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Evening Tom, I've never seen brackets like that before on an AB trailer. Just looked through my photos collected over several years, and none of the underside shots on any trailer have brackets there.....so sorry can't help with what they were intended for.

Earlier in this thread I raised the question about fuel pump priming after the truck has stood for a couple of weeks. Following on from comments received (thanks Pete and Terry), I decided to fit an electric fuel pump to be used to pump up fuel before starting. The C60s is still running all original 6v systems, and the only suitable 6v pump I could find was more than £100. But I've already fitted a 12v high capacity leisure battery in a wooden box behind the left-hand step to run the Xenon warning beacon and sat-nav. Just charging it up from mains when necessary. So found a 12v FACET pump on Ebay for £20 and have fitted it behind chassis by the 12v battery using a mounting plate and original holes in chassis. A toggle switch mounted on cab floor allows me to manually pump up fuel to start and then the engine runs on the normal diaphragm pump. I think an added advantage of this set up could be that if it gets fuel evaporation in hot conditions, can use pump to overcome the block. This might be a possible more cost effective solution for others looking to fit an electric pump to 6v vehicle.

I think you mean 2" and 4 1/4".

Tom, This is what I mean about the single rear light: Take it your hitch was originally like this with smaller towing eye : But it has been fitted with the MkII hitch at some stage, is is like this but still retaining the extra handles welded to chassis spine:

Hi Tom, Sounds like an interesting trailer. Re your questions: 1. It would have started as a "No1 Mk1" with the arms welded to the chassis spine and have a "barrel" style hitch and small towing eye. It's a guess, but I would say that sometime later it has had the later hitch added, maybe after being cast? What is surprising is that it has a the rarer small eye. 2. Lights: another topic for different views! My view is that in WWII it would have had the standard axle light and probably would have had a right hand rear light with red lens on a bracket on the body side 3. Tools. Attached photo below is one interpretation, but I have never seen a period photo:

Looks more like the one in their 1937 catalogue: ARP Trailer ad here: (photos from http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk)

Well done Ian, There are many of us who have been looking for these for years without success! We just need to progress the solution with Richard B. By the way, if you are going to leave them on the trailer have you covered them in "Smartwater" for security??:cool2:

Excellent work Simon. And another trailer is saved!

Good to hear she got you home. I little wet though?

Hi Ian, Good photos. Did you get home ok and without any issues?

The weather was indeed perfect....except the diabolical crossing on the Wednesday:-X Great aerial photo. Thanks

And a few more: Very nice CMP Ford that was driven up from Switzerland! Typical fuel station over the Liberation weekend: Castle Cornet and St Peter Port: Return on Condor Ferry to Poole (a couple of vehicles from this forum):

Selection of photos from another fantastic trip organised brilliantly by Stuart, Paul and the GMVG. Thanks guys. Part of the tour group on the Fortification day: School visit in St. Peter Port: Forming up at campsite on the Saturday for the Cavalcade: St. Peter Port: Exploring the typical Guernsey lanes....not for the larger vehicles:

As this is a Guernsey thread I'll post up some photos in a while, but as a start here is a long Youtube clip of the Cavalcade there on Saturday:

Trailers: You know I like them. So many have been lost and scrapped, and it seems it is the great British farmer who has inadvertently saved them for the nation! They are an interesting piece of military history (useful too). See you in Guernsey

Hi Ian, I was going to ask "how many trailers do you really need"......but stopped myself in time :blush::blush:

Think Andy Robertshaw (of WW1 trench fame) was one of those on the top deck!

Yes real shame but Paul is very understanding. You'd need some big zip ties for this though!: Still I doubt there ever been one of these on Guernsey before. Rare, but not the impact of the Wrecker for the public:

Unfortunately the Chev has developed a steering problem that I'm not going to be able to fix for Wednesday. Disappointing :-(. So plan to bring Jeep and one of the trailers....probably easier to drive around the narrow island roads

Hi Richard, Providing power to brake lights would make sense. The WO ID List with the drawing of one is dated 1949. Did trailer brake lights starting to be fitted immediately post-war?

Hi Ian, I've never found one of the twin connectors on a trailer but have bought them NOS when I've seen them in the past.....as they looked to be similar design the the usual lightweight trailer single connectors. One is pictured as "Trailer Connector Lucas Type WD/TCI" in the ID List W.O. Code No 5461, but I'm not sure why you'd want a twin socket connector that takes two sockets. Perhaps Richard F will come along and explain. Look forward to having a closer look at the trailer in Guernsey

Having discovered these bowsers tanks, in then took several months to find the farmer who owned them as he did not live near the site. There then was a protracted period of several years trying to persuade him to part with them, even though they clearly had not been used for decades. This was finally achieved last month and a friend and I drove to collect them with an enjoyable 80 mile round trip in our Jeeps and Airborne trailers. As the bowser tanks were galvanised, they have survived remarkably well, but the pre-war truck chassis that they had been mounted on had rotted into the ground. I assume they were purchased at a surplus sale after the war and just used to take water for livestock. Their location was so remote and overgrown, that anything larger than a Jeep would not have gained access without some significant arboricultural work. Really just a story of patience and persistence paying off, and now both bowser tanks have been saved. I'm pleased to say one is already with its new owner in the North of England who plans to mount it on an original Lightweight Water trailer chassis that he has but was missing its bowser tank. So I hope we'll see another one of these unusual trailers at shows in the future. P.s.: If anyone knows where there is a Metafilter looking a for a home.....please let me know

I restored one of these seldom seen small water treatment bowsers a few years ago. They were developed, along with a wide range of other specialist trailers, based on 10 cwt components for the Airborne divisions. At least one was said to have been landed by glider on D-day and used to set up a water point on the River Orme at Benouville. They consist of a 100 galvanised tank on a special mild steel chassis that utilises standard 10 cwt wheel. axle, hitch and brakes. Water filtration is by a Metafilter. They are rare and only a handful are still known to exist. One other has been fully restored and a couple of others are in the process of rebuilds in Uk and the Netherlands. So imagine my surprise five years ago, when walking in a remote part of West Sussex near Midhurst to find these in an overgrown corner of a field:

Superb job Ian! Like the colour, agree it is lighter than the green I use from R&R for NW Europe British. See you in Guernsey?