Whilst at this camp at Amphitheatre a fellow VMVC member indicated a desire to obtain a junior cooker. He also told me he picked up some surplus items years ago at an army auction and amongst the lots was a couple of heavy tanks in crates which he never knew what they were. Someone later told him they were new Wiles steam boilers. We struck a deal that there was enough to rebuild both cookers but there would be a fiar bit of work involved in rebuilding the first one. As he is an engineer that would not be too difficult. He had had the boilers for so long that the crates had rotted away.
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