Stolen parts alert!

[Wayne Henderson]

Just a heads up to the locals,
Stolen from a yard here in Perth in the past 2 weeks,

one 2 pounder barrel, heavy pitting at the breech end, usual bulge up the other end, red oxide and yellow splattering.

WW2 jeep trailer, rough nick but doable if really keen.

Stuart tank parts, stowage bits and internals.

The ex owner would like any info or a name so action can proceed.

[Keith Webb]

Originally Posted by Wayne Henderson

Just a heads up to the locals,
Stolen from a yard here in Perth in the past 2 weeks,

one 2 pounder barrel, heavy pitting at the breech end, usual bulge up the other end, red oxide and yellow splattering.

WW2 jeep trailer, rough nick but doable if really keen.

Stuart tank parts, stowage bits and internals.

The ex owner would like any info or a name so action can proceed.

Would that be someone after scrap do you think Wayne? Bloody low act.

[Wayne Henderson]

Hi Keith,
The bits were pinched out of a well known scrap yard here in Perth, looks like someone filling an order. Most locals know the yard and that its security is somewhat... lax. The price for scrap metal here at present is lower than the buggers that stole these bits.

[BSHEVLIN]

it would have taken a crane or a group of large fellas to lift that barrel i had one just like that and it took about 5 large blokes to lift it of my 2pndr carrier and onto a Ute.

[RichardT10829]

sounds too specific to be scrap hounds, i normally find copper and lead get better money than steel (here in the UK) sounds to me like they were stolen to order.

I would check www.milweb.net and see if anyone has posted up items alot of military hardware gets put on there from all over the Globe so its worth watchin.....if you email the admin for the forum he can keep and eye out for you (rather than post up stolen bits which will inevetebly spook any theif into melting it down)


Richard

[Kym Loechel]

That stuff was taken to fill an order no doubt.. Copper and Brass is the usual target and with the HUGE drop in price the ferrous would be worth stuff all.. I took over a ton to a yard 3 weeks ago and received the princely sum of $15.00.!!!!!!!
Its gone up since then the the price still wouldn't cover the cost of their fuel driving to nick the stuff.. Maybe an add asking for "Stuart bits wanted" may turn something up.???

[peter simundson]

...about this. First the guys who took this have a use for it. Likely they are doing restoration of vehicles. Worst of all one of them you know or have met one of them, and he has seen what was there and told his pals. Then there was a chat and someone said "Hey we can use that, he'll never get to it (or miss it)".
Run it through your mind who you had over and what they didn't take and why. The other thing you have to remember is there is no mercy in this hobby. I can't tell you the number of times I have told a friend who asked what my next project was, what I had in mind and the next weekend or day it was gone. He went out and got it. And this is just the little guys in the hobby. It's the high rollers.

Man. I could write a book.

[Jon Skagfeld]

Originally Posted by peter simundson

...about this. First the guys who took this have a use for it. Likely they are doing restoration of vehicles. Worst of all one of them you know or have met one of them, and he has seen what was there and told his pals. Then there was a chat and someone said "Hey we can use that, he'll never get to it (or miss it)".
Run it through your mind who you had over and what they didn't take and why. The other thing you have to remember is there is no mercy in this hobby. I can't tell you the number of times I have told a friend who asked what my next project was, what I had in mind and the next weekend or day it was gone. He went out and got it. And this is just the little guys in the hobby. It's the high rollers.

Man. I could write a book.

So,...when is the publication date and book signing?

[Tony Smith]

Originally Posted by peter simundson

The other thing you have to remember is there is no mercy in this hobby. I can't tell you the number of times I have told a friend who asked what my next project was, what I had in mind and the next weekend or day it was gone. He went out and got it.

Man. I could write a book.

Can I read your manuscript before your agent sees it?