Great War truck

As i thought. Just me. In case you are wondering why i found this funny, at the end of the file Waterloo as the French cavalry charged towards the British came the shout "form square" and the British soldiers did that forcing the cavalry to go around them. Probably wouldnt work so well in Parliament Square.

One of the g wagens is now at Cobatton. Maybe the same one?

I know the discussion of politics and religeon are banned from the club house. However, as i was watching the TV tonight and saw 20 police horses charging at full tilt into the protestors, I was wondering whether it was just me who shouted "Form Square!" and found that very amusing. No? Probably just me then.

Whilst Steve has been concentrating on drawing up the various body components recently, he has found time to have a go at repairing the throttle pedal. We don't have a complete set of throttle linkage but a variety of bits and pieces that we can use, modify or copy. The best throttle pedal that we have has unfortunately worn right through so Steve set about fixing it. The first job was to file the area around the hole flat. He then cut a piece of steel and silver soldered it on using a propane torch. Finally, this was dressed off with a file and the the whole pedal wire brushed to shift the rust. It is rather pitted but will be serviceable and is, of course, another original part.

My wife bought tickets for me as a Birthday present - same day as A&E. Did enjoy it very much - just bad timing. Later on i was contacted by Stephen Spielbergs assistant to find some suitable WW1 trucks for the movie, but the less said about that the better.

Looking good now. Well done.

These three pictures just show the fly-cutting process. So after that machining process, it was time to get to work with the Black and Decker Power File to clean it up - good initial inroads were made into cleaning off the rough surface around the outside - when with an almighty bang and a flash, the Power File gave up! An initial examination of it could not reveal any fault - the fuse was changed without any success, so it needs a more serious examination to find out what has happened! The finish shown on the wheel in these three photos was mainly completed by hand using waterproof abrasive paper. There is a long way to go!

You may recall that we had two steering wheels cast from the pattern - one for ourselves and one for Barry. The castings were good, but naturally carried the imprint of the sand on them from the casting process. This has to be cleaned off and the steering wheels had to be finished highly polished. Barry got right on with his and used a Black and Decker Power file to do the job which made a quick and very satisfactory indent into the process which can be quite time consuming - and also a bit dirty! His initial results are shown in two of these pictures. This was a tool that we were not familiar with but seeing Barry's excellent results, we bought one. The first job was to put a 16mm hole through the centre of it, ready to take the Broach that Steve is making up to for the final square hole to be made for it to fit the steering column. Fortunately the Colchester Student will take 18" in the gap and we have an 18" Face Plate to which the Steering Wheel was fixed. Straight forward operation to put the 16mm hole in it and to turn the back of the boss to finished dimensions. The dishing of the wheel that way was in our favour. On our equipment, it was not possible to turn the steering wheel around on the faceplate to face off the other side - as because of the dishing, it would foul the bed - so the only way to face that off was to hold it in the Milling Machine - and do it that way. But another problem there as the depth of the throat on the Milling Machine is only 9", so we could only machine (by fly-cutting) half of the boss at a time. The Steering wheel then had to be turned through 180 degrees in the milling machine, set up again so that the other part could be machined to match.

When we did the London to Brighton run in the WD Autocar (so that must have been 1994) we saw this Karrier newly restored. The owner had gone to a yard to buy an MV (forget what it was), and found this Karrier entirely dismantled and bought it instead. I think the L to B was its first big event. In fact i dont remember seeing it anywhere else. It next came up for sale and was photographed in CMV about 4 or 5 years ago. I presume that it was that owner you bought it from. A great looking truck and very unusual. Good luck with it.

Thats a great picture. I see it has the wide Slough radiator.

I thought the land would have been sold when the track was lifted. Thats what usually happens.

Brilliant!! Well remembered. That takes me back to one of the first posts i ever made. Now, wait for the barrage of questions asking why that is funny!

Can anybody think of something suitable for this well loaded FWD. Sorry it is such a poor shot.

Steve has been pressing on with the tailboard hinges ready for the Christmas bodybuilding blitz. The steel was cut off using Fathers bandsaw and then Steve welded the eyes onto the end of some flat bar. After building up the space between the eye and the strip with weld, Steve says that his welding is getting a lot better. It still looks like pigeon poo however! The weld was ground back, the holes drilled and the ends were radiused. After some filler and rubbing back, they have now been primed ready for installation. He has also made the fixed part of the hinges which were probably castings originally. We must now make the various uprights for the body but as Father has the steel, these will have to wait until Boxing Day. Let's hope it isn't snowing!

Not a lot has been written about them. Same with the Czech legion. Now that is a fascinating story,

Looks like it could have been taken at GDSF.

Tony has mainly been spending his "Dennis time" painting the underside of the floor boards - so far, two coats of aluminium primer, two coats of undercoat and one topcoat of matt green - with just one more topcoat to go on those. In between, he has made up the "Drivers Hood Park Brackets". I mentioned before that we had to give the Drivers Hood some priority so that the Canvas Suppliers could have it early enough to complete it before the "Brighton" in May. The Brackets were just a fabrication job with some old bits of steel taken from stock or from the scrap pile. Two wings nuts are required and these were again in stock - bought at an Autojumble at some time or other as they "might come in handy one day". The plate parts of the job were just cut, drilled and filed to shape - the two "pins" were made from 1" bar, but back to back so that there was enough material to hold them by when the threads were cut. The 1/2" BSF threads were mainly screw-cut in the lathe but finished with a die. (the picture 62 shows one thread completed whilst the other thread still has to have the die run over it to complete it). The two pins were separated, machined to length and a 3/8" BSF thread cut on the end which goes into the backplate. They were then screwed into the backplates but also silver soldered to ensure that they would not come out.

I bought an empty mine detector box like that. I was suprised how heavy it was. The owner of the stall offered me to leave it with him, but i thought he might change the price on it so i took it and ran. It gets really heavy after carrying it for 6 hours.

You may remember from a while back that Tony and i drove up to North wales to collect an old Eagle trailer axle which had two very good condition tires on it. We have found a new home for the wheels but had to get the tires off first. We loaded up Steves poor old Passat with the wheels and he took them up to see a very good friend of ours: With the wheels gone we can put the tires back into the shed. It does not actually give us any more room, but it is another job out of the way for when we get stuck into the Thornycroft.

Looks good. You will have to take me for a spin. Tim

A very purposeful looking truck. The engine from an FWD, the cab of a Heavy Aviation, the all steel ammunition body from a Quad or FWD, similar ring gear drive as the Quad and i think it had the FWD gearbox.

That sounds like the dodges they used. Where was the photo? As you say, nothing changes. We relearn the hard lessons of yesteryear time and time again.

Crikey. Another one destined for Scotland? does it reside at Eastnor castle as although it says on the auction flyer that it is part of the Eastnor steam collection, there is nothing on their website about it.

yes, i think you are right. The chain would suggest that it is easily removed/lost so i assume that you would lift off the smaller disc to let in hot air.

Yes, quite right. Very similar design to the Nash Quad.