Maurice

Would the bramble one be for sale ? I want to save it .

Must be produced from WW2 till the 50ies , or had a total rebuilt in the 50ies. in the Brussels tank museum there is a picture with a Bedford MW with one of these jointers trailer behind , picture has 1947 as a date on it .

Nice effort to get it back running again, I am just finishing a 6x4 Studebaker for the comming rally season(ex british army) , only thing missing is the interior cab lining and strips to hold it in position , is there anybody with detail interior pictures ? also what material is used as door seals rubber or canvas ?

Nice bike , just one question about the front mudguard , wyhave some a rib in the middle and others are plain like the rear ones ?

I also got a co , but am still on the search for a decent saddle cover , most I have seen are bad (cheap)reproductions .

These lamps are for armoured vehicles with the braided metal wiring conduit, like M3 Stuart or M3 Grant.

Maurice

Tanks with radials want to keep moving , otherwise fuel starts boiling in fuel tanks , in Mons they made the mistake to let it go to everything but tanks in town , even after we discussed this matter in advance , in the morning inexpierenced guys put the convoy together with all the weasels, kettenkrad`s, m8`s 1/2 tracks and that in front so the heavy armour had to race or stand iddle for long times , not workable . several years before big tracked in front and the rest could follow , this kept everyting rolling , the wheeled armour is a lot more flexible .

Joop Staman makes the correct plates in Zinc now , they bought the equipment from Emile Becker.

nice and shiny , that is about it , not much is right on this jeep .

If it is the one wich fits into the little box on the rear of my Firefy I am interested.

I cleaned 2 WW2 us army marked bottles wich I found on a REO , and the bottom layers were a light green matt collor , and other was yellow .

Best thing to do is clean it to the first layer of paint , or under tow hook .

Mine was olive drab under tow hook , but I have also seen one from a friend who was brown . Late versions with the lighting equipment have also been like a matt deep bronze green .

So as long it is not painted in Nato green you will be OK

Army Museum in Münster asked already the same question to La Gleize couple of years ago , answer was it stays as is .

tja , right they should not have left it behind in 44 .

Any recommendations on how to do it. I was planning on staying at a city centre hotel not far from Grand Place. Is it easy to get to and park at the Bois Brule etc?

Cheers, Richard

Parking is not a problem at Bois Brüle , just when you get back to your car it will be empty :embarrassed:

the Winch truck is based on a CMP chassis and bottom part of cab .

Some bits are almost not available anymore , like gun and gun mount , turret ring and turret also don`t come cheap , what about the rear engine deck , especially the cast cover for over the radiator etc etc. The same person also had already the M31`s on E bay , no bid , starting bid 30000,- very twisted side etc .also no turret or recovery crane.

These banjo Axles are not CMP Chev . i have never seen the shock absorber links mounted directly to axle , and also never seen swivel point protection like on M8 /halftrack axles on a CMP axle .

So you're taking your Sherman back to its wartime condition rather than a M4A4(transforme) as it would be in French post war service?

 

If it is being done as a M4A4 T , you could better make it into a TT , there is plenty room for 2 radials in the engine compartment , So were are these 18 cilinder radials ?

Funnily enough, I am him! :cool2:

aah over here all those Dodge WC owners tell me they have all the parts I need in stock at their sheds , when I show them then a Multibank part ,then they explain that it is a Bubba item I have :-D

You are right.... I remember when Budge was selling take outs for £250 and new ones in boxes for £2500.

And were we were last Sunday , that is the place these radials came from , and were then sold on to Budge for 500,- € new in the box.

rubber tracks were 1200,-€ in those days

Thank's Maurice .

What engine do you will put in your tank ?

The engine wich belongs in a IC

I have to check that number up on that firefly , got it written down somewere.

Yes it is a new turret ring , the other was missing . Actually I started with an empty Hull , everything was taken out to remove the differential carrier through the Hull instead of taking the final drive housing of

but what is meant by the last to be converted !! If you look at pictures in Normandy , you see already IC `s on the move . On the other hand I found a IC hybride in a book about Holland , and later found a picture of the same tank (same T number ) in Use in Normandy still with the 75mm gun in it . So even tanks already in use were converted .

M4A4 `s on the other hand with electric turret traverse were never earmarked for conversion , all the ones in Europe with 75mm gun in it as monument are with electric traverse.

The M4A1 is never used as Firefly because with the rounded sides there is no place for the rearranged stowage , the Grizzly converted in canada doesn`t have all the stowage bits converted.

No, I have not seen it.

 

Did come across this pic of Sherman final drive housings. As these have VVSS sprockets they must be there for spares, as all the yarders using Sherman components have HVSS tracks.

 

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Hanno look at the steps on the front and on the left side , these front ends are from M10/ Achilles

I'd love to see the photos but the server won't let me! I'll have to wait until I'm back in England, but it SOUNDS very interesting, thanks for saving a piece of history. Nevermind one Sherman troop, the HMVF will have a couple of troops at this rate.. maurice, yours is a Ic right? How is it coming along?

Alastair , yep mine is a IC tonight the front ammo rack is going in at the ex co drivers place , was a bit of getting the pipework in for the wirreless junction box behind the ammo rack , the pipng is different then in a VC , so had to investigate several wrecks before finding out the routing . Funny size pipe as well 19mm outside diameter.

next to the drivers seat was a bracket wich I also couldnt figure out , but saw in 2 other wrecks the same thing , in one i openned the lid and discoverred the starting relay in it , makes sense to relocate it , because if it stayes in the orriginal possition , you can`t reach it without taking the ammo bins away , and for that the turret has to come off as well . So it must have been a weak point on early firefly`s , till now I have only seen 3 with this mod . Next thing is drivers seat wich model ? spring loaded tube frame type or scissor type , have to go to Wiltz in Luxemburg to see what is in that one . the Wilts one is from the same period as mine .

Hi Radek,

 

Off thread, but bottom left of your first photo is a Ward Lafrance M1A1 towing what looks like a QL. Are there any more photos showing these two vehicles?

 

Thanks - Mike

looks more like WOT6 , rounded mudguards and headlamp (too big ) on mudguard , QL has the headlamp mount in front of the cab .