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Iain I didn't realise that. Yes of course a match across a wide frequency will be impossible to achieve without some internal complexities. My mindset is still stuck on my own operating habits over a narrow bandwidth. Of course the item is called a 'tuner' not simply a matching unit as I had supposed. The fun will dissecting it out from whatever it has been potted in.

I shouldn't think its going to be anything very exciting or complex. Just a balun of some sort or a series tuned circuit (ie a capacitor in series with a modest inductance) If you did dismantle one it might be difficult to glean much as it is probably embedded in epoxy or similar

A remarkable achievement distorted into an entertaining film. http://www.lamsdorf.com/is-the-great-escape-film-a-travesty.html

Pete usually new items of equipment will be codified at the same time so I did a few searches going up & down the scale changing the last digit until the item went off topic. This is what I found: 5820-99-647-9541 Antenna British Aerospace 6401-1-23578 Malvern Spec PT6036-0-600103 5820-99-647-9542 Tuner 5820-99-647-9543 Antenna British Aerospace 6401-1-23583 Malvern Spec PT6036-0-611054 British Aerospace Spec PT6036-1-611001 So I don't know which "antenna" would be the one you are looking for. But there are some numbers to help widen your search. The other likely source are the two people who traded as C&S Tat supplying radio stuff that people like to fit to their Rovers. They operate independently now, one is in Norfolk & the other in Somerset. I can give you contact details if you PM me. 73 de G4MBS

I have a 1943 VAOS Section LV6/MT3 Part 1 it covers quite a lot of Trico wipers but its not listed in there.

Yes .

Terry this was an EMER issued in 1961 for the installation of C13/B47 + A40 in Saracen APC for use in an armoured car regiment. The batteries were a pair of: Batteries, secondary, lead acid, 12v, 75Ah Z9/6140-99-910-1537

Battery carriers.

Doug yes Dec 1961 was certainly early. 21BK83 was prototype P2 it was Wing No. 6092 at FVRDE. The "production" run for the Hornets was Jan 1962 to Jan 1963. I think that smashed up one is at the end of my article of FV1620 development. But it is recognisable (just) by the characteristics of the door. Interesting to get the date of that, thank you. JATE had two Hornets do you know the fate of the other?

Andy I don't use GPS so that's one less thing to worry about. I looked in Photoshop. All I could find for web & email was optimising the file size, nothing about EXIF but then I am only on version 2.0

So is the image taken on the phone permanently tagged with location? Or is it only if you post the image from that location? I use my phone a fair bit as a handy camera & then download the images to the PC. I can't find any location information associated with the image. When I click on the image Properties then Summary then Advanced I can find a vast amount of info about how & when the photo was taken but nothing about location. Is it embedded somewhere that I can't see? I was just hoping to remove everything other than the date on any images I share. Is that possible or are Properties embedded & cannot be amended?

It was very useful for me when we had a phone line down for nearly 3 weeks. I could walk up the lane & hover outside a couple of hot spots. Unfortunately it got a bit tiresome as it caused concern as I was thought to be listening in or planning a robbery. Inconvenient but was better than nothing. No 3G here & even old-G is patchy.

Here you are Daniel sorry for the delay. But it has taken over an hour to scan it, clean up the images & compile it into a pdf. I am sure there are quicker ways! Although I am using an original document they were produced as print to order & the photo quality of some of these modern documents is appalling. So they are still not very good but they are an improvement on the originals! You will note a similarity to the earlier document. Even so this later tent, marquee is now obsolete & was replaced by a series of shelters, connectors & passageways comprising Field Force Medical Unit (FFMU) Shelter Complex covered in JSP 361/7. JSP 361-22.pdf

Daniel I'll try & do it tomorrow.

Keith yes that's the wartime version. Colin can you PM me your email then I'll send you the instructions. It is easier if I photo them as there are 16 pages. The main description is in the Stores & Clothing Research & Development Establishment - Tents & Shelter in Service & under Development 1973. The instructions are in this:

Class 1 reliability means it is still in the first 60% of its planned life R is the receipt date NRDY is a mystery I can find no RAOC meaning for this in any lists or glossaries in the RAOC storage generally or in vehicle depot manuals. Must be some improvised abbreviation, something like No Repair Due Yet?

Vehicle Depot markings Bob. Class refers to Reliability Class. These markings should be obliterated on issue to a Unit. Owners often reproduce these markings along with the Unit markings, but a combination of the two types is incompatible

Joe basically: 10A Instruments & ignition Can carry: 11A for 15 mins 20A for 10-25 secs 30A Lights & horn Can carry: 35A for 15 mins 60A for 11-50 secs So there is a bit of latitude if you have an overload.

Joe there are two thermal cutouts in the Distribution Box No.1 Mk 1. 10A and 30A, the headlights come from the 30A one. If there has been a short circuit it will take a minute or so to recover. If no recovery then water may have got in and it will be rusted up. Yes they get full 24v. The Distribution Box box has the jump start socket.

AFG 8461, I don't have that one listed. For "Combined Demand & Issue Voucher for Stores" I have AFG 928E. But maybe this the RAOC world rather than RE. Looks like AC No. 13555 is a detailed stores catalogue for NF.

The Army Form I assume is G 982E?

The problem is all my stores accounting publications are RAOC based, whereas it seems RE do their own thing. So no idea what "relook" means but assume the year when the item must be checked over again. UOA doesn't appear in any glossary that I have, not even the list of abbreviations in the CREM. I have a pretty recent tri-service list of abbreviations & acronyms but nothing in there. Sorry.

You're welcome Pete. It's a delight to find someone interested in documents & putting what I have here to some use. Thank you, I'll have a think about what Kew might offer in addition to anything you can retrieve. Just received 11 booklets in the Regulations for Army Ordnance Services series so that will make good night time reading. A couple of unusual imprints to add to the excitement :-D

I'm afraid I'm a bit lost as I know nothing of the equipment itself, I'm just approaching things from a document angle. There is no more on that page other than construction equipment. VAOS of course is a RAOC system & had no N Section for itself although it meshes in with CREM items that occupy N & S Sections in the overall cataloguing of stores (Ordnance & RE). Rather like "the River Kwai March" & "Colonel Bogey" - two separate tunes but can be played at the same time! Before the clean up of CREM being in N or S there was a real mess of CREM Sections scattered in between VAOS Sections but independent of them: EN EO EP ES ET FN FR FS FU HN HO HP HQ HR HS JO KN KS WN WO XP XR Many of those Sections share a first letter with a first letter of a VAOS Section that would only have added to confusion with such non-related items being catalogued in proximity eg J1 Camping Equipment (VAOS) JO Construction materiel testing equipment (CREM) J0 Ship repairs & base repairs (and not forgetting the Navy)

Very envious of your visit to Kew. :-D Thanks for the scans. Interesting that it uses the earlier prefix "EP". The 1984 edition is unhelpful as there is no index & it's not missing as the whole document is stapled. Interesting that in your section we have the old EP with a simple catalogue number, but when codified the DMC changes to NF. This would explain you seeing it in the list for NSN although it includes Cat No. for the old stuff. Odd that it didn't get codified! I can't recall seeing anything in use so late on that has not been codified. Other than the front cover, I don't think I have ever seen a CES that has not been typed. The last entry is the printer's imprint. So 220 copies for delivery Nov 1958. The preceding bit is the warrant & demand. SP may well be Staples Press although I would have suspected this might have been the printing services of the RAOC. There is a bit here on the allocation of WO/Army Coded sequence & a bit on imprints. http://hmvf.co.uk/pdf/CRACKING%20THE%20CODES%20v2.00.pdf