Tarland
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Cheers - thanks for that
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A slightly off tangent question....
I have been reading about RAF Coastal Command Srike Wings that attacked shipping in the North Sea and along the Norwegian coast in 1944/45.
A number of long range fighter squadrons were assigned to provide escorts.
Coastal command (and Fleet Air Arm) aircraft operated in the two tone white and grey camoflage colours (the precursor to the low vis colours used since the late 1980's or thereabouts). Did the escort fighters operate in the conventional camoflage colours of Fighter command?
Can anyone shed on light on this. I have found one or two photos of the period of RAF Mustangs operating out of Peterhead but obviously in black and white and not close ups of parked aircraft so very difficult to make out the scheme used.
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On 28/03/2018 at 8:44 PM, Zero-Five-Two said:
At first glance, it looks like the whole thing is being held up by that single rope from the crane!
Going off at a tangent - wondered what this jack up was used for....
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/photos/of/ships/shipid:459000/#forward
The individual legs have rack and pinion drives - either hydraulically or electrically powered.
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Marc,
Could you post the dimensions of the spanner/track clamp.
This will give a steer on whether it could be used on FV430 family track etc.
Rgds
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I enquired about it via a PM shortly after it was posted and never recieved a response.....
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Someone has picked themselves up a nice project...
There's various clips of As24's on You Tube so theres a few surviors out of the 460...
The example in the Brightwells auction is missing the box over the engine "compartment"
They do look pretty basic and make the Faun Kraka look pretty luxurious by comparison.
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Got several sets (pairs) of MoD Ratchet straps for sale £15/pair + postage. Brand new still in plastic bags.
The tails are captive in the ratchets so not your normal truck tie down straps i.e. two sections - ratchet and tail with hook.
I presume must be used for Pallet tie down in trailers etc.
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Hi,
Looking for 1 or possibly 2 Hawker UK6TNMF MoD spec 100Ah 12V batteries. Obviously need to be functional.
Will cover courier collection/shipping.
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10 hours ago, LarryH57 said:
That video of the Tank in the snow is interesting, which makes me think tanks in WW2 must of been affected by the same conditions. When you see T-34s charging through the snow, you think a tank can go anywhere!
I think the performance comes down to the surface the tracks are on and the configuration of the track links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnTVbsfixfM
I remember reading somewhere that during the winter of 1944/45 6th Guards armoured Bde had real issues with the Churchills they were operating but the captured Panther "Cuckoo" seemed to manage ice covered roads with ease.
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Its a Bardic.
The base plate comes off by releasing the spring catch on each side - push the black tab towards the base and lift the wire loop over the ridge on the edge of the base plate.
I have a 3 slot battery carrier in mine that takes 1.5V D type cells.
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I had a suspicion that the connector might be an issue and didn't pursue it....
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Useful to know.....
Seen a couple of the RAK 15/2 units for sale but never seem to have the associated 3 core cable.
The old style BV's have 4 pin/4 core cables so could a 4 core cable be reterminated to power a RAK15/2?
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Did anyone think to look in the T69's fuel tank and see if there was any bullion in it???
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On 12/10/2017 at 7:24 AM, Joris said:
Your PDF links are still on my to-do list, I will look at that today.
I know there's a long list of "snagging" to do but could you restore the Clive's Corner pdf links...... they still seem to be broken....
Cheers
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Here, if you sit through it all, are some Centurions which may be these same ones.
I think the pic in Post#7 in Rick's thread is actually a still from the film - so it would be the same vehicle (later in the thread with the vehicles in Rick's yard there is "No.3" painted on the front mud guard and I think this is the vehicle in the film)
If Rick has 2 then there was probably at least 1 more to warrant the No.3 being marked on the vehicle - at Eskmeals or somewhere else..... Kirkcudbright or Shoeburyness?
I seem to remember the DU rounds were tested at Kirkcudbright as one or two of the locals got a little hot under the collar about it.....
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the plan is to convert it back to a mbt in time
Gun tanks are ten a penny, if it proves to be a Willich (or even a Sankey conversion) keep it as a rare engineering vehicle - much more interesting....
See the Range wreck thread - theres a series of photos of the Lulworth targets (or potential targets from 2010) largely compromised of AVRE's...
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Definetely not CVR(T) - as Mr Mead's Ebay add states - 430 series.....
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Another Saturday night with no Dad's Army in this region
So what is this all about?
Its what the Cuban's have been using against the US Embassy in Havana...........(does the photo name not give it away)
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It would help if I said that those Scammell photos that Max posted are obviously not in this thread but are to be seen in those that The Governor has relating to 94BD67
Still can't get over how great that night shot of the other Scammell is and of the bods in despair.I must be missing something - which thread entry in the Govenors restoration thread are theses additional photos?
Or do I have the wrong thread.....?
As for the Scammell and the ARV getting "bogged" its one of those "you couldnt make it up" moments....
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One other symbol
the dashed line with T symbol - probably a telephone line/power cable
The photo interpreters would be looking at stereo pairs of photos so things like telegraph poles would show up in 3D or alternatively theres a mark indicating an excavation running to another site that has been interpreted as being linked to the battery and this has been concluded to be for cables etc.
U/C - under construction
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The symbols are as follows;
a) Lines of x - barbed wire entanglements
b) solid zig-zags - fighting positions/trench lines
c) arrows - estimated orientation/firing lines from weapon postions - MG's
d) Triangular crenallated line - anti tank trap/ditch.
e) bridge symbols - gaps in the defence lines/crossing points
The Gun houses are reasonably obvious.
The wire shows up as it is impossble to cut the grass/undergrowth that appears and grows up amongst the wire once they are in postion.
The AT ditch info has been transposed from another photo (or was in the process of being dug when the photo was taken)
There is another AP of the site after it has been bombed on the Wikipedia entry for the assault and this shows up the AT ditch nicely (this photo is orientated 180 deg from the annotated version in your book)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Merville_Gun_Battery#/media/File:Merville-Bombardement.jpg
Try comparing the two.
Theres a nice story in the RV Jones "Most Secret War" book that after the Bruneval raid to recover radar hardware/intelligence that the Germans helpfully installed barbed wire enclosures around all these sorts of installations (Bruneval had no such protection) which then allowed them to be identified from AP recon photos.....
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Alec I've left you to last as you got it in one
Well done Alec it is indeed an ignition coil & viewed with a thermal imager
Can anyone guess what the significance of it is, especially the bright bits?
Bizarre depths is about right.......
Bring back the grainy black and white photos of arcane tests on vehicles in an obscure MoD lab in the back end of nowhere....
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Detail of a tank gun barrel with and without the sections of thermal sleeve in place........
There's not much detail in a thermal image to come up with much else - its hot or its got some form of insulation or lagging wrapped round it....
Still can't get over how great that night shot of the other Scammell is and of the bods in despair.
Churchill Bridgelayer ramps on eBay
in Heads Up: For Sale!
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Looking at the photos in the Ad it looks like one of the ramps that forms one side of a Churchill bridge unit. Unfortunately it has the proverbial gas axe applied to it to form two ramps...