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From time to the problem arises in trying to run a CD/cassette/tuner which is 12v from a 24v vehicle. The suggestions have been: 1. Just tap into the 'lower' 12v battery. The problem is that one battery will be subject to drainage & the other will not. The charging system cannot differentiate & can only charge the batteries in series. ultimately you will ruin a battery. Then it will need replacing, then you have an older battery in the system & charging may not be equal. It is always better to have two identical batteries that are subject to the same aging & charging cycles. 2. Use some sort of 24v to 12v regulater. In its simplest force I have used types based on a transistor that is regulated down to 12v. Failure can sometimes mean the full 24v can appear at the output. 'Switching converters' tend to emit parasitic oscillations into the VHF spectrum & despite fitting lots of by-pass condensers, I had one oscillation that would wobble around Radio 4 (Oh what a giveaway!) The other problem is that if you want to set up preset station tuning you need a continuous 12v supply to maintain the memory. Most converters I have seen have a relatively high standing current even with no load & after some days could flatten the battery. Also there can be anxieties about the fire risk of having the converter left running unattended for long periods. 3. The ideal thing would be a 24v player/radio. For years I have hunted around to see if such things exist. But they do & I have just fitted one in the Wolf today. Do a Google for CD423-24V for the CD player or CR223-24V for the cassette. You will find lots of websites & firms selling them. It has multiply euro sockets on the rear so you will also need to get a set of multiway plugs for speaker & power supply. A word of caution though. My player arrived today 19 May, but I first placed my order on 1st May. This required a lot of chasing & pursuing, I had intended to take my custom elsewhere but I have found that 12 of these firms all have the same registered address!

In about 1958 four International M5 halftracks were leased to the RUC at the cost of £60 per month. This was the result of the "1956 Border Campaign" which stimulated also the acquisition of 10 Humbers FV1609, a lot of Dingos (some fitted with 2" mortars) lots Bedfords MW & OY. The M5 was not liked as they were LHD, difficult to drive around country lanes, difficult to maintain & 3.5 mpg. In 1960 they were so disliked that they were withdrawn & aging Lancia armoured cars, which started off in WW1 & later served with the RIC & then RUC were pressed into service again. I believe the M5s passed to a scrapyard & were bought by Israel. In contrast the Humber Pigs were much liked & remained in service until 1970 when they were withdrawn from police service after the Hunt Report, then re-registered & issued to the Army. Here is one that survives:

Its purpose is described as "Lightweight Accomodation" in 1973 Catalogue of Tents & Shelters in Service & Under Development. This is the purpose stated in JSP 361 Joint Service Handbook of Tentage 1981. But it states that its role was to be taken over by Tent GP 7' x 9' J1 8340-99-120-8579

Yes you could well be right, there isn't much sag in the in service one, also note arrangement of main guys.

Looks authentic, J1 8340-99-120-2985 Tent, Ridge Type, was listed as being in service in 1973. The details are: 7ft 8in wide 7ft 4in long 6ft 0in high 2ft 6in wall height 56 sq ft floor area 2.5 cu ft packed size 20lb weight of complete tent Erection 2 men - 10 mins Striking 2 men - 5 mins The only thing is the top cross bar does not appear in service photos, this may be a civilian adaptation as you can see the tent ridge sags. This maybe is not helped as the main 4 guys are not in their proper position.

That sort of glue is great, but you must coat both surfaces & wait for it to dry, then push it together ie impact glue. I had to reline the Shorland with this & you must keep going out & breathing in fresh air as being in a confined space with all those vapours may make you feel all peculiar :? I was looking in the back of an AS90 a while ago on a hot summers day & a lot of the lining was just peeling off in the heat so it is still a problem trying to get glue to stay stuck in the heat.

