"...ther is some corner of a foreign field..."

[MooN]

on a run around picking up some bits for work by bike on wednesday I came across these to old ladies in the back yard of one of our suppliers

Austin FX3! London taxis built by BMC from '48 to '58  WTF? 

made me instantly think of that war poet Rupert Brook  (?) who wrote in the 1st war I think

" If I should die, think only this of me, that ther is,

 some corner of a foreign field

that is forever England.

There shall be, in that rich earth

a richer dust concealed..."

 

 I can't remember how the rest goes, you;ll have to look it up. it must be a good 30 years since a learned it at school... 

[XTreme]

Damn! Those are rare!

Any idea what they're doing there?

[MooN]

9 minutes ago, XTreme said:

Damn! Those are rare!

Any idea what they're doing there?

yup. 

the bloke that used to own the company that supplies a lot of marine parts for inland waterways boats in europe, was an officianado of these machines and a rabid specialist in all things Austin or BMC ( we used to have a load of old BMC tempest engines in our boats) he's had these two for at least 25 years, if not more and he'd planned to do them up once he retired... usual story, though he's restored engines and old cars all his life for other people, he just never got round to doing these two into one for himself, he's still there, but too old to do anything with them. Shame really cos his son has taken on the business but is not a fanatic like his dad and will never do anything with them.