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Is grate honour Jack has pooped me the questions. So forgive is not good English (or dooes I say good United Kingdomish?) but I am a tiny nervous. Like this morning I make just no solid but like gravy, so please I hope you like. The HMVF 20 Question Interview 1. Who are you – what do you do and length of service in the military movement? My name Borat Sagdiyev but is like Barry, you can call me Steve. I first joined when I boy soldier to join the Revolutionary Peoples Freedom Army of Liberation. 2. Why did you get involved, how did you get involved, where were you before? I was no choice, I was conscriptioned by men in the navy, well they say me they were sailors. 3. What is the attraction to you about the whole of the military scene? I like the uniform. I like dress up & carry big gun make me feel proud like a man. But they say man who need to carry big gun really only has a small weapon of his own. But is not true for me, my weapon is big. I like also sometime meet boys in the navy & YMCA. 4. In your opinion, what are the strengths and weakness’s of the movement? Is two much corruption. 5. Depending on your answer, how do we build on the strengths and how do we strengthen the weakness? Pay bigger bribes. 6. The movement has changed dramatically in the last decade, where do think the movement will be in 5-10 years time? We be in the E&U then & come over & have your job for less money I think 7. Do you think fuel costs are going to severely limit the growth of the hobby? Is no because lot of oil now in Caspian Sea nearby, yes really is true. 8. How are we going to get around the cost of fuel or can’t we? Pay bigger bribes 9. What needs to be done to insure that history is kept alive and passed down to the next generation? Re-write the history books to make us a proud people again. 10. Have you a role model, if so, who is it? Jack 11. What was your scariest moment? Sharing a tent with Cliv 12. Your unhealthiest habit? Eating my boogies 13. Who would you least like to share a tent with? Cliv 14. Who would you like to share a tent with? My neices 15. What motivates you? My satchel 16. Name someone famous, who in your opinion, you look like?! Saddam Huissein 17. What is your ‘perfect’ weekend? Weekend in tent with my neices 18. Greatest ambition? Have every weekend in tent with my neices 19. Biggest regret of your life? Sharing a tent with Cliv 20. Thank you for taking your time for this interview, I will buy you a drink when I see you next, what do you drink? Vodka with splash of insecticide.

Paul Is it for pigs or the whole FV1600 series? If not shame not include the soft skinned Humbers But you could have joined in at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HUMBER-FV1600/ Although I have to say the upholstery & colour scheme of your site is smarter :-D But when I visit your site there's an annoying little pop up each time & another very annoying one dumped on by desk top once I have come out :-(

Ian So have you bought an ambulance? I see you are asking now about a Rover Series 3, but before you were asking about a Rover 11. Yes the Dutch one won't help even the circuit diagram will be different. I had a UK Lightweight there were 4 fuses, I later had a Dutch one there were 22 fuses, I think one for each light bulb! I don't have anything on Series 3, but have some EMERs on Rover 9 & 11. Like most of these variants, the User Handbook is pretty disappointing. There will be the ordinary GS book with a few supplemental pages stuck in at the end. Were there any specific queries or are you doing like me, after whatever was published about your vehicle type? I must do you that CES. Clive

Anyone know how much metal there actually is in red oxide paint? Its just that I have been going through some B60 distributors, the caps are painted in a red/brown insulating paint. Unfortunately some the reconditioned ones have had the insides touched up with what seems to be red oxide paint :cry: The insulation between some sets of contacts is reduced to as low as as 10-20 megohms. Anyone come across this stupidity before?

Fishbourne, Chichester Show 4/5/6 August is it worth going to? Info on their club site & entry form doesn't give much away. Its just that with a heavy vehicle one has to make judgements of worthwhilieness versus distance & fuel consumption. I don't have much info to go on, anyone been before?

Yes is nice I meet you, Cliv is much asleep as he is very old 80, i think too much in the sun even when he ware his pith helmet, there is maybe not even pith to stop all helmet get hot too much

Jagshemash Is very nice meet you again and hear from you my old fiend Jery. I hear now you have sort the beast out & she is performing well. It is also good that gaytime is here for you now because your ferret is also mended. With it not work it bring shame on your family but now you can stand proud in your village. Not like the Cliv who still have some of his old problem with his pig, but now he is 80 years old he think he is a has-been. But I say he is a never-was! All mouth & EMURs you know what I am mean. Is nice you speech to me Jery as sometime is lonely here but I think sometime I have 25-50 people look at what says each time I post a massage here. It make me proud & want to have a jerky, but not to many as give me brown water. Your wive has given berth to chicken? Yes is nice. It is the way things should bee. But you say you have 40,000 womens, yes? 2 minutes that mean non stop for 55 days, you must be very tyred. Or may be you have not counted properly? You have shortwave radio? Is not allowed! If party secretary find out will bring the polis take you away to work in the cardboard box factory or gulag. But there is no paper there, that is part of the punishment. But sometime is smuggle in a roll of pravda on visiting days.. I am please you like the emejency kit, but I have give the Dutch hat back to my wive who feel safer when she ware it ploughing as there is sometime no gypsy catcher on duty. So how can I recieve a Parisian letter? And how much gift I bring for have one? You say three more nets to make? Is this fishnets you make for waring at the Pubeck show? I look front very much me see this, as clothe is very important. It give me confident I ware my draylon suit for all the thing I do. But weave thin so never wash in case it unravel itself in the barrel. But I have leave you & live you, the dog is doing bad with my suit. Good bye bye. Chenque

