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Can anyone give me some info on this ?
I have many badges from the 50's-60's all are quiet normal but can't find any info on this!

Have found the answer it's the cheshire cats branch 34 of the Vespa Clubs of Britain .

MINISKIPMAN wrote:Have found the answer it's the cheshire cats branch 34 of the Vespa Clubs of Britain .

I've also got one of these. Apparently there is meant to be another piece that goes on top to make the badge circular but i can't remember what it was like or said (mine is also missing).

That is the club badge, one of the few non cogs out there.

What went on the top was a seperate rectangular brass bar engraved with the dates of either of the two rallies this club held. It won't make the badge round but was a neat little idea that no one else took up.

Thanks for the further info it's a shame the whole photo does not show!
Looking in my box I think i have found the rectangular brass bar it has
II Chester
19 Vespa Rally 56

on it so it looks like I have solved my mystery with a lot of help from you guys!

Thats better!

MINISKIPMAN wrote:
Thats better!

Thanks for posting the completed picture - its the first time i've seen the whole thing

The club sticker

did they do a vcb badge for norfolk?

Branch 27 was Norwich but they didn't produce a cog badge, Branch 102 was Great Yarmouth "The Bloaters" and they did produce a cog

hey! i am suetnuasy and new at vespaclubofbritain.getphpbb.com. good stuff! more of this.

ciao,
suetnuasy from ICQ

nicey wrote:did they do a vcb badge for norfolk?

The VCB produced a map in the 1950's of Britain and NI detailing all the vespa clubs with their branch numbers (and vespa dealers) for those members who wished to travel and meet up with fellow club members - it's a great wee piece of memorabilia.

Ulster Vespa Club wrote:

nicey wrote:did they do a vcb badge for norfolk?

The VCB produced a map in the 1950's of Britain and NI detailing all the vespa clubs with their branch numbers (and vespa dealers) for those members who wished to travel and meet up with fellow club members - it's a great wee piece of memorabilia.

Took me a while to get this copied but......



The big numbers are the branches and the smaller icons are the various dealers

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paskweava wrote:Until recent centuries, all artificial wells were pumpless dug wells of varying degrees of formality. Their indispensability has produced numerous literary references, literal and figurative, to them, including the Christian Bible story of Jesus meeting a woman at Jacob's well (John 4:6) and the "Ding Dong Bell" nursery rhyme about a cat in a well.
Such primitive dug wells were excavations with diameters large enough to accommodate men with shovels digging down to below the water table. swimming pool pump They can be lined with laid stones or brick; extending this lining into a wall around the well presumably served to reduce both contamination and injuries by falling into the well. A more modern method called caissoning uses reinforced concrete or plain concrete pre-cast well rings that are lowered into the hole. A well digging team digs under a cutting ring and the well column slowly sinks into the aquifer,whilst protecting the well digging team.
Hand dug wells provide a cheap and low-tech solution to accessing groundwater in rural locations, with a high degree of community participation. Hand dug wells have been successfully excavated to 60m. Hand dug wells are cheap and low tech (compared to drilling) as they use mostly hand labour for construction. Hand dug wells have low operational and maintenance costs. Even if the hand pump is broken, water can still be extracted. In many cases, hand dug wells are similar to traditional abstraction methods and are readily accepted by the host community. jet pump The construction of hand dug wells can incorporate a high degree of community participation (e.g. pre-fabrication of concrete rings). Hand dug wells can be easily deepened, if the ground water level drops, by telescoping the lining further down into the aquifer. The yield of existing hand dug wells may be improved by deepening or introducing vertical tunnels or perforated pipes.
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