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Thursday July 31st was such a busy day. It started
with removing the 12 feet long aircraft box from the flatbed trailer, and
getting 'Jessie' loaded before heading off to Croft Circuit. Upon my return, I
drove the car to the farm where 'Faith' is kept, and brought the Dodge home.
With the Dodge across the bottom of the drive, the GPW and Jeep trailer were
pulled out of the garage.
The aircraft box was then winched into the garage and 'Hope' loaded onto the flatbed ready for Friday The now heavy trailer was then winched up to the top of the drive, leaving space for the tow car, now abandoned at the farm! The Jeep trailer was pushed to the top of the other side of the drive, and Dodge reversed up to it and connected, then most of the kit and camping gear were loaded. When Lynne came home from work, she then drove me to the farm so that I could bring back the tow car for the flatbed trailer. The first four pictures show some of the preparation to get to Croft and arrival and the unloaded GPW. Chris, who displayed his Dodge with us last year was meant to be joining us, but events conspired to stop him coming on Friday, so the planned display was rearranged with 'Jessie' parked where the Dodge would be. |
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Saturday's Display
This was the first time I'd brought all three vehicles to one event, but in addition I'd set up an engineers display for another friend who would be joining us. There was also the signal square with the Dodge, my dad's navigator's display, and my photo developing and target analysis display. The vehicles and tables, along with the tents, took about three hours to set up in the rain, excluding the items to be displayed which would be set up the following morning. |
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 Engineers Display |
 Navigator's Display |
 Target Photo Display |
 Hope & Jessie |
 Engineers Display |
 Dodge & Signal Square |
 Photo Jeep and Crew Bicycle |
 Navigator's Display |
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Chris turned up late afternoon on Saturday with his
Dodge and Ben Hur trailer, and after a brief but heavy rain shower, I moved
'Jessie' to the other side of the display and the Dodge was parked up on the
right. Chris was going to sleep in his trailer, but ended up in my 351st Sqdn
Engineering tent.
Sunday's Display |
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At the end of Sunday, when most people had packed up
and gone home, I parked up all three vehicles for the photo shoot I'd planned
for since April when the GPW became registered. The darker clouds had passed,
the Sun came out and the light was perfect for nice bright and colourful
photographs.
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| Very enjoyable weekend, but also a hard working weekend marshalling vehicles and photographing for the show site. Great fun, nice to meet up with some old friends and I finally got a photo of my vehicle fleet at anchor! | |||
