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Re: BTW - Did any of you UK lot see Salvage Squad last nite?

Posted by Graham ODriscoll on Wed Feb 06, 2002 02:25:34 AM

In reply top Re: BTW - Did any of you UK lot see Salvage Squad last nite? posted by Ron Henry on Tue Feb 05, 2002 04:20:31 PM

Well, I should be seeing Lance tonight at a hot rod meet, so I'll try and find out exactly how much this team did. Me thinks not a lot!!. A good friend of mine used to work for him and I know that he was a very demanding person to work for and is somewhat of a perfectionist. I'd like to see some of the outakes!!!!!!



: : on that same diversification point,am I right in thinkin
: g
: : that the Bristol Aircraft production lines were used to
: bu
: : ild prefab houses after the war? Seems a really strange
: co
: : nnection.
: :
: : A later Salvage Squad shows the rebuilding of a DH Moth
: bu
: : t you have to wonder how much work has been done already
: -
: : eg the car last night was entered for Concours but we d
: id
: : n't see the engine bay being stripped out for spraying o
: f
: : the engine bay etc etc.
:
: It's my understanding that all?/most? of the little prefab
: bungalows were built immediately postwar by companies of
: the UK aircraft industry. Think that there was a good deal
: of aluminium sheet in their construction, and the compani
: es didn't have much other business on their books once WW2
: had ended. Bristol houses may not have been built at Bris
: tol (Filton) - Bristol had a very large plant close to Wes
: ton-super-Mare airfield.
:
: Like you I'm dubious about rebuilding a DH Moth in a few d
: ays - and what about appropriate worker licences and quali
: fications? The progs I've seen so far have not had me conv
: inced that the team achieved the v high standard restorati
: ons in the stated timescales.
:
: Signed
:
: Mr Sceptical
:

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