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But is holds something? :?

 

Yes thin & flat.

Jack a way to get people interested in your vehicle is to lift up the bonnet & scatter tools & spare parts around & look pretty peed off trying to fix it. That will draw people in their droves. Below is after the gawpers had dispersed watching the problem of fitting a very heavy dynamo to the pig at Yeovil. People are absolutely fascinated that something is going on & especially something going wrong, often asking:

"having trouble mate?" - well yes

"I bet you're annoyed" - well yes

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v684/fv1620/Dscf2203.jpg[/img]

But if you have a genuine problem & want fewer gawpers, then form a blockade of tools etc so that they cannot see the area you are working on, once that is denied them then interest is lost.

BTW thanks to Kevin for his help on that occasion, but there's no point in saying that as you aren't on HMVF are you :wink: Yes Neil I am parked next to one of those things.

Jack you are right about people identifying with a vehicle. When I am with the Hornet, whether I am next to a Jeep, Land Rover or whatever there will be more interst shown in my neighbours than the Hornet with its missile stuck in the air. The reason for this is that most ex-soldiers have never seen one & dismiss it as fantasy as it was used only by an elite & hardly known about unit (Para Sqn RAC). People can identify with the more widely known vehicles as they drove one, know someone who drove one or they would like to drive one etc.

When I do get asked questions it is not about the miussiles but endless silly questions about the smoke dischargers.

Ummh no & no.

I've just taken some more pics, but I'll let it run a bit to see if anyone gets it.

Looks like a flimsy frame for a seat?

 

Ummh no.

No, afraid not Neil but at least you had a go.

author President of the World offcourse. I will be Vice President and we will RULE THE WORLD, whouha ha haa (manical laughter)

 

Ah is nice, my mama often tell me I am not ambitious enough. i was only thinking of president of just one country. so may bee i rule the world like harry secombe & you be my cofey anne-anne. then we could have a helichopter to take us early to dallas & buy all the bits even before the traders come

Come on chaps! Are you being slow because you don't actually want to win it?

Here are some clues. The main frame is upside down. The nobbly bit in the middle of the cross fits into the lower part of the middle bit of the 3 pronged bit on the ground.

Like me, it is only about 35 years old :roll:

What can I say.?

BORAT for President!

is nice thing you say make the hairs on my nostriles stand proud & make me feel virulent like a real man. but president of where? doos you mean with you in U&K instead of mr brown or president of hmfv? doos you mean we have a coupe & throwover jack & put him in a satchel in the river, then seize control of the bus station & his forest & take over the sight? is not really nice thing to do to him as is a sunday afternoon. this mean it is a slow newsday & get bad coverage on tv as is only the first round of the goat wrestling matches.

The public like vehicles that have been in a war. The typical response of a young male/ ciderhead at a show when I have the Hornet is:

"What's this second world war?"

"No it was built in 1963"

"What war it's been in? Vietnam?"

"No, I don't think we were in Vietnam"

"Well what war's it been in then?"

"It hasn't been to war, it was designed to send a strong message to Arab countries that an incursion into their neighbours would be met rapidly by an airborne response with a weapon that could destroy even the heaviest tank in the world. Indeed its purpose was to prevent what may have lead to WW3."

"Well its a load of sh*t then if it hasn't been in a war"

A controversal bit here (which I think Jack wants to get people debating?) but a lot of WW2 vehicles haven't "been" in a war at all. Some have survived so well because they have seen no action at all, they been in the reserve stocks of various countries. But on release they become vehicles used in D-Day, why can't a few be presented in their real colours. I would love see for instance a jeep decked out in a Greek army role.

Yes I know people are quite free to do as they wish with their own vehicle.

Jagshemash

hello my name borat, in case you not know. is nice meet you again.

my name is on the map, but is no very good map, there are no roads marked!

then i reelise there are no roads in Kazakhstan :lol: i may not get a visa to europe now i have been accused of having an under aged hosre so is diificult. so i must pay lots of insecticide to the official who found me out, then is ok when i have a liesense! is a bit like you in U&K must have a liesense for your horse. yes is true & soon a liesense for the horse dirt heap. even our government not got that mean yet. but may bee they think of it soon when we have more democrecy & freedom like you.

i have fill in my profile on map with frapper, but it then link me to weirdos around the world, so it give picture of nice lady in Kazakhstan & man dressed up in national costume on london underground, is strange why can't he weare a siut like me.

my film premium in Canda was soiled because projector break down after 30 minutes, so has been move to another knight. is very sad but but the projector was not make in Kazakhstan was make in Canda. is true story:

http://www.boratonline.co.uk/

i bought my suit in Canda before they close done, a bit like a mfi for clothes?

