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This is what Richard & Bernard alluded to

Some sort of projectile?

 

Andy

some type of inflatable measuring device

D0 is pushed up the handle which opens the two arms Dx thus opening the fabric pouch, we pick apples with ours.....

Is it for retrieving a rugby ball from a scrum?

Looks like a umbrella or perhaps a sun shade

:rofl: Nope, although funnily enough you are right in that there is a certain similarity

What's this all about?

Here you go:

RUC vehicles like the Humber 'Pig'

If I can help let me know, got one in the garage.

AP 2782E Books 1 & 2

I've got both of these, they are quite big I don't want to part with them nor can I really copy them. But I don't mind doing the odd page if there was something in particular you were after.

That looks like the Tent, Marquee, Universal, Hospital, Extending 8340-99-942-4586 that is the postwar version. If you are a WW2 group do you have the earlier version JA 2080 with very few "windows"? I wonder do you have the extensions?

Well it should talk 12 men an hour to put up. I have the wartime instructions I can scan in due course.

Yes Wally it gives me a chuckle when I see that owners have restored their vehicle with the stencilling they have found under the paintwork & then put all the unit markings they found on it as well.

It could either be presented as a vehicle marked as when stored in a depot with no kit or unit markings. Or with the unit markings & kit but with the depot markings painted out as they were required to be on issue to a unit.

But its a touchy subject often people don't like to hear that. Yes I know people can paint whatever markings they like on their particular vehicle, but its not quite right to present it as genuine history because all the markings would not be there at the same time.

Grey was introduced by CRAOC orders late 1977 then soon changed to same colour as the surrounding green or black the plate was positioned on.

I wonder if the bridge plate was where they put the temporary vehicle depot markings, which would include asset code, reliability classification, receipt date. When they leave a depot these marks should be obliterated.

Yes I see what you mean it looks like gloss black.

For some reason they all have blacked out bridging plates.

Simon

Hard to tell Simon without a picture

Thank you Steve, that's in the diary now.

Ok thanks Ian

Bump

 

and I know it's a decent bump but I was looking for a new camo scheme for the landie to keep me out of mischief over the winter and this looks it. Any ideas what time frame it ran to? Cheers

Introduced in 1982 carried into 1983, then when the commander of the armoured squadron left went to DBG. But when he left reverted to the urban scheme. To find that point you need to find when the new commander, who came in 1983, actually left.

As far as B Series engines & their ancillaries go, in the earliest handbooks & parts books very often the engine & fittings are all in black. With rebuilds & replacement bits it all seems to morph into Sky Blue.

Trying to plan next years holidays.

Is there an Evesham show in 2014? Any dates confirmed please?

Trying to plan next years holidays. Been on the club site but only has the old 2013 info.

Does anyone have the dates for 2014 show please?

Clive, Thanks for you reply; so it seems that with my 12v GS Lwt it is worth changing the plugs.

I have done a lot of tests recently on various screened plugs but not unscreened ones. I tended to assume most these days had some resistance built in. I would put on ohmmeter on a plug & measure the through resistance. 1k-4k is needed to reduce erosion but & 10k-20k to reduce RF interference. But in either case it doesn't matter if that resistance is in the plug, the leads or suppressors screwed into the leads.

I've heard it said that you should open the spark gap now you have electronic ignition & have more voltage. I once did that & got to a show checked in then the Pig wouldn't start. Changed to normal gapped plugs & been ok for years since.

The thing to remember that although you might observe a good spark in a plug it may not be so good when under compression in the engine when a higher voltage is needed especially if accelerating & under load.

As for the leads these are bog standard ones. Are you suggesting I change these too for a copper set?

So just measure the plug resistance & if its a few thousand ohms then I would relax & enjoy the satisfaction of it running well

CLIVE very sneaky l think we all thought a long the lines of regular army

Yes once you asked if it was navy I thought someone would then have said Army or RAF? Then I would have said under Air Ministry control. Then from the time frame I gave I thought the game would have been up.

Although only one person fell for the sausages asking about fresh meat :-D:-D

are these maned by the royal observer corp

Yes Wally spot on. These represent ROC fallout monitoring posts & in the mapping room the disc placed on the map board drew attention to the fact that for whatever reason they were non-functional.

In fact one forum member has one of these OPs, I thought he was going to come on & get the answer!

this is the period covering the height of the cold war is this to do with chemical warfare

Nope Wally but cold war! You are getting warm :-D