as from earlier on in the thread, "YOU CAN NEVER HAVE ENOUGH".
this should be an easy fix to get it back to what's what.
send me the data on it when your ready
good luck with it B
and better luck next time AJ! (you'll get a nice one soon enough)
I'm surprised re the shipping, Perth is about the same distance as Hobart, all be it not across the Bass straight. Smart Send wouldn't ship that size and Pack and Send was uneconomical.
Oh good! Much more interested in exact measurement of crate and stencils made up of markings and timber used. Overland it is then! If I recall you have an SD bottom end that will meld well.
Collector Inspector wrote:
I will measure everything about the crate and post separately.
Looking forward to that Bruce, Will start collecting timber.
H-A
Cheep Cheep and lite timber would prob be the way to go initially as if this is like Britannia cases...........................made strong but out of, let me say......Crap Wood?
I have worked out how to indicate measurements construction just by photos as well as what the stencils measure at. Someone can do Vector etc later.
You are correct Charles, Radiata, although extremely common in Australia as plantation timber, would not have been available in the UK, nor is it grown there in commercial quantities. so some one, what were the packing cases constructed from?
But as to the timber of the crate: I recently saw one at Jan's place. I didn't do a proper identification of the wood, but as I remember it was ordinary fir or maybe a cheap quality of pine. Nothing special. But I liked the stamps and labelling.
Adrian Dale wrote:You are correct Charles, Radiata, although extremely common in Australia as plantation timber, would not have been available in the UK, nor is it grown there in commercial quantities. so some one, what were the packing cases constructed from?
AJ
If you want to be this original, than we would need to know the size, material and placement of the nails too. Where do you draw the line in period correctness?
SJP11446LL parts only, TC52234L unrestored, THC67581L unrestored, FP1986JJ4 running, GF2355EE7 running,TC63272 work in progress, AD52014 unrestored, sEEgull work in progress.
Period correctness would (Wood) not really be an issue as each crate would (Wood) have been made Ad Hoc with available material cut sizes by anyone on the particular shift or Duty to bash them together.............out the door and gone.
Just the cut sizes and dimensions of a finished crate is going to be measured and submitted..................nothing more and nothing less.
A woulden (Wooden) box is not something to be either Period or exact...............just fun to either copy or improve with woodwork skills at a later date.
Maybe someone will construct something later that is a quality worthy of an artisan furniture maker who can tell aye?
There seem to be 2 types of crates I've seen in the UK.
Wartime storage box, tongue & groove oak, green painted with white stenciled letters.
Late 50s & 60s shipping crate, softwood, if you bought a Seagull but not from a dealer with stock, the chances are, it came on the train to your local station's goods yard in one of these boxes.
I've seen the paperwork for all this but can't remember who had it, a deposit was payable to Seagull for the use of a shipping crate, your money was refunded when the box was returned.
Overseas shipping might have used cheaper crates as it was unlikley they would ever be returned, they would have to be pretty sturdy in the pre container days of cargo nets on cranes & there was a lot less money about in the colonies before the 70s.
Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.
