, making a not-very-attractive stern end, it has to be said! Close inspection should reveal the boss for the stern tube still present. When it's sister boat "Dory" was rebuilt, these plates were removed and the swim restored, and the stern tube hole used again!
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On 06/02/2019 at 18:39, alan_fincher said:
Not sure if this has had an airing?
This is a bugger, because we were counting on using Marple Locks to get to the big HNBC event at Hebden Bridge. Unfortunately that event is the same time as the revised date for this stoppage ending.
I was thinking along those lines too, but I was wondering what sort of state the lower Peak Forest ( don't think it was ever very good for a deep draught boat!) is in after the lengthy period of closure at Marple and the lack of through traffic - I wonder if billh of this forum could shed some light on this?
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When BTW started fitting Armstrongs and Petters, they experimented with gear change levers mounted on the footboard, the linkage dropping down and passing under the cabin floor. The Armstrong in the "Foxglove" was so fitted, and the PD2 in the "Bexhill" as I recall.
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I have a donkey jacket with "BTW" on the back...…..
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3 hours ago, Athy said:
I've heard them called longboats (or long boats) too.
Only heard them called that in the Gloucester/Sharpness area, perhaps a west country thing?
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I think Jimmy Hewitt is the figure with the white shirt standing on the back end (ie far end of engine room on RHS). it looks like his dad standing in the doorhole. I don't think it broke it's crank in his ownership. though. Steered it myself a few times while at Marple, slow going on those canals!
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Louis Powell and Johnnie Best, so I was informed
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This will be of interest to one of our forum members, if he hasn't already seen it...….
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3 hours ago, alan_fincher said:
Yes, at some point it received the BW "Space Ship" cabin, and as was typical the engine got relocated to the stern, (an HR from memory).
That cabin was retained for the conversion, and the original line extended, so it is very boxy, (though no doubt spacious inside!)
I don't think the counter is particularly unpleasing, although unless things have changed, it will be without cants, and probably have fairly formless bollards.
It is what it is. Without spending a fortune it is never going to have a GUCCCo style engine room with a back cabin behind.
Rebottomed or overplated? I don't know.This was only rebuilt in the 1980s, pretty well unaltered until then, sold off fairly soon afterwards. Notable for having had the last Petter PD2 in Waterways ownership.
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22 minutes ago, X Alan W said:
One of the funniest evenings(Ha Ha wise) was in the Pub with Ron (Hough ) RIP describing his part (not seen) in the Bargee tutoring Ronnie Barker& Harry Corrbett & his description of Eric Sykes"s antics not all waste of space /no knowledge left me laughing so much my sideb hurt for all the next day &later I towed his Ex butty "Bellarophne from Hillmorton /Norbury to replace horse tripboat "Iona"
He does appear in the film, disguised, in long distance shots eg when leaving the lay by, Harry H. bumps the boats before it quickly cuts to Ron steering them round towards Brentford
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EX - Manchester ship canal I believe
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I believe it is the "Electra" which is the cabin-less hulk at Charity dock...….
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… but don't these moorings extend all the way from the Wharf to Lily Pascall's………..
What??? How???
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It doesn't mean they have to be rebuilt to this width - must waste a lot of water when two narrowboats can't share...….