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Nope

Nope, bigger.

So you have to buy it to find out if it has a legitimate history & if it is a legitimate vehicle? No, thanks.

Middle East yes, Rommel nope, Mammoth nope. Does this help more?

Jeep yes, British yes, med yes, 1944 nope.

Yes well done it is a Jeep, goodness knows which sort. Italian staff car, nope. Sunny yes, Italy nope, op Torch nope.

Yes Lee you were thinking along the right lines at the outset, I thought you were going get it virtually straight away. I'm sorry to have just "noped" you. Nobody likes a negative response & nope I think sounds slightly kinder that no. But had I said anything else the game would have been over instantly & I would not have been able to see the range of thoughts from the forum. This I find quite fascinating the various approaches people adopt teasing a tiny detail to get to the answer or going off at a tangent or assuming that most will be about latrines or Humbers. I had been expecting you to have come back with the casket answer given the size of the plastic bag, I thought you were biding your time. The question about specs for coffins is just an aside question that I threw in as it followed on from the answer. But it wasn't part of the original question. BTW the spec for caskets is the same all parts of the UK, but I was intrigued that there were regional variations for coffins. There are differences between burial & cremation coffins, these mainly relate to fixtures being combustible of course. Hurray for spell checkers I keep finding myself typing gasket instead of casket! PS My wife has just pointed out that coffin = casket. I think this is what the Americans say, she has been watching too much CSI. Were you thinking in American speak maybe? The English definition is different coffin = chest for the dead etc, casket = small box for jewels, ashes etc. I was just going by the Army description of mystery object.

I will gradually reveal more of the picture as the days go by. The questions are: 1. What are the two types of vehicle? 2. Where? 3. When?

No, it won't fit under the bed. ;-)

Yes well deduced Robert correct on all counts. It is a Casket, Cremation spec 1965. To be used in conjunction with Coffin, Cremation which differed from Coffin, Burial. Both types of coffin had different specs for England & Wales compared with Scotland & N.Ireland. Anybody know the differences?

The contents of this box contain the contents that were in another (larger) box before being processed.

I see the starting bid has now increased by £500. I asked him if he knew the mil reg & got the answer "Yes". Someone asked for it & he says he doesn't know where to look for it. But say it has loads of history from NI, surprising that it would still have the side lockers then. The rear canopy sounds interesting. Could be a homemade fantasy job or possibly it was used as a Radio Station Type H, which was a DF system with two other pigs. That would be rare, I have a ex Type H pig but never seen another. Intersting that he says was made in 1958, which may be true as FV1611 & FV1612 were made 1958-60. Most pig owners misdescribe the age of the pig as they give the age of the chassis when it was a GS Truck.

It can run on "kerosene" & has a "4.6 litre" engine. So the seller doesn't know about B60s or perhaps it has something else under the bonnet? I wanted to establish the history, so asked the seller if he had the military registration. The answer came back "Yes". So that seems on a parr with some of the feedback.

Oh psychological warfare? Nope

Nope

In the sense that it carries the plastic bag. The bag goes inside the box.

Nope

British 1965 if that helps?

I'm not offended, but that is not is the intended purpose.

Fred, no treatment without a diagnosis! Have you checked whether the battery voltage still holds up when you turn the ign switch?

Probably not.

So what are you suggesting it is then?

Nope

Nope

Well what have we got here?