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No carriages or roses involved for this procedure.

Nope this a land based activity.

Bernard I think that would be rather pussy-footing, I think in those days crowds were controlled by force of arms or sword. (Although I have recently seen some pictures from the 1950s of Belgium mounted police/gendarmes charging crowds with sabres drawn!)

Nope TB has already alluded to that one.

Sounds a lot of fun but this is the British Army.

It would certainly find out if someone was dead or alive, by at least getting a smile out of them. Not the correct answer of course but I'm glad someone spotted the thought that had gone into constructing the peeper's trap.

Nope Yes Nope

Another suggestion that sounds fun, but not the answer I'm looking for.

Bernard you've been peeping! But that may be the actual answer & I put it there just to throw peepers off the scent. In earlier objects it used to regularly catch a few out. I like to keep up the tradition just for those whose curiosity gets the better of them.:-D

Yes Tony it is boring cold day, which is why I keep finding something to do rather that get into the shed & get on with the Shorland. The special grip is not for hauling the wounded around. But you are starting to get warm.:-D

That's the most fun suggestion so far. Ingenious but not the answer I'm looking for.

Nope not medical I'm going out to the sheds for a little while. If you get no response to posts it doesn't necessarily mean you are getting warm I'm afraid. I know some contestants think when you get closer to the answer the slower I am to respond :-D

Ah yes, thank you. I should have spotted that one. Nope not a special handshake Tony.

Not especially Correct it is just the date of the manual that this is published in. A publication Chatham if that helps:D

I suppose it warms the chaps up & is form of team bonding, but for this particular activity requires more than two men.

You've lost me there Tony.

Sounds plausible but nope.

I had to look that one up! Sounds plausible but nope.

Sounds plausible but nope.

129 years ago this encounter was permissible in the British Army under certain circumstances. What's is the name of the process happening here & what were the circumstances?

It was not an original fitting & was introduced in EMER POWER S 007 Mod Instr No.1 Oct 1957. It was applied to: Rolls Royce 'B' Series engines Meadows 'A' series auxiliary generating engines Morris auxiliary generating engines Just happen to have one on the desk in front of me, it is nearly twice the length shown & has space on the back for quite a large number of mods!

Very possibly but first check that it is for a hexagonal shaft. So with VAT that is £26.34, they won't declare the P&P until you buy it, then add VAT to P&P. So that's going to be £30 just for a knob. If that was the last thing you were stuck for before taking it on the road, it would be tempting I suppose. On the other hand in the present state it is in there are a lot of things that need attending to first. It might be worth biding your time & put the knob on the "things to look out for" list that you could pick up cheaper at your leisure. Needle scaler is a good move. I also have a Clark but always forget to oil it. Make sure the grub screws are kept tight. The thread has worn out on one of the holes & the barrel keeps unscrewing itself. Unless you have a large capacity compressor use it for about a minute at a time waiting for pressure to come up to max again. It will be more efficient than using it until the needles are hardly move & then you have an even longer wait for pressure up. So time share the needling with another task to turn to when you start to lose a useful working pressure.

Humbers had engines mostly in the range 3513-9359. There were some used in the sequence 13602-13628. Then of course there the ones in Commers & the RAF used a batch of the Mk 5G.

Oh yes it hasn't yet attended.

Yes it is indeed. I've been in regular contact with the current owner & he has really worked hard on it. When it last driven, it was a rather unpleasant & worrying trip back from Kemble 8-10 years ago it was consuming a pint of oil every couple of miles. It had not a lot of power & was producing a lot of fumes & oil mist. I bought a large quantity of oil for the homeward journey. But it certainly worked out cheaper than paying for recovery. Once home I had to decide whether to turn my attention to sorting that out or the start on the new Pig. Well I gather not only was one piston holed but there were cracks in all the others.