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Gloucestershire Lookup Requests / Re: Melrose
« on: Friday 15 August 25 20:00 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: ShaunJ on Thursday 14 August 25 20:28 BST (UK)
Per those 1935 auction details, Melrose was next to another, older, detached property known as Draggetts Court.

Googling "Draggetts Court" takes us to 3 Chapel Hay Lane. You can see that the houses either side are still standing: 

https://maps.app.goo.gl/gu824TpM7Jonk2dCA

Using this link and moving to opposite the house on the right I can see the name Melr on a panel to the left of the front door if you zoom right in.


Added, my 10” iPad has very good resolution

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The Common Room / Re: What is a W. A. S. Inspection (Eng)? (1939 REGISTER)
« on: Tuesday 05 August 25 20:38 BST (UK)  »
Perhaps I’m jumping the gun a bit but to me the phrase ‘inspection eng(ineer) is a dead giveaway,
I have a wartime ships compass in its box and it is covered with admiralty inspection certificates.



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The Common Room / Re: What is a W. A. S. Inspection (Eng)? (1939 REGISTER)
« on: Tuesday 05 August 25 19:54 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Gan Yam on Tuesday 05 August 25 19:28 BST (UK)
Quote from: PatLac on Tuesday 05 August 25 15:36 BST (UK)
When I search for occupation "W. S. Inspection" in Bradford in the 1939 Register on Ancestry another chap comes up - John S Brown, DOB 1917 - can someone with a subscription have a look?

The entry for John S Brown, gives occupation as W.O. Inspection Engineer Cll.  The "Cll" part is not clear.

Could  the W.O. be war office, and the Cll be short for civilian.
In which case I hazard a guess that the “A.”  is admiralty or air

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The Common Room / Re: What is a W. A. S. Inspection (Eng)? (1939 REGISTER)
« on: Tuesday 05 August 25 18:48 BST (UK)  »
A very long time  ago I was responsible for producing items used in the manufacture of instruments,
Any which were to be used for instruments in RAF or Navy equipment had to pass an inspection, I think it was then known as A.I.S inspection certificate, without which the actual instrument manufacturer would reject them
I wonder if this is something similar

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The Common Room / Re: What is a W. A. S. Inspection (Eng)? (1939 REGISTER)
« on: Tuesday 05 August 25 13:59 BST (UK)  »
Just to throw more confusion in, does anyone think that if in the original the A is indeed a capital letter, followed by a full stop, then it is unlikely to be an abbreviation of “and”


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The Common Room / Re: Cancelled Car Registration?
« on: Thursday 12 June 25 14:46 BST (UK)  »
Wk is indeed Coventry, I cannot now find the website that led me astray

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The Common Room / Re: Cancelled Car Registration?
« on: Thursday 12 June 25 14:15 BST (UK)  »
There is some significance in the year 1937 as that was the year when the tax was changed from being reserved for the road fund, administered by the local authority, to being paid into general gov. funds.
£3 18 9 seem about right for 5 months road tax, as a year ran from Jan to December you could buy a proportion amount to the year end

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The Common Room / Re: Cancelled Car Registration?
« on: Thursday 12 June 25 14:01 BST (UK)  »
The reg. CWK implies that the first registration was in the Truro area, the cancellation was in Coventry,
I think things were much more flexible then, I have feeling that you could re register a car in the local area you were living in

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World War Two / Re: HMS MILE? WW2
« on: Monday 19 May 25 19:46 BST (UK)  »
My cousin spent the time from 1941- 42 ferrying supplies from Alexandria to Tobruk as one of a fleet of landing craft, up the coast in the dark, unload in Tobruk, back up the coast in the dark, load up go again.

June 42 was when Tobruck fell, the operation ceased then.

Mike

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