Gentlemen,
I have just spent four excellent days at IF playing with engines etc, the lads managed to get the Pelapone up and running with the aid of a Petter air-cooled diesel and a forklift truck :-)), the BIG Ruston is one puff away from starting and with a little bit of fettling will be running very soon. There was only one little problem with the weekend, it was bloody freezing and apart from I think four of us the rest were dropping like flies with a collective bug. I delivered a load of oil and a telephone exchange for Paul using Peter Forbes trailer. when I had loaded the van full of stuff I noticed to flats on both rear tyres so took the van to have the pressures checked only to find they were correct. took it steady as did not want to draw attention as I may have been a tad over weight. Dan Howden and myself took a ride into Cardigan to fetch our tea Friday night in his newly acquired van and got pulled by the local police for driving a possible stolen vehicle, after a game of twenty questions which Dan one on every point we left a satisfied constable who new more about Dan than Dan did to go about our business. There again two men in overalls and woolly hats on a dark night he must have thought he was on a winner :-))
Martin P