Morris vehicles and Daimler Armoured Car at Cobbaton Combat Museum

[mrclark303]

still think Curly whirlies have been cut short though.... One of the great conspiracy's of our time Geoff!

Probably some EU dictate ... My mate's dad donated quite a few artifacts to the Fort, (I haven't been there for 35+ years now) from RAF Halton, its amazing what they "dumped" for burial or scrap back in the 1980's there.... things then got moved from the dump, into an old Volvo estate and off to quite a few museums in the UK!! Top bloke.

Back in the days before health and safety, some RAF bases, particularly MU's (I assume Army and Navy facilities too) were really badly contaminated with buried scrap and chemical waste.

I remember aircraft being scrapped at my local RAF MU back in the 1970's, hydraulic lines cut and fuel tanks drained and aircraft allowed to "bleed out" onto the grass over the weekend prior to scrapping, they did this for years and years, one can only imagine the soil contamination there now.

A lot of interesting finds came out of that dump too to be fair!

Sorry to go off topic guys..

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[browningautorifle]

Sorry to go off topic guys..

It's OK...that almost never happens here...