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The tone of the UH is that 35A rating applies to all four. Although one of them will not effect the running of the vehicle as it is just an auxillary feed to the NATO socket. The others are wiper motor, brake waring light & switches and the other is sidelights & brake lights.

Neil the UH just refers to them as 35A cartridge type Lucas 6FJ, so presumably all of them. I had a Dutch LtWt & that had 22 fuses!

Those Young Farmers are cleverer than you would think :whistle:

Luckily I got a pitch under cover but it was in the barn out of view to a lot of people. Took £23.50 on things that on the last three digouts nobody would look at let alone buy. Yet I had more of some previous best selling lines but no interest. Strange :dunno:

So I know its 24v FFR but what model is it? So I can dig out diagrams.

So what year is this trailer? My CAETE is 1994.

Someone on Ferret Heaven weighed his 2/4 turret (inc gun mount) & recorded 585 pounds which I think is 265 Kg. He may have been in the US, but are their pounds the same as Imperial ones? Is this on your Shorland? It may be slightly lighter as contrary to popular belief they are not Ferret turrets, they were manufactured by Shorts themselves admittedly based on a Ferret turret.

The range of stuff would be covered in CAETE (Compendium of Army Electronic Test Equipment) got one somewhere. Of course the CES would define it, I'll see what I've got, give me a few days.

I think I have some of that sort of paperwork, but give me a few days.

Neil I am always suspicious of the earth on these side & esp rear lights where it can corrode with mud & disimilar metals. I would (via fuse) take a direct lead from 24V + to the feed lead of the indicator bulb, if it lights up at least you know the earth, the bulb & it connections are OK. Then you have to figure the flasher connections when I get a chance I'll look up in the book etc, but got things going on to take my time at present.

I have seen individual vehicles fill up. An Army carawagon once & of course didn't have a camera, & odd RN vehicles. But I have never seen a RN convoy so they have to fend for themselves on an individual basis I suppose. Once I was filling up in my carawagon & I had a squaddie turn himself in after AWOL the day before. He tried to insist I took him back to camp, had great difficulty getting him understand my vehicle had civilian number plates!

Lee, I have the User Handbooks for MOBAT, WOMBAT & CONBAT. Below are some pages on the No.73 Sight. I only have the IPC for CONBAT but that uses the No.75 Sight. However looking through the parts list in addition to the NSN most are given a drawing no. either prefixed RCL or BS & a few FV. Where a manufacturer's no is given the manufacturer is stated, so this does indeed look like a design drawing number. Curiously in the column includes ADFRENO, which as we all know is a RN stores cataloguing system. So did they have BAT guns on board ship?

But if you are in The Netherlands, the lead vehicle has two blue flags (one each side of cab) the rest of the convoy each has a blue flag except the last one which carries a green flag. I wonder why it is different over there?

Well Gareth, what about the Christmas colour scheme shown in your avatar? It would at leat be authentic if not a bit unseasonal.

Perhaps a clue here, Penal Servitude i.e imprisonment with hard labour was introduced in the Penal Servitude Act of 1853 and was abolished in Criminal Justice Act 1948

I don't think primer & then a coat of IRR NATO Green will offer very good long term protection. I try to follow the 1948 spec for AFVs which is primer, the Dark Admiralty Grey undercoat & two layers of high gloss Deep Bronze Green, then NATO IRR Green if desired. I assume you mean NATO IRR Green this is nothing like the protection of proper gloss paints, however there is a NATO Green high gloss used for non-tactical vehicles but it has no IRR properties. As for heat resistance British Army postwar engines in general have used Sky Blue heat resisting gloss. But I had a pig from N.Ireland service that had the whole engine etc painted in IRR NATO Green & showed no sign of failing due to heat. BTW Looks cute, at first looked as if it was a baby Stalwart!

Not so long ago there were punishments to fit the crime. Neil, I'm sure you could find something appropriate in the scale of punishments in the Punishments Quiz thread!

Yes well both the top two look familiar picyures & he seems not to notice the one on the right is a Ferret not a Saracen. The other "Saracens" are actually Saxon Patrols buit for IS rather than the normal Saxon which was a battlefield taxi. The one in flames come from the British Army Picture Library online.

When was this military document printed? I’ll give the answer at the weekend, but it is clearly not a current scale of sentencing. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v684/fv1620/Punish1.jpg[/img] http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v684/fv1620/Punish2.jpg[/img] http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v684/fv1620/Punish3.jpg[/img]

He's pulled it now, but still quite a lot of familiar pictures still for sale.

Ah well it depends if he believes my history or whether he believes what has been written in a letter from Beverley. I have seen a total of 5 histories from there, including two to myself & I feel unable to express a public opinion about what has been written & I'll leave it at that. :shake: Yes that's fine any more then there are stopping issues. Someone was boasting how fast he could go in his pig saying was showing 60 mph. Well (a) that is silly (b) the speedo calibration only goes to 50mph as you know. :whistle:

I beg your pardon! No need to boast about it, I think you should keep that sort of thing to yourself :naughty:

Does it say VBP? I think VBP means Vehicle Book Processed. Meaning the details of Army Book 562 were entered onto the database. ADP = Automated Data Processing. The ADP at the time was VESPER (Vehicles, Equipment, Spares, Provision, Economics, Repair). When your vehicle came out of service SALOME was in operation (System for Accounting & On-Line Management of Equipment). Vehicle depots were equipped with ME29 computers with the main frame at Bicester. Further changes took place in 2005 with the introduction of JAMES (Joint Asset Management & Engineering Solution). JAMES acts to: Store equipment documents, details of use, servicing, inspections, faults etc Allocate equipment daily & future commitments Forecast inspection & servicing requirements Allow tracking of equipment & where it is needed Hold records of driving & specialist qualifications. That was JAMES 1, then this year was set to introduce JAMES 2 which added: RN & RAF vehicles Deployable system into the field Engineering function to manage repairs & mods Linking with other systems, including supply chain Anyway do you have a copy of the vehicle record card? Please say these are not dates on the basis of something said in a letter from Beverley.

The thing on the wing is a Notek light, had a pair of them on the wing of my Dutch Lightweight, gawd knows why it has one on this pig. The mirror stalk moved to the wing in 1977. There are no light guards, as I assume the barricade ram has been removed & the mesh was attached to that. In fact I was in contact with these people in Tulsa who wanted a barricade ram for this pig. The seller has quite a few other "original photograph not printed on my computer" one of which I have seen in a book. But a bidder "kremlinpig" is bidding on several so clearly he is a "serious collector"

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v684/fv1620/Shot04.jpg[/img] But it is only relatively recently that the death penalty has been abolished for all offences. In November 1965 the death penalty for murder was suspended for 5 years. In December 1969 the death penalty for murder was abolished. The death penalty remained theoretically available in Northern Ireland until the passing of the Northern Ireland (Emergency Powers) Act 1973. In July 1998, The Criminal Justice Bill removed High Treason and piracy with violence as capital crimes. In October 1998, the Government introduced an amendment to the Human Rights Bill that abolished the death penalty as a possible punishment for military offences under the Armed Forces Acts. There were 5 military wartime capital offences: serious misconduct in action, communicating with the enemy, aiding the enemy or furnishing supplies, obstructing operations or giving false air signals, mutiny to incitement to mutiny or failure to suppress a mutiny. On 27 January 1999, the UK Home Secretary (The Labour MP Jack Straw) signed the 6th protocol of the European Convention of Human Rights in Strasbourg. This move formally abolished the death penalty in the UK. The last execution under military law was in 1942.