wally dugan

CHRIS thanks to you l have found them it appears they are for uk military use they are ear defenders at £300 a piece they must be some ear defenders at that price they are from TALKING HEADSETS MODEL SWATCOM

CHRIS ONLY opened one there are two AAA batteries that must be fitted to the headset will get a few pictures at the weekend l have quite a few of these still unopened Thanks for taking the time to look REGARDS WALLY

you are more likely to find 13rim size tyres used by farming on some equipment some year ago we need a set of 13 inch tyres for a MH SCAMMELL we got them from tyre dealer in southern IRELAND

Another prototype the VAUXHALL/ ALBION shame it did not progress in this form as the trial reports were very good

The ledger from MEXE has turned up a few items one of the most important thing is to do with the contactors involved in the rebuilding of equipment under the ARMY AUXILIARY WORKSHOPS and the names of companies involved which for me is the best break through l have had. Any way here are a few items the one on the trials of staff cars HUMBER and JAGUAR para one made me smile with the comment on the sword

l have checked the FVRDE LEDGERS there are a few BERLIET trucks listed but no BERLIET TBU also my my list of 419b history cards in the ER SERIES there is no card for 43 ER 39 this list only goes up to june 2003 of those in the archives at BEVERLEY the RLC MUSEUM may have it since the museum at BEVERLEY closed but l doubt it

ADRIAN l had a young lady come to work in the workshops before going on to university with the plan to join the REME after doing a degree in engineering l gave her the project of overhauling the jeep and she did a first class job freeing off all the parts and colour coding the parts when she finished l the helped her power the the parts showing the firing order by stripping spark plugs and fitting small bulbs which light up when the engine rotated the drive train all could rotate and four wheel could be engaged all powered through a transformer

This is interesting over the years the museum of army transport collected a number of instructional vehicles a eager beaver champ jeep and a few motorcycles plus a range of engine's were there photographs NO why because most were only displayed for a short time my idea was one day to have a space given over to them. The only photograph l know of is on this forum when the museum closed there is a shot of some of the engines in the storage area l have been looking for a photograph taken at Bovington at the RAC center among the instructional vehicles which has up to now not turned up Finally the subject though interesting l think not many people would bother taking pictures of these items

IF you are sure it served with the RAF HENDON may help the RLC cannot help on vehicles sold between 1945 to 1950 as there records mainly show wartime vehicle vehicles with the post 1950 new style. The Chilwell list shows that series of allocated numbers to the HUMBER CAR UTILITY 4X4 . Any of the HUMBER HEAVY UTILITY sold between the 1945 - 1950 were all shown by census number but not by branch of service identification there are quite a lot shown in catalogues of this period and post 1950 the newer style all covering these periods also the civilian numbers if not in military use THE amendment list does not show that these were transferred to other branches only the series add to the 1944 Chilwell list post 1944

a large number of MATADORS were renumbered in the 17XXXXX series after going through workshops also some were renumbered from the YY TO RB/RD/RH series

it looks like it was owned at one time by ROYAL BLUE the only company that may fit the bill was a bus company

the answer from NOEL sums it up 23 base workshop were it was rebuilt was at WETTER GERMANY

it's wartime number was H1760933 as to it's military history it has not survived

RON l am a bit loathed to suggest this but have you tried to pour a little petrol straight in to the carb to see if it fires l know you will have checked the flow of petrol

have you checked the carbon bush in the center of the distributor cap