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Yes I see what you mean, but there isn't one on my pig. :dunno:

Did you want to borrow it then? ;-)

Yes well done Tim. It is indeed a German Armoured Division as portrayed in a General Staff WO publication dated Feb 1941.

Goodness me no! What a strange suggestion, wherever did you get that idea Richard? ;-) I think you have been 'had' :-D

What & when?

What army is this & when?

I've already told Adam this but those following the thread may be interested. 05 BK 61 was a FV1611 ie APC so it would have had a single speed dynamo & quite possibly a winch ie a FV1611B. The absence of the ant mount on the rear offside confirms it was not FFR. As a FV1601 chassis entered service 19/5/53 Chassis No. 20561 Engine No. 6507 Conversion to FV1611 1958-60 Struck off census 12/9/67 Sold at Ruddington 15/12/68 Sale No.94 Lot No.1337 for £60 Somewhere I have picture of it in MacGregor's yard circa 1985, when it was for sale for £1000 & it was described by someone then as needing a lot of work to it. But maybe that has been done. Although it did have remnants of side lockers. The only in service pictures I have seen of pigs in Cyprus are just sand/stone in colour. I have seen straight from Cyprus Saladin's in stone & green, but not a pig. They may have been multicoloured but bear in mind owners do like to make there vehicles stripy at the slightest excuse. If this was an in-service camo scheme, the darker bits would be more focused on the corners of the vehicle. The front wings may not be original as I can see no evidence of front lockers & also look at the asymmetry of the side lights. Even if they were symmetrical both sides are in the wrong place. The rear lockers must have just rotted away as did the original front wings.

It reminds me my father took a picture in Eire in the early 1960s. There was an old farmer with a donkey. He went to take a picture, the farmer insisted that he put a sheep on the donkey first. Then just as he went to take the picture the farmer made a chicken stand on top of the sheep. Obviously his party piece for the tourists.

Not sure what you mean, why horrid? The big nut is not specified other than nut bevel pinion dog The flange bolts are UNF 5/16. Yes but they are sided in the sense that the nearside have LH thread wheel studs.

Didn't think you had either :roll:

Good grief man, snap out of it & pull yourself together! Yes but have you got the other pair off to do the swap? They are like very heavy man.

Adam glad you made it here, we met on MLU. A bit of pig reading for you! http://www.hmvf.co.uk/pdf/TheEarlyHumberPigs.pdf http://www.hmvf.co.uk/pdf/PIGINAPOKE.pdf The written test is on monday :-D

So you've obviously had success with it then? 8-) The book says it should take 30 minutes to get it down & put away. I note the wartime version needed 10 men and a NCO to help them. Although no time for either process is given.

You did well with your erection at Beltring it should take 10 men one hour. Yes at it happens it was a cider tent. I went in there 2 years ago & got led astray, then the evening went quickly & the next thing I knew I spent the next day being sick & unable to stand up until the evening came. I think the product must still up to specification as on Sat morning there were 3 unconscious customers still lying on the ground outside the tent. :roll:

For those not in the know. I get peed off with people trying to look in the Hornet by grabbing hold of my wing mirrors. They are a fiddle to readjust, get bent & even once the mirror got broken. There is a sign above each door in yellow with black writing saying "KEEP OFF". For those who ignore this will find the anti-boarding strategy of grease on the mirror stalks :evil: Jack, I think you were led astray by the bystander.

