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"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.

2 hours ago, Mark Ellis said:

Still a classified topic, but here's a set of IR lens for the FVs. The IR headlight's glass is flat to allow for these to fit over

 

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.

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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 : (

Just found the other one NGY 839 also a LR fire tender sold on 6/12/66 Sale No.87, Lot No.381 which sold for £330

I wasn't going to look again but curiosity got the better of me.

NGY 897 was sold on 19/4/66 Sale No.83, Lot No.161 listed as Land Rover Fire Tender Series 86, 4x4. The dealer obviously liked it circled the entry in Biro & noted "OK 2 1/4"

The definitive description for the era of interest is Concealment in the Field 1957, WO Code No.9459

It replaced three WW2 camouflage publications that covered vehicles, artillery & AA artillery. It shows a wide range of nets & garnishes, there are instructions on how to make your own or embellish existing nets with garnish.

The book is not uncommon, in fact on bookfinder.com there 66 copies for sale, but only one is original. Twenty years ago a company reprinted the book, I have never seen the reprint so can't speak for the quality of the reproduced illustrations. Line drawings often reproduce well, but there are 271 illustrations most of which are photographs and bearing in mind many of the photos are quite hard to discern, for the obvious reason that they depict camouflage! I would always prefer to have the proper book rather than a reprint made 46 years later.

No sorry I don't recall which two NGYs I spotted & in which two catalogues they were in, I was only on the lookout for yours.

Well I have looked through the six sales catalogues for 1966 & only found two Land Rovers NGY, but not yours. Bearing in mind each catalogue covers often four days of sales that is a lot of entries.

Although Land Rovers were generally sold with other small vehicles on the first day of each sale, but gosh each sale had many hundreds of Champs.

I may have missed it but I can't face going through them again, it takes longer not to find an entry than finding it!.

For good measure I have just checked the first sale in 1967 & not found it. But there were disposal sales other than Ruddington.around that time eg: Branston, Aston Down, Wem, Melton Mowbray, Alrewas etc. But I have only a few catalogues for those.

EB the final Maintenance Schedule for S3 Rover was AESP 2320-D-100-601, probably someone has made an FOI request & is out there.

That is the Ring, lashing FV11735 with one per wheel arch. For the floor there are ten Ring, lashing FV12614, I'll search for a picture.

Surface mounted.