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Yes, (although they were in the vertical wings rather than the fins)

No it isn't exactly, that was the RUC one which was adjustable in height & slightly snow plough in shape. The Army one was fixed, flat & spaced differently. But that is a brilliant picture of 3071 EZ. I've not seen that pic before Lee & unlike many of the shots of the time that is nice & crisp. Got any more please? The trouble with 3071 EZ that it was a standard Army FV1611 converted with a few RUC embellishments. It was to replace one of the fleet of the ten FV1609 that got written off in 1962 I think. But EZ always seemed to be at the forefront of any riot situation & got more pics taken of it than the rest of the fleet.

Yes. It was the pyrotechnic flare on the upper wing that dribbled down & started to burn/melt the fibre glass. That was the draw back of the wing on the Mk 1 missile. The problem was overcome on the Mk 1A missile by the use of lights with 44w light bulbs. Fully explained in the second object in: http://www.hmvf.co.uk/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=38&topic=1977.15

Well there is the early 3-bar ram on this one that you saw on ebay & has been resold on milweb http://www.milweb.net/webverts/36053/ Then there were at least 2 in BS. Here is the pic I tried to link to you earlier. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v684/fv1620/13BK05.jpg[/img] Also have some originals (somewhere!)

Nope

What went wrong with the wing after it was fired? Here's a good one.

The Dam Busters was probably the first war film that this lad saw. Shortly after it came out in 1955 he was to be inspired to squiggle this: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v684/fv1620/DamBusters.jpg[/img]

Yes, well done. The fins are small & fixed & at the rear. The wings are in the middle & their movement provides the means of steering. There are 4 fins & 4 wings. 2 of the wings are special & this is one of those but it has a problem. A solution to this was in fact an earlier mystery object!

Nope So far we've had suggestions of: fuselage warhead container main body tail fin nose fin engine But what else is there left?

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Yes but something went wrong. Nope, look at my avatar is Orange William but very similar.

Getting very close Neil. Also need to consider why this object is partially burnt.

Nope, it's not soft.

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It's meant to be green, I was once told it was "Cockpit Green"

Ah well my mistake was to post it at the weekend, should have done it on a weekday when you're not around (That is a compliment actually :-D) Yes it is to do with Malkara. Close but it is actually GAF, Government Aircraft Factories So what is it & what has it got to do with the Malkara project?

What's this all about?

Yes I saw one there, it was in that upper field by the WC block. It was cheap I remember but the top was worse than mine. But the stall holder didn't know what it had been removed from. I was going to go back with my camera to get a full frontal but had to make a quick exit as mother was taken into hospital in am.

OK Thanks for trying. There is not great hurry, I have my hands full with trying to push to get back to living in a house & get the builders out. Just trying to source out components in readiness for the reviving process.

Projects that spring to mind. FV410 - Centurion Heavy Tank Destroyer (at 46 tons) FV426 - Orange William Launcher FV1606 - Humber 1-Ton Recovery Truck Shorland Water Cannon Shorland Trooper Morris Traveller, Internal Security Red Dean Blue Boar Pye Python Blue Envoy Quickfire Toolondoo Clevite Mauler Hawkswing Project E Orange William (my avatar) To name just a few

Mks 1, 2 & 3 were 4-cyl 2.25 & it was a struggle, especially up hills. Most people assume all Mk 3 were 6-cyl. In fact it was 4-cyl, but as an optional extra 6-cyl was available for use on hilly terrain or heavy duties. All the Mk 3 I have seen have been 6-cyl, only because they opted for this to equip the UDR. These also had a second fuel tank, which was not standard, just an optional extra. Mk 4 & what they then had to call Series 5 were V8.

Yes that's a good idea. Philip was helpful in getting me the proper depth of well for the wheels on the other Shorland.

That's true, EMERs & AESPs have a structural logic & thats how I store them. The problem comes with WO & Army Code publications, there is no logical structure. It is vaguely chronological but not rigidly. Some are pocket size manuals, others are A4 or larger. So there isn't proper utilisation on of shelving if a lot of small books occupy large shelves for some larger books. There is no defined grouping of subject matter & type of book (User Handbook, Illustrated Parts List, CES, Regulations, Vocabularies, Training etc) here are some sequences of publications: Clothing Regulations Regulation for Supply, Transport & Barrack Services Visual Training Unit Battlefield Counter Surveillance RE reconnaissance Pocket Book ISPL, Trailer, 1/2 Ton, Jointers, 2 Whld Mk 1 RAC Training Field Engineering & Mine Warfare Staff Duties in the Field So no obvious pattern there. The way the Army catalogue them is to group them according to type ie User Handbook, CES etc. I tend to do it that way so that all the CES go together as these are generally large, User Handbooks together as they are usually small. I have a very comprehensive database set up for me by Neil :bow: which is very good for in depth searches & checking what I have got. But it would be tedious to refer to that each time I want a book to get the WO/Army Code then find it. So what happens is that favourite subjects have all the different types of document together. So there are shelves just for Humber, trailers, Series Rovers, 'Defender' Rovers, IR eqpt, animals, Regulations, VAOS etc. Then other stuff gets lumped together in era between WWs, WW1, pre-WW1. Not entirely logical but at least relevant stuff is altogether. When writing an article, as most research is from stuff I have got rather than libraries, it has been extremely annoying to realise I have missed some good material by it being spread out somewhere else rather than lumped together in a subject. So it may not be the best system & probably only appears to work by me remembering what stuff is where. That of course is about to change when I move into the larger room & everything has to get re-shelved. Yes I know I could scan it all & shuffle it around in any way that takes my whim. But that would be a near impossible task, besides experiencing the real document is the thing, the rusty paperclip, the crinkly page, the smell of damp paper, the scribbled ammendments, the well thumbed page... :rtfm: