The closing and replacing off the fueltank.

26 juli

The radiator is returned with a  new inner block and intake pipes.

 juli 2

Restauratie of the fueltank and radiator.

 april 17

The chassis is being transported for an exebision at the crashmuseum 40-45 in Rijsenhout .

 march 31

We are nicely going on with the dashboard. And also the new cable tubes are placed in the chassis.

 february 17

The advancement of the wiring system.

 december 31  2009

A brief update right before the start of the new year. All wheels are installed ,the master cylinder is placed and filled up.The engine is almost been put together, and we started on making the new fireboard/ dashbord .

 december 1   2009

So, the tyres are placed on the rims and sprayed. brakehozes and main brake cylinder complete. Pistonrings arived and made to the right size so we could place the pistons in the engineblock.  the leather covers are fitted to the rear axles. And wheesl are put on the front axle.

 oktober 17   2009

All the brakeshoes installed,the meshshafts and main rear driveshaft . New front brakecylinders. 3 rear brakedrums are beeing scraped out a little

 september  16   2009

Returned  the brakebooster , new leather covers for the stearing axels , with thanks to Jack. New bushings in the rear blades. The brakecylinders shortened 19mm , and installed the rear axels .

 augustus  21   2009

Last week the new bronze bushings were pressed in the tilting block ,new brake hozes and new brake lining is gleued on the rear brake shoes.

juli 18  2009

The past 6 months have been used to clean and powdercoat the rims. Assambled the rear axels ,apart from the brakes. We still got troubles to find replacement brake cylinders ,and parts for the masterbrake. Furtermore new brakeshoes are made to replace the broken one,s. A new sample for the leather doorhandles are made by Martin from Historic Engineering services .

march 27  2009

Picking up the new tyres from Indonesia at the port of Rotterdam.

 march  22  2009

After 5 weeks holiday we get on with a fresh start. The first rear axle is been partly restored with new bearings fitted on the wormwheel. 3 new outher mantels for the machine guns have been made.

november - december 15th 2008

The past 2 months we have continued with the instalation of the rear pedalset ,and the dismanteling and cleaning  of the first rear axle. Also some of the bearrings from the wormwheel need to be replaced. Look at the strange model of the wheel bearings, Two cylinders and 1 ball bearring. And a lot of sandblasting and spraying.

 september 24th- oktober 25th 2008

Today we started with the installing of the front axle ,all the bronse bushings off the springs have been replaced by new made one,s. Steeringhouse opened ,cleaned ,sandblasted and put to gather again. Further more all the shifting bars and drive axle,s are dun.

 august 24th 2008

After a upgrade of the website, i,ve got more room for foto,s .The last two months we have worked on the chassis,the front axle and brakebooster. I,am now waiting for the brake cylinders and some bearings to reassable the front axle .The brakedrums and shoes are in perfect shape.

 june 28th 2008

Today the chassis has returned from the sandblaster and put inside again. In the mean time the gearbox is dismantled and the housing blasted and sprayed

 may 25th 2008

Where on the fast move the last 2 weeks. But where there,the chassis has been stripped so it can go to the sandblaster.  

may 12th 2008

The preparations have started to rebuild it to the dutch version. The radio bump has been cut out,the doors and hindges have been removed,and the space for the back machine gun has been cut out.

 may 6th 2008

Its finaly here,we have removed the body and moved the chassis in to the garage. 

 april 29th 2008

After a few days of swetting and swearing, we finely could remove the dashboard.To achieve this we had to remove the steering console and placed it back again.

 april 22th 2008

The last couple of months we havent been sitting on our a.....We have now removed the floor plating and elecktric cables from dashboard to the back. this is so we can remove the body from the chassis. It took a lot of screw drilling because a lot are very rusted. It has been a struggle to get in all the corners.     

 march 15th 2008

 The engine is disassebled,unfortunatly it is no longer the original. The Bussing engine was replaced in       1956 by a Ford industrial 332. The engine is although the pistons were stuck in a remarkebly good state. We have bought new bearings just to be sure ,now we stil are looking for new pistons.

 februari 16th 2008

We are going full throttle,and have removed the engine.

 februari 9th 2008

The front and other parts, like the grill and sidesteps are being sprayed.

 februari 2th 2008

The sand blasting of the front and welding of the cracks ,and fitting in a new stand.

 januari 20th 2008- our new found item, the periscoop zeiss m38

A bit of good luck

By mail we got in contact with a mr from Helmond, who by accident had taken a periscoop from a antique shop  in Sweden. Its nearly unused and in its original box. This is a Zeiss (model m 38, coinsidense ) almost identical as build under license by Nedinsco in the Netherlands.

 januari 8th 2008

A fresh start in the new year. Now its time for the more heavy work, like a start at the front end. The gril is removed for sandblasting,also the hood, skirts and sidesteps. Also the panel around the engine is losend to be removed by a crane or forklift.

december 22th 2007

So first we have started on the seats because they where dismanteld over a year ago,and because the wheater is a bit whorse we can be of more use inside the garage.The chairs are being sprayed in a white interier color,and can now be put into storage until they are needed. Also Ruud has made a copy of the chairbolt wich we were missing one.

december 11th  2007

After a long time of silence,now some news because we havend been sitting on our bums. In the last couple of months we were restauring the gearbox of the turret and the mount for the periscope. Unfortunetly the periscope is missing.Further more we have made a new hatch for the turret roof with the help of the original blue prints with are in the dutch national archives.

August 15th 2005 - stripping- sandblasting- restoring and spraying in a primer

July 29th 2005 - dismantling the tower

July 18th 2005 - stripping the tower

July 2005 - producing new floor parts

end of May 2005 - dismantling cannon and machinegun mount