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4 hours later he seems to have moved to 8 o'clock?
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4 hours later he seems to have moved to 8 o'clock?
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OP said from the centre, not from the right
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You'd be looking a bit 'fatigued' if you'd been hurtling through the air at 100s of mph.
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My grandfather, First world war in Palestine, Rolls Royce converted to an ambulance, Second from the left front row.
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Spain’s civil war?
I have a few bits from Francos side and they look similar
@Bullet2012 thats cool. Mines 81deg and 60 years later
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Give the man a Cigar!
Initially Chetniks, later Royal Yugoslav Army. The triangle on his uniform is the equivalent of the MP's gorget. The top one is is him as an MP in the Naples camp at war's end.
Yes. The Cowdenbeath Colliery was placed on 'care and maintenance in 1943. It was made a training site for Bevan Boys in 1944.
In 1947 it was used as a training site for European Voluntary Workers. The training was 6 weeks. My father was in the third cohort.
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I have recently read Fitzroy MacLean' s book Eastern Approaches that covers the situation in Balkans during WW2, the photos in it pointed me in the Yugoslav direction.
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That book is not badly distorted by post-war 're-interpretation' of history compared to most.
My father was fortunate to get to Naples early in the retreat and avoided the Klagenfurt 'repatriations' and subsequent massacres at the hands of Broz's 'partisans'.
But let's not go down the route of politics and get the thread locked!
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Just don't get me started.
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My great grandfather's elder brother Stephen Smith 1819 to 1885. Photographed: Tichborne, Hants 1865.
He was a thatcher, hurdle maker, village post master and church warden of St Andrew's church. My great grandfather was 18 months his junior, I have a photograph of him and my great grandmother but its quality is very poor.
All my grandparents were born in the 1860's and were deceased a number of years prior to my birth. The curse of being born late in one's parent's lives and they late in theirs.
He was a thatcher, hurdle maker, village post master and church warden of St Andrew's church. My great grandfather was 18 months his junior, I have a photograph of him and my great grandmother but its quality is very poor.
All my grandparents were born in the 1860's and were deceased a number of years prior to my birth. The curse of being born late in one's parent's lives and they late in theirs.
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Found this one of my now departed mom from about 1955 in a book and did some digital restoration on it and added colour, quite a nice find and the young girl in the picture is soon to be 70, it really does make me respect how pictures freeze a moment in time.
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Nice pic, looks like a special day, a birthday or something?
P.S. colour resto is perfect
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My Mum with her Cyclemaster on which she would commute around ten miles a day to her work as a seamstress in rural East Yorkshire, mid 1950's (?)
Unfortunately I don't have the original print only this phone pic copy of it sent to me by a relative.
Here she is stood with one of my Dad's cars, I am guessing at a similar time.
Bridlington harbour (?) similar time.
These are scans from a set of 21/4 x 31/4 or 6x9 cm negatives I found clearing Dad's house along with a couple of folding cameras, one of which could have taken this photograph.
Unfortunately I don't have the original print only this phone pic copy of it sent to me by a relative.
Here she is stood with one of my Dad's cars, I am guessing at a similar time.
Bridlington harbour (?) similar time.
These are scans from a set of 21/4 x 31/4 or 6x9 cm negatives I found clearing Dad's house along with a couple of folding cameras, one of which could have taken this photograph.
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I must be losing it, I did know my maternal Grandmother - still, 1 out of 4 isn't very good.Interesting, from the stack of gaskets, spare parts and special drifts, was it either a manufacturer of gearboxes or a reconditioning shop?
Not sure but I could find out. Might even have been Rover / Jaguar etc but yes, the gearbox on the bench suggests it was a firm who did that. Trying to make out what type of box it is though, none that I've seen before.
Edit, it was The Moss Gear Company, 45 Church Street, Birmingham, B3 2RT. Now long gone sadly.
From here https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Moss_Gear_Co
Crown Works, Tyburn, Birmingham 24. Telephone: Erdington 1661/23/4. Telegraphic Address: "Mosgear, Birmingham". (1937)
1910 Company founded. The company was formed under it's original name of Moss Gear Co by the Dukitt (Duckett?) family in Aston, West Midlands. They named the company Moss Gear, as the 'family originated from Moss Side', Yorkshire. The company started by manufacturing Spiral Bevel gears and Gearboxes for the developing car and motorcycle industry.
1920 The company expanded its product range to include the production of Industrial Gearboxes.
1935 Public company.
1937 British Industries Fair Advert for Efficient and Compact Units for every Industrial Transmission. Machine Cut Gears, Industrial Gear Units, Automobile components, Traction Gears, Camshafts, Geared Motors, Deep-well Pumps, Universal Joints, Diesel Gears, Stoker Gearboxes, chain Wheels, Aircraft Gears and Components, Geared Pumps. (Engineering/Metals/Quarry, Roads and Mining/Transport Section - Stand No. D.520)
1937 Gears and gear units.
1938 Moss Gear employed over 2,000 employees and relocated production to Tyburn. The company expanded it's product range again to include Prop Shafts, Gear Couplings, Agricultural axles and mechanics joints.
1940 The company was taken over temporarily by the British Ministry Of Defence for the duration of the Second World War. The production is switched to the transmission for tanks and other military vehicles.
1940 Advert for gears and gear units. [1]
1940s Advert for Moss Gears, Hypoid Rear Axles.
