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<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\nAs you can see from these pictures, which only show part of the room, there was an awful lot of old kit to look through. A couple of Skype calls later and we had a list of what would be of interest to Hursley. Much of what was on offer we already have in the museum, so we were easily able to weed those out. They ended up as EE waste, as the middle picture shows. Kjell then proceeded to photograph everything we had selected and created a spreadsheet with full details. Then followed the inevitable problem of finding funding for the shipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By mid-August IBM Norway’s Marie Gjelsten was able to confirm they would fund the transport costs as long as we could provide the manpower to unload at our end. This we agreed, Marie organised the shipment and in September the transport company collected the shipment. A lot of coordination went on in the background, with Julian Gerry spending lots of his valuable time talking to the Oslo people and the transport company. The trailer was held up for several days on Immingham docks until Julian could find the funding to pay import duty, not a huge amount but tricky in times of austerity and when there is no budget for the museum. The lorry finally arrived during October and we were able to get it reasonably close to the House. CBRE’s David James unloaded everything with a fork-lift into the area in front of the stable block. Unfortunately the load had not been properly tied down, so the heavier machines had moved and caused some damage. It also turned out that a number of artefacts had for some reason not been loaded, so they are still sitting in Oslo until we can find funding to ship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>