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We’ve got our trusty chippy at hand for the back end of September, along with the regular team, to help make the final push on all the little jobs neccessary for the cinema’s upcoming road trip.

We’ve agreed a deal with Hills Body Works of Marsh Barton, Exeter to do all the preparatory work for a full body respray, including re-skinning some aluminium panels and glass fibre repair to the cab, then of course the respray itself. By early November the cinema will be returned to its original white and blue colours, giving the whole restoration … Read More

Our big push towards the m.o.t test has moved a great deal closer this week with much of the preparatory work now completeted. The bulk of the work needed was carpentry and Hal has combined his efforts and skills with Jon to acheive a level of completion that puts us past most of the highly skilled tasks in hand, so … Read More

With the registration document now safely in our hands we can invest our time and resources into making the cinema road legal. Surprisingly only a handful of jobs need completing to make the cinema mechacically sound, such as fitting the gearstick properly and housing the ignition battery in a secure place. All of the more daunting jobs such as the … Read More

For almost exactly a year now we’ve been carefully trying to jump through all the neccessary hoops in order to reclaim the original registration number KJU 267E issued to the mobile cinema in 1967, and today the crisp, new V5 dropped through the mail box. The history behind the vehicle effectively ‘dissapearing’ is simple. In the past all vehicles were … Read More