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if you don't mind me asking, how much was the Jolley set up ??

 

 

All kits seem to be about the same they went up in price this month :-(

For a B60 when you add £6 p&p + VAT it was about £192 . But if you want your plugs to keep clean this is after 200 miles in a B60 which usually foul up in a matter of minutes.

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If you want not just cleaner plugs, but a smoother running & more efficient & reliable engine this is the way to go.

Ian, what is that on the rear body behind the near side door? Is it a little flap? If so is it just on that side? Is there much racking etc inside?

Thanks for that Clive I will know more about the trailer once i have collected it next weekend but the information i was given was Radio Communications Unit, 1952. But this might not be correct so will have to wait till i can see whats on the data plate.

 

Ian, of course the role may have changed over the years. My Yellow Fever trailer was a radar target simulator. But judging by the dymo labels & clipboard titles I found on the inside it must have finished up as an incident control point.

Ian, yes that looks ideal with all those windows so was this a Commanders Caravan maybe? Of the those two pics I posted the top one is a Commanders Caravan of 1956. The other application might have been a repair workshop? I have a picture of a trailer based Tailoring Serice which has 4 windows each side. But there was a range of repair trailers that would need good light. See http://www.hmvf.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=2836.0

Although the EMERs I have for 2-ton 4-whld are Sentinel or Rubery Owen. Eqpt Codes Regulations of 1964 list all vehicles & trailers with the manufacturer there is nothing in that class attributed to Brockhouse. I have FVRDE books 1954, 1956, 1962, 1966, 1971 & 1981 & no mention of Brockhouse in that class. BUT a 1974 Catalogue of Army Coded Publications lists AC No.60976 as a 2-ton 4-whld trailer chassis from Brockhouse!

Thats more like the one I am going to get the only difference is mine will have 4 windows down each side and 2 in the front with 1 in the rear door so should be nice and bright inside. Will be good to see whats on the data plate to. Thanks for the pic Clive.

 

 

does it look like one of these?

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Now thats interesting, with outriggers like that do I take it that something big pops out of the roof :naughty: - are those air conditioning condensing units on the back?

 

Radio?

 

Radar?

 

Indigo Corkscrew a radar that replaced Yellow River. Note how not only must it be stable, but it must be level, as you can see the road slopes. The front has cooling bit like on my FV2505G (Yellow Fever) full of thermionic valves must have got very hot.

Now thats very close, but the draw bar is slightly diffrent and the battery / side lockers are not quite so promidant on ours, pretty sure its Brockhouse on the data plate, should we picking it up early next week (before the tax runs out on the truck ) so will post the details.

 

Yes interested to see that esp if it has the asset code on it. The one I just posted was a Rubery Owen. Would be nice to have one of these, have you seen any at sales, very rare.

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I will get a picture of the data plate on ours when we go to Withams to collect it. You can see the red plate just visable to the right of the draw bar in the picture Grumpy posted. I may be wrong but i am sure it has Brockhouse printed on it. :dunno:

These have wheel arches so they might be a later type with a wider track?

 

What like this one?

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Thanks for that Clive, now my next question is why does evryone refer to this type of trailer as 2 ton Brockhouse if they never made anything over 1 ton ?

 

I haven't the faintest idea! I have been corresponding with someone who said he had a Wolf Sankey trailer. These Mk3 Wolf wide-track trailers were made by three companies, none of which were Sankey. Even my Dutch Land Rover on its release papers called it a Jeep. People talk about their Land Rover being covered in Macralon (the transparent stuff) when they really mean GRP (glass reinforced plastic) It seems to be a colloquialism like writing with a Biro rather than ballpoint pen or Hoovering rather than Dysoning I suppose.

I think so Clive, its the 2 ton type Brockhouse normally about 16ft x 8ft in size as in the above pic. The above info is the thing i could find on the trailers.

 

Ian, I'm not aware of Brockhouse making anything above 1-Ton other than a 10-ton trailer. I'm only aware of this class of trailer being made by Sentinel, Rubery Owen & Tasker. But as a little taster here is an example. But I really need the FV type inc suffix. I have 220 FVRDE design spec documents which includes some of these trailers, which give more detail than the EMER. BTW I was looking through & I always had thought my FV2505G was for Yellow River, but in fact it was for Yellow Fever so I have learnt something this morning.

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Yes but when did you last see a garage where you could be given the opportunity to accidentally fill up with red diesel? Given that this salvaged contaminated fuel comes from garages who have contracts with the AA/RAC to come to the rescue of nitwit ordinary motorists who frequent ordinary filling stations, the chance of there being red diesil is remote. Besides you can always inspect the colour of salvaged fuel & steer clear of pink/red stuff.

By "Brockhouse" do you mean trailers in the FV2500 series?

The main diaphragm can be replaced by one from a Series Land Rover, the diameter & holes are in exactly the right place!. You need to drill off the riveted bit in the middle though of the Rover one. The other diapragm is a compensatory diaphragm & if it goes won't leak into sump.

As it was designed for wading, if there was leakage it had to drain there rather to the ground, althogh I have heard of people drilling a drain hole to the air.

I agree with Chris I seen no point in pratting around with electric pumps, just run the thing as nature intended. Although the only exception to that principle would be to fit electronic ignition. (Better spark, no points to adjust, no synchronisation to set up/worry about, no condenser problems, giving better performance & really clean plugs)

VD cases!

 

Yup exactly right. I assume the colour was a very clear warning to both soldiers (& sailors) to give the boys in blue jackets a wide berth.

Good thinking Ian - only problem with it is - we already have one of these:

Attempts to point out that:

 

 

1) The towing sysems on the Stalwart are incompatible both on coupling type and height.

2) It's bright white, not Green or Cammo.

 

have thus far fallen on deaf, if not outright hostile, ears!!

But Neil why not trade it in for something 60s. You have the prestige of a military trailer yet all the comforts of a caravan including a gaily coloured awning (and a wonky wheel).

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Clive, Is that where Borat lives when he comes to see you, or does he prefer the dog kennel?

Kennel! Now you're being rediculous, this man eats dogs. No he would stay in the anex on the left with the chickens.

Here are the sinkers + mines leaving the factory.

Then going off the rails on the mine layer

Stoker :dunno:

 

Nope Lee, but Richard was beginning to get warm.

Here's my FV2505G arrived in the garden 20 years ago towed by a Land rover! I think it was part of Yellow River.

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Cooked the ships cat??????

 

No, there wouldn't have been enough cats to set fire to, given that there were 6 blue jackets. Although in 1923 setting fire to the ship carried the death penalty. Attempting to set fire to it was 14 years penal servitude, same as possesing those forged bank notes. I see cheating at cards was 5 years penal servitude. Heaven knows what the penalty would have been if you were caught cheating & had a forged fiver :shake:

Mental issues?

 

Tactfully put but no

Hospital-Blues :dunno:

Nope, thats the first answer I have had with a picture :-D

Wounded in Action :?

 

Nope

Medics :dunno:

 

Nope

Yes, this is very special sort of sinker. It is the less known about other end of a sea mine & is its anchor. The sinker once sunk pays out the steel cable to the prescribed length retaining the mine at its alloted depth. Many people think that mines just bob around in the sea not realising the works that keep it in place & out of sight.

In manufacture the sinkers travel along the production line on their wheels. With the mine attached the Assembly is launched from a similar railway track on the back of a mine layer.