An interesting bit of gosip

[TS]

Last night a friend of mine who is very active with Mainline Steam in AKL. Told me that when they moved their large unrestored locos to the Mercer rail siding, there where also three containers on wagons sitting there. Apparently they were all filled with aircraft parts...

What happened to the three containers know body knows. They have CCTV footage of them being taken away at night from the siding but they have vanished into thin air.
So, what the aircraft parts where I don't know, if anybody knows or can help to locate these containers would be great.

I hope that the parts what ever they are, are safe and do not end up in a tip...

[Bruce]

I'm good mates with the owner of the containers of stuff, and I won't name him since he doesn't like public attention, but he is pretty devastated by the loss of a lifetime's collection of potentially useable, and in some cases very rare, components. Parts included a large stock of vintage small Continental engines (C-65, C-90 etc) if you see such stuff around, its not stuff that would normally be seen in NZ aviation circles, so let the Police know.

[FlyingKiwi]

Seems bizarre to steal something that would be so conspicuous if it comes up for sale. But stealing three containers of aircraft parts wouldn't exactly be a small job, surely someone must know/have seen something?

[Bruce]

Sept 17, 2020 20:06:46 GMT 12 FlyingKiwi said:

Seems bizarre to steal something that would be so conspicuous if it comes up for sale. But stealing three containers of aircraft parts wouldn't exactly be a small job, surely someone must know/have seen something?

Indeed! seems bizarre, but they could even identify the trucking company, but enquiries got nowhere, because "there wasnt anything in the log books"!!! The suspicion is the containers themselves were the target, for sale to either lifestyle block owners, or to the Pacific Islands, and the items secured inside were just incidental (and therefore likely to be dumped... )