ferret1958uk

29 Commando Regt, RA is trained to fight in mountains and cold areas. One of the main training grounds in the 70's was Norway and I know that my old l/wt Land Rover was winterised for use there. Which Bty was you Land Rover in within 29? That may help narrow down your search for clues as the batteries were stationed in different areas.

I should also add that I doubt you would make any money on the trailer if you restored it and then sold it. Those trailers are quite hard to find, and getting rarer, and rarer every year. Ones with the correct tub are usualy already restored and stuck to the back of a champ already. Value as it sits? I would say maybe £50 as it is almost certainly not road legal without some considerable surgery. The 'A' frame looks very rotten.

I had a ½ ton narrow track like yours. The hitch is variable height. Where the tube for the towing eye mounts on the box there are two bolts at the 9 and 3 o'clock positions. Soak them with lots of oil and gently try to remove them. If they come out then you can rotate the hitch in that shaft and then put the bolts back in. This is the only narrow track trailer I know of that has that ability. The chassis is a plain 'C' channel and easily fabricated if it has rotted out. To have the channels made about 10 years ago for mine cost me just under £50. I would guess that equates to £100 now? The tub is probably a later one as the ½ ton tubs had pressings in the sides. Easier to repir the tub you have. Getting the 'correct' tub is virtually impossible so you would have to remanufacture one.

I rent a lock up workshop locally and will be looking into getting contents insurance for it to mostly cover tools I have stored there. The building is insured by my landlord. My neighbours are all buisinesses so they have buisiness insurance (public liability, contents, loss of earnings etc) but I do not as I am not a buisiness. What insurance companies come recommended for insuring a private individuals workshop contents? My household insurance will only cover £2000 for tools and equipment away from my home address. All my vehicles are insured seperately, even the laid up ones.

C and S Tat from the Ex-miltary Land Rover Association sell the manuals you would need. A search online may also provide links to some manuals in .pdf format.

A rogue stone will come to the painfull attention of your spine just as you are trapped in position trying to undo an inaccessible bolt out of sight at full arms reach. A piece of 3/8 ply with a camping foam mat glued on works very well as they are waterproof, soft and insulate from the cold ground.

Some DVLA local offices will just send thier own person out, but that is now extremelly rare. I remember many years ago when my friend John has the DVLA in Brighton send an inspector out. She turned up in a very short skirt and crawled over the Austin K9 he was registering. Qute a pleasant day in the end. She knew about what to look for aswell. Your best bet may to ask the local office what they would want? If they say they can send someone then you can go along that route, but get as much info to hand as possible. I would recommend going through the MVT or IMPS before getting the DVLA involved though.

Unless you can convince the DVLA otherwise steer clear of them unless they are currently registered either in this country or abroad prior to 1980. The sidecar cannot be used on the right hand side unless the motorcyle was registered (not manufactured) before 1980. The knobbly tyres are also not road legal in the UK. Many of the Russian tyres like that even state 'NOT FOR HIGHWAY USE' on the sidewalls in several places.

It looks to me as though all notifications come from one address then such as notifications@hmvf? Change the address and it should start getting through. We had similar in a local political party. Two or more disgruntled ex-members reported the groups e-mails as spam. MSN/ Hotmail blocked the address. Two ways around it: a. Change the address. b. Allocate each member an e-mail address automatically at HMVF and sent notifications from that address. Then if I report merlin@hmvf for spam then clive@hmvf, jack@hmvf or lee@hmvf would still get thier notifications. For @hmvf to be blocked would mean MSN/ Hotmail suspect something very, very naughty to have been happening. Asking MSN/ Hotmail to unblock is probably going to fall on death ears.

The Singer Le-mans is out of your price range? I would have thought your truck would be equal in value now as the singer is an extremely under-rated car. I am not jut saying that because my parents have owned a 1936 Le-Mans for the past 40 years either! Welcome to the forum.

Welcome. I come from the West Sussex coast and also got interested in underground bunkers etc. A talk by Howard Toon at Lancing College wetted my appetite about 20 years ago. Unfortunately I never persue the hobby outdoors, as I spend my time with my Land Rovers. I have seen your book.

