An Introduction: Chris Collins and Morris Tilly Project

[jack neville]

Where does time go?
Looking at the last updates on this thread and we never put up any finished photos of Scrappy who has now been on the road for over two years.
Will rectify that.
Very soon we will begin restoring Milly. The chassis is almost stripped.
It is not a pretty sight.

[Bob Carriere]

.....will rectify that!!!!!!

[Chris Collins]

Scrappy the Tilly has hit the road coming up to two years now, Shes not what you'd call fleet of foot, gets a bit hairy over 45 MPH, and sits pretty comfortable at 40, much to the frustration of the average Aussie road user. We've taken her to Corowa twice first time via trailer, the second time an Epic two day one way journey from her.

the first set are getting The Scc14 on, and the Tillys first outing a road trip from Geelong to Winchelsea via Inverleigh, Cressy, Lake Bolac and home again, some slight issues with the Dynamo, and a leaky oil pump but we got her home.

[Chris Collins]

We painted Milly up just like early well known late war photo of a Morris Tilly in a RASC unit in 79th armoured Division.

[Chris Collins]

We trailered it the first time, and Greg had a grand time tootling around northern Vic, My wife and i joined them and we took Scrappy out to Olive Hills estate Rutherglen, and took some great photos outside the homestead.

we even took out Peoples Choice, amongst a sea of Jeeps!

[Chris Collins]

The second outing to corowa Greg and I Drove Scrappy up from her current Home at Bacchus Marsh, to Corowa, the back way via Gisborne and heathcote staying overnight at a pretty sketchy caravan park outside of shepparton sleeping in swags, We stopped at the Cemetary where 250 Kriegsmarine POWs are buried, and viewed what can be made out of the POW camps near Tatura.

It was a great week!

Greggy has even been brave enough driving scrappy to his hometown of somerville, though the sprawling metropolis of Melbourne and back again a few times to attend his local ANZAC day services.

[Lionelgee]

Hello Jack and Chris,

So if the tilly has been on the road for two years it could mean that you have had that long to work on other projects. If so, could you please detail them?

Does anyone know what happened to Colin and his thorough work on the Vickers tanks? It has been far too long on those posts too!

Kind regards
Lionel