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It's an FV432 Mk 3, with the Cummins engine and new gearbox/steering setup. This engine is not too noisy without the exhaust silencer, there isn't a silencer fitted to the CVRT with this engine.

Mick, Have a look here: http://www.simonbbc.com/ Chris

Tim, No photos from that tender with your Spartan - but it looks like it could be the same one. (also pictured here http://www.marcusglenn.com/vehicles.htm) Chris

We could have had a matching pair in 2005 when 48AT13 went through the tender!

I have 48AT14, which last went through that process in 1997. It could do with a tidy up again now. The J60 has been out of service for 6 or so years now. The remaining CVRT fleet went through the Life Extension Programme (Deisel) and are called CVR(T)LEP(D). The engine is a 5.9 Cummins 6BTA. Chris

This is great, especially in full screen http://www.dsg.mod.uk/stream/DSGCorporate3.htm Chris

PM Sent.

I think you mean gigabyte, you wouldn't get very far with a megabyte!

It's all here: http://army-uk.info/firm.php The "LJ&CO EX MILITARY TRUCKS" has 50 years of experience in the supply of used, new and refurbished ex M.O.D and NATO vehicles, plant and machinery and operate from The Great Britain. This is a 60 acre, former military site, giving us an operating area including warehousing units, hard standing areas and full workshop and paintshop facilities.

Maybe I was being dim, but I'm sure it wasn't there earlier!

It looks like the reason you can't see it is because it's been removed. There's still stuff in 'Other Vehicle Parts and Accessories'

Convert it to a pdf

They don't have air conditioning, are you thinking of the NBC pack? That's for filtering out nuclear, biological and chemical agents from the air and feeding it into your respirator. It can help a bit on a very hot day, but that's not what it was designed for. It sounds like you need to do some christmas shopping... http://www.ekmpowershop5.com/ekmps/shops/greenmachines/fv430-series-34-c.asp Chris

They don't work! There is only one way to get lead in to your petrol, and that's to use a proper lead addative such as Castrol Valvemaster. Have a look on Google, there's plenty out there about them.

Not another one sucked in by this scam...!

That's standard 432 stuff, a crane for lifting things in to the stowage basket which is missing.

It should already be stamped there but may be hidden under thick paint. Remove it and give it a blast with some glass beads (or rub it down, paint strip etc) and it should reveal itself.

Nick, This one looks like it's been lobbing quite a few sheels at the Iraqis... http://www.seantaylor.org/Iraq%20War%20Pictures.htm Chris

Nick, The AS90 only entered service in the mid 90s. It is a fairly new vehicle, and was used in the Balkans and in Iraq. Are you maybe thinking of the M109? These are all out of service. Chris

Looks like Shrivenham?

When the Foxes went for disposal, quite a few were sold less the power pack. They were sold to Ricardo, who were going to fit a diesel and sell them on. This never happened, and Withams bought them. This is where quite a few of the restored ones came from. I don't know where the rest went, but it is something I have been wondering for a while. I am fairly sure they were all scrapped. I very much doubt they are still around, given how fast stuff is disposed of these days. For example the current batch of Bowmanised 432s at Withams. Chris

As an owner of 3 Sabres and a Fox, I think I can answer some of your post. Firstly you need to be really careful what you read on the internet as a lot of what's posted on Wikipedia is rubbish. Al CVR hulls and turrets are constructed from welded plate. There is no casting, other than indiviual pieces like the mantlet. There is less material and less welds in a turret than a hull, therefore the hulls are much more expensive to produce. 136 Sabres were built, all have been disposed of. A lot went through Withams, the rest were cut up by ABRO. This was done in 2004, other than those which are restored and a few under going restoration, they are all gone. Fox was not a sucessful vehicle in service, they are hard work to keep going and anything which needs repairing is not a simple job. It's much easier to do any job on a CVRT than it is on a Fox. If they had continued to use them without turrets, they would have had to get rid of them when swapping to diesel anyway. There is not a lot of room in the back of a Fox when it's complete. Chris

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The turrets weren't actually fitted to the Fox chasiss, they were just dumped on top of them for disposal. The 4 turrets Bob is talking about were removed from vehicles cut up for spares. Chris

I doubt they are sitting around somewhere, they were probably scrapped.