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So it's a case of 'Don't fart or I'll shoot you'? Seems a rough sort of justice!

Nope, bad luck Lee. You had twigged it was a sniffer from the outset.

Yes, I knew I could rely on you for coming up with body odour...as the correct answer, well done Richard What I don't quite understand is how you overcome the BO from your own troops. Maybe it can be 'tuned' to sniff the smell of Charlie that has certain characteristics?

A truffle hunter would indeed be useful, I could then get rid of the dog.

No fleas or livestock involved, Mark. But there is some sniffing.

Ants? Um no.

No & yes.

Yes it does look like those things used in NI. Getting very warm, maybe this helps.

It certainly looks like that sort of thing but nope.

Nope, this predates that sort of thing.

I'm glad you explained who he was, but nope.

Like a sort of mirror? Nope

Ingenious but nope.

Oh a "walky-talky", nope.

Plausable but nope.

Not that I know of.

Sort of.

What's this all about?

Six types actually, as at 1970. Hope this is of interest: Whilst I've got the opprtunity Doughy, may I ask have you or any of your contacts ever come across drawings or mock ups of the FV426?

Alan just been nosing around qq22.net. A very interesting site & gives an insight into the wide range of activities undertaken. I enjoyed the EMC section in particular. Also nice to actually see what the Royal Carriage Department looked like having read about its actvities whilst researching wagons. I don't suppose there are any pictures of the department in its heyday? One omission is that Woolwich used to supply REME with EMERs (Electrical & Mechanical Engineering Regulations) before this role passed to DSDC Llangennach (although even that was closed down last year!). Sorry EMERs are a big thing in my life!

What you mean I have recognised my own object(s)? But I don't want to win it, I want to just get rid of the damn thing. I was given it as it was going to be chucked away, it just seemed imoral as it must be of use to someone. The dilemma is, that if this an uncomfortable marriage of three items (yes marriages of three are always uncomfortable, I have heard say) Then what if three different people recognise the three individual components. If I split it up, it renders it of no use to anyone! So perhaps it should go to the person with the most worthy (& sensible) application in mind?

The Lucar seems very down market for a device with a FV number on it. It almost looks as if it is an uncomfortable marriage between several different items. The motor may have been scavanged from something else, to be fitted to a one off machined casting enclosing a gear reduction to then be married up with a civvy wiper gear box? Used for some experimental purpose, that none of us know about & not proceeded with or recognised, not even by CVR(T) owners or the country's leading MV restorer?

I dunno! I'm just hoping someone will see it & say "Oh yes been looking for one of those for ages" then they can have it.

It certainly has that look down one end. Quite a beefy motor, but maybe it had to drive a series of wipers around vision blocks on a turret, something like that might be needed.

It looks plausable but must be AFV related. In that it has a FV number, lots of aluminium paint & has the typical 1950s/60s designation No.1 Mk 1/1. I suspected it might be CVR(T) related, although I got it from a couple people who had a Striker & a Sabre. But they didn't know what it was for.