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Lash it onto a cement mixer and chuck a load of coarse gravel in plus some water. A method I have used a few times and it works. John.

My carrier works o.k. But it is a Canadian built one. I live in Dorset so maybe too far for you. John.

You could try Albert Jagger Ltd. They carry a vast stock of HGV addons. Phone number is 01794-515992, this number is for their Romsey Hampshire depot. John.

Schwimmwagens do not have a "frame" (chassis) the body tub is in its self the frame. John.

There is no way I would fit seat belts in my jeep. If you do you are strapped in in an upright position and if you roll your jeep you will be crushed unless you intend to fit a roll cage of some sort. John.

when they are coming up your chuff at 70-90 mph a slow vehicle sign is not going to help much. You may do as you please and comply with all the regs, me I rather safe as much as I could be.John.

I, like Rambo have been using two led amber flashers on the rear of my jeep for years. The safety of myself and any passenger outweighs the "legal" considerations. The small original jeep rear lights are not any use in heavy rain or fog, which we get a lot of around here because proximity to the channel. I have also put a fog light on the rear offside. Its all very well for the purists to keep their vehicle lights as original but when your safety and that of other road users comes into play commonsence would dictate that you need to think about being more visable. I have also fitted ex landrover windscreen wipers in the panel below the wind screen.after a very wet trip from Arnhem to Flushing and my wife was very fed up using the hand wipers. If someone points out that this is not original I refer them to a picture of an American jeep in Italy with what appears to be Dodge vacuum wipers in the same place. John.

Your black "plastic" helmet should have the name "PLASFORT" on the underside of the rim, your metal helmet will have a date on it somewhere, sometimes on the chinstrap hanger ans sometimes on the underside of the rim. If you go into warrelics.eu there is a wealth of information on these helmets. As to value its like anything else, what you can get for them, John.

My jeep that I bought in 1980 and still have had the wing behind the drivers seat cut out and a recess formed so that the seat was back about 4 ins. from its original setting, making it a very comfortable and relaxed position to sit in. My jeep came from Ash farm, Templecombe and when I asked the previous owner about the seat position he told me that it was like it when he bought it at a surplus sale in Gloucester in 1946. It would seem that the mod was done while in service with the British army. I still cannot post pictures on here but could email some to you if you are interested, John.

This situation is the only time I found one of my sons was a help in working on my Jeep. Small people with small hands will fit through the apature far better than adults, best of luck in finding a small person. John.

You will need to remove the flywheel, then the boltholes used to bolt the engine to the bellhousing can be used to bolt the engine to the stand, John.

Thanks for your help Adrian, if only I could resize my own pictures, John.:undecided:

I think that only applies to pictures that are someone elses copyright. A 1954 government textbook is fair game I say!

 

I would like to see the picture, I have the 1962 issue and D4 is the smallest tractor shown.

Adrian, I ment that I scanned the relevant pages but the picture gathering format on this site will not accept anything I try to post,the other three forums that I frequent all accept my pictures, it is just this site that I cannot [post pictures, John.

Hey sorry to bring up an old thread.

 

Would anyone be able to tell me the weight of a d4, without the dozer blade.

 

Also i take it the military, used them without the dozer blade, but would these be armoured? Ifso what would these ones have been used for?

 

many thanks

Kyle

In Military Engineering Volume V dated 1944 (Reprint)1954page6 it shows Caterpillar D2 also picture of the crawler with a La Plant Choate angledozer and a Hyster winch, so it would appear that this little dozer was indeed used by the Military Engineers. I wish I could post pictures out of this booklet, but yet scans were refused, this does not happen on any other formums, B*** shame. John.

I also have TM5-3086 Tractors,crawler Diesel 70 - 90 DBHP Caterpillar D7 Maintenance Instruction and parts catalog.

19th. Infantry Brigade, 2nd. pattern. John.

please google Brians Military Jeeps and you will find a wealth of information that may help you in your quest,John.

My GPW jeep has a chassis no that was guessed at by DVLA! On shot blasting the chassis i have found the original no 206087 stamped on the rear cross member. How difficult would it be to change it on the logbook?

Can i get the exact registration no from the chassis no?

Also the no 20yh23 is stamped is this a reg?

Phil

My GPW jeep has a chassis no that was guessed at by DVLA! On shot blasting the chassis i have found the original no 206087 stamped on the rear cross member. How difficult would it be to change it on the logbook?

Can i get the exact registration no from the chassis no?

Also the no 20yh23 is stamped is this a reg?

Phil

This one has the 2 blades like yours, the main one is about 4" and small one is 2" knife is about 5" overall and has a 4" spike? finish looks almost like bone with a copper loop? I can just about make out 'SCOTIA' then below 'J.MC GLOR' then just 'SHEFFIELD' corrosion has set into fairly badly and I cant see the last letters, couldn't believe it when I found it in the dirt though! I think again, might have been dropped by my grandfather who owned the house originally, Dare say its worth nothing but interesting none the less!

I bought one of these new in about 1970....[/quote Really, you amaze me seeing that the production of this style of jack knife with a copper shackle finished in 1938, the official pattern code for the knife in question is 6353/1905. After 1938 the smaller jackknife with the chequered black Bexoid scales and a completly different style of can opener. If you had a brand new one in 1970 I would love to see a picture of it, John

Your Jack knife was made from 1905 until being phased out in 1938. The scales could be horn and the leaf shaped blade with the peg is the canopener, drive the point of the blade into can then the peg rests on the rim and you joggle it around the edge. As to being issued in the 1970, not likelyin UK . Canada still produced jack knives with this type of canopener well into the 1960 but the knives were all metal. John,

Airborne helmets never had a lift the dot in the crown of the helmet or for that matter any other means of attaching a liner to the roof of the shell. The airborne helmete had a horsehair pad stuck to the inner roof . John.

RWAFF cloth titles, Royal West African Frontier Force, Shield with spears,82nd. West African Div. plenty of info if you use google. They fought in Burma. John.

I cannot connect to the MLU site. Been trying for 3 days. John.