chatham docks easter weekend some pics

nervousnewowner · Postby **nervousnewowner** » 02 Apr 2013 09:07

just a few pics from the weekend......

Dave...

the project at birth, watch it evolve...I hope...

silverseven · Postby **silverseven** » 02 Apr 2013 09:23

great pics , thanks for sharing with us!

There were some fantastic cars over there, I like the camper in the background of one of the shots! Those late model Fords looked sharp too...
I really like your 3/4 shot of the Zodiacs !

Any details on this car? The coachwork is very interesting!

-btw , your TR7 looks very nice [8]

Ron.

Neil_W · Postby **Neil_W** » 02 Apr 2013 09:59

It is a Jensen CV8 - Plastic Body with American Engine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jensen_CV8

claypole1360 · Postby **claypole1360** » 02 Apr 2013 11:59

Great Pics, thanks, I found the submarine being supported by a couple of logs slightly amusing, a very un hi-tech approach to propping the hi-tech sub. Did "health and safety" dictate a couple of logs would suffice????
Clayps.

What's that coming over the hill? Is it a monster?

1978 TR7V8 FHC
1968 Bond Equipe Sprint Car
1962 Herald Coupe 1200
2003 Peugeot 206 GTI
2009 VW Passat

trickyx12000 · Postby **trickyx12000** » 02 Apr 2013 12:17

she's not that hi tech she was built in 1962...

claypole1360 · Postby **claypole1360** » 02 Apr 2013 12:23

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by trickyx12000

she's not that hi tech she was built in 1962...
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She'll be a damn sight more hi-tech than my 62 Herald Coupe although it too has an element of wood about it![:D]

What's that coming over the hill? Is it a monster?

1978 TR7V8 FHC
1968 Bond Equipe Sprint Car
1962 Herald Coupe 1200
2003 Peugeot 206 GTI
2009 VW Passat

Maxwell · Postby **Maxwell** » 02 Apr 2013 14:30

Hopefully, Dave can be persuaded to write the Report for TR-Driver.
Maybe 'A Welshman's Guide to Chatham Dockyard' or something.

Call it a well-earned bonus for driving all that way, just to stand around in the biting wind!

Maxwell [:D]

2.0 TR7 Drop head \ Maxwell \ sold
2.0 TR7 Fixed head \ Robyn \ sold
3.5 TR7 V8 Drop head \ Oliver \ sold

2.0 TR7 Fixed head \ Ben \ current
0.7 Smart Roadster \ Oscar \ current

Hasbeen · Postby **Hasbeen** » 02 Apr 2013 15:00

Great photos, & it shows up my memory. If someone had asked me, I would have said the TFs grill was flat. Amazing, when I owned one for a while. Looks like a great day, I thought you reckoned you never saw the sun over there. By the looks of the clothes, it must have been freezing though, sun & all.

I wonder who pinched the wheels off that big black one.

I think it is a sister ship to our Oberon class. If it is, that thing on the bow is an after market modification.

I should know, 4 of us fly boys who had just finished our carrier flying training at Scapa Flow took the chance when offered to come back to Oz on the Oberon delivery trip. I guess my memory of her is as bad as my memory of MGs.

Bloody awful thing. We were sorry even before we'd lost sight of pommy land.

Hasbeen

Maxwell · Postby **Maxwell** » 02 Apr 2013 15:12

Hasbeen - Re the grille, you may be correct about the one you had being flat. If I'm not mistaken there were very few of this particular model made - I think it had a 1500cc engine and were only made in LHD for the American market....

If you are really interested, I could find out more for you!

Maxwell. [8D]

2.0 TR7 Drop head \ Maxwell \ sold
2.0 TR7 Fixed head \ Robyn \ sold
3.5 TR7 V8 Drop head \ Oliver \ sold

2.0 TR7 Fixed head \ Ben \ current
0.7 Smart Roadster \ Oscar \ current

davesopener · Postby **davesopener** » 02 Apr 2013 15:31

Some great pics
Particularly that elegant rover p5

Ianftr8 · Postby **Ianftr8** » 02 Apr 2013 18:31

Great pics Dave - I forgot all about Chatham this weekend - have been for about the last ten years (apart from the ones that have been cancelled due to snow / rain or other typical British Easter Weather.

Did you get into the Ropeworks and meet Mr Peter?

Cheers
Ian

Ian Freeman
1979 TR8 DHC
Triumph Courier
Triumph owner for 31 years

Neil_W · Postby **Neil_W** » 02 Apr 2013 19:01

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Maxwell

Hasbeen - Re the grille, you may be correct about the one you had being flat. If I'm not mistaken there were very few of this particular model made - I think it had a 1500cc engine and were only made in LHD for the American market....

If you are really interested, I could find out more for you!

Maxwell. [8D]

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Is it not a Gentry Kit Car rep of the TF - reg is 1967 [?]

Maxwell · Postby **Maxwell** » 02 Apr 2013 19:11

Neil - Just had another look, and that car is down adjacent to the kit-cars, so you may well be correct about it's parentage. However, there was another, real MG-TF at the other end of the site near the helipad. That one had the 1500cc engine and was LHD US-Spec. I didn't manage to get a picture - Batteries had failed, possibly due to the cold!

Maxwell [8D]

2.0 TR7 Drop head \ Maxwell \ sold
2.0 TR7 Fixed head \ Robyn \ sold
3.5 TR7 V8 Drop head \ Oliver \ sold

2.0 TR7 Fixed head \ Ben \ current
0.7 Smart Roadster \ Oscar \ current

trickyx12000 · Postby **trickyx12000** » 02 Apr 2013 21:12

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">I think it is a sister ship to our Oberon class. If it is, that thing on the bow is an after market modification.
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well done ! HM/s Ocelot one of the Oberon class....
six used by the Australian navy.

The lump on the front is on all of them, its the sonar!

Oberon class must be the most preserved class....perhaps the museum class would be a better name
the ozzies have two on show Ovens, and Onslow. Otama is complete in need of restoration and even been put on ebay!! bits of Otway, Oxley and Orion are on show.
the British still have two, Ocelot in the picture and Onyx is in Barrow in Furness.
Otus is in Germany.
Onondaga and Ojibwa are on display in Canada.
and there is a further one on display in Brazil.
The oberon class takes it name from a WW2 boat that was also built at Chatham for operations in the far east. I believe only one was built.

The ozzies replaced the Oberon class with the Collins class which are still in service. All named after Australian naval heroes

The British replaced it with the Upholder class. then sold them to the Canada. recall the one in the news a few years ago having problems just after we sold it.

Upholder class took their name from the best decorated WW2 sub commanded by David Wanklyn, one VC and three DSO's who at the start of the war couldn't hit a thing and went on to be the Royal Navy's top Submarine ace.

rosey · Postby **rosey** » 02 Apr 2013 21:21

Nice pictures Dave, I wish it wasn't so far from Leicester as I would like to visit Chatham.

BTW
I am working with two ex-submariners and I asked them today if they were 'soap dodgers' or 'the great unwashed'

One admitted that he had been a soap dodger, the other denied on both counts of avoiding soap and water whilst submerged for long periods in non-nuclear subs.

I only admit to working in a coal mine for 20 odd years and enjoying the removal of the filth at the end of the shift. I can't imagine what it's like to be cooped up with other sweaty bodies for days on end[:D]

Dave

"Do or Do not, there is no try" - Yoda

1981 Purple Grinnal 2.0L
1980 TR7 Persian Aqua Drophead.
1977 TR7 4spd FHC Tahiti Blue

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