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Yep , why is hay fever more prolific nowadays ?

What do you wish you had never sold ?

There's many a true word spoken in jest Clive:D

Once it cools down I will. But the hay fever is a menace having had all but one afternoon wiped out last week at W&P it is a delight not to have aching, streaming eyes & a delight to feel relatively 'normal' - whatever that is

Maybe I need to stay in more

And I need to get out more

Never had anything to do with artillery, but previous posts about lighting sights seem to be what they are about.

Yes well done, although Wally put in a lot of work on this.

Chuffed to bits, with my first ever go, but it still doesn't solve the mystery of the electrical goodies, and I'm still scratching my head on that. Steve.

Well its Quick Fire 4.5" Howitzer & there are three lights on it. I'm sure you can guess their purpose.

Just come aboard, but my first impression was of an outline of a gun carriage, with the wheels/axle and shield depicted. Am I close?

Yes spot on! Well done although Wally in particular & Degsy are sort of nearly there as well.

I was just about to suggest it might be a limber with attached lighting but now I'm not so sure:confused:

Derek yes it is. The lighting is for what?

is it for lighting up the sight internally

Yes Wally the lighting does do that. I think you you're pretty much there. Can you just clarify what you think this 2-wheeled thing broadly is?

the cart does not look like either a limber ammunition or a stores limber it may be the picture does not show any mounting

between the axle and the body this detail may not be important therefore it must be the other contents of the body that

are not shown

Wally this the drawing as it appears in the book & is just an outline, of course minus the labels. But why do you think its a cart?

Sight alignment? That might make sense for the two fixed lights and one moveable - moving with the sight or barrel (lining them up?)

Sight alignment?

Nope Lauren but you are sniffing around the right sort of area.

For inspecting barrels of guns ? One day I might get a warm guess !

Roy this another of those ones where people go into ingenious & complicated details about things, yet miss something more obvious & fundamental

Rangefinder ?

Nope not that Roy

is it to do with artillary

Yes very much so

is to do withTHEODOLITES

Strictly speak its not Wally but you are getting warm.

Nobody has yet established what this two-wheeled thing is.

It's an App3622a_zps77067437 :coffee: Oh how times have changed

Nope but it is an "Apparatus, Illuminating....................., No. 5, Mark 1."

So you got the first three letters correct

Hmm,

 

mobile night time / cloudy day heliograph mount and power source?

That's an ingenious one Gordon but nope not a communications system

is it to do with a telephone switcboard

Nope Wally not a communications system

Is it something to to with weather forecasting

Nope not that Roy

Just going back to good things.

I forgot to mention the mobile phone mast gave excellent coverage & capacity on O2. I don't know if other networks were included. Instead of being virtually incommunicado all week with no usable internet like at the Hop Farm, it was a delight to be able to text & use the phone AND get a good 3G signal whenever I wanted, which is a lot better than I can get at home!

So many thanks to someone for planning that most needed facility.

The only way to get around the everyday car thing then would be to say a show is for vehicles built from say 1914 till 1980. OK there will be again people who find a way around it , but limits their sources.

Oh so then I wouldn't be able to bring my 1998 Wolf.

It was blown up in Afghanistan & seen more action than many vehicles on display.

Well up to now i have thought on the lines that this would be taken on exercise to provide lighting would it be used around

a base where there would be mains power if so is it mobile inspection light of some sort

Wally not a general inspection light system. Although the moveable light has an individual function, it doubles up as a moveable inspection light for the equipment it is connected to.

To summarise, so far it is:

British

1926

2-wheeled

No.5 Mk 1

Electrical

Steel box has 3 cells

3 lights of which one is moveable

Used statically

Not for convoy, horses, latrines, route or hazard marking

So the light is used during day light

In respect of latrines there seems to be no illumination & indeed in some encampments they were out of bounds after dark & a night bucket was used.