Wanted: Looking for Marsden Matting

[Mike Timoshyk]

Anyone know of a couple of pieces of Marsden Matting available?

I need two 5 or 6 foot lengths.

PM or email.....

Thanks

Mike Timoshyk in Sunny Windsor

[sth65pac]

Hi Tim,

its struggle to get ONE piece here. I know of a pristine length near my house, It has hung on a fence for all of my days on this earth...I have asked the owners about it. Even wrote a letter... No response. It is getting hard to come by here in Aust, when I was in the Navy 20 years ago, there was a lot of it, It was used extensively around the airfield where I was posted.....today its allllllllllllll gone. As the Bl**Dy scrappers have taken it all. Good luck, I would also name it Perforated Steel Planking as some may not know it as Marsden Matting.

Ian

[gjamo]

This place looks promising.

http://www.calumetindustries.com/index.php

[Mike Timoshyk]

Originally Posted by gjamo

This place looks promising.

http://www.calumetindustries.com/index.php

Oh Oh....this is a Baaaaaddddd site....

cheers and thanks...

Mike Timoshyk

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Mike Timoshyk

Oh Oh....this is a Baaaaaddddd site....

cheers and thanks...

Mike Timoshyk

Oooooooooooooo......... real PSP matting!!!

[Mike Timoshyk]

Oh NO!!!!! Now I've gone and dunit.......

I've asked for a quote...will let you know how it fares out for those who indicated an interest in some off line.

cheers

Mike Timoshyk

[Snowy]

Very interesting. For their page on PSP matting, their description is almost identical to two of the paragraphs I contributed to the Wikipedia entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marston_mats

Steve.

[sapper740]

Originally Posted by gjamo

This place looks promising.

http://www.calumetindustries.com/index.php

Thanks for the link, I've been looking for a source of Marsden matting so I can hang a couple of lengths from my CMP and there they are, practically in my back yard! Calumet ia about a 3 hour drive from my house in Corinth, Texas. I'll post pics when I've picked some up. Thanks again! Derek.

[bill m]

Hello group,
How easy or difficult is it to obtain Marsden matting? I am moving in a few weeks and would like some for my workshop.
I have seen it in the recent photos of the Truscott airbase but that is a little out of the way and illegal to remove! I am sounding out at the moment as to the feasibility of acquisition.
I am based in Melbourne Victoria.
cheers
Bill.

[Mike Kelly]

Bill

I have seen some of it . Farmers used it . I once spotted some along a fence . One reason it's so scarce is: after the war scrappies went up to the islands and removed litterally tons of it .

In the Solomons , all of the well engineered wartime bridges were torn down by scrappies and sold , instead of leaving them in situ for the locals to use . A friend of mine in his collection has a catalogue printed by a company around 1947 , a sale of items on offer on a island near New Guinea . This mob had bought the whole islands WW2 surplus , airfields , the lot . They even chartered a ship and took potential buyers up to look over the goodies

[Bob McNeill]

How much are you after ?? .

[Stuart Kirkham]

G'day Bill

I recently bought 8 lengths off an old retired concreting guy who had them stash in his back yard.

These six mats are currently sitting on a building site here in Perth. They are used by the builder to prevent vehicles getting bogged onsite.

[Local Chap]

Seems you can still buy it new/surplus from the States.

[Robin Craig]

I have 2 sections of 10 feet a piece of steel PSP for sale.

If you are interested please contact me by EMAIL.

Delivery by myself possible within the Ottawa to Toronto corridor.

I will go out and take some pictures in the coming days.

Robin