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I agree it is very tempting to assume that the number could be constructed to give the ERM. But the picture below shows that there is no such relationship as there are only three digits, none of which tally with the body contract plate. So is yours actually a FV1604 or a 1601 or 1602 ?

This copy that is going around, is it a copy of this https://www.greenmachinesurplus.com/portable-cookersnos12-and-3operation-maintenance-and-illustrated-parts-list-3182-p.asp which itself is a copy of what appears to be an earlier copy?

Steve the engine no.9099 was originally fitted to 34 BK 23 which was another HWL or maybe yours was that vehicle?

Regarding No.1, I have no written instructions. What I do have is 8 pages of illustrations with part numbers of the burner & the tools. This is in 1946 VAOS Sect J2 WO Code No.1569 26/Publications/5984

Steve 36 BK 19 was a Humber Wireless Light FV1604 struck off on 13/8/68 & sold at Ruddington Sale No.99 Lot No.945 on 27/2/69 for £50. There should be 3 plates one for the chassis, one for the engine & a small one for the body & I suspect that is the one you have found. Can you post a picture of it? If you tell me the engine serial number I can tell you to which vehicle it was originally fitted.

"Its War Office Publication J2-JB 10912 (1962)" Alec J2-JB so that sounds like a VAOS Sections J2 JB (ie camp cooking etc) WO/Army Code No. 10912 is the UHB for Minelayers, mechanical towed equipment, Mk 1. So I am confused. Is there also a WO Registry Code on the front page top right?

Mods for COOKERS, PORTABLE No. 2, Mk. 2 and No. 3, Mk. 3 are covered in EMER ENGINEERING & MISCELLANEOUS D 307 All items are NATO codified so if what you have is from an EMER it suggests it is quite old as items are coded as VAOS Section J. I have a 1946 edition of J1 so they have been around for a while. It is illustrated but strangely identifies the various items by name & gives no mention of the VAOS part number, which seems a bit silly.

Mark what is the designation of the document ie EMER, WO/Army Code No.?

It seems a lot of fuss to take 1/2 man hour to just drill a single 12mm hole in the LH wheel arch to allow a man pack radio to be earthed. Reason for modification - Code 2 - to improve operational performance. Stores, tools & equipment - Nil But there are nearly 2.5 pages of instructions in AESP 2320-D-100-811 Mod Instr No.20 Applied to AVCs 1620-0778 & 1620-5778 ie GS (no change of code needed after this mod!) Mods to fit Clansman items applied to FFRs

"Which body would they go through to get trialled and approved?" Defence Clothing & Textile Agency Bicester https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14581

Yes for a Lucas starter motor used in a wide range of vehicles.

16E is an RAF Vocabulary Section for MT electrical items. I have a 1950s 16E at home and unlike most VAOS, it does give the vehicles that it fits. Will look tomorrow.

Saxon I think.

I don't think those ones are flat, they look to be the later convex type. The earlier ones were flat, a particular disadvantage was that in daylight a smooth flat surface could glint markedly in Sunlight.

I collect War Office Lists that should not be confused with Army Lists. This edition was published in April 1914 has no references to MI 5, MI 6 etc because at that time they did not exist as such. The WO collection of intelligence was through the Director of Military Operations with Sections MO 1 -MO 6 under the authority of the Department of the Chief of Imperial General Staff. By 1919 MO X had formed to include some intelligence roles and a Director of Military Intelligence had formed within the Department of the Imperial Chief of General Staff with sections MIR (a-c), MI 1 (a-g), MI 2 (a-b), MI 3 (a-e), MI 4 (a-d), MI 5 (a-h), MI 6 (a-d), MI 7 (a-d), MI 8 (a-d), MI 9 (a-e) and MI 10. All quite complicated stuff that was to get ever more complex with time!

As time went on these catalogues became less frequent, I think I have them all. As far as Salamander goes: 1954 Nothing 1956 Two exhibits FV 651(A) complete vehicle & the chassis 1962 Runway Surface Friction Test Vehicle (no FV no.) & FV652 1966 You have this 1971 Nothing 1981 FV652

Oh sorry didn't realise it was a deliberate snip. This an interesting shot of 26 AG 63 I think.

A few missing from the list that I know of: 03 AG 84 03 AG 87 03 AG 98 Given the totals at the top & the two columns on the right being correct, it looks as the two columns on the left have got chopped off as they only show 12 per column. :

Yes the chassis has its own two pages straight after the full bodied FV 651(A) pages. Here is the FV 6001 entry for 1954.

That FV 652 that appears in 1962 & 1966 catalogues appears in the 1956 catalogue as FV 651(A) with the same photo & description. There is also basic chassis catalogued. The 1954 catalogue shows an even earlier version as FV 6001

That description in the 1966 catalogue originally appeared in the 1962 catalogue. There are a few more details of the differences of Mk in these pages from AP 278E Book 1.

I've got some RAF pages that describe the differences between the Mks have you got that? If not I can scan them.

Asset Code 2455-0065 Contract No. FV2522 If you google that you will just get Adidas golf shoes : (