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Ah I just emailed you but was caught mid message with a long phone call. Yes I built a home electronic ignition into the filter box on my LtWt, no optical chopper or clever stuff like that - this was 20 years ago. I just used the points to swich a power transistor. Although there would be no sparking at the points there is still mechanical wear of the contacts & the heels. But as you realise there is the question of synchronising both sets of points to content with unless one chops. But even a simple transistor will give a more rapid switching off & more rapid collapse of the field in the coil & therefore better spark. The only people who do a kit AFAIK are in Malvern. It seems to be £175 for what ever vehicle you have. They seem familiar with B60s. But doing a search they seem to be the only ones & they were at "Malvern" last time but it was all bits of paper & talk. I would like to have seen what the module(s) is like for my money & how it went into the distributor. Or at least some nice piccies of an installation. Clive

Has anyone fitted electronic ignition to a B60? I can see the advantage, no points to wear, not having to align two sets of points, better spark giving better economy & more power. reliability etc But the only firm who seems to do a conversion kit charges £175. It is for a vehicle I intend to keep a while & of course I can alwatys transfer it to another vehicle. So I am looking longterm over a ten year period. So has anyone forked out & done the conversion. Was it worthwhile or look as if it will be given the price of fuel will go up & up? The other thought has anyone done a LPG conversion with a B60?

I claim exemption annually under Regulation 30 on form V112G/R that it was first used before 1/1/60 being used unladen weighing over 3 tonnes (or is it 3.5?). They will not put it on the V5 as the use may change. Use V112G/R not V112G. Or you could go for Reg 36 & be a registered playbus or Reg 21 as a vehicle used solely for funerals.

Right here's the rest of them. This is what the army did to 2996OI in 1973 made it into a Mk 2. I had to take all that stuff off, it's 6 years & still not finished. There are about 60 diffrences between 2996OI & a standard Mk 1 pig. My other pig, note where this one is parked. I believe the only driveable one in the world, well there were only 24 production vehicles. It fires Malkara, but it is not widely known that it was originally conceived to fire Orange William. Yes my Avtar is an Orange William. This GS probably beyond it now! My day to day vehicle. Shorland Mk 1 Serial No. 9 . 1965. This is the mother of all the Land Rover based APCs, prototype for Shorts SB301. Janes states first protype was made 1973. This was made in Belfast in 1968. BTW It is for sale. This was 2996OI last year which seemed to confuse some people.

Kewelde? OK, go on then who are you really? Jack. Right here goes. My mistake was pasting the URL not the image tag If that came out, this is the oldest pig in the world! Many pig owners say their pig was made in 1953 or so. But that only refers to the date the chassis was made, production pigs (FV1611 & FV1612) started in 1958. My baby here was made in 1956, it was one of 20 prototypes being a FV1609. It was later made into a hard roof in 1960 for police duties. In 1962-63 it was painted grey, so thats what I painted it last year. But at shows it seemed to confuse people or trigger mirth (or anger curiosly). It went back to the army in 1970. So it's in its 1963-69 colour scheme, which makes life easier for everyone.

Yes hello everyone. Condenser testing fetish is still going strong, I managed to test a number at Beltring for several people 90% failure rate! Including some that had just been bought on a stall. The other fetish is British army technical documents the collection is over 100ft high now, the oldest one I found was at Beltring dated 1884. I've been trying to post pics of my vehicles here, but fortunately only tried one & that failed. I have some pics on photobucket, I copied the URL then pasted on here having clicked the image button. What should I be doing? The FAQ advice on posting images was vague for someone who doesn't know what they are doing. On another site on a similar set up I couldn't post but the URL link was clickable in my message & in a few seconds people could go over to it, but here the thing doesn't want to do it. Yes I am really grateful for a UK basesd forum, the MVT forum seems not to have any postings for 2 years, once they changed the format I could never get in, perhaps others had the same problem? Seems an opportunity missed there.

Nice to have a UK based MV site for people who use & play with them. Most sites on MV & AFVs seem to be for modellers (bless them) & an obsession with German AFVs in particular. May I draw the group to these links: http://www.shorland.info/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/shorland/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HUMBER-FV1600/ Thanks ' alt='>'>