From: Steve & Jeanne Keith (cckw@comcast.net)
Date: Sat Feb 25 2006 - 15:19:47 PST
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From: "Ed" <mojoedd@bellsouth.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 1:21 PM
Subject: [MV] British Museum!!!!
> My wife and I were watching one of our favorite shows on the Travel
> channel
> last night, Most Haunted. They go from town to town all over England
> looking for Ghosts. If you haven't seen it I would suggest that you take
> a
> peek, it's very good and the places that they go and are permitted into
> the
> "unseen by the public" areas are highly informative indeed!
>
> Last night they shot the entire show at the Muckleburgh Collection. They
> had just about every WWII tank and other vehicle that you could think of!
> Of course they did find some Ghosts and heard some strange noises, etc.
> which was VERY interesting but they got into a "Haunted" tank and we got
> to
> see the entire interior of the main compartment! These vehicles have been
> completely restored and from what I gathered, (they weren't there to talk
> about tanks darn the luck), they are all, or at least most, running! They
> take them out for drives once in a while. In fact the "Star" of the show
> was brought up to the cameras in the opening segment!
>
> The tank that they were in for a while was a US Sherman I think, sorry
> guys,
> not as up on my WWII armor as I should be. It is reported to be haunted
> with voices coming out of it and visitors asking "why is that tank cooling
> down then, have you just been out for a drive in it"? Many, many visitors
> has stated that they have heard the engine making the "ticking & other
> sounds of a freshly shut down engine cooling down"!! When in fact that
> tank
> hadn't been driven for a month or so!!
>
> The point of my email is to enlighten those that haven't seen this most
> wonderful place and the multitude of armor and other MVs that are there
> and
> to compliment the people that own and run that museum on the most
> fantastic
> job of restoring and maintaining WWII and other military aircraft and
> weapons that I have ever seen!!!! I hope that Michele and I have a chance
> to travel there to see it in person!
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Ed
>
> "Sirs, you have no reason to be ashamed of your Confederate dead; see
> to it they have no reason to be ashamed of you"
>
>
>
>
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