That's great. The nearest decent tool shop here is miles away and you have to pay to park - and some way off. So only use them for specialised stuff. There used to be a good motor factor in Clapham that I liked which had an excellent tool department - but they moved to a cheaper area, sadly.
However, I'd actually travel and pay to park to get Halfords Pro tools. They really are that good. IIRC, made by the people who bought out Britool.
Cannons ? where have they gone now, crikey i can remember going there as a teen and buying service parts for my first car a ?Ford Model 7Y ? 933 cc and 8 hp, happy days.
Very handy. In the event, Costco were £70 so I decided on the Honda one to save getting my hands dirty (and having to sod about resetting radio et al).
Don't get me started. Mercury Engineering in Cross Deep, Twickenham, where I got spares for my 1954 Ford Poular which, when you came down to it, was really only a tarted up model Y.
I don't seem to have the above post here.
Cannons have moved to Mitcham. Smaller premises so less stock - and seem to have ditched their older stuff, as they couldn't even supply a thermostat for my SD1. Or look it up. The old McCauley Road premises were going to be housing - before the crash. Dunno if a start has been made yet.
Understandable using a re-vamped pre war car just after the war - but the Popular continued to about '60?
The re-vamped model was the EA (also known as the sit up and beg) but by '60 it was based on the 100E Anglia with posh things like independent front suspension and electric windscreen wipers, not the old transverse leaf springs at front and rear like the Ys and EAs (and even the V8 Pilots I believe) and vacuum wipers that stopped working if you went up hill and went like the clappers going down hill.
Yes - they did eventually replace the Popular with the later design - but the sit up and beg one was sold new far later than most think. '58 or '59?
Just checked it out. You are bang on the money with 1959. The 100E version came out when the Anglia migrated to the 105E with the leaning backwards rear window. And I was wrong to call the sit up and beg an EA. That was the earlier Prefect. The Popular was the 103E. Lovely old memories - thanks for triggering them.
Triumph or Supermarine?
If Tony hadn't trimmed so much, we might have a clue.
Dave
The latter!..
At Duxford, around the Summer and Autumn of 1940 ...
I remember my uncle who was there at the same time showing me a poem that someone had written I seem to remember that it was entitled,
"Give them a badge" a bit of a lament from the ground crew who were up and about all the time keeping the "kites" airworthy, and never got any recognition for their part in that conflict !.
Badge, services slang meaning I believe .. Medal....
With all due respect to the men on the ground (and I'm glad I don't have to fix planes at all hours, and sometimes with someone dropping bombs on me) I think you'll find they had a much better survival rate than the guys who did the flying.
Andy
Which was reflected in pay and treatment of them.
And an armourer was not a safe job either. Handling live munitions resulted on a fair few deaths.
Yes no doubt they did, 'tho one of our lot was an armourer who did have a charmed life..
Nope, I think it was just a feeling of "without us down here that lot up there wouldn't get all the attention they do" which I believe was they had far better chanced pullin the local birds;!..
Still, they were all involved including my aunt now deceased, a very attractive lady she was and the tales of the Yanks and fist fights outside the family home of who was going to pull her that night. Nylons seems to be the offering which did the trick!. Still the turnover of American boyfriends was rather high;!....
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