MHVT

This is my lightweight after three and a half years of restoration. Really really pleased now after all that time!!!! One of the best lightweights on Malta. visit maltahistoricvehicles.com!!! really good site and amazingly rare vehicles!!!!!

Did you paint all the pig using a brush? How was the finish?

Malcolm

Thet woman was the woman that helped put the engine and gearbox back into my land rover

Hey guys, I have checked the dimensions of the chassis and it is infact a K2. Don't mind the cab, in Malta you will find bedfords with austin cabs, leylands with isuzu cabs. fords with toyota engines etc... In Malta nothing is standard.

Malcolm

Hey Guys, some updates on the pig. I had to stop work on the pig for the past month due to exams, but now I had all the time in the world to start cracking. One side of the pig is completely stripped and painted. The side lockers need welding due to being in the open for more than twenty years.

Might I say that it has taken four guys (myself, Martin, Mark and Mario) and a girl (my girlfriend) about four days to strip half a pig to bare metal and painted in red oxide.

Malcolm

As promised photos of the ambulance from malta. You might notice that there's nothing left from the ambulance body.

Malcolm

When you see the Ambulance we saved you will not recognise the vehicle, its that far gone. You did fantastic work getting the austin for Paris.

Malcolm

The one in the photo belong to the government and therefore I have no access to the vehicle. But the barn find which has been bought by MHVT is going to be recovered next Friday. I will get you some photos and hopefully chassis numbers. But regarding condition; unfortunately the Maltese weather, although warm is very humid and does not do any good to the steel, the chassis is fine but the rest will need alot of patience and swearing

Malcolm

maltahistoricvehicles.com

I am pleased to announce that the Malta Historic Vehicles Trust has just acquired the remains of a 1940 Austin K2 ambulance. Only two remain on the island, one belongs to Heritage Malta, which is a government culture preservation department and the new find belonging to MHVT.

The Austin and the Fordson ex-raf fire tender in the photo is the one owned by Heritage Malta, photos of the MHVT one are to follow

Some photos for you guys. Some work on the pig on Saturday, a couple of more saturday's and we'll get it stripped completly

Malcolm

Land Rover Lightweight Series 3 1974, ex-northern ireland armoured lightweight

Hey Clive, you were right, it is 28 BK 07 and not 13 Bk 07, my old my friend Peter Skerry listed them incorrectly yesterday.

Could you explain the difference in the contract numbers because you were starting to talk to me in chinese just there.

Would you have the operational history of the pigs or is that through the RLC?

Thanks again

Malcolm

I have the registration numbers of the pigs we are currently restoring

Green and Yellow one 13BK07 Chassis No. 32807 Body No. S540

Green one 13BK71 Chassis No. 21371 Body No. S545

Any information would be of great help in restorating them correctly

thanks

Malcolm

Mike nothing odd about the white cab top, from post WW2 until very recently the majority of RAF vehicles in Cyprus had white cab tops, the same practise applied in many hot climates. I have a photo of vehicles in Khartoum in the early 1950 with complete white cabs

TED

that photo is in Malta and not Khartoum

Were and when did you take this photo? This is a very intereating photo. I live in Malta, and if they still exist I will buy the lot

More photos for you guys, these might any two of the four pigs on the island, these photos were taken up to 15 years ago.

I noticed that as a signature you like to mention your vehicles, so it goes:

BHHC-Jones Iron Fairy Crane Ex RAF

3 X M35A2 6X6 Troop Carriers

Jones KL10 6X4 Mobile Crane Ex RAF

2 X Humber Pig APCs

M151A2 5 Ton Dumper

3 X Land Rover Lightweights

2 X Bedford RL 4X4 Trucks

Dennis Mercury Heavy

Land Rover Ambulance

2 x Land Rover SWB

3 X Police Moto Guzzi Motorcycles

1 Scammell Scarab + Trailer

(ex-RAF)

2 X Land Rover LWBBedford 1940's mwd

ex-Raf Leyland hippo fuel bowser

Thornycroft Sub Mark 5

Thornycroft Dp3

Bedford Domestic Miles Body ex RAf

x4 ex oxfordshire Bedford Tk fire engines

Range Rover TAcr2a

WW2 bedford OY

Bedford A Series Ex-Raf air crew Bus

1947 AEC Regal 1 Coach

I'll be doing some work on the pigs on saturday, I will get the millitay registration numbers. As for the shorland, I might not have mentioned that I am 19 so the time you were here last was way before my time, but I will ask around. thanks clive.

Hey guys,

I'm new to the forum, I'm a member of the Malta Historic Vehicles Trust and I'm starting on the restoration of one of the two Humber Pigs that are in our possesion. The Armed forces of Malta still have two, but are no longer in use.

Would anyone know anything about these tow two trucks, they were sand at one time, not under the armed forces of Malta but under the british. Any has a clue? I'd like to do one up in British colours to show how they were in active service before being delivered to Malta and the other pig i would do up in Malta colours jus to show how they were change to adapt to the maltese needs.

Your views and help would be much appreciated.

Malcolm.