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11 minutes ago, fv1609 said:

I don't know if the part numbers of the spanners are quoted in your manual but the EMER describes J2/5120-99-125-1778 to disconnect the burner from the feed tube & J2/5120-99-125-1777 to remove the controls from the feed tube.

The manual I have is a reprint of "The War Office, 1962 Portable Cookers Nos 1, 2 and 3 Operation, Maintenance and spare list.

J2/JB 10912

I am about to service my stove and have the valves, looking at a poor copy of the operation manual appears to show 2 spanners.

Can any one advise on these as it would be nice to have them?

Thanks in advance

Richard

Okay will have to learn those methods

Bob

Look forward to seeing the reviews, I have not looked to closely at the web page but is there an alert similar to here to advise when you post on line?

Richard

Look forward to the posts, on the web and here

Bob

Great Articles in LRM, 2 of which I have kept as relevant to my Landie, assume the ones in LRM cant be reproduced on the site

Will look out online for you site

7 minutes ago, wally dugan said:

PAUL

As l do not how you set out your project to sell the idea of your museum it is hard for any one to give advice  but l have had experience on three museum projects and have met every kind of short sighted idiot if l can help in any way please ask

REGARDS WALLY

I have worked in Council Building Control and alongside planners so as Wally says please ask.

What did they say, if not the planner is it a technician who is only gathering data

Richard

21 hours ago, 10FM68 said:

The contract number will be on the vehicle's B Card and also on the vehicle data plate.  Otherwise, the information is out there is specialist books - for Land Rovers, for example, there is the book by Geoff Fletcher and James Taylor, for Lightweights, the one by Mark Cook.  As for the two letters in the registration number, mostly they indicate the financial  year in which the contract was placed (the MoD would order, say, 200 Bedford lorries and, at the same time allocate a set of 200 registrations to the contract.  These would be passed to the manufacturer who would then fit number plates prior to delivery.)  But there are many exceptions - the XA, XB etc" series did indicate location - as they were allocated to vehicles based in Berlin and paid for by the "Berlin budget" with money from the Senaet.  But there are other examples.  A pretty good list is available in Volume 1 of "Warpaint Colours and Markings of British Army Vehicles 1903 - 2003" by Dick Taylor.  He served many years in RTR from trooper to regimental quartermaster and is also a trained historian, so he writes with authority and experience.

Found the contract number where you said, FOI tomorrow for the B card

Many thanks, only trying to find out about my Land Rover, will try the sources you mention

Many thanks, I noticed a lot on here registration numbers being used to give an indication of how many made, in contract, as a supplementary question how to you go about finding which contract a vehicle was in?

I seem to recall the letters gave an indication which area it was based in originally

16 hours ago, wally dugan said:

As far as l know from the key card records of series one 4x2 land rovers supplied to the army there  where two separate contracts the one for  17 CL  48  to 20 CL 22 the series two   CL ones under contract 6/V/27756 and a larger number series one for both the CL and the station wagon version under contract 6/V/26222  these were registered in the  O1 CE 89 to 08 CE 63

For a learner like me, how can you tell from t registration numbers how many, if at all?

Just seen advert from machine mart selling different size of tent garages

On 5/9/2018 at 9:05 PM, Tony B said:

Breathable caravan cover is ideal.But beware of any cover freezing to the vehilce in winter.

Depending on how it sits ponding may be an issue

First contact was a call to there office explaining what I needed, then used the email as requested, 

Will be interesting to know how you get on

I had good success due to trying to get a Ex MoD Land Rover Registered, they had the only document to help get it registered

lradvice@jaguarlandrover.com

Have you tried asking Land Rover directly they seem to have good records.

10 hours ago, Norbo said:

 

Pitty there is no one close who could pop over some weekend and help with a few jobs as the lights and air ducting need finishing of and a few other in side jobs and i dont have any idea how to do anything . 

 

 

You don't say where you are

10 hours ago, Tony B said:

Breathable caravan cover is ideal.But beware of any cover freezing to the vehilce in winter.

Depending on how it sits ponding may be an issue

I seem to recall Seeley the tool supplier advertising tents of various sizes to keep vehicles dry when storing or working on

8 hours ago, Zuffen said:

Build a carport.

They aren't expensive and they won't chafe the paint.

Also gives you a dry spot to work.

Just watch out re planning and permitted development.

I saw some being advertised which only fixed to the wall no supports, unfortunately heavy snow broke them and pulled part of the wall down

1 hour ago, Tarland said:

Obviously a slow news day.....

Didn't the Mail run the story of the gold bullion in the T55 fuel tank?

Yes and that storey keeps refloating as new news on my internet front page on a frequent basis, also just gone on YOUTUBE

1 minute ago, Luke Aye said:

Great I will give it a try thanks.

No worries, they normally acknowledge quickly as said I have a few other email address if that one does not work.

Please let me know how you get on.

Other members may help with other sources which I don't know about

Send for an FOi to

DESSec-FOI@mod.uk

Ask for full history, also the Merlin Report, if the email does not PM me I have a few others, I have found them really helpfull

On ‎27‎/‎04‎/‎2018 at 8:24 PM, Old Bill said:

British solid tyres were specified in metric dimensions from the very early years and the Government Subvention scheme required that those on the front would be 720x120mm and on the rear 880x120mm twins. Both our Dennis and Thornycroft have these. The AEC Y-type was not approved for the scheme but, very sensibly, had the same sized tyres all round but 850x120mm. The American trucks coming over had imperial sizes so our FWD has 36x5" tyres all round. The Peerless also has imperial tyres but I can't remember the sizes offhand.

This seems to be another little quirk of history. Do you think it might have been the French influence which led to metric tyre sizes being adopted?

Although these are 850mm tyres, I don't think they are AEC as the hub cap is too square. I shall have to look at some more photos and see what other suggestions I can make. An interesting find, nonetheless.

Steve  

Steve

Just seen this, every day a school day, many thanks for this

Richard

7 hours ago, mammoth said:

850mm dia rims. So is English and not American (who used imperial sizes). The axle is obviously home made so not a reference point..

England has only used metric since about 1970 so not sure what made you say this