A very good day.  Paul got on with fitting the boards above the doors which are looking very good.  One corner of the B end one had been cut out to allow the door to swing instead of slide.  Paul has spliced a piecve of new oak into it with a finger joint and it;s very difficult to see the joint.  Ian Dougill appeared and spent the day removing excess mastic from the roof.  This squeezes out of the joints as they are cramped up, and gets all over  my boiler suit as I crawl around on the roof.  The first 5 planks now look very clean and a lot better.  I managed to fit and cramp 4 more boards and we have now got 11 out of 16 fitted.  Hopefully next week we'll get the edge board on A side fitted and then measure up for the short closure board that goes next to it.  The idea is to fit the last 4 boards at one go and squeeze them down together to get them really tight. 

Away from the tram there is steady progress with the engineering.  The nould for the rubber cones ahs now been delivered and I approved the first two protypes yesterday.  They should be delivered next week.  The covers for the axle boxes have been ordered and I spent yesterday afternoon looking for spring manufacturers for the axle keeps and the brake pull of springs.  It looks as if at the third try I've found a manufacturer willing to make the brake springs.