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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"?

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.

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Well I take each year to the Great Dorset Steam Fair complete with the mystery object. After 12 years of showing nobody has ever asked what the mystery object does, very few ask about the missiles (which I would consider to fairly eye-catching) all I get is endless silly questions about the smoke dischargers. But I think you mean by real life, live firings. I do have footage of those but never witnessed the real thing.

Neil I would like to say yes for your determination & effort but no it isn't I'm arfraid. In trials & practices the wire was recovered as it was extremely strong & dangerous for livestock that frequented the fields around Lulworth. The technique was to use a hub fitted to a Land Rover & the wheel spun at high speed. Although gloves were worn there was no eye protection & it looked extremely dangerous to limb & eye.

Hmm well in a sense yes it is to do with it, but it is not part of it.

Yes this is true. There was no Land Rover part for a miltary rear cross member. I know there are companies that make repro ones. But these would not be available to the MOD who could only use the Land Rover made civi one.

I think success has gone to your head Paul. But I can reassure you that the next item planned will be on a guess & win it basis. May in fact be in time for your visit :wink: Aren't you even going to guess at the current object? You will be allowed to have a full demonstration on your visit & even sniff it if you want to & take close up pictures to show your grandchildren, how many is it you have now?

"is it something to do with missile or the launchers system?" Yes rather than automotive

Canvas bucket?

Nope Nope & nope

Yes you are right it isn't. If it helps there was only one per vehicle.

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I assume that is a sort of US type of EMER. I think there is much less of a problem over there due to freedom of informatiuon & all that. There are sites in US where that sort of thing is freely available. There are instances in UK where material is deemed to be inaccessable & secret, yet you can go to US & retrieve the identical documents that have been shared by UK. Over here we have the Information Commissioner yet this seems to be in contrast to the Data Protection Controller who seems to have an opposing purpose. Used to be a headache at work trying to work out which set of principles should apply :roll:.

Neil yes very well spotted & researched. But that was only its storage position it could not be used where it is.

I think you should have put on a higher reserve, there were probably little more than 2 dozen of these things made.

Hmmmm yes sort of, but more of a support/locating role rather than pivoting round & round.

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Well thats not its real purpose. Here is some more detail:

It is or is part of a Dodge/GMC/Jeep?

American & WW2?

Hmmmm nearly but not quite. I have a better picture I have found in an EMER, so I'll post that later.

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