Chenque, bye

Sorry to say Clive but no, they are all black and white.

Oh if I had known that I would have labelled the bits, red, green etc

Out of interest, what pages does everyone turn to first?

First, letters to the editor. Last of all/not at all, club reports.

Oh I haven't had mine yet. Did any of the colour pages extend to my bit?

Am I completely wrong or is some form of aiming aid?

 

Andrea

 

Yes you are completely wrong, I'm afraid.

Clive,

Does this include the badly decayed door behind :-P I worry the the prize might be a dead goat or half a can of disenfectant.

 

Richard

 

Ah well you obviously don't know what it is if you have resorted to criticism of my front door. It was never the same after it got hit by 6 tons of Humber.

No, the prize is the object itself. This time no more Mr Niceguy & giving the answer away until it has been answered correctly.

Why are you after a dead goat then? You are a bit late I'm afraid all the good looking ones have been allocated to the Dorset boys :roll:

I wasn't sure if we had lost you on the way & I was flogging a dead goat. Anyway it was Neil's fault he asked what the answer was! & I fell for it & gave the game away.

OK here is new chance for you to excel. It is awaiting restoration, 80% complete. Now there is a prize the winner gets to have it :lol:

It is British I found it in Potters I think 15 years ago but never got round to restoring it.

OK Neil, you have been very indefatigable in your efforts. The NSC as I said was a bit misleading as 6220 is for "Electric vehicular lights & fixtures". I think it has been wrongly classified & should be NSC 1420 "Guided missile components".

Anyway that light unit contains a 44 watt light bulb. One is plugged into the top wing & one in the lower wing of Mk1A Malkara. It is for the operator to track the missile & guide it onto target. The Mk1 missile had instead pyrotechnic flares. The trouble with these is that they "dribbled" & gave the operator the idea that the missile was lower than it really was. The other problem was that the top one dribbled & sometimes melted/set fire to the fiibreglass wing.

So you tried well. But note I never said they were fitted to the Hornet, but carried on the Hornet. So there were 2 lights in each missile. 2 missiles carried on launcher rams & 2 missiles stowed in the Hornet.

Finally found some pics of the FV1620 on the web

hope you didn't have to look far because the answer is here:

http://www.hmvf.co.uk/pdf/WWWFV1620.pdf

The 4 visible units - would they be mounted on the vehicle itself or on the missile carrier???

 

missile

Ok, to solve this problem, Dallas should move thier dig out to Dorset - there, job sorted.

 

Why not have a Dorset dig out? I used to look forward to the Bovy end of season do, but for many of us its seems to have been moved to always clash with the GDSF. :?

It used to be, I think, the last weekend of Sept. The idea was that, before tax exemption, those who taxed their vehicles for the summer 6 months took it out for the last outing of the season.

John, yes it is a bit of a fiddle to set up unless of course you bought a whole batch of them you wanted to test :roll:

It is either a test rig or fit in the vehicle or take it apart meticulousy & inspect to see if it is all gummed up or corroded or the rubbers have perished or gone hard.

But why do you want a servo? Did your never have one? What sort of MV is it? How do other owners of the same vehicle cope? Presumably the army managed ok? Is it really worth all the hassle?

Chris, just seen your post. It is the very same. I bought 8 last year from another dealer. I have to wonder how many were "Stored vertically"?

After Jacksons sale there have been a number of Lockhead servos that have surfaced on the market, they are used in the Humber 1-Ton & the measurements seem about right for yours. Here is the official test circuit.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v684/fv1620/Servo02.jpg[/img]

can tell you're no countryman

Well actually I have a small holding (and no funny remarks from the ranks, please) with a few beasts of the field of various kinds, but we definitely don't get up early :wink:

Well simpler sems to indicate a light unit

Yup

you said 8 IIRC - on the rear of a vehicle

Well 8 are carried, but only 4 are visible.

Think it was swing-fire and rapiers in my day?........what 8 PE cells would be used for in the rear of a missile launching vehicle.....

 

Neil, I admire your tenacity. But they are not PE cells something more simple, that Swingfire copied directly from Malkara.

Used to denote empty missile holders????

 

Neil, no, I think it's fairly obvious if there was no missile :wink:

Is it some form of Infra red transmitter, to pass guidance information to the rocket, while it's in flight? :?

 

No but the FV1620 was originally designed to fire Orange William which was infra-red controlled. But OW was cancelled in 1958 to make way for Malkara which was wire controlled.