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Bedders

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  1. Looks like you can still get them direct for about £20, not sure if there is p&p on top - http://www.amercom-hobby.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=63&product_id=587&limit=100
  2. They did broadcast via satellite from 1998 to 2013 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Caroline
  3. Along similar lines there is the Moon illusion which causes the Moon to appear larger near the horizon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_illusion
  4. Hardly primary source, but this states No.2 tank in red and No.9 tank in black - http://www.rmweb.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=89&t=46763#p725962
  5. For Hippel, the ms&l block on streetview - https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.5636111,-0.0916604,3a,75y,264.47h,60.81t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s7vkb9U1s4J-MEGnHS1N5YQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1
  6. I'd normally settle for just admiring and clicking a button, but that is a properly brilliant, well thought out design. I'm off to buy a hat so I can tip it to you.
  7. "Paging Allan Downes. Allan Downes to Peterborough North please"
  8. I could see a preserved HST set doing good business on private hire. One would've come in very useful for the national Armed Forces day at Cleethorpes this year.
  9. Are you sure you have the length of the boiler correct? It looks very long, but I'm not too familiar with the prototype
  10. Slightly earlier than the CA period, but still popular might be someone like Charlotte Alington Barnard known as Claribel. http://louthmuseum.org.uk/people/charlotte_alington_barnard.html Railway connection - She laid the foundation stone for Louth station in 1847 as the 17 year old daughter of a local worthy, who later defrauded her and ran off to to Belguim with his wealthy second wife
  11. Strikes me how modern looking that umbrella is in the second picture
  12. Might be worth getting a few quotes from people on https://www.3dhubs.com/ Someone could take it on
  13. You look chuffed, as well you should
  14. They do a digital issue if there is something you're really interested in. Not on commission, but if Andy wants to show his gratitude financially...
  15. Shh! Don't tell her, but I've started buying books again

  16. Sorry, thought you said Barnes Wallis, who had some rather difference ideas about delivery systems.
  17. "Today, still wanted by the scrapyard, it survives as a wagon of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find it, maybe you can hire... the 16-tonner"
  18. Sweyn Forkbeard might disagree with you
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