Another day of steady progress with Ian, Jim, Paul and myself all in attendance.  Paul spent some time working on patterns for the strip that will hold the canvas down above the canopies.  Ian carried on painting seat frames in primer and then started flatting down and filling the areas that had been undercoated last week.   In the afternoon he was able to put a second coat on.  Jim spent the day trimming the seat frames to length and fitting the end plates which can be seen in this photo.

Here the end plates can be seen and all the seat parts now made. and fitted.  By the end of the day we had fitted themn several times and the process was starting to get easier.  A couple of purpose made wedges made the job a lot easier to hold the seat backs up whilst we put the bases in.  The panels are a lot heavier than the ones on Chesterfield 8 at Crich with their newer timber.  

I spent most of the day on the roof marking out the position of the seat frames and working out where the latts will go.  Hopefully next week I will be able to get the long latts fitted.  I made another little jig to work out the spacing of the crossways latts between the seats but forgot to take a photo.  Away from the tram the brake columns are nearly finished in Cleckheaton and the nosing for the upper deck seats have been machined. The artwork for the garter on the side of the tram has been mocked up and just needs a few alterations. All good progress. However this isn't the only project that the team has been working on. Over the winter Jim has supervised the construction of a park around the bandstand at Crich. This now looks very nice with cast iron railings all round that used to belong to Stockport gasworks.  Over the past two months working parties from the LTHS have worked under Jim's supervision to repaint the bandstand.

Here the completed bandstand is passed rather appropriately by Leeds 180.

Crich are holding an Edwardian weekend on the 14th and 15th of July and on the 14th the bandstand is to be rededicated by the Mayor of Trafford.  (It originally came from Stretford.)  A band will be playing and the Crich Horse trams will be operating.