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Still one of my favorite military museums though. Visited again this summer with my son. At least the Panther is now re-painted.

Wondered how long before it was posted on here. Maybe reflects true cost of a good restoration....perhaps Mr Lawrence will comment.

Morning Howard, Am enjoying this restoration thread. Dont want to clutter it up with photos, so here is a link to the MLU thread (see post #70) where I describe fitting a 12v fuel priming pump to my 6v truck. Cheaper pump but requires 12v power pack that I'd aleady fitted for Xenon beacon): http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/showthread.php?t=22768&page=3

Hi Paul, i've a copy of this photo for a few years, but as the person who gave it to me asked that I never passed it on ...never have. But as it is here I feel I can comment. As you say it is marked as being in Normandy, but I've always thought the huts in background looked more like an established British forces camp. Still, it is the only period photo of the 100 gallon water bowser in use and has lots of interesting details. There seemed to be a lot of troops in the photo, soi've wondered if it is a photo of a training exercise on how to treat the water using the bowser filtration system and chlorine tablets and then see the "Horrocks" test conducted (using the white China cups) to ensure the water is potable. You can see the large square tin that contained the fine clay Kieselguhr powder that was used to coat the "gills" in the Stella or Meta filters. p.s. Hope you got my second pm. As has promised another first refusal on bowser, am giving them a final chance to complete before offering it.

ha! Ian just likes to tease us! What at sort of price is your supplier quoting for repro filter? is

Hi Paul, did my reply to your PM question get through? wifi seems a little intermittent where I am now. john

The chassis had been previously cut to provide a different towing eye height. Chassis welded back to original spec tonight by Neil, who runs a mobile welding service.

Didn't need to Richard, The Fergy incident made a deep "impression" (both physically and via Mrs L) that I doubt it will happen again:angel:

Yes it is Richard, That particular one nearly claimed Mr Lawrence couple of years ago.....moral of that story is "dont try to start a tractor in gear by standing by it and shorting the starter motor" :blush: Anthony - chassis looks in perfect condition, the great rebuild will start soon

Are they both Taskers trailers Carleton?

Hello Hans, Hoped you see this thread. To answer your question of a couple of years ago, it des seem that there were Jointers trailers built during WWII by Brockhouse.

A thing of RARE beauty!

So, piecing together all the stands, it looks like this particular 1/2 Ton Jointer's Trailer was built post-war by Taskers and would have obviously had had the post-war lights and fittings from new rather than at a mid-50s rebuild. That said, it was clearly a popular 10cwt WWII design as Brockhouse had a wartime contract for them and there remained a requirement for further examples during the 1950's.

ok. So not Brockhouse then. My list of Taskers trailer contracts do not include that one or any contract for Jointer's trailers; but the lists are based on Chilwell Data book for July 1944, so still may have been placed and built in 44-45.

That is interesting Chris. I'd never thought about it, but makes perfect sense. I have a friend whose father was a Major in the R.Sigs and he was responsible for rebuilding the telephone system in Cologne in as soon as it was captured. Back to this trailer: the link Simon has added refers to the known example in the Netherlands, which is a Brockhouse.They had a contract S1551 for "Trailer 2wh (for Jointers)" which were allocated X4957838 - X4957873. I dont know when this contract was placed with Brockhouse.

Morning Carleton, Sorry I Missed you at the show. I spoke to James Dodson who told me a little about the trailer. Do you have a manufacturer's name? I'm aware of the the one in the Netherlands and have corresponded with the owner, but we were always looking for firm evidence of WWII service. Many seem to remember them with the GPO and there has grown up a belief that they were built for them using ex-military parts, but your one certainly dispels that particular "trailer myth".

Hi Radek, No. Sorry I didn't take any of the K3.

The turnout from all the Jeeps on site was pathetic though. 4 out of 300 :embarrassed:

I did. It was VERY muddy on the far side of the arena

Evening Clive, Do you think these were only postwar?

Spotted this over the weekend at Folkstone. Many features of other WWII British 10 cwt trailers on this one. Clearly the hitch has been changed, but is it a post-war trailer? I'm guessing some kind of Linesman's Trailer

Canadian Ford Lynx. Newly brought into UK from Luxembourg. Thursday: Wheeled Armour in Arena. Highlight of W&P 2015 for me was to be offered a drive of a Canadian Fox Armoured Car (thanks James). Visibility from driver's seat: Saturday morning: Results of an arena excursion on Saturday lunchtime: The photo/vdo clip I wish I had was on Monday morning when the Challenger II left the site at speed (5mph site speed limit? Looked more like 50!)

A little more progress yesterday with the removal of the Austin engine. A very simple task, but the subsequent removal of the belt drive and mounting the engine on the stand took three times a long! Engine now can be examined and cleaned ready for repaint. The heavy compressor will then be removed from the chassis in near future.

Looks like very good progress since this morning. Take three times as many photos as you think you'll need from every angle.

Hi Ian, I'd second that recommendation. Have always used their straight SAE 30 in the Jeep, and their SAE 90 in the gearbox