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This particular set is of Army origin. W10 is the Section of the Vocabulary of Army Ordnance Stores that includes magnetic compasses, drawing & optical instruments, watches, survey, hydrographic survey & underwater sound equipment. Unfortunately I don't have a VOAS but I have a 1986 COSA but that of course is composed of NSNs. Is it by any chance 12" x 6"?

This book B.453/3 was issued by Vauxhall Motors in Aug 1941, covering MW, OX, OY & QL. It explains that within one month of the outbreak of war there was one manual per model but apparently they focussed more on driving & general care. This combined Driver's Handbook gave more specific detail for each model, which to me seems a bit surprising.

Driver's Handbook says: Front 50 Rear 60 Assuming you have an OYD, different for OYC petrol tanker & different again for water tanker

Ok thanks

So is that definitely definite 24-27 May? Just trying to plan my holidays. Looked at http://www.solentoverlord.co.uk/events.htm & that just lists last year's events & there's nothing on the Milweb events calendar.

Alec it has been superseded by the new version of Part 4. The various updates meant that there was quite a lot of duplication anyway. So I lifted what residue there was & vamped it up so that it would blend into Part 4. I thought we ought to put 'superseded' in case people thought there was a forum fault if there was no longer a reference to Part 3. Funnily enough it is exactly this same Sunday 10 years ago when I started a series of weekly visits to sort out someone's 90A system. With all the EMERs in hand I thought it would be a doddle, but after 3 Sundays of work I realised the EMERs were of very little help, either because they missed so much information or confused Mks or had errors or assumed one had all the facilities of a base workshop. Then that started me thinking about finding better ways of sorting it & to try to find out how it was all meant to work. Incidentally I did find the fault. There were 3 dry joints & a defective earth.

I found a good match was Light Stone + appx 5% red oxide. Trouble is that was a rather matt finish. To get gloss I recently found quite a good match at B&Q. Then got it home to find out it is this modern water colour stuff. But going round those sort of stores is so irritating, paint all divided into bedroom, bathroom etc shades then themed into 'my mood', 'my theme', 'my chill' & all that sort of nonsense. Not a row of gloss paints in their various colours, but all spread around the place & themed. Grrh!

Paddy was the issue perhaps that it was facing the "wrong" way, in that your rear reflectors could not be visible to an oncoming driver on that side & therefore an additional indicator was required to indicate the vehicle position?

Wayne you need to find someone with the rest of it. ISTR there was a thread a while ago asking about the purpose of the lights.

Thank you Andy. Sadly when I saw it 18 months ago it wasn't looking like it was in the photos as it had been stored outside for a while. Now it is back in NI I think the new owner will give it the attention it deserves.

Converted it back as that was part of its unique history. It was very difficult finding LHD components, because nobody wants them. When people convert to RHD the bits usually get chucked because there is no market (here) for such bits.

Thank you Wayne But it wasn't like that when I got it.

Yes that surprised me Derek. All sorts of interesting one-offs suggested. In fact I am sending over the clod of paint to NI for the current owner to admire. In real life it looks very pretty, the Maplin magnifier has its limitations. The outer layer of it is mushroomy & this was the colour that Shorts would paint the Trakmark lining. No doubt it got very grubby with time & a lick of paint would smarten it up. So I felt quite justified doing the same, although critics would tell me I shouldn't have done that as 'they' would never have done that. :-D

Yes well done it is indeed a Shorland! We are all familiar with the turreted Shorland model SB300 (Armoured Patrol Car), but the vehicle that clod of paint came from is the prototype of the SB301 (Armoured Personnel Vehicle). This vehicle is the mother & inspiration for all subsequent armoured Land Rovers that we have seen so much of around the world in the last 40 years. So durable some original examples are still operational in Syria today. Janes states that the production SB301 became available 1974 with the first prototype in 1973. This was that first prototype & went through many changes as it was registered in 1968. All these colour changes would be in readiness to impress a particular customer or market at exhibitions. I restored it a few years ago & it now resides back in Northern Ireland. I found that I tended to take other vehicles to shows & always found disappointing that people would not read the history board. Not just the public but I even heard one enthusiast telling people not to look at it as it was something that I made up myself.

Dear to my heart but nope.

Nope, been suggested already

Nothing covert

Well it was wheeled, but not a papal conveyance.

Nope.

That's good to hear Paul. I was getting worried as it is not listed on MVT site events calendar when I looked an hour ago.

Bernard a bit too early to be in an International Defence Review or Janes.

Well there was only one quite like this & it spawned a whole (as they say in cringe-speak) "genre". No not an Alvis.

A bit early Tony they wouldn't be in era for the International Defence Review or Janes.

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