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Mystery Object No.10


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Just to show I am not narrow minded, this is not post war & it is not a lamp guard.

 

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Sorry about the "moire" effect it doesn't look too bad on photobucket, I reduced the size down twice but it got worse & worse.

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water purification unit?

 

Absolutely right! Have to call you Richard the first :-D

 

But what is its proper name?

 

What year is it? Clue prewar.

 

(and it isn't in the Windscreen article, as I found this after I had written it. But it will be in the updated version going on site later)

 

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Absolutely right! Have to call you Richard the first :-D

 

But what is its proper name?

 

What year is it? Clue prewar.

 

 

Clive,

 

Not sure of its correct title, somewhere I have a prewar pamphlet on Water Purification, which I sent you some details from, for the article. This unit predates that, the only names that spring to mind is Stella and another beginning with M??????? Date.......possibly around 1919-1925 :?

 

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Clive,

 

Not sure of its correct title, somewhere I have a prewar pamphlet on Water Purification, which I sent you some details from, for the article. This unit predates that, the only names that spring to mind is Stella and another beginning with M??????? Date.......possibly around 1919-1925 :?Richard the First

 

Richard I. I was teasing a bit when I said it was pre-war, it is, but is pre-WW1. This is the Field Service Filter-Tank which was in service in 1908. But in 1909 a very similar item appeared the Cart Water Tank MkII & MkII* as it looks identical I think the Field Service Filter-Tank became renamed as the Cart Water Tank MkI A serious omission was that nobody thought to put a drain plug at the bottom of the tank for cleaning so an "EMER" was raised for that.

 

The CWT seemed to get displaced in the 1920s-30s with Regimental Water Cart that then evolved into a thing with tyres for MT use the Water Tank Trailer. I think that was what we were corresponding about. Yes you are thinking about the Metafilter.

 

Although all my vehicles are PWW2, I have a fascination for the mundane, but important aspects of military life in the last 100 years such as water, sanitation, stores & supplies but when you go to places that cover this area of history its all about guns & uniforms & I find that a turn off whatever the era :-(

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