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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.

A drawbar :?

 

Nope

would love to see one of these in real life!!!!!

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.

When the missile is fired the guidance wire is redeployed - I'm guessing the crew don't wind it back in - so - a means of reloading the guidance wire???

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.

something to do with the wire guidance system

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

Those civi rear cross members were sometimes fitted in service,

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 want to know when your doing the 'guess what this is and its yours'

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?

Only one per vehicle implies it's central between the two missiles.

Nope

Is it

1) Some kind of brace used between the vehicle and the carrier in the lowered travelling position

 

or 2) Some kind of loading aid???

 

Nope & nope

The second pic made me think of the suspension arm tensioning strut (equivalent to a jack on a tracked vehicle) but the CVR(T) model looked nothing like that and on reflection it's far too complicated.

Some sort of ground anchor?

 

Nope

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:.

looks like this is it at the very top of the launcher cradle:

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

Flogged the lot on EBay for £14.98.

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

So it looks like it is designed to be pivoted.........?

 

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

Some sort of sighting/firing mechanism??

 

Looks like some sort of post rammer

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