this bit made me lol

"The Jerrican which enabled the safe storage of fuel, and with its ease of pouring should have won a design award. Most of the 600,000 supplied to the forces were assembled at a factory in South Wales"

design award!

lad bunged a jerrycan off the back of a supply truck down to me and his wedding ring caught under the lid catch and gloved his finger right off leaving only the bone.

#boke

Posted By: Tombs on February 26th 2021 at 21:55:51

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today i learnt that an old derelict "farm building" at the edge of a nearby field (General Chat) - Tombs, Feb 26, 20:00:27
- Adam R agrees... (General Chat) - DrDublin, Feb 26, 21:06:57
  - 👍 (n/m) (General Chat) - Tombs, Feb 26, 21:59:16
  - Your Grumpah Dubs? (n/m) (General Chat) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Feb 26, 21:16:03
- The Lockheed factory in Burbank Calif. was completely camouflaged. (General Chat) - Augustus Pablo, Feb 26, 21:02:17
  - OMG thats nuts! (n/m) (General Chat) - shoddy, Feb 26, 21:46:36
  - Thats amazing.... (n/m) (General Chat) - promethian1, Feb 26, 21:06:46
  - I read something about a car factory in Coventry (Land Rover?) being (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Feb 26, 21:05:44
    - This might be a bit of it... (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Feb 26, 21:19:28
      - this bit made me lol (General Chat) - Tombs, Feb 26, 21:55:51
        
        ... (General Chat) - Chris Peacock, Feb 26, 22:00:15
        
        add in the sound fx (General Chat) - Tombs, Feb 26, 22:03:57
- Whereabouts ? (n/m) (General Chat) - Augustus Pablo, Feb 26, 20:59:53
  - here (General Chat) - Tombs, Feb 26, 21:42:50
  - Don’t tell him Pike (n/m) (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Feb 26, 21:01:20
- 👍 (n/m) (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Feb 26, 20:56:16
- A lot of that went on (General Chat) - Old Man, Feb 26, 20:46:24
  - turns out the ten bombing raids (General Chat) - Tombs, Feb 26, 20:54:46
- lovely. to be honest, some our planes were 'wooden frames and cloth' !!!! (n/m) (General Chat) - shoddy, Feb 26, 20:20:44
  - The Wellington bomber was wooden, a geodetic framework fuselage (n/m) (General Chat) - Augustus Pablo, Feb 26, 20:59:12
  - Mosquito was wooden I think, but it was fast. (n/m) (General Chat) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Feb 26, 20:27:41
  - that is very true indeed (n/m) (General Chat) - Tombs, Feb 26, 20:21:31
- Brilliant. (n/m) (General Chat) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Feb 26, 20:08:18
- The Ferry Inn Horning (General Chat) - KevinBond, Feb 26, 20:04:43
  - Matteus von Gibson (n/m) (General Chat) - Ken Dodds Dads Dog, Feb 26, 20:20:51
  - Herman of course. (n/m) (General Chat) - promethian1, Feb 26, 20:16:42
    - herman the german? (n/m) (General Chat) - Tombs, Feb 26, 20:17:18
      - So many Germans (n/m) (General Chat) - KevinBond, Feb 26, 20:23:21
- that's fantastic (n/m) (General Chat) - dr fanta, Feb 26, 20:03:12
  - it's brilliant (General Chat) - Tombs, Feb 26, 20:13:54
    - ah turns out the ops room was in fact a generator room (General Chat) - Tombs, Feb 26, 20:26:53
    - in the US it wiuld be designated a national monument (General Chat) - dr fanta, Feb 26, 20:26:19
      - definitely they would (General Chat) - Tombs, Feb 26, 20:31:44
        
        hang on a sec. My grandmother (deceased) remember the bastards bombing KL in the 1st War. (General Chat) - shoddy, Feb 26, 20:42:41

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