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So it matches up with all those I saw at Sturminster Marshall? Although the word at the time was Yemen, that was only on a gossip basis.

Yes the Distribution Box No.1 Mk 1 (that houses the inter-vehicle starting socket) has 2 thermal cut outs. These usually recover after a minor incident. 10A supplies instrument panel & ignition coil but starter switch & solenoid are unprotected. 30A supplies lighting & horn Depends on your Generator if you have the original 2-speed dynamo Generator No.2 there are 5A & 25A fuses in the Gen Panel No.2. But these only effect charging. If you have the 90A system with Generator No.10 it is unfused. If there was an incident with just the one battery I hope it wasn't because of some non-original wiring in order to tap off 12v to run some gadget & this wiring/gadget shorted out.

Jarda that's a nice rural scene. Come on Wayne aren't you going to take your rectifier out for some fresh air, perhaps up on the Bristol Downs? It can't be very healthy for it stuck in that office all day being oggled at.:-)

Interesting that the six Rovers that one can just about see, all seem to have identical disruptive black patterns. Regulations for painting vehicles later encouraged one third to be black arranged to try to mask corners of the vehicle & to avoid having identical patterns within a Unit as this would help an enemy identify a particular Unit.

Well perhaps that was why it fell off so easily?

Lee but are there 3 Pigs? In the first clip at 5:40 the ram has gone. Barricade rams are not easy things to remove, I know as I have removed two. Tut-tut someone didn't lock the engine bay hatch.

Wow well done Bernard. The top one is 71 BK 22 which is not a Humber ERM. The lower one looks as if it might be reversed as 22 BK 71. This is a Humber ERM but relates not to a Pig but a FV1601 struck of by NELF in 1962. Curious how the barricade ram disappeared once it fell over.

Nope.

I think you know only to well what I mean, can you honestly tell me you haven't sniffed that rectifier for that smell of nostalgia?

Calm down dear!

I wouldn't have thought it was done with any MOD help. Particularly when it was made & I'm assuming mid1980s. NI was esp touchy & I think some of these Brits are being a bit dodgey in their activities. Ex NI Mk1s started to be released in early 1980s. I've tried but I can't read the Pig ERM, although the VPK LtWt is 20 FM 13. Is that the one Mark Cook had at one stage now in NI? I think that was the only VPK LtWt to survive. In the second clip the "Look is it loaded?" poster is mid 1950s & looks rather out of place being so dated. I assume they are depicting the mid 1970s then posters that feature such characters as "Heary O'Leary" listening to phone conversations from a chamber pot were more likely to be seen. Can anyone with better eyesight than me read the ERM of the Pig?

Nice to see Mk 1 Pigs doing their bit. Mind you that must have been one hell of an explosion in the bushes, not only did it turn the Pig over it also blew off the barricade ram :undecided:

Malcolm welcome. I'm ready if you need me!

I think this is what you saw, Tim.

Jon these are DMCs (Domestic Management Codes) CA Includes cloth & trimmings CH Includes waterproof clothing CG Combat dress Its not unusual for the codification of items to change either as development proceeds or it is realised there is a more appropriate code that should be applied. i.e.the NSC changes (the first 4 digits of the NSN) but the NIIN (the last 9 digits of the NSN) remains the same. Although NSNs are unique there is no conflict with a pre-existing NSC being already allocated. The system allows for such a change by allocating a unique NIIN. (This why you sometimes find an item marked not with the 13-digit NSN but only with the 9-digit NIIN. Although this confers a unique identity it gives no immediate indication as to the general identity of the item. The most common example of this is the marking on the folding chairs many of us use in our 9x9s. Although the lack of a NSC is no impediment to the understanding of item's purpose.) When the NSC changes it often dictates that the DMC has to change as well.

If they were heading south, I think they are for restoration.

Probably not, it would only tell you what you need but not where to put it.

PS Actual titles: AC 61737 Clansman Radio Installations in FV432 AC 62059 Clansman CSSH Installations in FV432 AC 61834 Clansman Secure Speech Harness (CSSH) AC 61004 Reference Book for Clansman AC 44618 CES Installation Kit Clansman Basic Harness FV432 AC 44697 CES Installation Kit Two-Tier rack in FV432 AC 44763 CES Installation Kit Command Harness 2-set Clansman in FV432 AC 44835 CES Installation Kit Command Harness 3-set Clansman in FV432 AC 44700 CES Conversion Kit Command to permit Clansman Radio in FV432 Also EMER TELECOMMUNICATIONS L600-L609 Clansman Radio Control Harness

Robin what you need to look for is Army Code No.61737/1-7 & the CSSH version Army Code No. 62059. There is also coverage in EMER COMMUNICATIOS INSTALLATIONS H200-209 H210-219 H240-249 I have AC 62059 I can't copy all of it but if the usual manual suppliers can't supply, I can copy a few of the critical pages.

Its worth remembering that Olive Drab 298 was only added to the 1948 BS381C in 1949. Although there was already Olive Green 220 which first appeared as 20 in BS381 of 1931.

yes & that's without the midnight VAT increase

Toby, Andy is too modest to mention this, but he got the prize at W&P 2010 for Best Humber 1-Ton in terms of originality and servicing.

I'm quite impressed with the detail of the Pig, which is unusual for artists to make such a good job of things like that. There a few minor details not quite right but generally a good job. Although the ERM is a bit silly, there were no Humbers above 37 BK 00

Toby is there something wrong with it that you need this help? But if you need servicing help you need the proper books & another day spent down here I think & we'll go through basic Humbery tasks! Not sure what you feel needs restoring. If its scabby paintwork, not to worry as in service it would have been repeatedly painted to cover paint thrown at it. But if you want to remove all that then the best way is a needle gun & a compressor that can handle it. But I would direct your energies & money to the servicing of it first rather than fancy paint jobs. (I haven't forgotten the battery boxes, these may be available this month)

Yes steam leaking from one of those can be a bit nasty. There is no prescribed sequence for tightening but gradual tightening from near opposite sides until fairly firm with a short hand spanner I think is the way to go. No torque is mentioned in the Field & Base Repairs nor in the Inspection Standard. As for the grease it is defined in EMER POWER P134/27 "Refit the cover after lightly treating the sealing ring with H1/6850-99-942-4829 silicon compound" This has been reclassified from a miscellaneous chemical speciality to an electrical insulating material hence H1/5970-99-942-4829 This is XG-250, which benefits from freedom from corrosive action on metals & its effect on rubbers, waterproof sealing properties, electrical proof strength, power factor, permittivity, evaporation loss, low temperature & storage stability.