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I have looked through the Vocabulary of Army Ordnance Stores. Section F1 Hand Tools. 1944. It is fully illustrated but I'm afraid I can find nothing that resembles that interesting device.

Many years ago at the War & Peace Show there were some Claribel units for sale with Anchor Surplus. I now regret not buying any of the bits, but whilst discussing various devices used in NI I noticed that the member of staff had a tie that incorporated a reference to Triton. I wish I had taken a picture but in those days phones didn't have cameras. I think he was pleased that someone had recognised the background history to his commemorative tie. So did you have to wear a respirator when pumping? A while back I went through all the REME SITREPS from NI & noted a comment among the lines that the Commers had been so poorly designed that the pump operator could easily be overcome by fumes from the pump so had to wear a respirator. Not sure that it would have protected against carbon monoxide.

I believe this would be High Gloss Deep Bronze Green BSC 381C No. 224. It was was not until late 1980 that NATO Green was even introduced into service & that was a matt finish. During the 1970s various interim matt paints were used mainly Olive Drab but there was no approved vehicle paint in that shade, what was used as a compromise was a War Equipment paint. This was unlikely to be something a manufacturer of vehicles would apply & besides your paintwork looks to be a gloss finish not matt.

It might well do Robin, at the time the EMER applied to Rover 8, 9, 10 & 11 There was an earlier EMER that covered the fitting of 4 brackets to Rover 8 & 10. This was not so elegant & only provided 4 lashing points for "a suitable length of rope obtained locally."

Welcome Dan do you have the chassis number or better still the military registration which is likely to be xxFLxx or xxGFxx? I might be able to give you some basic history, There is some general info here & a forum https://shorlandsite.com/

EMER WHEELED VEHICLES Q 029 Misc, Instr, No.45 Applique stretcher kit. LV6/MT13/6530-99-804-4920 Originally issued 22 Nov 1968, title amended June 1972

Thanks for saying thanks, it does make a difference. If you get stuck there is more in the AESP but it is too much to copy all in full. Might work you on the air one day, 73 de GW4MBS

A bit more.

There are these & bit more to come.

You're probably aware of this thread: https://hmvf.co.uk/topic/32129-racal-feild-phone-uk-ptc-404/#comment-497683 Circuit diagram to be going on with flow charts 2 & 5 to follow.

Clansman in Ferret was covered in the sequence EMER COMMUNICATION INSTALLATIONS K 670-679

Well done Kevin fixing it yourself. Far more satisfying than just randomly replacing units in the hope that it might be cured. Having the right publications is key to a diagnosis.

Is the diagonal actually a small rope that is attached to the sling point to the left of the sign? It seems to droop a little then stretches up towards the cab area, and appears thicker on the right as suggested above because it is more shadowy?

Ok thanks Sean would be interesting to see a later version. Although MOD abbreviations are often rather broad in their coverage that don't include whole ranges of abbreviations peculiar to particular arms of service. As you know often identical abbreviations crop up with quite diverse meanings and even within that arm of service can change with time that makes interpretation challenging.

Looks like it is in East Sussex to save you having to download the form to find out where it is being held.

Sean yes I'm also inclined to agree with Richard. Is that later document on line somewhere?

You could be right Richard but I posted the only official reference to A/C that I could find and this was from MOD Acronyms and Abbreviations Dec 2008

I think you will find that A/C = Aircraft and ADT were the auctioneers who functioned primarily from Aston Down.

Apart from the Rapier role, the Asset Code RB17264100 confirms that it was in RAF service.

Chris I see what you mean, it does have of sort of Government contract ring to it, but it might even be for say the Ministry of Transport?

Yes, that is a useful diagram, it comes from the UHB for the winterisation kit to show the existing system before fitting the additional bits for the insulation jacket. There was also an immersion heater kit. I can't remember how I found out but I think there were only 3 full kits supplied to the Army & 7 to the RAF.

Just part of the fixing kit.