Allan It doesn't appear in any of the FVRDE show guides & think I have them all. But there is a B&W 3/4 view like yours in Terry Ganders Enclyclopaedia of the Modern British Army. It is only in the first edition dated 1980. It gives no details just "Coles crane on an AEC 10-tonne chassis typical of the devices used at many depots & stores run by the RAOC"

Allan. welcome, very nice & interesting. Although anything in high gloss deep bronze green gets my vote. Is it scary to drive, have you ever proded anything with the front of it?

Chris Your dynamo should have two terminals F (field) & D (dynamo output). Check that the voltage regulator is supplying the field winding with 12 volts or so. This is to provide the magentic field for the armature to rotate in. The regulator controls the voltage to the field winding which in turn determines the output from the dynamo at D. If with the engine running there is no voltage at F. Turn off & trace back to the F lead to the regulator & see if you can pick up a voltage. Then maybe clean up the contacts on the regulator. If there is a reasonable voltage at F with the engine running see if there is output from D. If nothing then very likely your carbon brushes are worn out.

Jagshemash I am wonder how Cliv & his pig dooes also Jerry with his beast, maybe you win beast in show award this time! It better to have brakedown at home than a side of the ditch in case bad mens come & have off from you. Sometime we have polis want vodka from us & vegteables for their wifes. So is always good to have spare things in a brakedown kit. We have family car that we take in turn with other village people (no I not mean the red indian, cop & cowboy who live in the ymca, what do you take me for !). It has two strokes (I mean car) so a bit noisey & make gasses like my wive when she has an abyss at the end. But sometime exhausted the gasses make a ploppy noise like the neigbours wive) I have to dooes the drive as I not let my wive drive because we have saying here that a woman & a machine is not compatable. Somehow brain is made for nice things like flowers, vegatable, ploughing, cooking & sometime be nice time to Borat :-P But man brain is mechanical, man not so easy to brake a machine as his brain made to understand like a machine. Is right yes? So why Jerry & Cliv have broke their machine?. This is things we carry in the neighbourhood car. We not all lend to everybody not new peoples who come from the asylum only to people who is born & bread up in our village. Good bye bye. Chenque

Yes it would be, I've looked in the CES collection but it ain't there. My military publications if piled up are over 100ft high. But it is in here somewhere, it may have to be post-Beltring before I can really search for it. When I do I'll scan it & post it here.

Ian I would put an ad on EMLRA site for an ambulance they crop up from time to time & milweb. That one you have seen, have you seen the engine run? After 10 mins put a compression tester on, drive it & check 4WD works & then if the tyres are good maybe buy it. But with that sort of money you could get a pig, much more fun!

Ian As I said in your other post; CES refers to the publication Army Code No. 33572 which is the Complete Equipment Schedule. This lists all the kit it should carry, ie stretchers, bed pans, tools etc. This publication was common to ambulances on Rover 7, 9, 11 & Series 3. I have a copy somewhere if its of interest.

Ian I used to have an ambulance 30 FJ 20. The rear cross member was rotten, it came straight out of service & the army had tack welded steel plates to mask the rotting x member. It was very difficult to get at, so if the outriggers & foot wells are so gone then I expect the x member is gone as well. So on the face of it I don't think it is worth it, but there might be mitigating circumstances if the engine was a nice runner, if the tyres are all good, if it is completish inside & not been hacked around into camper etc. Electrics may need attention, if that is just age etc ok, but be very wary if there has been some bodging of wiring in civy hands. Although it is fairly straight forward, not as bad as a FFR which has bodge wiring. For what you are going to spend on it, better to pay a bit more for a better example.

Ian The Wheeled Vehicle Contract: WV10634 was for just over 200 ambulances. (I don't know where ITEM came from) This seems to span 1973-75 which seems a rather spread. Code No 1040-0766 just gives an exact identity of all vehicles of that particular type, it is not unique to your vehicle. CES refers to the publication Army Code No. 33572 which is the Complete Equipment Schedule. This lists all the kit it should carry, ie stretchers, bed pans, tools etc. This publication was common to ambulances on Rover 7, 9, 11 & Series 3. I have a copy somewhere if its of interest. I looked to see if I had a pic of yours the nearest I have is 06 FL 70 although that is one from the same contract as yours.

