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Adam I think RR have the only substantial spares holding in the UK - and they had downsized when I last had contact with them. There are (or were when I last looked) a couple of sellers in French e-Bay but most don't ship overseas so you probably need a friend over there to act as your agent. The braking system is basically American (of Bendix design) and a lot of the small parts are common to US trucks of the period - the engine is similar to but not the same as the post war large capacity Ford V8s so again some parts are common but it is necessary to be more cautious there. The carburettor is the same type as used by early Porsche cars and refurb kits are fairly common in the US E-Bay Regards Iain

Hi It is a Philips RT-4600 (Netherlands 1980s/1990s low band VHF set) - see http://www.cryptomuseum.com/radio/rt4600/index.htm Iain

Hi Without testing I cant be sure but I think the IB2 audio socket provided to monitor the traffic when the IB2 is in rebroadcast mode can also be one station on the intercom if the IB2 box is switched to IC mode. So you would need one more crew box for the other station and a 12-pin cable to connect it to the IB2. Regards Iain

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Sorry I got the title wrong - I dont know how to fix it. I have ordered a 175R 13 since it is not too expensive and I will see if it matches - if it does I can get a local tyre place to change the tyre on my spare wheel Thanks again Iain

It is a 6.70R13XCA tyre on the NCRS trailer - I tried 185x70R13C and it is about an inch below the top of the existing tyre, standing an unloaded wheel and tyre beside one on the trailer - so it will be a bigger difference under load. The rims on the wheel that came with the 185x70R13 were about 1/2" wider than the ones on the trailer but as you wrote, I don't think that will account for all of the difference ! Iain

all the better to see the VDUs They were intended originally for a UK communications net to re-establish government after a nuclear war so had to be completely screened against electro-magnetic pulse to ensure that the equipment would still work. In practice they had a short service life and the radios were in many cases dismounted and used for other things (mine is labelled as having been at Sennelager in Germany!) Iain 73 de G0OZS

The Chassis certainly looks like the Arrows chassis. The metal wheels and rims themselves aren't that rare - Ifor Williams agricultural trailers used them among others - the challenge I have found (with two failed e-bay purchases that turned out too small to show for it!) is that the tyres fitted are considerably taller than the ones on the civilian trailers and the tow ring height will be wrong if I change all of them ! Iain

I use mine parked beside the house as an office/radio station/radio workshop so no room to sleep inside except maybe on the floor!. Someone had fitted an Ebersbacher heater in the left hand antenna box which packed up (and blew smoke into the cabin forcing a rapid exit!) last winter so I will go all electric before this winter I think (if anyone can use the heater remains once extracted they are welcome to it !). I have one of the original TRP8255 radios but also various others - I am doing some changes inside so will do a photo once it is tidy again. Iain 73 de G0OZS PS I think someone should retitle this thread from CVRT to NCRS to avoid confusion !

Very nice ! There's a lot more room without the front desk/bench. Mine was used for a while as a bar/clubhouse between release from the MoD and my purchase so it came with a beer tap and pipes ! Regards Iain

I haven't needed to fix the brakes yet (apart from freeing them after the handbrake was left on over a winter) - I believe based on my search for tyres (which is ongoing) that the wheels and tyres are of a type used by smaller Bedford vans in the 1970s which may be the best chance. Regards Iain

Confirmed top, middle and two bottoms for 4m (you can actually chain any number of bottoms if creative about support or guying and I have tried 3 to get near resonance on the 20m band) Iain 73 de G0OZS

Robert What is the maximum size wheel/tyre that it will easily fit ? When is the digout btw ? Regards Iain

Dear All Ages ago I posted looking for a spare wheel for my NCRS box trailer (see: http://hmvf.co.uk/topic/35307-spare-670r13-wheel-for-ncrs-trailer/ ) I have managed to get a wheel that matches but the tyre that came with it is significantly lower profile and I really need the right one so the towbar height is correct (and I would have to change all 4 plus get a spare of the new size at even greater expense ... ) . There were few (probably less than 100) NCRS box trailers ever made so I can't believe it is the only thing that uses this wheel and tyre - does anyone know what they came from as that might give me some more ideas where to look ? Regards Iain

