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General Apathy
46 minutes ago, manayunkman said:

How’s the tin market doing?

 

Here in the US more common pieces have fallen in price.

 

 

Some very nice pieces in your brothers collection.

 

 

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Hi Peter.

 

Thanks I'm sure he would have enjoyed the compliment if he were still here to hear it, for many years it was a great joy for him chasing new pieces for his collection, sadly it waned once he had mobility problems from Parkinson's disease. The collection presently belongs to his daughter in Scotland which I understand she will be auctioning. 

 

This is another one of his pieces that I really liked, the wings swing on a central pivot to align with the body enabling it to be slid into its original shipping carton which he also had for this particular example. 

 

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Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent,  March 16  2023.

 

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Just now, General Apathy said:

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Hi Peter.

 

Thanks I'm sure he would have enjoyed the compliment if he were still here to hear it, for many years it was a great joy for him chasing new pieces for his collection, sadly it waned once he had mobility problems from Parkinson's disease. The collection presently belongs to his daughter in Scotland which I understand she will be auctioning. 

 

This is another one of his pieces that I really liked, the wings swing on a central pivot to align with the body enabling it to be slid into its original shipping carton which he also had for this particular example. 

 

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Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent,  March 16  2023.

 

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That’s great stuff, the tank had me drooling.

 

Ive got a thing for the miniature.

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On 3/15/2023 at 2:43 PM, General Apathy said:

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Cataloging my brothers biscuit tin collection for auctioning.

 

My older brother died October 2022, while I collected militaria he collected antique biscuit tins and biscuit ephemera, his earliest being around 1890.   From the turn of the century biscuit tins came in many guises, mainly for children to play with once the biscuits were eaten, boats, planes, trains, cars, trucks, also handbags, books, houses, designs from popular children's books etc.   My niece who lives in Scotland has started photographing and cataloging Barrie's collection ready for auctioning.  Below a couple of my favourites, the patriotic framed wall map shows the war fronts during 1918 and was presented by Crawford's Cream Crackers.

 

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Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent,  March 15  2023.

 

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I just finally had a chance to really look at these things. They are AWESOME!! The train and the airplane are my favorites. 
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Johan Willaert

Much has been said about the new D-Day commemorative project to be opened in 2025...
There have been on and offline protests, painted anti-signs and just about everyone has an opinion on this so-called D-Day Disneyland...

It is in the final planning stages and should open in 2025, according to their website

https://www.hommageauxheros.fr/en/

 

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1 hour ago, Johan Willaert said:

Much has been said about the new D-Day commemorative project to be opened in 2025...
There have been on and offline protests, painted anti-signs and just about everyone has an opinion on this so-called D-Day Disneyland...

It is in the final planning stages and should open in 2025, according to their website

https://www.hommageauxheros.fr/en/

 

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Hi Johan.

 

yes this project is dividing a lot of local people either for or against ( I am remaining silent either way on it

 

Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent,  March 17  2023.

 

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4 hours ago, Johan Willaert said:

Much has been said about the new D-Day commemorative project to be opened in 2025...
There have been on and offline protests, painted anti-signs and just about everyone has an opinion on this so-called D-Day Disneyland...

It is in the final planning stages and should open in 2025, according to their website

https://www.hommageauxheros.fr/en/

 

Just from that webpage I can’t tell that the controversy is. But I’m sure there is much more to it all.  I’ll need to dig into it when I get time. Hope it isn’t one of those “knock down the real thing so we can show a better looking fake thing” thing. 
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7 hours ago, mikie said:

Just from that webpage I can’t tell that the controversy is. But I’m sure there is much more to it all.  I’ll need to dig into it when I get time. Hope it isn’t one of those “knock down the real thing so we can show a better looking fake thing” thing. 
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Hi Mikie,

 

I was very much into politics thirty years ago and believed that I should vote at every given opportunity, until certain events changed my mind and haven't voted since.  Once you live outside the UK for around fifteen years I think you are taken off the voting lists anyway. 

 

I also didn't vote when the big Brexit question occurred, that vote broke up a lot of friendships and also families on the question should the UK stay within the European Union or leave . . . . . . .  the leave vote won.  When questioned my reply was I don't live in the UK what right do I have to make decisions for UK residents, I know of a number of husbands & wives who voted on opposing sides of the question. . . . . . . . .

