She really is a credit to you and I’m very envious. One question though. Are the red door handles due to necessity or is there a security element to them?
Best regards,
Steve.
It really has been a great journey, even for armchair enthusiasts like me, so thank you very much for all your efforts and these posts.
What are your plans for your new project?
Just guessing, I wondered if it was just a trademark of PUROLATOR filters, although Googling Purolator filters didn’t help. Let’s hope someone with a bit of knowledge can enlighten us both.
I have to thank you for posting the directory, as I have been fascinated by some of the trades listed. What a different world it was then.
As for the subject of the original query, whether it is a parts cleaner or oil dispenser, it is a beautiful artefact and well worth preserving.
I can’t help directly, although if you do a search, there are several threads about bomb trolleys, which may help you.
One comment on your posting: the final ‘s’ on the plate looks, to me, like an 8.
Good luck.
Steve.
Thanks for the replies, Steve and GWT, good to know it wasn’t scrapped, and being a gun on a railway mount I would still class it as a railway gun, whatever the experts say.
At the end of that article it says that no railway guns now exist. I’m no expert on railway guns, but there was one in Woolwich, outside the Rotunda museum on Repository Road in the late 1990s, possibly early 2000s. Does anyone know what happened to it?
There are a number of threads for Salamanders on the Emergency Services section. I would have recommended the Museum of RAF Firefighting, but not sure if it currently has a home.
Good luck,
Steve.
Sorry, I’m not paying enough attention and misread your post. The original post from Motorfarher states that the vehicles were bought in 1966 and, to me, the accompanying photos show a Mark 2. That made me doubt them being ex-BAOR, hence my unnecessary mention of Mk1.
Unlikely to be ex-BAOR I think. In 1966 there would have been mainly Mk 1s in service , so Mk 2s are unlikely to have been given up. Besides, Alvis would no doubt have wanted these vehicles to be pristine.
The only reason I knew was that during my service days I had a posting order to join LAD REME 18 Sqn RCT there (on DUKWs). This was early 1972 but before the posting date they were sent to NI and amalgamated with 26 Sqn, so instead of DUKWs I ended up on macralon covered Bedfords and Rovers in Lisburn. Just my luck.
One small addition to the above, which is probably not relevant to what you need, but in the paragraph on SALOME there is mention of Forward Management Codes. FORWARD was another acronym, for Feedback Of Repair Workshop and Reliability Data (if my memory is correct), just to add another layer to the already mind-boggling changes. Good lord indeed!
Seems to me very unlikely to be Landrover, partly because the rake of the windscreen is more noticeable, let alone it’s rarity (or existence) at that time.
I don’t know why there are two threads on this vehicle, but for anyone who has not seen the other, it is in the ‘Tell us’ section. A short video of the beast is posted there, so worth a look.