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Nope

The equipment is based on a Barrow, Drum, WD, Mk II carried on a 15-cwt truck or two in a 3-ton lorry, team of 4 needed to operate it.

Nope

Yes, but spraying what & why?

Nope

Any ideas?

David, don't excited I don't have the documents. They are not in EMERS TELS but in AESPs. The octad you need to look for are: 5820-F-400 Pegasus Type M252AB 5820-F-401 Pegasus Type M252AA Maybe REME or RS Museum?

John that was 1994, I assumed it was just the one that got moved around. Whether it is still there I don't know, but there was a similar Saracen ambulance at the Ambulance Museum in Tavistock about 10-15 years ago. Whether the ambulance or even the museum is still there I don't know. But I have a photo of one round the back & I think at the time Neville said it had been on loan but there were major transmission problems that the guy couldn't sort so it came back. I hope that isn't yours!

Seems ok here, look in your profile & check your settings.

I've used tyre paint as it seems to be a liquid rubber. But nothing beats a new plug then covering it up from the elements.

Balancing does seem to be important even for MVs, but a range of other factors can effect wheel wobble as this 1954 EMER shows: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v684/fv1620/WVA08907.jpg[/img]

At present valuable time can be lost if I drop a washer or something. The real pain is not enough room so that stuff gets stored on the vehicles. The roof leaks a bit that doesn't help & everything easily gets buried in angle grinder dust. If it's a nice day I can drive a vehicle outside to make the mess there. But it's during the rainy season that I find I have to do most of the work. There is a strange logic in that I know more or less where most things are.

Well Chappers has got a very tidy worksop/shed. By way of contrast look at this lot. Amateur radio station G4MBS inside Trailer, 2-Ton, 4-Whld. Two Shorlands, grey one MOTed & taxed (for sale) & sand one not been out for 10 years! Hornet FV1620 + stores Pig stye! FV1609 on left, FV1612 on right Apologies for so many pictures, but it is difficult to communicate the sense of chaos in the workshops! I have a choice I can spend 2 years tidying everything up or just get on with doing what I want to!

:naughty: Yes I think she's right! Further to my earlier suggestion of CCTV & remote control is that arm part of an EOD equipment?

Given the slightly improvised look to the antenna system & a CCTV camera on the extension. Is it a remote controlled vehicle?

Rich, I think that one was 23 BK 96 which was genuinely EOD. It appears on the inside cover of "The Encyclopaedia of the Modern British Army" Edition 1 by Terry Gander. It was very nicely restored by an owner in the UK but it is a shame to see it today looking in a rather neglected state.

Join the EMLRA & a vehicle search costs just £2 per vehicle. http://www.emlra.org/

So the binned trailer is 22 FL 93, chassis no 40563 struck off to Withams on 5/1/06, from a batch 22 FL 89 to 23 FL 78. The office version ran from 23 FL 79 to 23 FL 92.

Taken a REME Arborfield 1992 http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v684/fv1620/56RN55a.jpg[/img]

You might be forgiven for thinking that Neil has spent most the last month fiddling around with his Stalwart brake lights. But I can reveal he has spent a vast amount of time helping me. I have a large collection of British Army technical documents. Although I have catalogued them in Word documents, I felt frustrated that I could not extract things like: all documents printed in a given year, all user handbooks, all regulations, documents on a given vehicle or equipment etc. I also wanted to see how the earlier classification e.g. 26/Regs/3181 tied in with the WO or Army Code No. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v684/fv1620/Doc1.jpg[/img] http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v684/fv1620/Doc2.jpg[/img] http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v684/fv1620/Doc3.jpg[/img] Well last year Neil set me up a database to allow me to do just that. As some may be aware not only I am significantly dyslexic but a complete nitwit with computers. So just as we try to help each other out on the forum with things we know about Neil with his professional expertise has been a real star in helping me. I recently asked him if he could take things a stage further to try to decipher the coding of groups of codes used very often at the end of the documents. There are obvious ones like, date, the printers name & the number in the print run, but other little puzzles like Gp or Group at the end, the start is sometimes just a number or preceded by G which is in addition to Gp at the end. The other puzzler is Wt split into two groups. I have weighed large numbers of books & can find no relationship to weight at all. In fact similar sized documents have vastly differing Wts recorded. Some similar sized ones of similar subject matter can have quite varied Wts. Added to this Wt comprise two independent number groups. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v684/fv1620/Doc4.jpg[/img] So Neil’s new database encompasses this including the print run. It will allow a vast option of searches & correlations. I haven’t fully grasped the potential of all the knobs & buttons. But it will allow the comparison of the new DAT type records & even the codes used in Indian Army documents. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v684/fv1620/Doc5.jpg[/img] http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v684/fv1620/Doc6.jpg[/img] http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v684/fv1620/Doc7.jpg[/img] The books I have, are not like my vehicles exclusively post-war, but span over 120 years, I find it fascinating that the system whilst evolving contains many of the original features. So a big thank you to Neil for his hard work behind the scenes and I have to warn you that once I cracked the logic of the codes, there will be the inevitably article to follow. :shake:

But I don't have any problems with the forum! Maybe it's because I just use the forum bit, I don't bother with the fancy bits. I don't blog & certainly not in public, nor do I wiki as I think my mother told me not to do that sort of thing. I hope whatever new forum comes won't get too fiddley that the actual forum bit gets submerged in animations, novelties & fancy bits. But at least valves will survive EMP, not like these devices that if you look at them in a funny way or touch don't work because of a bit of sweat & static are beyond me. Computers & those sorts of things are covered in EMER MANAGEMENT J 000 I have to confess I don't have the complete series mine starts at J 020. But I have got the workings of a hand operated computer that even I can understand from 1911. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v684/fv1620/Cipherslide.jpg[/img]

It seems rather sad that the previous failed to investigate the problem. So have you run it a little while with its proper oil & measured the pressure when hot? As regards fuel, I have an intermittent constriction/obstruction in one fuel tank. Often shows itself when trying to overtake, this shortage of fuel seems to show itself with backfiring. Do you get that? But your filter may empty itself but there is bit of reserve in the carb of course. If the bore has worn as the result of inadequate lubrication then there are sets of piston rings to compensate for this in 10, 20 & 40 thou, so no need to mention it to your wife yet. So may not be the end of the world ;-)

No, no, no, you're not meant to put in on your chest. That won't work at all.

Got a picture somewhere of 56 RN 55 in white + some black at a REME anniversary Arborfield 1992.

Richard, have you considered a Carawagon? After all they were custom built for camping. I used to have one it was great fun. But in those days it was the only one that had been released & I used to get distainful comments when people looked in the back & say "Oh its not very interesting, he's made it into a camper" Despite it being 100% original, but people know what they are now.