OneGuyFromBarlick

We always called them 'Brolly Bolts, because of the way they open up. If you are fixing a lot, you can get a sort of gun tool to expand them.

Looks like a rough cast block of soft metal, ready to be melted down and used, to me. White metal for bearing shells?

In my electronics workshop they get quite a bit of use. Wire threading, retrievers, and the small ones make very good heat shunts to prevent soldering iron heat damaging sensitive components

Well I can just about remember the aeroplane flying over Bolton Towing the 'Mum wants a Flatley' banner, though thanks to some 'duff gen' from my mum, I always thought they were washing machines. My first memory of actually fixing things is of helping to change the shear pin in Mum's Bendix washing ...

Wonderful picture, Stanley; thanks. Poor you with those *BAT guns; first round you fired made your position very clear to the enemy too. I didn't know about the lack of range finder - that must have been why they put the spotting rifle on the later models. Looks like Blackburn got a tank too - I was...

I remember my late father telling me that there was one in Queens Park in Bolton, but that it was taken away for scrap during WW2. The engine for the first tank was designed by Harry,(later Sir Harry), Ricardo. He later wrote the book 'The High Speed Internal Combustion Engine'. Ricardo Engineering ...