Some of you may have read it in the "Windsor- thread" allready; "Liberty parc", the former "War and Resistance museum in Overloon", the Netherlands has given their group of volunteer-restorers permission to restore the Conger carrier and put it on display indoors.
After reading this thread the museum contacted me to ask if I could help them with the restoration and mainly to find information necessary for this restoration.
During the 70’s the Overloon Conger was covered with a sheet metal roof, because of its outside display and sadly some of the specific Conger features have also disappeared since. Recently the Nitro-glycerine tank has been found in the museums storage, which was a relief. But some other parts will need to be reproduced. In some weeks we are going to remove the temporary roof and have a good look inside, to see which features have been preserved inside and which information we can get from the remains.
But to make accurate reproduction possible, we are trying to find every bit of information there is around about the Conger.
We are looking for Technical information, period pictures, measurements, background history, but also pictures from the Overloon-Conger before it was coverd with sheet metal (like the pictures John Bom posted).
Has anyone got more information about the Conger, that could be helfull for our restoration?
Intention is to restore the Conger to a static display, but the real challenge is to reach a satifying result within the museum budget.
Regards,
Alex van de Wetering, The Netherlands
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