Maurice
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about picture 3860 , john the steps are from an earlyer contract , did you notice?
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Who is cheating with the ammo tins ?:cheesy:
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the encircled scotches is what I meant , yes.
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I just saw now on the under body picture that there are the scotches for winching , and they are still in place , this is an official canadian modification.
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The hooks under the body could be original , if it has been in Canadian service , but then there would be as well fitments on top of the booms for wooden poles , and a structure on the frame for a canvas ,
There is still a tail door lying in a local scrapyard here , any use ?
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with regards to the reflectors , these are Dutch army , did the truck come from Holland ? Remember seeing 3 closed cab GMC`s without winch in Van Dams yard in the late 80ies , one went to Italy .
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There is one problem with the Matador cabs , AEC made only the chassis and the floor for the cab , including the 2 front panels, the rest was done by several carpenter companies, who got a bag with the metal bits per vehicle , so if the cab is not from the same company the doors are not interchangeable between cabs , nor is the rest . there were also different cabs , post war ones with insulation , and split cabs , like mine .
Hope this helps .
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on the airborne versions ,they were made with and without lights , the brackets for the switch and light are spot welded on , so this would not be an in the field job , because there are struts on the inside which prevent spot welding afterwards .
If the 10cwt trailers (mortar /GS, and lightweight) have a hole in the plate under the towing eye , then it was fitted with lights , 1 tail , and axle light.
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The Humber scout car is now in Belgium near Antwerp.
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by the look of it it is a C1 engine
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That is what I also always thought , the untouched Gmc engines I have were also grey ,not like the light grey color the norwegian army used , but more like the chev. and GPW collor.
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The ones in my 2 bedfords are different , late ones are all metal , the early ones have a wooden bottom.
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C1 engine isto be recognized by rounded valve covers , C4 are flat on top . C1 cilinders have a cilindrical set of cooling fins , and the C4 has an increasing in diameter cilinder cooling fins.
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The heads from the cilinders can be taken off , but they are a tight fit , cilinders are not cilindrical .Is it the C1 version ?
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third time lucky ? horn should face forward to my knowledge , it is also like that in the several drivers manuals that i have.
Good luck with the truck.
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What was between it , was only 3 to 4mm thick ., no rot between wings and rubber , still original olive drab underneath .
Rest of trailer was bad , wood still there , but under the wood a lot of steel rot .
I will take a picture , it is almost finished.
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On mine there was a rubber piece between the mudguards, but there were manny layers of canvas in the rubber to reduce the amount of rubber used .
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Hi all , I am looking already for a while for a good saddle cover for my Royal Enfield CO , anny recomandations where to get a decent copy ?
Most I have seen are very poor cheap quality.
Thanks Maurice
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I got a NOS one with cushions , will swap it for an early version.
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yep , were the tanks are it is very firm now , but the path to them is still bad , there is a stream next to it . Condition of the wrecks is not to bad , even after 60 + years outside .
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every time I have been up there it was miserable, once walked up to the 2 Grizzly tanks , and the moors are that agressive that after comming home my leather shoes started to moulder away, had to skip them .
At that time I also had a look at the cocrete filled AVRE , jee she was still perfect for restoration, shortly after that she was gone .
And about recovering tanks there is somebody who needs tracks a certain tank , just been up there today , and got bogged down straight away with a wheeled excavator.Only the bucket could retrieve it again .
I still know of a M10 in Belgium , it is 6 miles into the woods , but it is 4 miles marshland , to the tank . It was driven there when the ground was frozen , but cracked through it , and abandoned. There is now just about 7 inches from the turret sticking out of the bog .
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Bedford MW's in service gallery
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Mine also has a z number from vehicles wich are produced later .
same as with my 1940 chevrolet the Z number on it doesn`t match the chassis number, but is still a number allocated to that Chevrolet batch
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They were just parked in line and somebody put the registration numbers on , they didn`t bother about chassis number , chassis number was only for ordering parts.
I have an enlarged picture from that vehicle , and ju just can see that the step bracket is the other way