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It does look a bit like that but it isn't. Lizzie may be onto it if you look at the rest of her answer.

I wouldn't like to say on that one Billy.

Well not the charcoal Lizzie but think about the Welsh castle :-D Yes Happy Bunnies all round & we do have one here who seems very happy just been given his Easter Cabbage.

Its definitely failed Lauren but its not that. There is a clue in the name of the image :-D

It does look like that Diana, but nope.

I can see what you mean, but it's not that.

Any ideas? Lots of clues of various kinds :-D

Pete not K9. Just looking in a "Lockheed" catalogue, a lot of very close numbers cross reference to Bedford numbers so that seems to be the direction to look.

Pete just had a peruse of a few lists, doesn't seem to be AEC, Saladin, Saracren, Ferret or Humber.

I'm even more impressed you have the 360A shunt, one of mine has it, the other one doesn't.

Welcome Ian. Avo 12 I'm impressed, marvellous bit of no nonsense 24v VM kit. Well you can check it against mine if you want.

Not surprisingly the NCB 17 indicates The Netherlands. Curiously the NSC used is 5961 - semiconductor devices, yet all parts lists I have for British image intensifiers identify the cells that they use as NSC 5855 - night vision equipment etc which seems more appropriate. So I can find no matches for this Philips tube in most British II equipment. Bit of detail here: http://lampes-et-tubes.info/ic/ic013.php?l=e PS Partly nonsense I dyslexed on 5960

These days anybody who engages in any activity that is slightly different is at risk. For example for some years I had the only permit that was issued by a council for metal detecting on one of "their" beaches. I was required to have PLI in case someone tripped over a hole that I had dug. Yet like most detectorists, I fill in any hole I make, yet there were always plenty of holes left by children who had been making sand castles, let alone the bait diggers who would leave holes resembling half dug graves. When I asked if a permit & PLI was required for the bait diggers, I was told they had been doing it probably for thousands of years & apparently without incident!

I'm afraid I have no specific interpretation of that interesting crest. With all those sparks it has to be Royal Signals & the white swan suggests 30 Signal Regiment. http://www.army.mod.uk/signals/25278.aspx It looks like the swan's head has a flaming beacon & that suggests a training establishment of some sort. Heraldic crests & badges were to be done away with by March 1978 so that should indicate the era of the unit being around prior to that date. You mention "Commercial Logistics" by that I think you mean you have a "CL". I am not having a go at you but the misconception that CL = Commercial Logistics although sounds reasonable, is a complete fabrication of the internet that gets passed from forum to forum. CL is simply a contraction of a vehicle being in a CommerciaL class, in the same way that a CT vehicle is in a CombaT class.

Pete yes that would seem to be a good application. I'm glad people are finding it of interest, I was afraid perhaps I was the only person not using it & that be highlighted by a succession of posts from people who have been using it for years. I have only used it twice so far. I have joined some ethernet cables for the CCTV cameras with waterproof connectors but I was suspicious that the cable entry to the connectors may not be absolutely tight. It was too great a change in diameters for normal tape so blobbed on this liquid stuff. The other place I thought it might help is at the edge of rubber door seals on a Land Rover if water seeps in or tiny trace where a windscreen rubber is not sealing properly.

I don't think you need use paint first Andy, they recommend you use two layers of the stuff. It sets quite quickly provided you haven't daubed on too much the first time, besides paint will take a bit longer to dry that slows up the process of making a joint.

Yes Simon there are so many systems that were used by the Navy at the same time, it is most perplexing. When they do use NSNs watch out for the DMCs. They had the sense not to use "I" as this could be mistaken for "1". Unfortunately the DMCs prefixed "O" are often misinterpreted as "0". Unfortunately "O" is a very large section of almost 1000 section titles ranging from our "deterrent" to printer cartridges, dishwashers, truncheons & bathroom fittings!

Corroded joints can be a real pain, the most common presentation is when side lights & turn lights all start misbehaving. This is most usually to due a grotty joint where mud, water & salt has precipitated the corrosion between dissimilar metals at the earth point. You clean it all up & fit a new earth tag but know that it will all happen again. Painting the joint isn't always a great solution as the paint tends to provide only a thin layer of protection. Or you cover it with underseal gunge but this is messy & doesn't lend itself to areas where there is a joint in a cable either with crimp connector or twisted wires covered with insulating tape that gradually unpeels itself. The answer is "liquid insulating tape" I have only recently started using it. But was particularly useful where cable was coming out of large connectors. Normal tape couldn't stretch well over the sudden change in diameters & it was too steep a change for any heat shrink tube to form a seal. Self-amalgamating tape can be useful for this but not in a confined space where you are trying to unwind the reel yet keep it stretched as you wrap it around. This is the answer & I am so annoyed I hadn't caught onto it earlier. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-Performix-Liquid-Electrical-Insulating-Tape-118ml-4-oz-Black-/272263238133?hash=item3f642751f5:g:n9EAAOSwQupXUeZu I was just happening to peruse youtube & saw this: Although he doesn't quite finish the job you can see the idea. I am sure some of you have been using it for years, but it has evaded me until now. It looks very like the sealant applied on some waterproofed turnlight switches I have but never knew that the stuff was readily available.

Simon there are Army & Navy DMCs in here. If you ever thought RAF or Army part numbers are complicated, boy oh boy the Navy part number systems are perplexing: http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?2309-Army-and-Navy-Stores-Numbers NSN structure here: http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?388-NATO-Parts-amp-Early-Part-Numbers

23B is the DMC (Domestic Management Code) that precedes the NSN is the RAF Vocabulary Section for Clothing, anti-gas PS A list is here: http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?1043-RAF-Part-Numbers

RAF then

Welcome Paul, just replied to your PM.

John yes you are correct there were two types of SECRET EMERs that I think formed as a dichotomy when reproduced in overseas theatres as 'non-accountable' and 'accountable' the latter being identified by an 'A' number. The thrust of my question was really about the three-level Priority Grouping prior to 1971 & whether Group A always warranted a specific colour? I have a lot of Group B EMERs that are just on white paper & indeed many 1950s-60s that look important but are given no Priority Group at all. There were changes in 1965 in DCI (Army) 236/65 updating the Priority Grouping of 1958 in ACI 407/58 updating that in 1949 in ACI 878/49. But I don't have any of these Instructions. I don't have any EMERS prior to 1949 so I don't know if a Priority Grouping was in place then or how it worked.

Yes you are right Chris, but I've never been privileged enough to see any. Although I have some early EMERs with the binders that are marked CONFIDENTIAL/RESTRICTED all the contents are just RESTRICTED. Although I've got probably all the Hornet/Malkara EMER GUIDED WEAPONS series, which must have been quite hot stuff at the time, they are merely marked RESTRICTED.

Interested to know if anyone can tell me if they have spotted any EMER pages (not the binder) that are printed on paper other than white pre-1971. I have a 5-page green EMER from 1970 that is Group 'A' Priority. All pages are a consistent green & it is not faded blue paper. I've not found a green one before, so I wondered whether it was used just as a distinctive colour other than white or whether green always signified that priority? I don't want the EMER, just want to know if there are other examples of colours or if green always meant that priority?