2 Mystery headgear seeking identification?

[Grant Bowker]

Originally Posted by derk derin

But how the hell am I going to get it into the basement?

Dig down and put a second level of basement under the house? It all depends on being high enough above the water table and flood plain that the added "below waterline" space doesn't float you away in the spring floods.

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Grant Bowker

Dig down and put a second level of basement under the house? It all depends on being high enough above the water table and flood plain that the added "below waterline" space doesn't float you away in the spring floods.

With all that talk of water this thread will surely drift off to PT boats or landing craft.

But back to Ansons. Here's the original British and Canadian wood one I made models of decades ago and can't bring myself to end their lives with firecrackers like I used to.

[Bob Phillips]

When I was a kid a local farmer had a hulk in the corner of a field and we boys would visit it for some imaginative play or to cut off bits for home built go carts etc. They were quite common around the country side. I have a friend who has several stashed in trailers waiting to win the lottery so he can proceed with restoration. Some were fitted with English Cheetah engines which rotated CW, which is opposite to North American engines. Many of the single blade props you find in antique shops are ex Anson. Most of these came from the Ernie Simmons sale -some 30 engines and 100 propellers, in 1970. If you have never read this story google " The Ernie Simmons Story - Spitfire Emporium". You will enjoy the story and photos. Sorry we are a little off topic again.