Chris It's either not charging or it is charging but there is some circuitary causing it to slowly discharge. To test the latter, turn of everything electrical, disconnect one battery lead connect an ammeter to the lead & connect the other end to the terminal you removed the lead from. See if any current flows then if you are using a multimeter go down the current range until you can measure less than one amp or even 0.1 amps. Should still read zero even a drain of 0.01 amps after a week or so can significantly discharge your battery. But remember don't turn on any switches with the ammeter in a low current setting! To test if it is charging with the ammeter on a high range 20 amps say, with the leads reversed see if the battery is being charged as you rev the engine. But put this in the lead from the regulator not in the wiring that supplies the starter motor otherwise you will bust the ammeter.

Yes but I collect EMERs, not top hats. I can spot those blue ring binders at quite some distance :-D

Pete Gaine has a lot of experience in restoring Bedfords & finding bits. He is usually as at most shows including Beltring. Can be identified as having lots of EMERs :-P for sale. For old British bits, gaskets, carb & wheel cylinder bits, track rod ends etc try John Walker at many shows, 0115 9607860.

It was fine. Good weather, interesting vehicles & people to meet. Bought lots of microfiche, I suspect I may have been the only person permanently equipped with a fiche reader in the vehicle :lol: But I got fed up listening to a vehicle near me that was left running all day. The owner said it was to run the electric fridge to keep the milk cool. So when this started up on sunday morning, I just packed up & came home. :cry:

Democracy not always good thing, my wive she now pregnant with new ideas! No she not having a babies but has been thinking too much! But is not good for her, she think above herself & think she like work with me in the media & television. She think she like have desk job & read the news. But I say look at U&K tv newsreader have no chair & have to sit on table. Is not very comfortable. But here we sometime ok & have chair for presenter only because it is chained to table. Sometime presenter is also as well chained to table if we have a bad people from prison come to make their confessions & swear loyalty to the president. But I say she not intelligent to be on TV, she not have a generals knowledge. On quiz show to win a roll over prize of a bottle of goat disenfectant. He asked where are the mumbles? I think they come from the stomage of my wive when she eat too many of the cabbage or make too much of water from cabbage. But is wrong as he say the mumbles are in whales. But my wive think the mumbles are in wimbledon common where they pick up waste paper & politicians. Is maybe she right, yes? Anyway she write with her crayons to sent her a job applicator. But I maybe they think also my wife not suit for job as is just letter signed by invented person calling herselve Lola Beedo. I think that mean they not really want her. Her job is in field & kitchen, is tradition here. If she not do this it bring shame on me that I don’t ware my own trouser in my house & my neighbour look down at me as limpy man. She soon must do her anual training & is compulsory with no.1 dog to do army training each anual. Here is dog practice trying hide from the dog catcher who come to try make for sausages. So dog keep very no movements. Is not very good colour grass, is problem from sewedge factory as a leak I think. But is make many local jobs & is usefull for making biscuits & pottery for the tourists. Good bye bye. Chenque & don’t eat the biscuits!

Fits in nicely on my screen. But I did get it sometimes on EMLRA then sometimes not, which I don't understand. But so far is ok here on Jacknet.

It is years since I have seen an in service Rover with the black patch. But maybe I don't come across airportable vehicles. These days it would be defined in the Joint Service Road Transport Regulations JSP 341 the last amendment I've got is in 1990 when it was still applicable. To my mind real Rovers were the 2A era, now its plastic rear lights, single windscreen, plastic dash, no bumberettes, no bridge discs etc. Although I enjoy the power, speed & economy of my Wolf, its not so fun as a something like a 2A.

Chris. Either of the two mags. One editor was there who took some pics & a lot of pics by a photographer who supplies both magazines.

1950 Regulations make no reference to such markings. The first reference I can find is in 1959 Regulations for the transport of vehicles by sea or air. The serial to be painted in a prominent position on the near side, straight on the vehicle presumably. Units that had an airportable role (ie would be regularly transporting vehicles by air) had a matt black area 9.5 in high x 8.5 in wide painted on. This is repeated in 1969 Regulations. I think this was just for the serial no or the chalk number in the case of the matt rectangle. I have studied a large number of photos of airportable & airdropable vehicles of the Para Sqn RAC of the 1960s. Initially these were Deep Bronze Green there was a patch that appeared on each side of the lockers in matt black. On only one photo has it actually been written on in chalk, this was a FV162O being loaded marked "CHALK 3". Axle weights were not marked in 1960s, the first written requirement I can find is in 1975 Regulations where the black area became a 10 in square that now includes CHALK NO, RAW, FAW & AUW.