 

I also learnt over the years to hold my tongue when asked what I thought of peoples collections, it's easier to lose friends with a comment than to make friends.  You can please friends with ten thousand words, you can lose a life-long friend with one unappreciated word.

 

And this new project is just such a question ' are you afore it or agin it ' , I will be out to lunch that day .. . . . . . . . . . . . . 

 

Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent,  March 18  2023.

 

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Many years ago, probably 25 plus yrs I used to drop in on a scrapyard in Isigny. The owner always had interesting bits and pieces lying around inside a big modern building that he had found on local farms. He always had scraps of camo chute lying around amongst chunks of metal bits and pieces. The tubes and I believe the chain came off Waco gliders and had been scavenged by farmers at the time. The buckles were the result of a short field walk near Ste Marie du Mont with my lad when he was 9 yrs old. The buckles were just lying around on the surface and detected using Eyeball Mk 1 detector. Mikes now 35. The scrapyard is long gone and I doubt the fields are anywhere near as productive now.

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For many years I specialised in ration items, one of the neatest pieces that I ever found was this . I had forgotten about it until I was looking through a pile of old photos of many of the ration crates, boxes and rations that I used to find in the Ardennes. This piece was found here in England many years ago now, can't remember were it ended up though.

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Band of Brothers Boots . . . . . . . . 

 

First photo shows my daughter stood in the studio amongst the stock-piles of Jump boots 

Second photo shows us ageing and distressing new unused boots at the studios. 

Third photo shows left-over unused boots at my store I bought back at the end of filming

Fourth photo shows unused WWII shoe-pacs I sold to the film.

 

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Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent,  March 20  2023.

 

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Funny you show a cement mixer being used to age kit.

I remember going to a militaria dealers store in Belgium with Doug Preece and in the back they were doing the same to a whole bunch of repro pistol belts and ammo belts. I can remember the days when there were so many genuine items about that you would think they could never get them all sold. How wrong can you be.

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Parisian Military Vehicle Museum looking for new storage area.

 

 

 

Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent,  March 21  2023.

 

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Hi Graham & Kat.

 

Women's uniforms and Marine EGA taken at the UK Stoneliegh show January 1997.

 

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Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent,  March 21  2023.

 

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Talking about women's uniforms...

Back in 2015 I wrote an article on US Army WW2 bicycles for the French Militaria Magazine and a girl/collector I know gladly posed for some photos in appropriate Army Nurse Corps uniform with my very rare original 1943 Westfield Columbia Womens' Army bike...
I have only 12 of these survivor bikes on file worldwide.

 

 

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Hi Johan.

 

1999 I shipped back five cycles from the states that I had bought at auto-jumbles. I still have the one on the far right of these three. The one with the wire basket on the front had USAAF markings on it and supposedly used around a US airfield, notice the white paint on the column and on the front and rear fenders . . . . . 

 

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Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent,  March 21  2023.

 

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10 hours ago, General Apathy said:

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Hi Graham & Kat.

 

Women's uniforms and Marine EGA taken at the UK Stoneliegh show January 1997.

 

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Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent,  March 21  2023.

 

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Hi Ken, What a lovely photo! I believe that is a (not so old of course) friend of mine - Becky on the right? I don't know the USMCWR lady on the left, but she is modelling a rare uniform; especially as it was way back in 1997!! The days when we all wore original kit (when we could obtain it from Norman D Landing of course!!) Cheers Graham

 

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Just now, MCDUFF said:

Hi Ken, What a lovely photo! I believe that is a (not so old of course) friend of mine - Becky on the right? I don't know the USMCWR lady on the left, but she is modelling a rare uniform; especially as it was way back in 1997!! The days when we all wore original kit (when we could obtain it from Norman D Landing of course!!) Cheers Graham

 

A similar era when we all wore original uniforms and kit - here I am with fellow Marines at the Detling show in Kent.... Happy (youthful) days!!

 

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A photograph I shared today.

 

this morning I sent this photograph on to long-term friend Andy shown on the right of the photo, strangely I used a long forgotten word fizzog ( slang term used a lot in WWII, Royal Navy ) describing the face of another friend appearing on the far left .  ' Fizzog ' is an abbreviation from the word physiognomy from the Ancient Greek language assessing someones character from their facial features.

