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In 1967, the City of London was looking for someone to buy a dismantled London Bridge. American entrepreneur Robert Paxton McCulloch placed the winning bid of £1.02 million ($2.4 million at the time) on 18 April 1968. Each of the bridge’s 10,276 exterior granite blocks were numbered and then...

Float them in some fuel and look at the differing 'plimsol lines' then try leaving them on the window sill for week or two to see if they 'dry out'

Don't open up the channel and try and 'crimp' it back on the glass. I did that, but only once.😩

It was hot at the weekend - that won't have helped, my oil light was flickering at a (very low) tickover too.

Agreed.. but it's more of a pita if you have twin carbs to manoeuvre the motor out of the bay plus you need a smooth flat surface to roll out the engine and a decent trolley jack and ideally a 'cradle'of some kind between the jack and the engine.. ..saying that it's hardly like working on a...

Ha ha seems to have worked! Bonza!! Thanks!!! As luck would have it I also found another 30a dynamo in the spares shed too. Time to do the lottery?

Also here for someone like me who needs explicit guidance..

Thanks, I'll give that a try and report back..

Having a few issues getting the van back up after 4-5 years 'resting'.. New fuels lines filter and pump and now she runs.. but I noticed gen light stays on.. Drat! Brushes look good and the failure seems quite abrupt. DVM measures only about 4.5 V on the AC scale, but it it even an AC output...

Aye - that's the one. The slope means no caravans except a few at the bottom. Idyllic place and nice old chap that runs it - will have to revisit soon.

Awnings - I have a Raclet, French, also make stuff for French Army, top quality bought s/h from ebay and probably NLA mostly make trailer tents nowadays.

I love that part of Dorset - which site was that? Although I think I might know..

NIce solid looking van, can't be that far off the money, problem with advertising on here - most people have already got one you see. Try elsewhere too then knock back the price. Be aware that you don't often get your investment back - if Wheeler Dealers included an hourly rate they'd lose on...

Yeah, the fact it's not been taxed for 30 years is the clincher for me. There's a slim chance that someone has it stuffed in the back of a shed/barn somewhere, but that someone probably doesn't visit here..

I expect it will have been scrapped. Lots were at the end of their economic life in the early mid 90s and no-one saw any value in them. I picked up mine in 1995/6 for 750 quid as it had a blown motor and even at 800 for an engine swap folk thought it was not worth it. Different story now of...