Great War truck

Ward.

That is the one. After the auction the new owner loaded it up and took is straight to GDSF. Anyone have some photos of it yet? Thanks Tim

Had a busy day today with a family wedding to go to, so I went to the GDSF instead. The WW1 display was really superb and I wish I took some more photos. Met up with loads of old friends and great to see Duncan from the forum with his Daimler and Dan the Halley. Also met up with some funny chap wanting to buy a second hand Autocar. Didn’t like the look of him sent him off over the hill. Had a ride in and then a drive of Ians Liberty B. Had a race with the Holt, then drove the Liberty until we had a tyre issue. Another WW1 truck arrived at GDSF this evening (Saurer) which I had not seen for about 20 years and which has made its first appearance there. Looking forwards to seeing photos of it. Dad went down the previous day and took some photos of the Grundons Pierce Arrow

Does anybody have the latest edition of Charge Utile? I am told that there is an advert in the back that would be of interest to me. Many thanks Tim

This is very interesting. Didn't know about these. You just need to buy another 49 and we can reinstate Windrush airfield.

The two Engine Angle Mounting Plates have now been completed and fitted satisfactorily to the chassis and await the arrival of the engine! They will have to come out again to have the four (two in each) 3/4” holes drilled for the engine fixing bolts but the engine will have to be dropped in first of all so that the holes can be accurately located in the angles from the engine.

Interesting find. Could it be for filling tilly lamps?

We relocated the Dennis today driving it 61 miles to its new home in Leicester. As readers will remember lack of storage space has been a problem for us so it has been residing with our very good friend Mick in Gamlingay for the last year or so. On Saturday it was driven about 25 miles to Woburn Sands and today we took it to its new home. It was an tiring but trouble free journey up the A5 and took about 4 hours to complete with one quick stop on the way to fill up with water. Here are a few photos of the day: Getting ready to leave: Milton Keynes: Towcester: Up the A5: Nearly home now: A useful shed: Larger drip tray required.

More trial fittings!

The casting was then held firmly in position and drilled through the angle in two places, into the bolting flanges to take 1/2” Whit Csk Machine Screws. The heads on these stock ones seem to be too big – these are the only ones that we have at present and they are not long enough – should be 2” and these are 1 1/2” and must be changed – and the heads properly countersunk. A further retaining bolt – 7/16” Whit goes through the other face of the angle into the bore.

Because the right angle inside the two sides of the angle is not sharp – it is curved around, then the casting must be machined to accommodate that curve as well so that the casting can sit cleanly and firmly against the two sides.

Continual easing and trial fitting until we were content that the fit was good.

A hole was drilled and then opened up by boring in the angle to take the casting which had to be a firm press fit. Further machining to the casting also completed at this stage to ensure that it fitted inside the angle in its correct final position.

Turning now to the female part of coupling which has to be bolted to the inside of the nearside (left side) angle, then of course we had no original. From all the research completed, we knew what it looked like and how it was attached to the angle. The first task was to make a pattern so that it could be cast – in SG Iron. This is the pattern on the right in the photograph – the left one is the gearbox mounting pattern. The casting was set up in the lathe, machined to size, ready to fit to the angle, and bored through to take the “Pin” from the male part. The male part was offered up to the casting before it was removed from the chuck to ensure that we had an acceptable fit.

We decided not to give up on the old “pin” – it was put in the lathe and skimmed, the badly corroded 1” Whit thread was cut off, the body of the “pin” was drilled to take new steel which was firstly threaded 1” Whit as the replacement.

The “pin” was removed after quite a struggle and we initiaily though that it was beyond recovery. It was inserted through the sub chassis from the back and was fixed to the chassis with four 1/2” countersunk screws, nutted on the back.

Followers of this thread may remember that we said that it was our ambition to install the engine and gearbox into the chassis now as soon as possible but that it would be necessary to have the chassis back on all four wheels so that we could manoeuvre it under the chain block, thus being able to lift the engine and gearbox comfortably and under control to drop into the chassis. There was still some work to do to the axle and brakes before the wheels could go on but this has all now been done with the exception of making the two Dust Shields for the Brake Drums. Steve has this in hand but has been rather diverted this summer with other things that he wished to do – and these included the construction of a Lorry Shed adjoining his home which could comfortably take the Dennis – with its canvas erected and which would be its permanent home. The shed has been completed apart from the Doors and wiring it and these final things are under way. The shed or “Motor House” is a magnificent structure and we will leave Steve to post a picture of it if he so wishes! So then thinking about the engine mountings, this is what we were faced with. The engine is designed to sit on two pieces of 3” x 3/8” angle attached to the inner sub-chassis. The angle on the off-side – or right hand side is firmly bolted to the chassis with two clusters of five, 1/2” bolts whilst the angle on the other side is attached to the sub-chassis by one large “Pin” on which the steel angle can rotate slightly, fore and aft, to compensate for any twisting in the chassis in service. The engine is bolted to these two steel angles with two 3/4” diameter bolts in each angle. So this arrangement is designed to eliminate any stress on the feet of the engine through its four bolting points – if it was all totally solid, then there would be a possibility of damage to the engine with any twisting of the vehicle in service with the worst scenario actually being a break in the engine casing and its bolting feet. The only part of the original engine mounts remaining under the Shepherds Hut chassis was the “pin” mentioned above so we were faced with making new parts. Turning first of all to the “off side” angle, then this was quite straight forward to make. The Bolting holes were picked up from the original holes in the sub chassis and caused no difficulty. Many years ago, Steve was working in Portsmouth and was living in a Flat there– this was during his student and post-student days and at that time, the Thornycroft J Bus now with the Hampshire County Museum Service in Basingstoke was stabled in the commercial bus depot nearby. With the blessing of a very helpful and co-operative garage foreman, Steve spent many evening crawling all over the bus, sketching and measuring everything in sight and it is those sketches and measurements from all those years ago that now prove to be invaluable. From this information, we could see exactly what the layout should be of the mounting angles and what the shape of the cut outs are and where they should be in the angles.

Yes. Play Dirty and Clara Bow in Wings. In Play Dirty the Bedfords were blown up. One of them you could see had no engine in it so was probably being pushed at the time.

Sorry. There will be lots more to add soon.

I thought someone would get those quickly enough. Bob Newheart in Hell is for Heroes. I am sure if I posted a photo of him driving the Jeep that would have helped. The other one was Combat. A very enjoyable series that should be remade. Back to something British: And something WW1:

Yes, you are right. The New Avengers it was. Here is the same Jeep later on in the same series after it had been miraculously rebuilt: Here are the next ones: And an easy one:

Not quite. Those were Chinese agents.

Nothing? Would it help if I said shortly after this shot everyone in the Jeep was killed by a bunch of Russian sleeper agents by a bomb in a garage?

Well done. Try this one. Not a movie though, a British TV series.

You are guessing these very quickly, so they must be too easy. Try this one: