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  1. Scott_F

    Have You Seen Any Interesting Cars On The Road Lately?

    If they need any parts they may have struck lucky:
  2. Scott_F

    Have You Seen Any Interesting Cars On The Road Lately?

    If they need any parts they may have struck lucky:
  3. Scott_F

    Spotted In The Scrapyard.

    I thought the Rover 600s had all gone by now but it seems I was wrong. This is a fairly early one and its last MOT expired in June 2007 so it has been lying idle collecting dust somewhere for many years: That hasn't turned for a long time:
  4. Scott_F

    Built to last

    As a footnote, the Officers' Mess at the former RAF Scampton was designated as a Grade II listed building by Historic England last month and it should therefore avoid the fate of the one featured here...
  5. Scott_F

    Built to last

    This is another photo from the same set taken over 80 years ago - note the dark camouflage paint on the brickwork on the upper left: The young airmen have all faded into history but the camouflage paint hasn't quite faded and is still protecting the building from Luftwaffe raids that will...
  6. Scott_F

    Built to last

    The derelict Mess was once the home of Wing Commander Guy Gibson VC although this was before the formation of 617 Squadron and the famous Dams raid in May 1943. The photo below was taken in early 1943 and shows him standing outside the Mess entrance with some of his fellow officers - note the...
  7. Scott_F

    Built to last

    The corridors have rooms leading off them that would have been dining rooms, lounges and anterooms where officers could sit in a comfortable armchair drinking tea, reading the newspaper, smoking their pipe and generally unwinding:
  8. Scott_F

    Built to last

    At the rear of the entrance hall there are corridors leading off to the left and right:
  9. Scott_F

    Built to last

    The entrance hall where the arch theme from the doorways continues:
  10. Scott_F

    Built to last

    Some of these WW2 buildings really were built to last. From the mid-1930s onwards and with war looking increasingly likely, the Government embarked on an ambitious program of airfield construction which was intended to allow for a huge increase in the strength of the RAF and in the number of...
  11. Scott_F

    Have You Seen Any Interesting Cars On The Road Lately?

    Austin FG or S200:
  12. Scott_F

    Spotted In The Scrapyard.

    Saab 96: It was registered in Cumberland over half a century ago in March 1972: And I have sneaking suspicion that it may possibly have been a V4:
  13. Scott_F

    Spotted In The Scrapyard.

    I suppose that this is a US equivalent of this thread: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/news/the-most-interesting-european-cars-we-ve-ever-spotted-in-american-junkyards/ss-AA1gmaKz?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=2a7546bdf6fa442096ea490c4e42f881&ei=20#image=1 I've actually posted a lot of these cars here...
  14. Scott_F

    Spotted In The Scrapyard.

    Nobody but nobody followed that design and the company sank two or three years later ! Whilst their design of instrumentation was far from the only cause it helped to re-enforce the perception that they made cars that only appealed to pensioners who could still remember previous decades when...
  15. Scott_F

    Spotted In The Scrapyard.

    Rover didn't exactly help themselves. When every other car manufacturer was looking ahead and embracing new technologies, someone at the company thought it would be a good idea to introduce sepia-tinted dials that looked like something off an octogenarian's mantlepiece:
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