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Wow Wally Yes well done absolutely spot on!

Well picked up on the women's huts. But no nursies.

Nope none of those Tony.

Nope. Date is between your suggestion & Richard's. It is 1807.

Sorry for delay not been able to access forum for 25 mins or so. Mascot? No Tony

Richard well done for having a stab at it. No wives involved & date is a bit out.

This one is especially for gritineye & degsy (as no technology involved ) So what is under the brown box below & what sort of date is this? So I hope that is all perfectly clear then

As regards what others have said about taking the vehicle for a run, this is the official view as well.

Shot myself in the foot again!

Oh so you're not from Italy after all, so how do you do it Wally? A wire brush sounds a bit uncomfortable PS I see my Wally is from Milano, so I think that's Spain not Italy :red:

David there are lots of these around: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Gunson-77111-Tuning-Spark-Plug-Cleaner-Tool-Garage-Auto-/330832876563?pt=UK_Hand_Tools_Equipment&hash=item4d072d1413 Gunsons seem to have started to produce them. For ages the only ones advertised were in the USA with high carriage costs. For some years I have been using a "Wally" from Italy it leaks grit a bit round the top were the plug goes in, hence these new ones have a shroud. Only blast for the minimum length of time to minimise the damage to the insulator. I always used to regard a blasted plug as being as good as new, but this is not the case it will require more HT to get a spark unless the contacts are filed & reset. Although that may be difficult with a multi contact plug.

Oh Bernard please do try to keep up with the rest of the class. Well does this explain it any better?

3 is correct

For those with an interest in RF here are a few key pages. Note the various ways of constructing the coil & the results obtained.

So what was the catapult all about? Chucking CS rounds beyond the 90 metres of the L11A1 Riot Gun? Was it any good though?

Andy yours was a reasonable idea. Always seems to be "L" at the end & "W" at the start. I have a lot of RAOC publications MAOS & RAOS but there is nothing covered in those. I don't think I have seen such markings on a Pig, just GS. So suggests this a 1950s thing as it pre-dates Pig? If it was 1960s it should also be on Pigs because they were still classed as B vehicles.

Andy it would seem reasonable but consider these below (two of which I have already posted) This first one is another one I found on a Humber 1 Ton. Notice that "9" is the incorrect font compared with the rest. Ok so maybe all the proper "9" stencils were missing in that workshop. Here that set is again with the wrong "9", but the prefix is different. To me it suggests that both vehicles were stencilled at the same place, so the prefix means something else. It might be said that with these sets "9" always appears that way. But here is another Humber with "9" in the correct font.

Keep up Wayne, I think you'll find we've discussed this one before when the picture was first posted some while back 15 BK 45 entered service as FV1601 26/1/54 Not struck off & recovered but stayed in service until SO to J.Hirst & Son 17/8/95

Thank you for sharing. I'm glad you explained the trouser drying picture

Many thanks for sharing those super pictures. Lovely to see the vehicles individually rather all jammed up together like in a car park.

No volunteers then. The answer is the location. The wireless experiments were conducted in 1932 at HM Signal School, Horsea Island, Portsmouth. The FVRDE amphibious trials in 1964 for the FMC Command & Reconnaissance Vehicle where not conducted at ATTURM Instow as one might have expected, but at Horsea Island.

So what do you make of WSR & WBO? These were found under the bonnets of Humbers 1 Ton. The long number bears no relationship to the chassis number.

Ian it looks the sort of thing that would have limped through WW2 & as it continued in service certainly to 1949 is in that particular Vocabulary. I don't have any earlier ones. I did flick through "RAF Ground Support Equipment since 1918" but couldn't see anything there, although it is jolly good for the fascinating peripherals warfare in the air. (In fact I find that sort of stuff far more interesting than aeroplanes).

Below is the Section from Air Publication 1086 dated 1949. The column on the right is the relevant AP, unfortunately I have none of those. I do have AP 2173B Vol I that covers "water-cooled gasoline engines for ground equipment", so it may well have a description of just the engines themselves that were used in your trolley.

Ian Vocabulary Section 42Y covers a range of trolley mounted generators & test kit. Give me a few minutes & I'll scan the variants.