What a find.

[Siggi]

The old dear (my mother) has just been rooting through some old stuff and has found one of my grandfather's service/workshop manuals, official govt issue, dated 1916. It has all the RFC planes and engines up to that date, from the Longhorn. Loads of seperate type-written addenums also. Looking through it she reckons you could build one from scratch with what's in it. "I'll send it to you." she says. NO!!! says I. I'll be picking it up next time I visit her.

[Siggi]

42 pages plus a mass of fold-outs in the back, plus all the type-written bits, the lot classified as Highly Secret.

[ONETINSOLDIER]

very cool! I love finding old stuff like that.

[Mr. Lucky]

start scanning and posting please

[+RAF_Louvert]

.

 

Super! I agree with Mr. Lucky, scan and upload if you can Siggi. I'd love to read through that manual. You have a rare one there Sir.

 

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[zoomzoom]

Wow, you lucky rascal. That'll be a fun bit to look through.

 

ZZ.

[UK_Widowmaker]

Wow!..share if you can Siggi

[Rickitycrate]

From your grandad's hands to your's. That's a special addition to your collection. You'll be seeing mum soon I venture. I might even visit my mother if she had that kind of bait.

[Bullethead]

From your grandad's hands to your's. That's a special addition to your collection. You'll be seeing mum soon I venture. I might even visit my mother if she had that kind of bait.

<BR><BR>No kidding!  Sadly, all my family's WW1 relics burned up with the houses of both my sets of grandparents before I was born.  From what my parents told me, it was some pretty cool loot... <IMG src="http://forum.combatace.com/public/style_emoticons/default/this.gif"> . <BR><BR>So I agree.  Siggi, have some sympathy for us po' folks and upload your stash. Edited January 4, 2010 by Bullethead

[Siggi]

The old dear lives up in Lincolnshire, 300 miles away, and it's pretty expensive to go visit her. I usually take the kids up two or three times a year and stay for a week or a weekend. My brother's up there too though, and due to visit me soon, so I'll try and get him to bring the stuff. I will, of course, scan the lot and disseminate it onto the web, where it'll be safer (amongst other considerations).

[UK_Widowmaker]

Strange thing...But Lincs always seems to be 300 miles away from anywhere!

[Siggi]

Strange thing...But Lincs always seems to be 300 miles away from anywhere!

 

In a 3.5 Shogun at £1.10 a liter it might as well be Siberia.