Well I have just about dusted myself down. Was there for a whole week & very lucky with the weather. The MV section was only a quarter of the size of the commercial section and space being at a premium tents were restricted to one military tent no greater than appx 9x9 ft & no caravans. This made the display 100% military & allowed the max number of entries. I am pleased to say we had neither of the two regular military units. That may sound strange but the RTR unit usually have an AFV for kids to climb over, as they have been next to us the vehicle climbing spills over into our vehicles. In previous years the RS detachment have been plonked into our limited space & would selfishly run their generator into the small hours so troops could place video games on the comms PCs. So I am glad they weren’t there. Only took a couple of pics. I think the clumping together of vehicle types looked more impressive like the two ferrets were next to each other and so were these two things. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v684/fv1620/DSCF4913.jpg[/img] Living in the cipher trailer I like to nose out of my barred windows to see what’s going on, but my fear is having my daylight blocked out by some massive lorry. I got away with it this year by inviting an airfield tug to park next to me. The MV section is just in front of the vehicle arena, so throughout the day we were inhaling fumes of petrol, deisel, paraffin & soot not to mention the inevitable dust. Hay/fume fever seemed to hit many of us & seemed worse this year with stinging eyes. I tried various official remedies (a-histamines, beconase, eye drops, wearing sunglasses), eating a whole orange (not at once, in pieces but the rind as well) nothing seemed to help. But the final day was slightly cooler but I resorted to buying some “bee pollon” the previous deay which seemed to avoid the symptoms amazingly. The on-site radio station played predominantly stuff of 40 years ago which suited me fine. But it did go down hill once the show opened on the Wed. This is understandable as the advertising increased enormously but we had endless interviews with various people including nit-wits telling us how many years they have been coming to the show & why the have come this year. Yes I know it’s good, that’s why I was there! This was the other thing that caught my eye. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v684/fv1620/DSCF4897.jpg[/img] Yes I know what you are thinking it’s a JA 2069 that replaced the JA 5693. But if you look at the windows you will see it is the later version of the Tent, Marquee, Universal, GS, Double J1/8340-99-942-4590. Question 1: How many man & how long to erect? Question 2: For what purpose was it erected at GDSF?

But is it actually an alternator? The original was a 2-speed dynamo at 25 amps (Generator No.2) but some were converted to 90 amp alternators with Generator No.10 (as fitted to Rovers). But the conversion programme was suspended due to a shortage of components.

I'm still getting through on Orange broadband with my old Freeserve address. It would be sad to lose it as it is fairly easy to remember & I would lose contact with people who know it. The trouble is far too many people know it & I get 500 spams a day which all started after advertising on milweb once. Only a handful of people know my wanadoo address & I get no spam there. So I'll wait & see what happens. But I had thought anyway of using a disposable email address. Then you can see which address causes a spam & then just delete that offending address that you use. Anyone tried this & how easy is it to use? You can use a trial version. The trouble is I downloaded a time limited trial a while ago but never got round to use it. It won't let me have another go. http://www.anonymizer.com/consumer/products/nyms/

From the Illustrated Parts Catalogues. The trouble is that the Humber 1-Ton IPCs started in 1952 (although the early ones were not actually illustrated!) quote the part number as a VAOS (Vocabulary of Army Ordnance Stores). This was usually the manufacturer's number prefixed by a VAOS group number. The agreement for converting to NSNs (NATO Stock Numbers) was ratified in 1956 but only formally applied from 1965 when NSNs were listed in COSAs (Catalogue of Army Ordnance Stores). Some IPCs started to list with NSNs before that date, like the Hornet IPC which is where I got the NSN.

Dancing? Good grief, next thing you will be telling me there are stalls selling cider! Most of the week I spend watching to see if a stationary engine will move, studying the design of tractor seats through the ages & photographing early horticultural implements. Wouldn't have time for anything else!

Yes well done Richard, you certainly deserve wining the biscuit-tin latrine. But you will have to pick it up at the end of the show :-D But have you made your incinerator yet? Building a few paths round the house are we?

Solex No: SX4122 NSN: LV6/MT12/4730-99-807-3560. Bolt, Banjo Union, Metric, 12mm x 1.25mm pitch x 10mm long

Aren't they all metric considering Solex is French? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solex

YES well done Richard it is indeed a 1918 US military biscuit tin: http://www.google.com/patents?id=eB5RAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA44&dq=military+biscuits#PPA44,M1 Note. The last 3 objects have been "themed". Indian latrine, Indian latrine made from biscuit tins & an albeit smaller biscuit tin.

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