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http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=234923015&st=0

Lovely conversion of the Airfix 1:32 kit.

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amazing model and extremely well done. Nice "find".
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Very good model i wonder if any body knows how many were built, ?



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I have it on good authority that there were 6 Motor Mobile Pigeon Lofts.No6 was the Canadian army loft and seems to have been built on a lorry chassis.The other 5 were all similar.



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Acc to Roy Larkin, six buses were converted in late 1916 and a further six in 1917. Prior to that, mobile lofts were constructed on GS Wagon bodies. I think there's a pic of the latter on the Forum somewhere.



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Thanks for replying, any one got any pictures.



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Is this picture helpful? �I would have said it's a well-known photograph but that may just be because it's well-known to me. �I can't find any trace of it having been posted to the Forum in the past.

According to the caption, the motor-cyclist is Canadian so I assume it's the Canadian Loft. �No sign of stairs at the back but that may just be the angle the photograph was taken from.



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Tank wrote:

Thanks for replying, any one got any pictures.


�The bus conversions?� As James said there are pictures of all sorts of mobile lofts, including those. in other topics, just search the site for pigeon - but this rather good one was posted by LincolnTanker in one of those a while ago:



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Thanks for pictures, I wouldnt want to drive them on uneven ground there look a bit top heavy, confuse



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The cages on the upper deck were designed to fold flat when the vehicle was moving. And I've never weighed a pigeon, but I don't think they're all that heavy.



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Anyroads, takes quite a few of them (pigeons) to satisfy a hungry man James (no wonder dovecotes were reserved for the posh folk). But I wonder when vehicle tilt tests and standards were introduced? Can't see those early bus types doing well in such metrics, even in their original configuration. No doubt they well-satisfied the Clarkson test of straddling a sleeping policeman without harm to either one.

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Seems like nobody here as tasted "Rat au Van" yet.

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d_fernetti wrote:

Seems like nobody here as tasted "Rat au Van" yet.


�You must be a fan of Blackadder, then?



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Permission to sing boisterously, sir?

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