"Sticks like sh*t to a blanket." Or you could line it with blankets :wink:

As a MVT member I want to enjoy & support a local MVT event. I have entered & got my stuff through today. I appreciate the whole thrust of this event is WW2. The problem is my vehicles are postwar. I am not sure whether to bring either Pig or Hornet or if I should really be coming at all. Clearly neither of these vehicles would mix in with a WW2 display & mention is made that vehicles up to 1945 may enter the gargens for static display. So what would happen to later vehicles would they be confined to a camping area/carpark? Or would they be displayed somewhere on the basis this is what developped from these earlier vehicles? I am not trying be difficult & don't have a particular chip on my shoulder re WW2/post WW2. But I don't want to turn up & be either an embarrassment to the event or have the vehicle hidden away so nobody would see it. What do you think?

Jagshemash Cliv tell me I sometime making silly English mistake in my speak. To say hurting thing, make me feel like a moron, but is no longer allowed to eat them! Now we want join EU, for you to give us money, it is human writes everywear now. Instead I will have rat sandwhich is like hot dog you eat in U&K but made with rat instead of dog. It is a bit cheaper as we are a poor people over here, but is nice treat now & then as long as not too much garlic source. My wive not cuddlies & things with me with dog breath & not allowed to put up a kitchen shelf for her! Bad thing is if eat too many of these type of sandwhich give pain in my stomage & make me feel like pregnant with air of old eggs. Which is strangeness as there is no egg in sandwhich. But sometime give egg sandwhich to goat for protection. We dooes this to make safe goat if bad men from next village come here or DEFRA man try snoops at us too much. But I maybe have fish for Sunday lunch is special day at resevoir is easy today to catch fish. Sometime float if you wait by the stream from chemical factory, but not all things that float in water are fish! Even fish look very depressed as if he is gutted. Dooes you think that if I have chicken box, that chicken will go in it. Haha I make senses of humours. We have big box factories here, we have more boxes for each persons than in US&A. We have largest manmade cardboard box in world. Today I come reporting from box rally in the big town. We have freind who was a WW2 cardboard box that he restore, it made to carry margarine at first but now carry GMC parts. This look to me very silly he think that peoples come to box rally dooes not read English & the general pubic will not know. But Borat know is not authentic box he trying to be man with his box, but margarine is a womans box! I think our party secretary who live in town hall forget today is box rally day, his wive think it is wash day! Who dooes you think wear those small trouser, as his wive is big woman? The old king picture, my wive think look like Borat yes? So maybe I have some old king in my jeans? Good bye bye. Chenque

Paul Oh I get it you are afraid 4x4s will be banned from some places, all the news ones are not 4x4 8) The trouble with a collection (ie more than one vehicle) is that you can only have a meaningful relationship with one vehicle at any one time. Maintenance (even if you don't drive it often they still need maintenance) becomes a chore. John Newtons wonderful collection (which I find more fascinating than a tank museum - because its British & postwar & mainly wheeled) required him to spend a day just to check & pump up all his tires! My lot is far more modest but is too much to cope with. Wolf is my day vehicle No1 Pig most shows Hornet a few shows No2 Pig engine dead No1 Shorland not been out for 10 years No2 Shorland one trip a year (to MOT) GS Humber just rotted away :roll: I know some people are promiscuous with vehicles, its the thrill of the deal, the paint job, a few shows then interest is lost & another vehicle is hunted down. Once I have put some sweat, blood & tears into a vehicle I am very loathe to let it go because you never seem to get a return on what you have done to it. It's silly but there is a worry that the new owner will do something orrible to it paint it some ghastly colour, cover it with flags & stickers, off-road it or simply let it fade away.

Even so will there be enough to go round? Although I have identified 6 different Roadsure girls so far

Paul I'm surprised at you. What's wrong with the pig? You've hardly used it! If you go for tracks or 6-wheelers, that can be big time hassle or at least its beyond my ability to be able to properly maintain them & that is the thing not just having it & charging around but maintaining it properly. Buy another pig if you've must have another vehicle or John Newtons Hornet.

