I'd like to post LOUDLY and PUBLICLY that a small packet arrived from the UK yesterday.
It has travelled far, coming from Winchester by Royal Mail to Ottawa and then forwarded by Canada Post to the snowy Annapolis Valley in Nova Scotia (I'm on temporary duty in Aldershot (the Canadian one not the UK one its named after) teaching on the international Junior Command and Staff Course).
For those who have followed this thread, Richard Notten (known to us as FV623) was kind enough to dig out three desperately needed diaphragms for a B81 engine carburettor and ship them to Canada.
Typically, there was no fanfare and no request for compensation. MLUers are a grand bunch!
Thank you, Richard. I hope to make it to Beltring this summer and I shall find an opportunity to meet up with you there or, as they say in Quebec, 'chez vous', to say thanks in person and to hand deliver some maple syrup from my neighbour's sugar bush.
The diaphragms are on their way back to Ottawa where Ken is looking forward to fitting them to the carburettor. His wife tells me that he already has it apart on the kitchen table... she must love him!:love:
and thanks!
Mike