This is a present from my Grandson.. Car boot sale--Brilliant

Mike

Nice one Mike!

If that is the badge imagine the size of the tank!!!

Dave.

 

Yeah. I had considered casting another one then making a tank to take them as per "Goldie". To keep the perspective right it would need to be about 27" deep 45" long about 3' wide.

Thats about the size of a pre-war international Farmall Tractor tank.( Perhaps I'll see if I still have one in the barn?)

I bet she'd ride a bit top heavy and unbalanced.

Mike

If that is the badge imagine the size of the tank!!!

A bit like that pocket watch you got at the Ohio Valley BSAOC Summer Meet back  in 2006   

Hi Bryan,

Yes, I had a big pocket specially made for it.

Dave.

Here is the 'pocket watch'.  It is 19.5" in diameter and was a raffle prize.  Being on bikes we did not want to win any thing as it meant carrying it so we bought just one ticket thinking that we would not win. Sod's law prevailed so we won this clock - luckily someone had a van so it was taken back to the port where it was secured on the bike for shipping. The time it shows is just a few minutes after it was unplugged in 2006.  In anticipation of the clock being won by a European attendee the clock came with a spare motor for 240v so eventually we decided to put it on the wall.  Motor duly swapped and on plugging in the clock went for about 30 seconds before smoke stared to appear.  Not the motor as that was fine but the bits inside for the fluorescent light around the edge were still on US voltage hence the problem.  So it sits there a testimony to a time and place never to be forgotten.
One day we will return it to the Ohio Valley BSAOC as that is where it really belongs.   

Dave.