Ex-boy

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?

And now another: The last dambuster, Johnny Johnson. RIP.

A tragic loss. May she rest in peace.

Not being very techie I can’t post a link, but just seen the above advertised on Facebook Marketplace and thought it might be of interest.

Steve.

I’m not the one to ID the vehicle, but I’ve ID’d a female onboard. Nurse?

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.

3 hours ago, andypugh said:

Seems odd to get enthusiastic about a parts-washer, but that's lovely. 

Page 207 here has them listed at West End Mill
https://www.bradfordfhs.org.uk/_resources/tradedirectories/post-office-bradford-directory-1887-8.pdf
And that itself is listed between Norcroft Brow and Longside Lane which leads me to suspect that they were here:
https://goo.gl/maps/CnQ4BdY45PUBDhYX9

or here

https://goo.gl/maps/rUxbMDfzEHvShNht8

The first one seems have been demolished by the university, if you move about it disappears. 

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.

1 hour ago, Cheshire Steve said:

I think they get away with it on a technicality. The surviving gun is an 18" barrel mounted on what is described as a proofing sleigh (a lot smaller mount than the normal rail gun), which was used for test firings at Shoeburyness. It retired from those duties in 1959. It was moved to the Rotunda, then after a spell at Larkhill, and then an exhibition at Utrecht it is indeed now at Fort Nelson.

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.

At least one was still in use with 10 Div. Support Workshop in Tidworth in the early 1970s.

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.

The Mk 1 had different windows, with the side ones being level at the bottom, not sloping down, as the Mk2 does.

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.

If anyone wishes to know (a little) more about the army in Fremington, just Google Fremington Army Camp.

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.

Slight error on spelling Wally, it’s Fremington in Devon.

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!

Also, in the Middle East (my experience was in Kuwait) it is called a miftah Inglese. Don’t quote my transliteration though!

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.

Re the turning of valves for grinding, when I was in the trade it was done with a sucker on a stick, which is all I ever used for the job.

Actually Ich Dien.

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.