1945 Advert for industrial gearing.
1946 Introduced the Merlift fork lift truck which was distributed by Mercury Truck and Tractor Co of Gloucester.[2]
1949 Production reverted to civilian applications such as gearboxes for companies such as Jensen, Morgan Motor Co and Jaguar.
1961 Manufacturers of automobile, industrial and aircraft gears. Also produce component parts of internal combustion engines, complete front and rear axles, propeller shafts, universal joints, industrial geared units, couplings and other parts for light and heavy motor cars and road haulage vehicles. 1,000 employees. [3]
1963 Motor Show exhibitor. Gear box and components. [4]
1966 The Tyburn factory closed and production was split between Merthyr Tydvil in Wales, and Accrington in the North West of England. The Accrington factory concentrated mainly on gearboxes, forklift truck and commercial vehicle axles.
1982 Due to restructuring at Moss Gear, there was a management buy-out of the Accrington division. The newly formed company, F. P. W. Axles, was named after the management team: Basil Fone, Frank Pickles and Len Wilson. F.P.W. Axles consolidated the product range to allow the specialisation of axle production.
1983 January - Moss Gears of Methyr Tydfil, went into receivership following troubles in its parent graoup Moss Engineering. £280,000 was put up by the Welsh Development Agency and £150,000 by businessmen including former management of the company. The managing director of the new company was Colin Mason.[5]
1983 Axle manufacturing rights of British Leyland's Light Axle Division purchased in order to complement the existing product range.
1995 Woodfield Engineering Co was purchased to further increase manufacturing capacity and product diversity.
Edit, it was The Moss Gear Company, 45 Church Street, Birmingham, B3 2RT. Now long gone sadly.
From here https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Moss_Gear_Co
Crown Works, Tyburn, Birmingham 24. Telephone: Erdington 1661/23/4. Telegraphic Address: "Mosgear, Birmingham". (1937)
1910 Company founded. The company was formed under it's original name of Moss Gear Co by the Dukitt (Duckett?) family in Aston, West Midlands. They named the company Moss Gear, as the 'family originated from Moss Side', Yorkshire. The company started by manufacturing Spiral Bevel gears and Gearboxes for the developing car and motorcycle industry.
1920 The company expanded its product range to include the production of Industrial Gearboxes.
1935 Public company.
1937 British Industries Fair Advert for Efficient and Compact Units for every Industrial Transmission. Machine Cut Gears, Industrial Gear Units, Automobile components, Traction Gears, Camshafts, Geared Motors, Deep-well Pumps, Universal Joints, Diesel Gears, Stoker Gearboxes, chain Wheels, Aircraft Gears and Components, Geared Pumps. (Engineering/Metals/Quarry, Roads and Mining/Transport Section - Stand No. D.520)
1937 Gears and gear units.
1938 Moss Gear employed over 2,000 employees and relocated production to Tyburn. The company expanded it's product range again to include Prop Shafts, Gear Couplings, Agricultural axles and mechanics joints.
1940 The company was taken over temporarily by the British Ministry Of Defence for the duration of the Second World War. The production is switched to the transmission for tanks and other military vehicles.
1940 Advert for gears and gear units. [1]
1940s Advert for Moss Gears, Hypoid Rear Axles.
1945 Advert for industrial gearing.
1946 Introduced the Merlift fork lift truck which was distributed by Mercury Truck and Tractor Co of Gloucester.[2]
1949 Production reverted to civilian applications such as gearboxes for companies such as Jensen, Morgan Motor Co and Jaguar.
1961 Manufacturers of automobile, industrial and aircraft gears. Also produce component parts of internal combustion engines, complete front and rear axles, propeller shafts, universal joints, industrial geared units, couplings and other parts for light and heavy motor cars and road haulage vehicles. 1,000 employees. [3]
1963 Motor Show exhibitor. Gear box and components. [4]
1966 The Tyburn factory closed and production was split between Merthyr Tydvil in Wales, and Accrington in the North West of England. The Accrington factory concentrated mainly on gearboxes, forklift truck and commercial vehicle axles.
1982 Due to restructuring at Moss Gear, there was a management buy-out of the Accrington division. The newly formed company, F. P. W. Axles, was named after the management team: Basil Fone, Frank Pickles and Len Wilson. F.P.W. Axles consolidated the product range to allow the specialisation of axle production.
1983 January - Moss Gears of Methyr Tydfil, went into receivership following troubles in its parent graoup Moss Engineering. £280,000 was put up by the Welsh Development Agency and £150,000 by businessmen including former management of the company. The managing director of the new company was Colin Mason.[5]
1983 Axle manufacturing rights of British Leyland's Light Axle Division purchased in order to complement the existing product range.
1995 Woodfield Engineering Co was purchased to further increase manufacturing capacity and product diversity.
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Oldest I can find is my Great great paternal Grandparents, taken around the turn of the last century.
My family had a lot of involvement with scouting, the row sitting had my dad on the left and 2 of my aunts in green uniforms.
My uncle receiving the Queens scout award.
My dad when he joined the Navy in WW2
My uncle was in the Royal Engineers, one of the last out of Dunkirk and one of the first back in on D day.
My family had a lot of involvement with scouting, the row sitting had my dad on the left and 2 of my aunts in green uniforms.
My uncle receiving the Queens scout award.
My dad when he joined the Navy in WW2
My uncle was in the Royal Engineers, one of the last out of Dunkirk and one of the first back in on D day.
