March 31st. Bright day, and very pleasant if you keep moving. Bob the Blacksmith turned up on cue to straighten out the offside uprights. He brought with him some straps which he fastened the offside uprights to the nearside, making sure the body could not bulge out, then partially "unwelded" the joints in centre and base of the uprights, tightened the straps and - "job done!".

So now I can return to work on finishing off the offside steel.

March 31st.

March 31st.

April 1st Stress panels fastened to newly-aligned uprights.

April 5th. Tail is cut off!

April 5th Uprights and steel are given another coat of silver.

April 17th I prepare to cut out the wheel arch.

April 17th Arch is (roughly) complete, and surrounds are newly silvered

April 19th 50+ years of dirt about to be removed

April 19th That's a bit better!

April 21st New bearer in preparation

April 21st. Bearer being trial-fitted

April 22nd. 1/2" lip added to top of panel

April 22nd. Lip silvered.

April 28th. New panel prepared.

April 28th. Roughly in place.