Lakeland Motor Museum/'Across The Lake' Mock Up

[Renegadenemo]

I think there must be another one in Windermere, the number of people who inform me that's where K7 crashed...

By the way, I've now decided that the piece in question is one of the oval closing plates fitted beneath the front spar when the spar was raised and a chunk of the lower edge of a spar box, probably the left one.

[Jordangbr]

And you would think that if they work there they would be better informed.....
That and the fact the mock up is labled as a full size replica made me chuckle!

[Graham Milne]

You'd think that the 'powers that be' would see some bloody sense and hand it over to you guys to re-use. I get frustrated when folk behave in such a way, and they're going to look stupid displaying a piece of crumpled metal from a wreck once the 'wreck' is nice and shiny in it's own wing of another museum. Fools.

[Renegadenemo]

That's the second piece of reusable scrap we could so easily put back. The F-21 crossmember and the upper half of its bulkhead turned up at Filching but no way would they let us put it back in the boat. The chances are these people have no legal title to the objects they claim to own and in all likelihood they're actually the property of the estate of the late DMC. If it was my call I'd have wheeled the lawyers in long ago but that's just one of my bad habits and it's not my call anyway. I just think the decent thing to do would be to allow these parts to go back where they belong because the time is right and it's only fitting.
Frustrating... yes, definitely.

[Mike Bull]

Lakeland I suppose you can understand, the place is full of plastic things that look a bit like famous speed record vehicles so they must treasure having a piece of the real deal, and at least it's on daily public show, but as for the stuff at Filching...

[f1steveuk]

It's because of Filching, that the K4 replica came into being. When Goodwood decided that they were going to celebrate Rolls-Royce, Jerry Judah contacted Doug Nye, and myself, and we all thought, record breakers, as the R type is the ONLY triple crown holder in record breaking. The S6B was no problem, even the '35 car was reletively easy to get hold of, but Filching was a tad expensive, and about ten replicas of K4 could have been produced for the cost of having K3 at Goodwood for one week!! Plus, I.m not certain how well K3 would have coped with being strung up!

[Graham Milne]

Slightly off topic here Bill, but it's regarding the missing pieces that either elude you or will not be donated to you. We know about the pieces at Filching and Lakelands, the missing instrument panel and the sponsons that perhaps got buried years ago. Is there anything else that you've not been able to trace/find? And do you have any type of record saying exactly what got found in 67 after the crash, and where those pieces went to?

[Terminator]

Novie
It was the older of the two ladies on the front desk who said not a chance and also tried to inform me that it 'was washed up on Windermere after the accident'.
I know it was a violent crash but I didn't know crumpled bits of tin can fly over Grizedale Forest and also float!

Thanks for the above Jordan I know who you mean. Windermere indeed!!

There are a lot of pieces and places that had bits of K7 wreckage that I know too that have come to light over the years. It would seem that some people helped themselves and others had them given to them in the village i.e Black Bull etc. Mainly pieces of the floating wreckage brought ashore to date as nobody seems to have the dash on their mantle piece! Not yet anyway

Novie
"I'll Be Back"

[Renegadenemo]

The dash is likely in the lake and the sponsons went for scrap in 1973. We could have used that F-21 crossmember and the Holker piece would fix. Other than that I'm not aware of any other pieces. There can't be much for the simple reason that we have pretty much all of it.

[Terminator]

Hi Bill
Perhaps I was not as clear with my last posting as i could have been. What i meant was lots of people seem have pieces of wreckage which I assume came from the sponson top area. The Black Bull has a piece, The Lakeland Museum has another etc. I guess those skin tops just exploded in to may bits on impact. As you say the project has got the rest of it.

Novie
"I'll Be Back"