I have fitted the Jolley to the Hornet & has improved it significantly. Now the Hornet only went out once last year. Going to the Great Dorset Steam Fair it conked out several times on the way, a couple of roadside repairs & work at the show. Including new distributor cap, condenser & plugs, perked it up. But some damage was done some nasty backfires seemed to precipitate a split silencer & a cracked exhaust manifiold. Anyway new silencer & new manifold, runs okish but very smokey. Fitted Jolley & smoother with 90% reduction in smoke. So hopefully this should get me to the Para Sqn RAC 30 years since disbandment reunion at Bovington Camp next weekend.

I missed this when it came into force, but it has arrived here by stealth it seems. http://www.defra.gov.uk/news/2006/060501a.htm http://www.crag-uk.org//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=53&Itemid=2 I am not into mud & destruction driving, but I have the choice of a few un-made up lanes that can be used to get to my place which is itself on a non tarmac lane. So thats the end of that then :evil:

I am not suggesting that this at all funny. It uses terminology that is not PC. But like it or not this country was at war & a book published at the time minces no words: "It is well to recall that about 1% of our adult population are mental defectives....while some 6% of adults may be labelled very dull. The need to eliminate the mental defectives in the Army and for the early discovery of the very dull, makes it highly desirable that recruits for the Army should be sifted as soon as possible." "The Human Factor in the Army" C.W.Valentine 1945 A final thought, even though different terminology is now used. Would todays figures be similar or higher?

Respiration is the name for: A Breathing B Sweating C Digesting D Suffocating E Thinking It's not meant to be funny but it is a real qusetion in the "Territorail Army Entrance Test" on Army Form E7573.

Jagshemash Cliv he arrive me this today. I not really understand he mean to say, but Cliv he never of much smile poor chap, but he big smile today, (not because it Saturday night last nighttime) but he tell me he make electric ignition to his pigy-wiggy & it run faster. I am no surprise if I ignition my pigy-wiggy she run very fast, that why she still not a mother! Although she is very good looking, well that what goat tell me. Maybe she afraid it make a big explode if she make a gas & be danger for her. Yes I know is not pig but she very shy & think I maybe like the bad mens from other village. This is favourite dogs, no is not dog shoot. We have most time respect for dog, they just very tyred from pulling their ploughs. So we are very give human treatment to animal that we respect for working in our field. This is like I have respect for most of time of my wive. Anyway, Cliv say he have shame on his family if he make black gas from his end pipe at the pig show. But now he have this electric thing on he make no black gas, his gas only unvisible or maybe a little bit of grey. The grey is not too much, like the grey in his hairs of his nostrile, now he become in the middle ages of his life, so what dooes he expect? I mean body is like truck everything go rusty & fall off if not used properly everyday. I go away now I have hurry to buy special limited edition of world cup screwdrivers in patriotic presentation box. Is like you buy one for your wive whilst she open crisps & lager for man doing hard at work looking at TV (I mean television not other think that is rudey) Yes is not me making jokey is here: http://www.protecdirect.co.uk/List.asp?n=World+Cup+Products&i=526 So I hope it happy time English football ventilators. I am only small ventilator as we have to take it to have a turn to borrow the government ball to lend to our village. So our village people only get it about once a month. Good bye bye. Chenque

Road test today. Starts really easily, purrs nicely, went on run up some challenging hills. Normally these hills pig does a bit over 20 mph, but was doing 30 mph. NO black exhaust fumes now, exhaust invisible but hard reving just hint of grey smoke. Now this is in a pig that has been well maintained, on a run it would do 9mpg which is text book for a Mk 1 Pig. So I assume it is was optimised for the original equipment. It would be interesting to see what it does on a run. But even so the benefits of improved reliability, smoother running, more power & no black smoke. It seems to have been a very worthwhile improvement & is to be recommended in my view.