I have at least one, maybe two, of those guard plates in my workshop. They came from the set up in an old l/wt Land Rover. As this forum has always been generous to me I would happpily donate them to get them out of my way. Merlin.

Different methods work for different materials, as you can appreciate. On a NATO hitch you can probably use an impact driver to undo the screws for the plates that hold the swivel. Plus gas works well as a releasing agent as does soaking in diesel. Off the top of my head I cannot think of anything in the hitch that would be adversely affected by soaking for 2 days in hydrochloric acid either. That would certainly release it. Have you tried heat? With the hinge pins they can be tricky to remove. If you hit them with a drift they tend to just burr outwards rather than come out as they seem to be mild steel. I had to use heat on those.

Sunny Sussex, at 8:21pm? It was rather dark in my part of Sussex at the time. Welcome to the forum. I also have some dinky toys, but I still play with mine, as do my two sons if they are carefull. They are mostly of Land Rovers and military vehicles my family have owned. Merlin.

I also agree that the use of the Ferret in this manner was stupid, and potentialy harmfull to our hobby. What can we do about it? Do we sit here and wait for the next incident and make a new thread like this one and hope the government/ public do not notice again? Do we risk it all and approach government asking for guidlines to be put in place to legally prevent vehicles being used/ abused in this fashion? Do we club together and buy a huge island somewhere where we can all live together and enjoy our hobby in relative peace? To be realistic I have no idea how we can prevent owners using thier own vehicles to do things like this; and I actually think that it is foolish to think we can?

Your best bet would be to ask the Defence Procurement Agency for any details that they hold? The vehicle records are all computerised, and if memory is correct anything after 1996 will be computerised only.

Have you tried speaking to the Motor Heritage museum at Gaydon? They do have microfiche build records for almost all of the non-commercial Austins, and if anyone has been there to do similar research then they tend to know about it. As I have a small collection of 3 or 4 Austin 7's it was something I had previously wanted to know, but never thought to ask about when I went there recently.

schliesser92 has made an excellent reply here, and is great interest to me as my Land Rover 2a 109 gs has the same badge on the front passenger side wing. It spent its entire service life with 36 Sig Regt (V). Your trailer is the only other vehicle I have seen it on.

I saw it and recognised it immediately. There are two devices for measuring distance, and they are used at varying ranges. The other is shaped more like a flat disc from memory.

Is it a handle that gets inserted into the barrel to allow easier manoevering of the artillery piece in confined spaces?

They look like firebeaters for the solid fuel heaters.

Why? Everyone know it was Lt. of the US Army that led the raid. The squadron used B17's, and the design for the bouncing bomb was based on a redneck skipping stones on his brother/ uncles ranch. That makes for a good story. Wasn't the leaders dog called Toto?

The penthouse for one of these is very heavy. A thick canvas like material with a vinyl dark green coating. Chances are that you will not find the frame and canvas unless it is already with a comms trailer. The penthouse for the Austin K9 is made from similar steel poles and the canvas is also the same material. The K9 penthouse canvas can occasionally be found at shows such as W&P.

The service was not very well advertised at all. It was mentioned in the refreshements tent run by the church, but other than that I saw no adverts for it. Many of the pictures in the refreshments tent were of the temporary churches serving our troops abroad. Some nice ones of a 12x12 or 18x12 stuck in the middle of nowhere with one end open as a church. It may be that one point being made was that you can create a house of God wherever you need, whenever you need. To form a church all you need is the people. In Worthing we run a drumhead service for the Armed Forces Weekend. I would love to see something similar at W&P on the Sunday.

The purist in me says GS are possibly the hardest to find. Collectors ignore them too easily so they are the ones that fall unloved and get broken. Considering how few GS vehicles are known to exist, compared to the FFR variant, then it amazes me that collectors still say GS are worth less and should be used as spares for the more common FFRs. GS variants have a place on the show ground. They are military vehicles, and were designed (in the case of the 2a) to be capable of having FFR kit fitted if required. Prices vary greatly. I miss some gems do to not knowing they were there or having funds. I payed over the odds for my FFR wreck, but did so because it was so complete and un-molested.