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With careful folding, you'll get both the canopy and the screen cover under there and strapped in...

They are spot on.. I think if you hadn't bit the bullet, you'd see them every time you looked at the trailer!

Great progress

Hi all, like a few others I have seen, I am shortly going to be losing my storage and am struggling to find alternate storage that I can actually afford without selling a kidney and a few children.!!

It is a big regret, but I am thinking I am going to have to sell my trailer..

Just wondering what sort of price I should be looking at?

I see an unrestored lightweight airborne trailer listed for iof £3,500 on fleabay, is a 10CWT mortar trailer going to be worth similar?

Your answers may be here:

http://www.towingcapacity.co.uk/

I've just bought a Disco Sport for the same purpose, while looking at cars, I found this site very useful

12 hours ago, simon king said:

Everything restored, home printed transfers for the variometer and control box lettering. Smash moulded a new window for the variometer as well.

Did you make the decals for the 19 set and PSU as well? It all looks really neat!

Wow, that looks in pristine condition! Is that NOS or have you restored the components? Looks really good!

13 hours ago, Jerryjeeprichard said:

Based of what I was told when I collected  the trailer, it was kept indoors up in till 8 years ago, then moved into a wooded area, so I would say a combination of all three probably helped preserve it. 
 

There are lots of micro dents in the mudguard, I’m not sure whether to continue trying to dress these out, or apply filler, or just leave as is. 
 

 

My view, its earned those over it's life, there is nothing major that I can see in the pictures, leave them as they are... but that's just me!

That's a result! Looking at the pictures from when you recovered it, you'd expect at least mud guards to be rotten!

Probably saved by umteen layers of paint!

Fantastic work here... I wish I'd given my jeep chassis a few more coats of paint before reassembly..! would have made life a lot easier!

One step at a time... looks good!

I've all but finished my trailer.. I just need to source some correct spring hanger bolts..

After a few months of finding time to cut and weld the original mudguards I finally got them fitted..

Took it out for it's first outing on Saturday to a local car meeting..

It is empty but towed beautifully!

Great job, attention to detail is fantastic!

Outstanding work there!

The view in the background isn't too shabby either!

That does look good with all new hardware, brake pads and all... great work!

I rebuilt my engine last year and used this guide (as well as million YouTube videos..!)

About halfway down the second page you will see a couple of captions on lock nuts, I followed this and it all seems fine

Finger tight, then a further 1/3 turn..

Engine build link

Thanks for the feedback

I have found suitable bolts that are currently holding it all together but I've not pulled if more than a couple of hundred yards at the moment

I have a second set of regular bolts and a mate who is handy with a lathe is going to try to make them into wet bolts

I did look for period cars, that's where the brakes came from, can't find a match..

Keep up the good work!

Really coming on nicely! 

How did you get on with shackle bolts? The wet bolts for the spring hangers? Did you manage to re-use the originals or did you have to replace them?

On my mortar trailer, the originals either snapped or were really badly worn and I've had trouble sourcing replacement wet bolts so any pointers would be welcome please?

21 hours ago, 10FM68 said:

Surely, water jerricans, shovels and picks were G1098 items rather than part of a vehicle CES?

Your are correct, its 20 years since I left and those acronyms have faded a bit..! G1098 items were still painted and marked up for your vehicle..

I know in our hanger we had 40+ vehicles shared across 3 troops, all had complete CES (Complete Equipment Schedules) that listed every item you had for each vehicle. Common across all vehicles were the GS items like water cans, shovels, picks etc as well as breakdown kit depending on vehicle types, Bedfords had different jacks to Landrovers, but all Bedford jacks were the same

When it came to CES checks, you'd find items going missing and as they all looked the same, you couldn't tell who hack knicked what. Between the 3 troops, we had a colour each, I think yellow, blue and white as that what was readily available and each troop would paint an thier colour on their kit, this went from vehicle jack to adjustable spanners, screwdriver, picks, shovels etc.... so that at least another troop couldn't knick your kit... however, some in the troop may not be so trustworthy, so we'd go the extra step of adding your VRN

The colours were just what was available to may vary Squadron to Squadron, so I don't think you can tie blue or red to a specific troop or squadron unless you there...

Oh the fun we had with these...

I remember driving with many a new young officer co-driving and whenever we went up hill, I'd lift off the accelerator a touch and tell them that we were losing engine pressure and they'd need to help by pumping... which they would have to then do vigorously... and if they eased off at all, so did the accelerator....

oh happy days!

On 12/7/2022 at 7:00 PM, 10FM68 said:

Sounds like the best reason in the world to me.  I always liked the Wyvern - my first cap badge as an army cadet!  God it looks cold and wet in that bottom picture - reminds me of those old Giles cartoons showing the Giles family off on holiday to the seaside with all their belonging!  That's a fine looking Jeep as well.  I do think it's a shame that more Jeeps aren't done up in British colours - particularly those which were actually in British Army service and there is so much scope from Benghazi to Burma and Bologna to Berlin., but the glamour of the US Army remains strong alas.

Rain and misery... more here though it has been colourised.. some great shots

14 hours ago, 10FM68 said:

That is a lovely job you have done and I envy you, but, is there a reason you chose to mark it up for HQ 43 (Wessex) Division R Signals, it's just that they aren't the first people who would come to mind as users of a mortar.

Thanks for the compliment..

As I'm ex Signals and live in Dorset, I'm made my jeep up as a HQ 43 Div Signals jeep and I bought this to drag behind it. There are photos of these trailers being repurposed as GS trailers, which is the theme I've gone for here..

A few more coats of paint later and I've got the T plate and unit markings on, needs a bit more tidying but there I think..

I've also been thinking of safety while towing this thing and made up a trailer board that is wired to an old jeep trailer plug, so will plug into the jeep.. made up indicators as well (even though the jeep doesn't have them)

Should be able to drive to an event and pop this in the trailer..

Great work, very interesting subject, love the radio trucks..

Managed to get the first coat of paint on over the weekend