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Well, who knows what led Jack astray? Ah actually this isn't pink. With this object you need to think what is its purpose & then what did it go on? Or the other way round rather than try to guess both questions in one go. I don't know if that helps.

Looks like it but nope.

Nope

Clue: it's British

Calm down dear :-D

Yes well done! Maybe these are getting too easy, I'll have to go back to latrines & Humbers ;-)

Nope

What & when?

Well it doesn't fit our pigs, what else is there?

Yup well done Neil. It looks a funny colour as that is a mixture of rain & hydraulic fluid over it. The material was a little bit greyer & stronger than the original which is in the first photo. This one I had to make & stiching canvas was a pain I can recall.

Yes AND.....

Not leather

Well Coffins, Burial and Coffins, Cremation can be constructed of West African hardwood. But: Coffins produced in England & Wales can also be of Elm. Coffins produced in Scotland or N.Ireland can also be of Douglas Fir.

Maybe, as the container was manufactured by Portsmouth Aviation.

Its the latter :-( 8140-99-965-7860 is just the NSN for the container. The FSC Group gives it as ammunition & nuclear ordnance boxes, packages & special containers.

Not necessarily, I know FFW sounds quaint & archaic but as far a Pigs (& Champs) go: GS although a screened 24v system, not normally expected to use radio eqpt, but could be installed. These pigs would have 3 antenna mounts fitted as standard. So a radio of some sort was half expected. FFW a 24v system with 2-speed dynamo for low rev charging. Contains basic radio fittings. FFR is a modified FFW to accept multipurpose installation kits for quite a wide range of sometimes complex radio combinations. (In addition to this the FFR pig had a 4th antenna mount fitted to the rear off side corner).

Although some pigs were classed as FFW & some underwent further modification to become FFR.

FFR What vehicle is it? Are you simply wanting to go down to 12 v for the caravan? Seems a bit of a sacrifice, is the caravan just to be used with this vehicle? You could change the caravan bulbs to 24 volts & disconnect the vehicle supply that charges the 12 volt leisure battery. Why not just fit a tail board with 24v bulbs just for when you tow the caravan with MV? If the vehicle has a screened ignition system you need to remove that & the ballast resistors otherwise you lose HT efficiency as the energy is lost to some degree by the capacitance of the screened cables. Then you have to change starter motor, generator, etc etc. Then you have destroyed some of the originality & devalues the vehicle to my mind.

Paul, I think the reason you are getting no replies is that like others I don't think I have ever seen a picture of an EOD 109 in NI service, I'm afraid. There would no Union Flag stickers as the original requirement for that was NATO command with two or more countries, so everybody knew which army was which. But there wouldn't be a soul over there who would be unaware which army was in support of the civil power! Possibly an ex-BAOR vehicle might still have them on if it had just arrived, but really should be painted out. I suppose you're itching to paint red wings on it & pictures of Felix on the side? So you'll probably have to just keep it in a normal restrained run of the mill everyday paint job, I'm afraid. Not all Rovers could be EOD, MP etc there's no shame in ordinary if that was the vehicle's history. :-D

Adam. Which doors do you mean? On the outside of each rear originally jerricans were fitted. But if you mean on the sides rearwards of side doors, then it was for pioneer kit etc. as this was a multi-role vehicle units could adapt whatever kit they needed to fit on. Although in practice this rarely happened, it is very unusual indeed to see in-service pics with anything on these at all. But inevitable privately owned vehicles are embellished with all sorts of carp.

Yes that would be nice, thank you. But I may well have them, can you let me know the book reference code on the top left corner? eg the diagram you have I think came from 26/GS Pubs/3780.

The drawing was originally taken from 40/WO/543 RAMC Training 1908, so it was obviously a very successful design.

Sorry

I wanted to get that reply before anyone else did. But it is the layout for the Hospital Marquee (Large) having inside dimensions 35 ft x 17 ft weighing 1,149 lb. In service 100 years ago.