Yes its sad to think what might have already been destroyed in similar instances. So it sounds as if he was decent enough to try to save things for those who would appreciate them. The quantity of documents will have a bearing on price & whether they provide 'new' information not available elsewhere. Although genuine documents have a certain appeal to them, the smell of stale paper, the slightly rusty paper clip all add to general appreciation of the real thing - I think we have talked about this sort of thing on another forum! Back to your dillemma. Assuming this is wad of documents is a few inches thick. I think it would be possibly insulting to offer £25. Yet for most us £100 would be more than one could justify. I would offer him £50 & see what happens. If it was a really big pile then go to £100, on the basis you could pass on the stuff you wanted to a dedictated enthusiast of that particular vehicle type.

Jagshemash May 4th be with you! Is Star War joke from Borat! Yes I have the senses of humours. Although it is sometime difficult for me as my satchel is heavy, but my village people much salute of my indefatiguability. At time I feel of many gasses that make me difficult to walk. But I think is caused by English cooking I learn from my new freinds in U & K they Norman Keep, G.Emsee, Millie Tant, Sarah Sen, Sally Mander, ‘Jeepy’ Emgee & poor old Deaf Stanley. They are always pulling my legs to see if I have bells, is silly English game, like going shopping on a holiday? Or putting up shelfs for your wive? Real man like Borat do nots have to do shelf putting as part of display. I take no herbal remedy is just me but make me tyred sometime. So my freinds buy me special trailer to go round for visiting, then I not too tyred & able to put up lots of shelfs for the wifes. Is next door village also make me special conveyance that is trailer with no wheels. Is bumpy ride for my satchel! But I go visiting for coffee mornings, we swap pictures of tractors & put up lot of shelfs without getting too tyred. Is really meant to be donkey pull but is of a sad misfortune that engine is rear wheel drive & not too nice as exhaust is near of me. So is okay if man walk backwards, but when we get donkey to walk backward has dribble & spit & like dog breath over my hair. Is remind me of at home! And this remind me, I must go & lick my spittle, as you say in horses of commons. Bye bye

Yes, but does this 'chap' look on these forums? You might have shot yourself in the foot? Are these original documents or copies. How large are they & are they actual design blue prints eg FVRDE? Are they blue print papers or are they on celluloid eg for reduction in a printing process? It is an interesting & surprisingly wide range of vehicles. Were there any that related to the FV1600 series ie Humber 1-Ton?

Thinking about it C238 is the specification of the box. Which should be 658 x 244 x 231 mm. Underneath mine reads: ECC C238 Mk 2 SV57A 1968 I guess ECC is the manufacturer & maybe the SV57A is the contract. There is a Defence Standard on the storage of ammo on RN ships which refers to ammo boxes on: http://www.dstan.mod.uk/data/02/179/00000100.pdf If you've got the time, there are large number of other Def Stans that make mention of ammo boxes on this official site.

I thought it looked familiar I've got an identical box in the back of my Land Rover for storing tools. But no markings like C 238 1 on it. I have a 1949 list of ammunition abbreviations & there is nothing like that. As it happens C2 is the VAOS section for machine guns & accessories for AFV use. But as this clearly is an ammunition box that doesn't make sense, anyway ammunition codes start with 'T'. Is this marking stamped into the box or is it a label? Can we have a picture?. BTW mine has the markings painted on the top '120 TK' which I assume means 120mm anti-tank rounds ie for Wombat. So given the date of your box, I suspect there are a range of standard ammunition boxes that can take various sort of ammunition depending on the internal packaging.

Well I have just got back with all the items listed above back in the trailer. So not a good day from a sellers point of view, it was pleasant enough socially. I would have thought a few more people would have been tempted to take their MV for a first of the season outing. Only took £27 but last time took about £150. So was it a bad move holding it on a Bank Holiday weekend?

Paul. So presumably its not chucking it down now. Does it look alright or are there lighter blotches? If there were no blotches it was pretty well dry when it rained if there are blotches it wasn't. Another way to end up with light blotches is to leave a banana skin on the paintwork for a few days. I recently discovered this, so I suppose it could be useful if some touch-up paintwork was too dark, then plaster the area with banana skins.