and that's the cipher for a modeler called george tinworth.on factory made all sorts of art pottery, but they employed a lot of artist-potters, but george tinworth, particularly was noted for making these idiosyncratic, fun novelty models like this. he was the only modeler who was allowed to put his mark, incidentally, as part of the decoration on the design. all of the other artists had to put their mark underneath the piece. and i suppose the value today probably about £5,000. yes. that's nice to know. it's quite a lot of money. yeah. i shan't sell them. ( laughs ) we're surrounded by really good quality scale models of military vehicles but they're military vehicles, i have to say, i don't think i've seen before. no. this one in particular i don't think was ever made. my father was in transport during the war and he doesn't know of a vehicle that actually carried the gun inside-- they were always towed behind. interesting. now, you said your father was in military transport, so these were his, were they? no, they weren't. longridge, in birm