The Boys are back in town....

[tbonesmith]

What exactly is the problem with the rear of the forend? BTW it looks like a sound proposition for a restoration, not too many bits and bobs to scratch together, and it should be a little ripper.

[bigduke6]

What exactly is the problem with the rear of the forend? BTW it looks like a sound proposition for a restoration, not too many bits and bobs to scratch together, and it should be a little ripper.

Small piece missing before the inlet for the charger guide. got all the bits just the repair to do.

[tbonesmith]

How'd I miss that!? I saw this repair(the one on your rifle) done on a L39 recently, it was unlike yours double dovetailed(ie. front and back, because unlike yours this damage must have ended before the back of the forend ) and pegged with fine dowels. It was beautifully done. I suppose with this one you only dovetail the front, cut the crack along the grain so that it's parallel with the top of the forend, fit an oversized patch in similar timber with the correct grain orientation, glue and clamp, allow to dry, rough shape, peg, make off.
The patch would only be as big as essential, but would be similar to this, but on one side of the other end.

[Peter Laidler]

Ah Me2 ........... The trouble was that the after the war, the machines were working - but slowly. They were producing things, but not producing the right things. The place was an industrial nightmare. Like I said, it would make a good readable history just so long as it included the warts an' all.

[David TS]

The Fazakerley rifle making machinery all belonged to the Ministry of Supply and went into storeage at a big ex RAF semi-underground bomb storeage dump near Aylesbury. It was the BSA rifle making machinery that was sold off to Pakistan under a private deal and some of the BSA staff went there to set it up.

Sounds like the same happened to the MG plant at Birmingham. MG cars now made in China. THere's another of those oxymorons. MG Cars from China..............!

The Fazakerley story would make good reading, especially if it included the warts an' all story of the industrial strife. I think that the last thing the Speke factory produced before it was closed were Triumph TR7's and the Dolomite family. But I could be wrong if anyone can correct this....

Speke was an industrial hotbed, and that probably explains a few things. I believe it held the record at one time for the highest number of days lost through industrial disputes. It would have been easier to count the number of days it was actually working!

[me2]

Hope I'm not going too far astray here but didnt (the real) Triumph Motorcycles have it's share of labour unrest especially in the last few months of it's existence? What was the problem in England back then??? Fazakerly could probably have survived at least a while longer but for the workers upsetting production or was management equally to blame?

[Peter Laidler]

There's always two sides Me2 but I remember being in Australia when the wharfies refused to load the transport ships because they didn't agree with whatever it was they didn't agree with that particular day. One minister described it like '..... the managers must manage and the workers must work'. Well, typically Australian and to the point.
Yep, Triumph and Norton both........................

[Brian Dick]

The problem is the same thing we're experiencing in the USA now. It's called labor union dispute. It's sinking or has sunk most of the big industrial production of the USA just like it did in England and other places in the so-called free Western world. Did you ever notice the car companies here in the USA that are doing the best under the current economic conditions? It's Toyota and BMW. They have plants in the non-union southern states. BMW is just up the road in Spartanburg, SC.

[me2]

Hey Brian, I have seen Boeing is trying to open a plant in SC? I probably do not have to relate the "rest" of the story to you. What a shame! I know what you mean.