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Post by 43willys on Jan 7, 2009 18:16:26 GMT 12
I think its a 200 round box. im not sure if thats counting the rounds that would have been in the flexible belt between the gun and the box.
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Post by 43willys on Jan 5, 2009 21:17:10 GMT 12
Picked up this old Corsair ammo box and thought it would be nice to fill it with 50 cal ammo. first time it would have been filled in the last 60 years.
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Post by 43willys on Dec 15, 2008 16:31:48 GMT 12
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Post by 43willys on Dec 11, 2008 19:11:08 GMT 12
Cant remember much about it, i think it was owned by a couple of dudes who left it at Ardmore while they did a trip round Australia and NZ. someone else may know more.
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Post by 43willys on Dec 11, 2008 18:51:04 GMT 12
Thanks for the heads up on the Spitfire.
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Post by 43willys on Dec 11, 2008 18:47:24 GMT 12
Heres another shot of the same Corsair taken minutes before
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Post by 43willys on Dec 9, 2008 20:48:58 GMT 12
Here is a photo of the Zero and spitfire taken before they ended up at the Auckland Museum. not sure what year this was taken.
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Post by 43willys on Dec 8, 2008 20:13:05 GMT 12
couple of photos of OAA as it was being stripped of parts at Eagle Air Maintenance Hamilton before it was sold
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Post by 43willys on Dec 3, 2008 16:29:29 GMT 12
The liberator wing is probably the same one that was seen beside MOTAT's hangar at Ardmore as Barry East who worked for MOTAT at the time was a good friend of my fathers. alot of this stuff went to MOTAT, other bits and pieces went to people that needed it. The white practice bomb was more than likely smoke, i cant remember what happened to it, we may have even left it there in the swamp. these are a very common bomb and can be found at most gun shows for sale.
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Post by 43willys on Dec 2, 2008 17:22:55 GMT 12
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Post by 43willys on Dec 2, 2008 16:34:41 GMT 12
More of what you guys have been talking about The Hopuhopu swamp/lake use to be a military collectors dream. I have found 303's, Bren Gun parts, WW1 Machine gun, WW2 Machine guns, mines, grenades, tools, mortar bombs, artillery rounds but only one aircraft item. a small aircraft bomb. It is the white one sitting with the 3 inch mortar bombs.
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Post by 43willys on Dec 1, 2008 18:52:26 GMT 12
2 photos i took in the gully at Rukuhia one showing Corsair Blast tubes: The other showing part of a flare pistol being held and a 50 cal reciever even with a empty shell sitting in it.
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Post by 43willys on Dec 1, 2008 18:42:01 GMT 12
Finnaly figured out how to download my photos so will start sorting them out. Here are two taken down the back of Asplins in the mid 70's
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Post by 43willys on Dec 1, 2008 18:08:12 GMT 12
a reply to Bruce about the catalina parts and liberator wing: Just going over some of the old topics and saw something that caught my eye The Liberator wing was in a stockyard on the Te Awamutu Cambridge road and was dug out of the ground around 1976-7 also around the same time we picked up huge quantitys of Catalina parts around the Waikato
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Post by 43willys on Aug 27, 2008 20:36:15 GMT 12
Rang my mate to find out what the story was with the aircraft stuff in storey ave. There seems to be several storys of how the stuff got there. He tells me shortly after the war a barge was bought into Tauranga that had been in the islands and this was full of aircraft parts, and this stuff was sent to Hamilton and put out at storey ave.
Version 2: A barge came back from the islands full of trucks and aircraft parts and came in through the Waikato heads up to Hamilton were all this stuff was unloaded.
Version 3: It was parts dumped from Te Rapa air force base.
He tells me there were Kittyhawk and Corsair parts but he also found a zeros undercarige leg. Most of this stuff was pretty buggered and that was back in 1975/6.
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Post by 43willys on Aug 26, 2008 17:39:21 GMT 12
The photo of the Hudson is definetly at Asplins garage. i only live 2 miles down the road from there and have spent many hours mucking around in his sheds. When i was going there in the 70's, the fuselage was sitting around the back of one of his sheds with another Hudson fuselage next to it. they were both there up untill 1978. i remember trying to remove the gun sight that sits out in front of the cockpit (you can just make it out in the photo).
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Post by 43willys on Aug 26, 2008 17:28:41 GMT 12
The Remains of the two hudsons at Ruakura were buried in their rubbish dump. As for what was broken up in storey ave im not sure. i will have to ask a couple of my mates but i definently remember seeing remains of aircraft in the stream back in the 70's.
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Post by 43willys on Aug 14, 2008 19:52:03 GMT 12
There was also some aircraft wrecked in storey ave in Te Rapa. I have seen some parts laying in a stream there that runs through the backs of the sections. Not sure of the time period of when this happend. And also Ruakura Research station wrecked several Hudsons for parts.
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Post by 43willys on Aug 9, 2008 23:15:18 GMT 12
Great to see people talking about the Rukahia Scrapyards, this is something that most of the younger generation living around the Waikato will never know about. In the early 1970's as a teenager i spent many hours in the gully at Mystery Creek and found many interesting parts. it looked like most of the stuff that was thrown into the gully which is right were the photograph is marked was the stuff that did not melt in the pot so there were alot of steel parts, crankshafts, propellor hubs etc. it also looked like that dirt had been pushed on top of it all. some of the other interesting bits that i found were corsair flaps and a very nice kittyhawk spinner. I also saw the bones of a 50 cal wing gun, the back end of a tigermoth and parts of a army indian motorbike. we did take a metal detector down there once but the thing went mad because there was so many little bits and pieces in the ground. Also spent many hours at Asplins Garage around the same time. at that time i remember seeing maybe 5 or 6 Havard airframes, the centre section of a corsair, 2 Hudson Fuselages and Kittyhawk wing parts. these were the biggest bits in the yard. All the small bits that were worth something were kept in the service station for sale. He also had a large wooden shed which was shelved from floor to ceiling and was so full of parts it wasn't funny. alot of the shelves had collapsed and parts had fallen onto the floor and scattered most of the way down the isles. Down his drive and behind the house there were huge piles of aircraft components with blackberry growing through it. most of the stuff outside eventually went to scrap yards in Hamilton. Somewhere i do have photographs of some of this stuff and will try to find them sometime.
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