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Nope

Never come across it before. Pity it wasn't advertised a bit better & rather late to enter. Probably not & anyway got a lot on here.

Neil, please explain.

Paul, what are you on about?

Excellent news Paul. What is often forgotten about the -ve side of the shunt box & regulator panel is that internally it is floating with respect to earth & must be externally earthed, as you have discovered. Good man, you can post me the tea & biscuits :-D Enjoy your run but of course you should have a hand throttle, after all the thing was designed for static charging.

Nope

Nope

Nope

Nope, I think you have been peeping again! ;-)

Yes

Rick. I have gone through all my official glossaries but nothing matches up. I wondered whether it corresponded to an EMER Mod or Inspection Standard. There were a series of Jeep publications in EMER WHEELED VEHICLES V401-V408 between 1948 to 1956. I have gone through these & can't really see reference to anything that is on your vehicle. Although the diagrams are marked VW then V403 over 1-10 etc. But this is just the EMER regulation ie V403 over the diagram reference number. Although I think they should have labelled their diagrams as WV rather than VW. (for EMER fetishists, rather odd to find Jeeps in this section as WV V*** was later used for wheeled armour)

Well it wasn't meant to be used for that.

Nope

It does smell funny but not for that reason.

Nope

Paul. Don't worry about the mk of alternator. Mk A, Mk 1 & Mk 2 all had a 3-phase output to run power tools. The only Rover to have this was the airportable 1-ton. The Mk 3 alternator merely ommitted these connections on the socket, although they had more modern diodes Read the All Charged Up articles 1 & 3 at http://www.hmvf.co.uk/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=38&board=58.0 Most faults are due to tings like crushed cables, bust pins & particularly unsoldered joints on the plug pins. Is the wiring original or has someone pratted around & replaced/modified wiring. Do check the earth connections are correct on the shunt box, sometimes they get undone.

What & when?

Nope & nope

Nope, its quite big. It's about 2ft high.

Can you give us the context? What country? What is it marked on? I have lots of glossaries etc for British Army but they all have different stuff, depending if it is REME, RAOC, RCT, RE, vehicle depots etc

Ignore the hole in the middle it has rotted out. What & when?

Nope

Nope

OK it's about 15 inches tall as seen in this view.

Yes I was out for a duck on that one.