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Old 29-11-11, 22:17
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Default Made on a special day

While dismantling an Austin lorry engine for a rebuild today, I spotted something significant. The casting date shows it as 6th June 1944, by the Austin Foundry. This proves one thing for sure, that this engine did not power a vehicle up the beach on D-Day
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