 

I had borrowed the Hula-Hoop off a child stood looking at our vehicles.  

 

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Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent,  March 22  2023.

 

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Always on the look out for info and photos of the Antwerp, Belgium based Camp Top Hat, I have just added this photo to the collection...

 

It shows the Camp's 'Honey Wagon', a modified Army GMC CCKW353 truck...
Closed cab, no winch, just the way both Ken and I like them...

Wonder if anyone would be up for modifying their truck...

 

More on Camp Top Hat: 

 

 

 

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On 3/21/2023 at 1:13 PM, General Apathy said:

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Hi Johan.

 

1999 I shipped back five cycles from the states that I had bought at auto-jumbles. I still have the one on the far right of these three. The one with the wire basket on the front had USAAF markings on it and supposedly used around a US airfield, notice the white paint on the column and on the front and rear fenders . . . . . 

 

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Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent,  March 21  2023.

 

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Nice ones, did you ever come round to fitting those new tyres to the Compax you kept?

I believe I saw the other two at different editions of the Beltring W&P show...
The blue front fenderless Compax once belonged to English collector Lee Bowden and at another show I saw Dutch vehicle parts dealer Jaap R riding that women's bike...

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2 hours ago, Johan Willaert said:

 

Nice ones, did you ever come round to fitting those new tyres to the Compax you kept?

I believe I saw the other two at different editions of the Beltring W&P show...
The blue front fenderless Compax once belonged to English collector Lee Bowden and at another show I saw Dutch vehicle parts dealer Jaap R riding that women's bike...

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Hi Johan,  yes I think you have correctly named the people who bought them from me, so long ago now, wonder if they still have them.

 

Regrading the tyres ( tires ) you kindly got for me they are on the list of impending jobs, I think they are about 8,4632 on the to do list.  !!!!!

It's not the easiest of cycles to ride being un-geared and stiff pedalling especially up-hill, in fact even on the flat. It's only ever made it to two shows and each time that was strapped to the Jeep, oh maybe Stoneliegh once in the GMC.

 

Todays task is re-wiring my Jeep trailer which was last used about fifteen years ago, I have so many tree trimmings to get to the village dump and other garden debris and house throw-outs which I don't wish to use the car for.   

 

Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent,  March 23  2023.

 

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General Apathy
On 3/17/2023 at 12:04 PM, Johan Willaert said:

Much has been said about the new D-Day commemorative project to be opened in 2025...
There have been on and offline protests, painted anti-signs and just about everyone has an opinion on this so-called D-Day Disneyland...

It is in the final planning stages and should open in 2025, according to their website

https://www.hommageauxheros.fr/en/

 

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Hi Johan,

 

here's some news on the D-Day project I received today, at present it's all stories and guesswork as to whats happening. Personally I don't think Caen is where the people pushing for it would want it to be, it's outside the American sector  

 

Hi Ken, 

 

The latest news I have on the project is that Macron had said NO to replacing ‘x’ number of green field hectares with the concrete in Carentan.  

 

The alternative site in Bayeux is not large enough for the site requirements. So, at the moment, they are looking at a derelict industrial site in Caen.

 

 

Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent,  March 24  2023.

 

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On 3/22/2023 at 6:16 PM, Johan Willaert said:

Always on the look out for info and photos of the Antwerp, Belgium based Camp Top Hat, I have just added this photo to the collection...

 

It shows the Camp's 'Honey Wagon', a modified Army GMC CCKW353 truck...
Closed cab, no winch, just the way both Ken and I like them...

Wonder if anyone would be up for modifying their truck...

 

More on Camp Top Hat: 

 

 

 

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Hi Johan,

 

Not trying to poo-poo you ( beat that Mikie ) but methinks that the ' Top-Hat ' patch design has been painted on the rear of that tank, using white paint as the tank would be o.d painted.  It looks like the outer circle and an angled section in the middle which looks like the angle of the hats brim .  

 

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Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent,  March 24  2023.

 

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Hi Johan,

 

Although the Jeep trailer will have to wait until next autumn for a full rebuild I am about to rewire it for legal road use, using NOS parts, for safety sake I am going with two red Ruby's on the rear for maximum illumination .

 

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Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent,  March 24  2023.

 

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