Another very good day's work.  A quick trip to Batley first thing to pick up the rubber components for the suspension.  Then off to the tram. Paul carried on working on the tudor arch covers and these are now ready for fitting once the screens are fitted.  Jim spent the morning fettling the mouldings that go under th B edge plank where it runs onto the canopy bend.  I spent the mroning finishing screwing down boards 10 and 11 pn the roof.  Then removed all the cramps and debris and the finished result looks like this.

This certainly looks different to the rotten boards covered in roofing felt that we found 5 years ago. In the afternoon Jim and I fitted the B side edge board that leaves a gap for the the last 4 boards to be sprung into.

After lunch Jim and I spent some time putting a suspension unit together now that we have all the components.  These come from 6 different sources in 5 different materials and were designed in a mixture of imperial and metric units.  A scrap piece of Douglas fir was used to act as the solebar and a scrap piece of oak for the tie bar, which will be fabricated in due course. By a miracle everything fitted and this is the end result.

Having done that I've just spotted the deliberate mistake, the stretcher bar at the top is fitted upside down.  The whole unit will be bolted to the solebar with 1/2" Whitworth bolts that go through the rubber washers.  We believe that this is the first suspension unit of it's kind designed from scratch and produced by a society.

A few weeks ago I mentioned that we had fitted a torsion lozenge.  Here at last is a picture of the one that goes on the B side.