Graham I have one - I think first chance to measure will be Tuesday evening though Regards Iain

Dear All I have to list a number of my more expensive and less used items on e-bay and the latest to go is my UK/PRC-319 HF patrol set. The listing is at: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/UK-PRC-319-HF-SSB-CW-transceiver-ex-SAS-SBS-SRR-working-with-EMU-and-some-extras/183055625790 I have also updated my website article at http://moffatig.plus.com/g0ozs/PRC-319.html and added recordings of the set in use. I will shortly have some other items coming up which are too big to post and will need to be collected from East Suffolk when I get time and daylight/weather to do the photos including a Sankey Trailer, an NCRS box trailer and a Cobham EX105 medium duty fibreglass mast. Please inquire via forum PM if interested before I get round to listing them ! Iain 73 de G0OZS

Vince Thanks. I have a couple of the big grey ones to look at one day - I will give that a go when I do Iain

Nick Thanks - there is a very similar battery across the water at Landguard in Felixstowe but there is no public access to the WW1/2 batteries - I think mainly for H&S reasons and because they are partly in a nature reserve. So the close up photos of the Harwich side are most interesting ! Iain

Simon Well done - it looks really good Iain

I think he bought most of the collection in the 1980s looking at the deactivation certificates and receipts that came with them. . He did have a firearms certificate and a live firearms collection until the 1980s (and was working as a deer stalker around the time I was born) and I believe that the deact SMLE replaced a real one. He had some pre-war shooting experience and was called up in 1939 (born April 1922 so just old enough to be in from the start) and I think his interest in firearms started then - he never really discussed anything later than that however. Later, he worked in the Middle East and East Africa from 1956 or earlier initially for the Department of Overseas Survey in Oman and Eritrea, later as a private sector contract surveyor in Iraq and Kurdistan until 1961 - he was there for the 1958 revolution and the 1961 Kuwait crisis and decided to call it a day after that and marry my mum in 1962. I have several dozen boxes of slides from his travels to clean up and scan - many are records of places that have been comprehensively wrecked over the last 20 years so I will add them to my website in due course as a lasting memorial to both him and the world he visited that is no more. Iain

As an aside, I am looking for a good photo - 800x600 or bigger - of a RT-320 mounted as a clip-in set in a GS landrover with permission to use it on my web site - I did have mine set up that way but the inside of the landrover was rather dark and the pictures I took weren't good enough - I will obviously give full credit to the owner(s) of any images used on my web site. Iain

Dear All I'm in the process of rebuilding my websites as the original 2008/9 design is looking rather dated and I have had a forced change of hosting for one of my sites. The HTML is a work in progress at https://moffatig.plus.com/g0ozs/Clansman.html https://moffatig.plus.com/g0ozs/Radios.html So far I have only re-written the UK/PRC-319 and UK/PRC-320 pages - the UK/VRC321 and 322 will be next. The image galleries have been migrated to Amazon web services and are available in full at: http://d3guoyyrmod405.cloudfront.net/radio/clansman/ Enjoy ! I've also uploaded the BATES/BMETS galleries (strictly the successor LACS hardware running BATES code) at http://d3guoyyrmod405.cloudfront.net/radio/BATES/ Constructive comments welcome via forum PM Iain 73 de G0OZS

Dear All I've been sorting through photos I took when getting my father's collection valued and sold in 2013/2014 and I thought I would post a link to them here in case they are useful to anyone for research or modelling purposes. The album is at: http://d3guoyyrmod405.cloudfront.net/gordon/deacts/index.html All of these items were sold to a dealer in 2013 or 2014 so are no longer available from me. Regards Iain

Yes BCC was sold to RACAL in the late 1960s - the "Racal" clansman sets and peripherals are really BCC sets and the separate "BCC" part numbers continue to this day with Thales: https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/worldwide/defence/panther with sets like the BCC67 and BCC69 Panther