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For those of you that have everything
Remembering days gone by, I recommend one of those freestanding airmans/airwomans lockers.
I seem to recall that when required they could be suitably 'ballasted' for practice and more than one SWO bought a set of handles using PSI funds to screw into the sides.
Recently, I came across some photos in which the SWOs 'Bantam' small lorry was used to convey the deceased (in a proper coffin) to the nearby cemetery and with the requisite number of officers and men marching behind.
QRs stipulated how many made up the funeral party (depending on rank).
When my time comes, I have stipulated cremation with a return of the ashes, which are then to be thrown all over the lounge carpet in a final act of defiance. The Distaff has stated that she will then hoover them up and throw them in the dustbin!
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I seem to recall that when required they could be suitably 'ballasted' for practice and more than one SWO bought a set of handles using PSI funds to screw into the sides.
Recently, I came across some photos in which the SWOs 'Bantam' small lorry was used to convey the deceased (in a proper coffin) to the nearby cemetery and with the requisite number of officers and men marching behind.
QRs stipulated how many made up the funeral party (depending on rank).
When my time comes, I have stipulated cremation with a return of the ashes, which are then to be thrown all over the lounge carpet in a final act of defiance. The Distaff has stated that she will then hoover them up and throw them in the dustbin!
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I remember seeing a documentary series about Woburn Abbey many years ago..One of the many interesting items covered,was that the then Duchess of Bedford, got the etate carpenter to fashion a coffin from one of the trees brought down in the great storm of '87.IIRC,it was quite elaborately decorated,and until the'need' arrived,she was using it as a blanket-chest in her bedroom.No cardboard box for her !
Not like they will be used to carry the deceased out of a crime scene 
. Watch the likes of BBC or ITV news (or fictional crime drama) covering a crime scene or accident in the late 70s/80s see men in black / grey suits (then later white Tyvek) carrying box to black van or hearse Watch likes of TJ Hooker, STarsky and Hutch, or Airwolf or CNN/CBS news...its gents in suits or boiler suits (if its LA County ME or NYPD) wheeling collapsible stretcher with zipped bag into black station wagon with MEDICAL EXAMINER or CORONER and flashing orange light.
One time over in Europe, was watching news channel, on about some mass casualty/pile up on Spanish highway and by god...the real fun (sorry funeral lot) were removing the decased after the Tyvek clad cops/Guardia civile done their work.....and no word of a lie they were running with the cokllapsible stretchers with caskets atop to the hearses like it was transporting trauma victims. Film crews followed the hearses back to hospital morgue and once again it was rushing with the caskets as if they were live patients!!
On a serious note, mate of mine went to the Co-op for a sky painted box for her late hubbie (she and her new bf are both aviation enthusiasts and run air combat gaming world). She showed my photos of the box when we met up for drinks the other year.....and very similar to the link the OP posted..
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. Watch the likes of BBC or ITV news (or fictional crime drama) covering a crime scene or accident in the late 70s/80s see men in black / grey suits (then later white Tyvek) carrying box to black van or hearse Watch likes of TJ Hooker, STarsky and Hutch, or Airwolf or CNN/CBS news...its gents in suits or boiler suits (if its LA County ME or NYPD) wheeling collapsible stretcher with zipped bag into black station wagon with MEDICAL EXAMINER or CORONER and flashing orange light.One time over in Europe, was watching news channel, on about some mass casualty/pile up on Spanish highway and by god...the real fun (sorry funeral lot) were removing the decased after the Tyvek clad cops/Guardia civile done their work.....and no word of a lie they were running with the cokllapsible stretchers with caskets atop to the hearses like it was transporting trauma victims. Film crews followed the hearses back to hospital morgue and once again it was rushing with the caskets as if they were live patients!!
On a serious note, mate of mine went to the Co-op for a sky painted box for her late hubbie (she and her new bf are both aviation enthusiasts and run air combat gaming world). She showed my photos of the box when we met up for drinks the other year.....and very similar to the link the OP posted..
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They don't seem to have any used ones right now.. 
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I couldn't understand how one would pick them up as there are no handles and when you put the person in it do you run bodge tape around the lid?
Nice Idea, though not enamoured with the external finish, they do similar in Carlisle (or did) where they bury you in a cardboard coffin then plonk a tree on top to feed off you which I thought was a nice idea, myself I have asked to be torched then taken home to the lake district and scattered in the lakes, actually the one that supplies Manchesters water supply, I rather like the idea that somewhere along the line they all will get a little bit of me.....
But shhhhhh it's not really allowed..
Nice Idea, though not enamoured with the external finish, they do similar in Carlisle (or did) where they bury you in a cardboard coffin then plonk a tree on top to feed off you which I thought was a nice idea, myself I have asked to be torched then taken home to the lake district and scattered in the lakes, actually the one that supplies Manchesters water supply, I rather like the idea that somewhere along the line they all will get a little bit of me.....
But shhhhhh it's not really allowed..
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Brakedwell had a look, they will do whatever you desire, there is a Guinness one on their site as an example.
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I like the concept and I think the plan view of an F3 would look good on the lid.
But £495 for a cardboard box to put my sorry 6ft 4in carcass in! Surely a 'tri-wall' from stores would be cheaper?
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But £495 for a cardboard box to put my sorry 6ft 4in carcass in! Surely a 'tri-wall' from stores would be cheaper?
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Old-Duffer , 24th Jan 2019 13:26
Remembering days gone by, I recommend one of those freestanding airmans/airwomans lockers.
Remembering days gone by, I recommend one of those freestanding airmans/airwomans lockers.
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
cremation with a return of the ashes, which are then to be thrown all over the lounge carpet in a final act of defiance.