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    Default Project thread from 70 years ago (definately not a car )

    Has anyone not seen the Great Escape film ? (yes, the film was on again this week)

    Have you ever wondered where all the equipment came from ?
    Following the escape, the Germans took an inventory of the camp and found out what was missing.
    Four thousand bed boards had gone missing, The complete disappearance of 90 double bunk beds, 635 mattresses, 192 bed covers, 161 pillow cases, 52 20-man tables, 10 single tables, 34 chairs, 76 benches, 1,212 bed bolsters, 1,370 beading battens, 1219 knives, 478 spoons, 582 forks, 69 lamps, 246 water cans, 30 shovels, 1,000 feet (300 m) of electric wire, 600 feet (180 m) of rope, and 3424 towels. 1,700 blankets had been used, along with more than 1,400 cans.
    It makes sourcing a few parts for a nova seem easy.

    A great international project organised by the British.

    Nova SR 1.4


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    Funny enough was talking about this today not in that detail but how the hell they hid the dirt as a 4ft x 4ft 11" x 2ft hole filled a skip

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    /\ in there pockets and spread in the yard i bet
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    wasn't a lot of it in the roof spaces & under the floors of the huts?

    edit... they shoved a load of it under the floor of the camp's theatre
    Last edited by mowgli; 23-04-14 at 09:31 PM.

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    cant say i remember watching the film , i know i have just dont remember it
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