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Interestingly the EMER was issued in Oct 1968 pre-dating Op Banner by about 10 months.

Here are the axletree & wheel specs for X & X*

I take it that the Royal Carriage Dept number is a design spec reference

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Merry Christmas Clive so the foot plate box (F) is 19" the tray is 10' 8" long minus tool box (d) lid (g) ?

Mal I think it is 10' 8" right up to the next measurement of 19".

Below is attributed to Mk X & Mk X*

Somewhere I have got wheel sizes & types if you need those.

Nearside front & rear

Martin welcome. I just wonder with a registration like that it might be Home Office, Civil Defence perhaps?

Like this:

Ah well done, nice & cheap outcome. Appreciate you letting us know. Apart from me there are many who watch & like to see how things pan out.

Just seen your post about documents. The AESPs have very scant information. A few very basic tests, removing it & fitting it plus I think some bearing info. Pretty feeble on the electrical detail I'm afraid, nobody needs to know these days. Chuck it away & fit another.

I'm sure you wouldn't doubt me Mal. But I believe carpenters say, measure twice, cut once!

Mal yes it is to the back of the tool box. I have an original drawing here in a 1909 ASC manual. With a magnifier I can see the length arrowhead goes to the back of the box & is point to point with another arrow head. This is labelled 19" & meets that perpendicular dropped from the top of the box.

I'll scan it for you.

CLIVE the one l found on MERLIN is titled merlin one in the amendments at the end it refers to DATA ACCURACY

l need to find merlin 2 to see if that gives you your answer if you call up merlin which l have done and ask for details on BUSBAR it still comes up but states no results so they have not amended the system and corrected the spelling mistake

Crossed in the post again

I expect it costs a lot to get the IT contractor to come & change it & anyone who cares what it is knows what it is meant to mean.

I thought of making a FOI request concerning the entries I wasn't sure about!

I have a RN stores catalogue in xls & that is full of howlers eg sewage disposal equipment appears as "sew edge"

Well this is my theory.

Perhaps ERN is Export Reference Number if vehicle is to be exported to comply with CHIEF (Customs Handling of Import & Export Freight)

It fits in immediately above "Cast: YES" & there is no other provision on the form for export of the vehicle.

But might it still be something to do still will BARBAS & that sort of thing?

I think not because we have it separated by "Comments: N"

If there are comments it is on page RP10504 & the main RP105 is marked "COMMENTS: Y"

Yes we cross posts. Although I see there is a typo in that one even.

They say Equipment Registration Numbers (ERMs) !!

BRITISH ARMY REGISTRATION B VEHICLE ACCOUNTING SYSTEM

its the registration of assets

Yes well done Wally excellent that's two prizes then:D

I wrestled with "Barbus" for quite a while myself until I happened to be reading a logistics JSP & realised what MERLIN was trying to say to me!

I should have asked you! I wonder what your take is on ERN further down? There are obvious ones like Equipment Reference Number but means nothing because ERM, Asset Code, NSN, chassis no etc are already taken care of. I do have one theory but I'll see if you have an explanation before I make a fool of myself..

is it the barbas team

Yes Wally very very good! Even googling the correct answer didn't give the correct answer of what I could see but there were 2.1 million responses though!

"Ind" I take to mean "Indicate" as with many other answers needs only a YES or NO entry.

So who can explain BARBAS?

Busbar, but that doesn't really make sense?

 

Andy

But good try, the word order BARBUS is correct but one letter is wrong.

Clue:

There is a spelling mistake

But the spoken word sounds the same.

The IT programmer perhaps knew nothing about the parameters of the individual items that were being programmed into the search. So perhaps what was said was misheard or was misread. Or maybe the person giving the programmer the information verbally or written couldn't spell or was a dyslexic (sorry must be PC, mustn't say that. The person was blessed with the gift of dyslexia - absolute tosh! It isn't I do know, which is why I have had to rewrite this simple post several times)

So once the error is corrected it reveals the true meaning.

Isn't that the bar code attached to high value items?

Nope not a checkout code Tony.

Does it stand for, "Broken and Recovered, Busted Independently" for those "we don't know who broke it but there it is" moments?

Igneous Lauren I think you are working along the lines of "Piston broke" but its not that.

l wont wade in but the BARBEL is a bottom feeder and a good indicator of toxins in water so is to do with the quality

of drinking water carried in the vehicle

Hmm well I better refrain from commenting on the fish's feeding habits, sounds none too savoury.

Not to do with drinking water Wally, The printout relates to a vehicle (my Wolf actually) at a vehicle storage depot although units were required to make annual returns into MERLIN on the vehicles they hold.

Could it be barbus indicator, to show if or any heavy metals are contained in the vehicle?

Ah yes Richard the Barbus barbus fish seems a good indicator of that. Good thinking, for some while I thought it might be a discrete way to indicate if the vehicle was contaminated by NBC or other toxic things. But it ain't that at all :-D

l get the fish connection BARBELL is that battered and with chips

Well Wally you have obviously volunteered for another battering of minds.

I hadn't come across the Barbell fish, that wasn't the one I had in mind, but I think Richard is onto it as I type.

Not so much of a mystery object but a mystery entry.

Many owners of postwar British military vehicles have made use of the Freedom of Information Act to obtain a basic history from a MERLIN printout. Of all the entries of their various kinds, it seems by looking at forums, that the entry below is something that nobody has yet found the answer to.

I am pleased to say that I believe I have found the answer. I just wonder if anyway else can? Google is you wish but I don't think it will help. You may get some fishy answers that don't seem be in the swim of the vehicle's history. :-D

Clive, Sorry for the very late reply! She was indeed RAF, I have the Merlin report which say she was with RAF Force Protection Force HQ (so assuming RAF Honington) but that's all I know

Its just that I used to own 61 KF 70 Aircraft Armament Support, I think from RAF Conisby

Good job you got the genny Clive, hope it won't be too long before you're reconnected.

All quiet this morning & electricity back on. After the last storm when the phones lines stayed down for nearly 3 weeks & people down the lane without electricity for 3 days triggered some emergency planning here. I have a professionally wired double isolator for our electricity circuits & have input connector for the generator. Full dress rehearsal two weeks ago & ran boiler, deep freeze, kettle & PC for 30 mins.

Cooking dinner last night with the rain & the wind outside said to wife I almost wish we had a power cut now that I'm ready, then the lights went out! But doing a trial run on a nice day in daylight is not the same as going out in the dark with a storm & getting soaked dragging the generator to its operating position. So it was an early night & power back this morning.

Storm in New Forest. Now electricity gone. Glad I bought a 2kw generator last month. So can now run boiler and deep freezer which is now completely full having done Christmas shopping today!