Surveyor

Got the pictures today

2 hours ago, Ex-boy said:

The wreath hanging on the fence appears to have a KOSB badge; a bit unusual for Fife?

I was going to get pictures of the garden in full as there seems to be an interest so will get a better picture

10 minutes ago, Rootes75 said:

That would be a good idea, some of the displays last year were very thought provoking.

Agreed there was the one in a cemetery think its posted on this forum somewhere, would be good just to record for future generations 

29 minutes ago, Rootes75 said:

I do like the remembrance soldiers. I recall the village had a Nurse one too.

I haven't seen the nurse one that would be interesting, it was the poppies in the fore ground which made it for me.

Maybe this thread could be a place for the photographs of similar

I know its not remembrance but was passing this garden and the angle I took the picture I thought was symbolic

For those interested its an M4, lengths seem different depending on which part is to be fixed

Barry, my Modified stoves all have that burner

2 hours ago, Rootes75 said:

It does seem a strange time to be investing such a huge amount of money into a museum.

Best of luck to them though and hope it can be a success.

If hes about to open i wonder when he actually started on it

Before I go out and try and set fire to one, does any one know if these are meant to be fore resistant.

Also has anyone sourced some one who can reproduce these labels for renovation projects

Thanks

Richard

If the weather is good will get the 4 No2 modified stoves out to see the burner head

Just bought another one different manufacturer, needs a bit of cleaning need to find a spare heat spreader plate, think i can see DBG under the matt paint but not sure

It could refer to all vehicles there and what you are after, they have some nice looking ones when there on Monday but i was picking kit up and did not look at any apart from driving by.

I would say the staff are extremely helpful especially as i couldn't get there when looking at a land rover and they did a photographic survey of the parts not shown in the sales catalogue.

I think that has been on before the pictures of the kit in the lockers make me think so

23 minutes ago, SquireBev said:

There's a four volume epic by Dick Taylor that covers 1903-2003, but naturally it's out of print.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Warpaint-Markings-Vehicles-1903-2003-Publications/dp/8389450631

Many thanks

37 minutes ago, B series said:

Hello SquireBev

I think this is a good book on the subject you are researching:

British Military Markings  1939-1945 By Peter Hodges published 1971    ISBN 085524288. I have owned my copy since early 80's, but you might find one for sale somewhere.

 

Do you know if there are latter years books

29 minutes ago, fv1609 said:

In this upgrade the brass instruction plate was removed & replaced by a self-adhesive label.

There were three issues of the upgrade. I don't know the actual date of the first issue but it was listed as current in Feb 1981, subsequent issues were Aug 1982 & Sep 1985.

Unmodified cookers were modified to the burner grid from Jul 1989

Clive

Thanks for the information I have printed this thread off to go in my stove file

Richard

Clive

Always a pleasure to get an input from you

Richard

9 hours ago, Barrym said:

The 

The yellow label states leaded petrol

 

Wonder where i got unleaded from then this lock doen must be affecting the memory

6 minutes ago, Richard Farrant said:

I had one of these back in the 80's and it said to use unleaded petrol, but this was well before Unleaded was available at filling stations.

Yes that's a puzzle, the instructions for this appear to be on metal and the others a "sticky label" need to source a supplier for the label

Thanks this one does say 1975 but the label mentions unleaded petrol so assume its been modified

Are you just going to concentrate on tanks, what about other vehicles? 

I wasn't going to bid on this but its a variant I have only seen pictures of, any one has information on how common these were?

A friend of mine has discovered these boxes when clearing out an attic, I have noticed that the original QA labels are still on them.

Can anyone help in identifying what would be in them and interpret the labels.

I think if memory is correct FRAC is a fragmentation 

Thanks

Richard

yes agreed on that will start moving them and replacing as i go

Been a long day and yes brain dead again