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Bere Regis roundabout on the way to Tank Museum about 20 years ago. The rear off side wheel (now in the foreground) of this Shorland came off & propelled itself across the road through a hedge & into the green fields beyond. Here being rescued by Dick Shepperd who recovered it to Bovy where the wheel was welded onto the stripped studs.

Note the extraordinary painting of the Shorland high gloss Deep Bronze Green with disruptive IRR Matt Black!

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Is the photo in the correct orientation

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Frame over a small charging set or generator?

 

It does look a bit like that, but it isn't.

A pool ladder? :rofl:

I see what you mean, pool - no, but it could be construed as a sort of ladder.

As Object No.8 was correctly guessed in 5 mins, lets see if this one can run longer. So I have only displayed part of the object & posted at an off peak time! Bits will be revealed as the days go by, not as as sophisticated as jigsaw I'm afraid.

Clue, as you might have guessed postwar & British.

Would be interesting to dig through the files of MI5.

Hmmm whilst they are digging through your files :roll:

Was it along these lines?

http://members.aol.com/LeonardIngrams/suicideormurder.html

One of those little rubber artillery training tank things..???

 

Yup well done. I did say it was an easy one.

Quite an easy one this time.

Early on the larkspur A41 manpack was used, not successfelly though in the built up areas....Hardyferret

Yes you are quite right, you can see pictures of Mk 1 Pigs 1969-72 with the ground spike & coax feed fitted on the antenna base of the nearside just above the passengers door. I have this on the other pig & sometimes am told it is wrong. But there it is in the picture.

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PMR stuff (Private Mobile Radio) was indeed used Storno, Mitre, but particularly Pye stuff ie Bantams, Westminsters & Pocketphones etc.

For Pigs it was Pye Westminster W15. The modification was issued as EMER WHEELED VEHICLES N257 Mod Instr No.82 Sept 1973 for Mk 1 Pigs. It was also issued as N257/2 Mod Instr No.11 for Mk 2 Pigs.

PS. I have at least 3 working dashmount Westminsters & a non working boot mount one, & possibly a Pocketphone.

John Newton has a Squirt & a Mk 1. Richard Anstey has a Mk 1 although he might be south Surrey. There was one without a roof used in a scrapyard. I have studied a photo of it, alas it is not a FV1609 but just a pig that has been severely butchered to be used as a scrappers tug :cry:.

But I did hear a rumour there was one in Brighton but not sure what condition it is these days :roll:

A filter?

Oddball, as you have a very eager audience this morning (nothing to do with it being damn cold outside of course) & as we are all so thick & as its Nov 5 could you reveal a little bit more for us?

Filler cap?

A bicycle seat?

I can see some sky, some cord or wire & if its vehicle related it must be high up. So is it part of the radio/antenna system?

Is the item made of canvas?

Canvas tilt for a vehicle?

I bought a gallon of stuff that was ex-US military and for painting on tyres or any rubber products to prevent from aging.

As I am now 85, if I put some on my face would it stop me aging :roll:

:yay!:

Yes well done! The missile is removed from the Hornet, then the "Firing Circuit Test Box" is fitted into the launching arm. There are two 10-pin plugs that locate to the launcher arm sockets. The two spigots on the side are the same as the spigots on the missile & locate in the V shaped receptacles on the launcher arm. These support the missile weight but also are the contacts for the rocket motor ignition circuit.

There are are lot of other circuits that are supplied thought the two 10-pin connectors. Before the missile is to be fired a sequence of circuits have to fire. This includes warming up the filaments of the valves (there were transistors in the power unit only) initiating the firing of the thermal battery & commands to initiate the actuation of compressed air to operate the wings, gyros & final realease catch from the launcher arm (without this the missile could fall out the front if you stopped suddenly). All these circuits needed testing. I have the commands & procedures that run to many pages. So it was never a situation of there's a tank let's shoot at it. A lot of calculation went into the correct elevation of the missile relative to range & a long initiation sequence that also involved the guidance unit & control system which was all valves before a missile could be fired.

It is for testing the missile, hence the toggle switch..........probably wrong

If that was so why does it have similar features that are on the missile? (I hate say it but you are getting warm)

Last year I had two new tyres for the 1-Ton Cipher Trailer. It was a great shame as the original tyres had a good tread but became badly cracked. After a year of hunting for bargains, I relented & paid £450 to have two new tyres which on these split rims proved very difficult to separate.

Given that I have three trailers that have to be kept outdoors, I wonder what is the best protection against the sun & weather etc. I was trawling through the Caravan Club site and the advice was to cover the tyres "with a natural material eg Hessian, not plastic" Now why should that be? Before I do this would a liberal coating of tyre paint be worthwhile given that this seems to be a sort of "liquid rubber"?

It is a transit locking device, and has to be removed (+ fin fitted) before firing (???)

Nope. Look at the MO No.7 & seem if it has any similar features to the missile & consider why this might be.

I was told by a vet who served in Aden at times when there were demonstrations/riots envisaged that he had the responsibility of boarding buses & charabancs. There he would release a cannister of a non-lethal nerve agent that had the effect of relaxing smooth muscle.

In a short while the occupants suffered disturbances in the digestive processes and felt none to keen in proceeding with their demonstration. I have never been able to corroborate this, but the guy seemed genuine & told me some other things that rang true.

Couple of clues. These are pics of parts of the missile, not the Hornet.