In article <"03E2E3ADD6BA301E*/c=us/admd= /prmd=Cat/o=NOTES/s=Gosling/g
=Richard/i=B/"@MHS>, Richard B Gosling <Gosling_Richard_B@perkins.com>
writes
>
>Mike,
>
>Blimey, you have been busy!
You're not kidding!
> BTW, if you are paying anyone 35 quid per hour to
> work on Carly you are paying too much,
Kevin charges posh customers with posh cars GBP35 an hour (i.e. that is
his official rate). I reckon he charges me somewhere between GBP15 and
GBP20...
> TRGB charge 25 per hour and they know
> Spitfires much better than your local garage. Only problem is they tend to be
> booked up for a while in advance.
They also probably won't stay working on Carly until 11.00 at night
until the problem is sorted, if I need her first thing the following
morning.
>
>Moss list the map light, part no. UKC3946 for the complete assembly. However,
> it is not present in the price list, a good indication that they neither have
> it nor are likely to any time soon - but at least you know the part number
> now!
Thanks for that - much obliged.
>
>Your best bet for much of these obsolete parts is probably Spitfire
> dismantlers. The Spitfire Graveyard is by far the biggest that I am aware of,
> so they may be your best bet. TRGB dismantle less cars, but are closer.
> Manvers Triumph in Elmswell (in Suffolk, just beyond Bury St. Edmunds) also do
> some dismantling. Call around, I would suggest! Let me know if you need
> contact details for any of these.
When I get back from the Black Sea, I'll drop you an e-mail, and we can
arrange to meet up, and go and scour TRGB's parts graveyard together.
I'm also told that there is a major Spitfire dismantler somewhere down
on the A5 near Leighton Buzzard (GB Cars?) - maybe the following weekend
you could come over to Bedford, and we could convoy to them?
ATB
Mike
--
Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in the Crimea,"
published by Greenhill Books on 28th March, 2001:
http://www.greenhillbooks.com/booksheets/eyewitness_in_the_crimea.html
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