Spotted today.

[les]

Not any more!

[palacebear]

617 Dambuster squadron, so perhaps some family relation of "Bomber" Harris?

...or relatives of W/Cdr Guy Gibson, VC (Sqdn Ldr of 617 on 'Dambusters raid), or W/Cdr Leonard Cheshire, founder of The Cheshire Homes and another former Sqdn Ldr of 617). 617 squadron is still operational currently based at RAF Lossiemouth, so many possibilities.

[SteveClem]

Dambusters fans would enjoy visiting the Derwent reservoir in Derbyshire, where they practiced the bouncing bomb thing. It's also a beautiful location.

[POMMReg]

Should have used a bouncing Thatcher, that knackered up OUR manufacturing industry!

[SteveClem]

Think it was the '70's unions did that. Thatcherism was a response.
All about pendulums swinging from one extreme to the other?

[POMMReg]

Think it was the '70's unions did that. Thatcherism was a response.
All about pendulums swinging from one extreme to the other?

40yrs hence, mass unemployment, poverty, food banks, NHS & the economy up a certain creek, is this progress?

[jagnut66]

Saw couple of days ago a silver euro box in Andover with the registration of 617 DAM. I feel that's a bit in bad taste - am I alone?
Regards, MikeN.

I'd like to clarify why this poster thinks 617 DAM is bad taste??

I for one am proud of my countries history and what it has achieved in the past and will apologise for it to no one!
I am proud that my father and grandfather fought in both world wars for their country, to keep future generations free.
World war is a terrible thing but it is just that and our country did what was necessary to survive and win, no apologies!!
The Nazis got what they deserved, to (slightly mis-) quote the much maligned Air Marshall Sir Arthur 'Bomber' Harris, they sowed the wind and reaped the whirlwind!!
People conveniently forget that the whole of the German people, of that generation, with only a few exceptions, were behind Hitler and they had to be defeated and then shown what he really stood for, before they could be reasoned with.

No Apologies!!

Best wishes,
Mike.

[BrianHawley]

Saw couple of days ago a silver euro box in Andover with the registration of 617 DAM. I feel that's a bit in bad taste - am I alone?
Regards, MikeN.

Don't mention the war

[palacebear]

Don't mention the war

I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it

[jagnut66]

Sadly these days you'll get away with mentioning the war far more than mentioning you're English and proud of it....................
With our OTT politically correct liberal elite in power anyway, along with their indoctrinated youth.......
Just look at the left wing demos in London every time they don't get their way, how very democratic......
I sadly wonder why my father / grandfather bothered at times, what was all the sacrifice for??
When to say I'm proud to be English will just get me called a racist bigot and immigrants wander the streets goading me on the way to work telling me they're taking over and 'go home English', in my own country, I despair for the future.......................

[MikeNash]

Eh??? Wot???
Sorry to have wound you up, Jagnutt. Having spent my working life on weapons & targets, gaming future wars and for a spell crawling around inside dead Iraqi tanks measuring the damage when the crew was in the ashes on the floor, I'm on your side regarding patriotism!
My point re the registration 617 DAM was that it seemed akin to someone faking a medal and wearing it in public. As a shy and callow youth at the end of the 50s I worked with people who'd worked and fought in WW2 (inc an old RFC fellow who'd worked on FIDO, see here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fog_Inves ... _Operation and on YouTube and Tilly Shilling, see here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_Shilling). Us youngsters felt we worked among "heroes" and to see such a registration worn just as a sort of trophy seems unfitting. But perhaps I'm just old!!

Lets get back to Morrises!! Regards, MikeN.

[jagnut66]

My point re the registration 617 DAM was that it seemed akin to someone faking a medal and wearing it in public.

to see such a registration worn just as a sort of trophy seems unfitting.

Fair enough, I got the impression from the comment that you meant it as a PC comment on how un-PC the bombing of Germany, during a world war, was.............
Sadly there are plenty out there who think they know better than the 'older generation' and everybody else in general and who also think we need to be instructed how we should think, hence the indoctrinated youth comment. I've met plenty of those types (and plenty of the 'indoctrinated youth'), Milton Keynes and London are full of them for example.

However in the case of your comment, now explained, I stand corrected. As you say, back to Morris Minors..................
Best wishes,
Mike.

[palacebear]

Moving back to Minors, but at the same time not entirely unrelated to military matters....
Spotted today at the Stourport-on-Severn Vintage Steam Rally and Country Show....

On the rally field - 1957 Clarendon Grey Minor 1000 4-door - very nice looking.
In the car-park - very late Traveller complete with ignition switch/steering lock.
Overhead - Avro Lancaster bomber; made three passes above the field.

[palacebear]

Must have appeared here before but spotted this evening on an episide of Marple from 2010, entitled The Blue Geranium: Green S.II Traveller registered FUF49

[IaininTenbury]

Moving back to Minors, but at the same time not entirely unrelated to military matters....
Spotted today at the Stourport-on-Severn Vintage Steam Rally and Country Show....

On the rally field - 1957 Clarendon Grey Minor 1000 4-door - very nice looking.
In the car-park - very late Traveller complete with ignition switch/steering lock.
Overhead - Avro Lancaster bomber; made three passes above the field.

I was at Stourport Steam Fair all weekend - not in a Minor though, sat behind the stall with Land Rover and classic caravan... (Local do - rude not to go!) I know the late blue traveller in the car park very well, and there were quite a few on the showground over the weekend. Two more Teal blue travellers (very popular motors round here obviously!), early 1000 birch grey trav with trafficators, pickup with tilt and a yellow GPO van on Sun only... Never saw the grey 4door, which was odd as most of the exhibitor entries came in past our stall. Was great to watch whilst having breakfast!
A good weekend, though attendance was quieter than previous years, both exhibits and public, I thought. Lancaster flypast was brilliant though

[palacebear]

If I'd known you were there I'd have said hello. Being fairly new to the region I didn't know about the show until a couple days before so just went on the Saturday for a few hours. Summer isn't summer without a quick fix of road locomotives, and a big bag of fudge from the sweetie stall !!

[palacebear]

Spotted this morning travelling near Wolverley. OJG**F. Nice convertible in Almond Green with beige hood.

[morris van]

I saw a red f reg pick up parked at the garden centre in Prestwood this afternoon.

[myoldjalopy]

Nice blue convertible with a cream roof, and a shabby pale blue saloon seen in Truro yesterday. Sightings more frequent in summer!

[ColinChandler]

Just back from a week in the Isle of Wight. A lovely place as those who live there will already know. Anyway, saw these (with camera handy) and quite a few others (when I didn't.)
Best wishes, Colin.