A great day for several reasons.  Firstly, after some work by Paul on the grooves, Jim and I got the roof planks dry fitted in the morning.  We then took them off again and started filling the grooves with mastic.  After lunch we finished the masticing nd then wet fitted the roof planks.  This had to be done before the end of the day or we would have had to scrape all the mastic out again next week but by coffee time we managed it.  I then put some screws in to hold the boards down and the end result looked like this:

The location and the low roof make it difficult to photograph but at last 107 has a complete and watertight roof for the first time since the 1920's. 

Ian spent the day putting undercoat on the suspension units and they look good.  Now just the top coat.

Paul and Stephen spent the afternoon reasembling the old underframe so that we can build a 'truck' for 107'.  This will be a temporary stage till we get safely to Middleton as there isn't enough height in the workshop to put the wheels under the tram.

Here the underframe basks in the lovely sunshine.

As the joints are in poor condition and can't be bolted the various corners are being reinforced with bits of ply from my old model railway.

Now we just need to add another 11 of these and square the frame up and we will be ready to attach the wheels.  Things are coming on apace.