I understand the parts had to be replaced, I was just speculating on whether the ratio change was deliberate, or they just fitted what they had.
The story I got from Terry was that his Dad had seen this wagon in the scrapyard and tried to buy it there and then, but because it was at the bottom of a very large pile of scrap, the scrapman was unwilling to move it all just to release the wagon, so said that he would have to wait until the pile was being moved anyway.
So Tom went back again and again, year after year, until he came away with it, or what was left of it.
There still appears to be bits of the jigsaw missing though.
The picture shows some stuff on top of it, but not that much, and although I cant be too exact, I understood that this all went on in the seventies. So if the picture is dated 1965, then why did the scrapman not sell it to the photographer? presuming he saw it before Tom did.
If Tom HAD already seen it, then why carry on burying it? Or chop it up?
There must be some details still to come out of the woodwork, but I've learnt loads in the last week.
Thanks to all that have shared what they know, and for the photos.
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