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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

An old can Terry that has been opened many times before :-D

Pete I can't see that NF 1301 & NF 1451 is any form of NSN. In the general structure of the Vocabulary of Army Ordnance Stores Section N was reserved for Stores & Bridging in the Catalogue of Royal Engineers Materiel. NF relates to Bridging Ancillaries (the code prior to that was EP). NF then became the Domestic Management code to prefix a NSN. The only CREM I have is dated 1997. It shows the items covered by the DMC of NF. I'm only allowed limited access to the intranet, but documents that are not current very quickly get booted out. But I'm frustrated that I can't find any references to tie in with the 55005 series that you in front of you.:-D

I was wondering how you were getting on Doug. I had a similar thing on the Hornet with a cracked flywheel. I had to buy a FV1601 to get the flywheel out of it. But using the RR workshop manual I torqued up the studs on the flywheel & snapped two. Then I realised it was not ft-lbs but in-lbs :argh: Not so much room in the Hornet though.

PS As far as trailers go, you realise it was intended for 3/4 Tons, might be a bit of a struggle in a 1/2 Ton :-(

There is some coverage of the Water Carriage Pack on pages 12-14 of this http://www.hmvf.co.uk/pdf/ARMYWATERSUPPLY.pdf It is covered in detail in EMER ENGINEERING & MISCELLANEOUS D410 onwards There were a series of handbooks for different installations & pumping/filtering equipment published mainly in the 1970s by MVEE (Christchurch) LMS have had a good stock of WCPs http://www.milweb.net/dealers/trader/lms/index.htm

Me too. For years I had the 2 Pigs, 2 Shorlands, 2 Wolves, Hornet & Cypher Office insured with them. Only ever made one claim & that was dealt with the minimum of fuss. I have fewer vehicles now but most years I up the value to reflect restoration levels & the market value. There is no fuss as long as it is supported with an explanation & photos.

The restored cart is on post no.14. Maybe you have to log in to see it? Curiously the thread was also started by someone who had the brass plate & wanted to know what the cart looked like. Although the plate is little different from yours.

Actually there is a picture of one being restored on this thread: http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=136389&hl=%2Bofficers+%2Bmess+%2Bcart

Maybe it was something like to officer's baggage cart on page 7 of this? http://hmvf.co.uk/pdf/EARLY%20BATTLEFIELD%20CARE%20v120.pdf

If I have read the plans correctly there are a number of little rooms marked LAV. Good to see traditional terminology being used, unlike these days when in a recent hijack, the pilot was locked out of his cabin after he had been to the "bathroom"! Oh for goodness sake, he had been to the LAV. So will the clubhouse LAVS be introduced to the latest technology that was installed in barracks?

It is indeed! I've just realised I hadn't clarified the position with Asset Codes changing twice.

David your drawings are absolutely superb. From time to time I have seen drawings/sketches of Land Rovers of their various kinds but although they convey the general feel of the vehicle they often don't quite make it with the proportions. No such shortcomings with yours. To my mind the Lightweight (1/2 Ton) Rover is the most iconic military Land Rover. There are many good examples around to base a drawing on, but I would suggest a drawing that is fairly minimalist in terms of markings & other embellishments. Owners often (& indeed are entitled to) get carried away with additional stuff on their vehicle & would indeed be very happy to see this on a drawing of their vehicle. But what might be felt by an owner to be "looking the business" may make another owner cringe with embarrassment. So might I suggest a drawing is based on a vehicle without much in the way of markings that more or less any owner would be happy to see their particular registration on it. Even owners of vehicles with many adornments could appreciate that at least in the early days of service even their particular vehicle would have looked like that. So I think the less stuff & markings will greatly increase the appeal.

Usually you will find them buried in a lace-together binder that is an evolution of Regulations of the Equipment of the Army 1948 WO Code No.1782. These binders can host up to 16 separate pamphlets. Many of these had a major revision in 1955 when the title changed to Equipment Regulations & some replacement pamphlets were introduced. I have four of these binders but all contain different pamphlets from different times & with different degrees of amendments. Pamphlet No.8 that you are after was originally WO Code No. 11537 but in 1964 became Army Code No.14249. Although I have that, the contents were totalled changed in 1968 & then again in 1969 & designated Army Code No.60293. So I doubt that you will find a true 1964 edition because all of it was amended. I think the reason for this massive amendment was that in 1967 Asset Code structure changed to 4+4 digits from 6+2+3 digits. Although there had been an earlier change in 1955 from 4+2+3 digits to 6+2+3 It's a very useful reference source & far too much to copy. But were there any particular pages you were after that I could scan? So in summary I have the 1955 edition & the 1964 edition although the whole content of that was changed in 1968 & 1969

Something most of us will have to decide as support for XP ends in 48 days time! http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enterprise/endofsupport.aspx I have W7 on one machine & don't like it. XP was more straightforward. But I find things like multifunction mice aren't supported on W7 so when the crunch comes I suppose it will be W8. To go for W7 would mean the support plug gets pulled that much sooner. :-(

Sorry no idea 819319/1 is the Prestolite number for FV167319/1 that corresponds to Wiring Harness 2590-99-805-7142 2590 corresponds to miscellaneous vehicle components

This is the official way to do it. In lieu of the body holder you could loosely connect to its mating socket then the key ways will take some of the support. I think it is ACW but try CW as well the EMER doesn't say.

Unscrew that inner collar anti-clockwise.

What the whole EMER Terry? Its not very exciting just 2 pages, it does refer to some detailed drawings that are required to make up the installation kit but I don't have those. Another clue may be the signs of high gloss white paint, as in identifying blood & wiping it away cleanly. Pigs in NI were painted white gloss in the interior, I would have imagined the same would have applied to Saracen ambulances.

There was no conversion kit issued as such. It had to be locally manufactured (100 man-hours) & then fitted (40 man-hours)

EMER WHEELED VEHICLES V 619 Carrier, Personnel, Wheeled, Saracen, Mk 2. Misc. Instr. No.30. Conversion to ambulance role. Apr.1975

There's either a typo or you have fallen into the trap of applying logic to the structure of Army Coded Publications I'm looking in a Catalogue of RE Materiel Army Code No. 13570 1997 & note that there are some Bailey CES that are amended up to 1985 56007 56008 56009 56010 56011 56012 56013 56088 56166 56196

OG I don't think it is going to be on the intranet. I have 3 editions of Catalogue of Army Publications AC No.12123 Part V Index of CES for 1984, 1999 & 2000 None of those you want are in there, in fact none in 5500x sequence I'm afraid.

Eh? Well that stuff there Rick. 8.5 kg of manuals & two vehicles.