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Richard Farrant

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  1. In your photo thre looks to be a word painted over number. It looks lik HANGER
  2. Off the top of my head I would think 1942 or 1943. As it looks to be desert colour it is possible that it was brought back to Australia when the Aussies withdrew from North Africa.
  3. Hi, There were 3 contracts of Ford WOT6 GS (General Service) lorries starting with L49.. They were; L4963097 to L4964096 L4964097 to L4966096 L4966097 to L4970096 Hope you can find a bit more of the number. This is known as the Census number, a bit like a registration number for the British army at that time 1940's regards, Richard
  4. I would do a compression test on the engine while plugs are removed as the head gasket could have blown between two cylinders. Not unusual on B60 and B80. You will know if it has because two adjacent cylinders will be a low reading and identical pressure.
  5. I have gone back to the beginning of this story and basically it is a 9 year old boy, whose father is having a 'secret' meeting with important people from the government, War Department or whatever, and he was asked to bring out a dustbin to destroy paperwork .........yet he was told they were going to bury 100's of tanks ........ strikes me he was told a story to fob him off what was really being discussed. If it was so secret, why would you tell a child???? There is no proof of these plates in a scrapyard being connected with this story.
  6. The Rolls engineer in Australia, found that these trucks were working at full power for up to 12 hours, as you say, the manifolds were replaced by ones made of Meehanite from RR which solved that problem. Gearbox tail shafts were running at acute angles and often failed, with spare shafts being carried. They were enduring very hard work all the time, you would have to see the country to understand.
  7. I have seen the Rotinoff Viscount at Alice Springs several times, it is a rigid 6 wheeler with cattle body, it pulled up to 3 other large cattle trailers. Engine was a 6SFL supercharged with 6 speed synchro overdrive gearbox with 3 speed synchro auxiliary box. Axle ratio of 10.18 to 1 . There were two owned by the Vestey meat company. Due to the long hot arduous work through the outback, they suffered cracked exhaust manifolds. Also gearbox problems. Later Fuller boxes replaced the original gearbox. A lot of info on them in an Aussie book about road trains in the Northern Territory.
  8. It was not a Stalwart prototype, it was a test bed for skid steering and other ideas. On display in The Tank Museum.
  9. To answer your query, Lucas bought the Butler business in 1948.
  10. All sorts of odd ideas were trialled by WVEE but this one did not make sense on a 4x2 OY, the 4x4 Bedford QL would have easily out performed it along with the other 3 ton 4x4 lorries in service at the time.
  11. Royal Logistics Corp Museum, they have a webpage for vehicle enquiries . https://www.rlcarchive.org/VehicleSrch
  12. Yes Alaister, a standard 20" wheel that also fitted Bedford QL, CMP Fords and Chevs, Humber armoured car and many others that were shod with 10.50-20 tyres at the time.
  13. As the WOT6 was a Machinery lorry, it would have been in service with REME, the one I was involved in restoring is shown here, with the Blue, Yellow and Red sign to denote REME and 99 over it for Workshop unit. The other sign was for 6th Guards Armoured Brigade, significant in our area as one of the first V1 flying bombs dropped on their camp and killed a large number of REME personnel. The QL is mine, photo taken about 14 years ago.
  14. I think it was the car that hit the plane, because if you look the prop blade is behind the car and it is not bent.
  15. Hi Mark, I have no idea of what one like that would sell for currently. Had mine at least 35 years.
  16. Have one of these unused in a crate with spare parts and instruction book. Made be several manufacturers, but believe Stuart Turner Ltd initially designed it. Others like Enfield and Douglas also built them.
  17. Rob, I remember doing some of these mirror mods in the late 1970's. Another mod was to change the fuel filter assembly in the cab from the cloth type to a modern CAV renewable can type.
  18. There were a number of different variants of the 1260w charging sets, I have one powered by a Petter engine. Some had JAP, Norman and Douglas engines. Yours was produced by the British Motor Boat company see link here; https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/British_Motor_Boat_Manufacturing_Co The control board was positioned away from the charging set and linked with a large cable. They could charge banks of batteries.
  19. Hi Rob, As I recall, the modification used RL mirror arms.
  20. According to Merlin, this Pig was cast and disposed of in December 1993 at Ludgershall Vehicle Depot !
  21. I recall the Swiss army bought Rotinoff tank transporter tractors, wonder if they had the same problems?
  22. Wally, It makes you wonder if the worm and wheel was not set up correctly.
  23. I recall Wally's business and stock being sold quite a few years ago. I think some of the Canadian Ford parts were bought by a certain dealer in Holland. Someone up in the North of England was running a business under the Nordian name and I did get an item from them, but it appeared to be a part time operation. Then when I was after some more parts, about 15 years ago, I found that the stock had been bought by a man in Liverpool area and I was able to get some V8 parts for a WOT6 from him. Then I believe the stock moved on again and I never did find where it ended up.
  24. Hi Johnny, I know nothing about Saurers or where to find parts. The only suggestion is to find one of the dealers in Switzerland who sell of their old military vehicles. regards, Richard
  25. Hi Jim, The reason I come to this conclusion is the LV1 parts are tank related, so definitely not for David Brown tractors! The transmission on a Centurion was a Merritt-Brown design, and it had 5 forward and 2 reverse gears.
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