kdgipsy

Thank you every little helps 

11 minutes ago, wally dugan said:

7 squadron rct was a  transport regiment the bike would be used for Escort  duties      CVD CENTRAL VEHICLE DEPOT DIS DATE INTO SERVICE TXN TRANSFERED

Thanks wally fantastic information as ever 

Hi all

I have recently purchased a 1967 BSA B40WD that I'm wanting to get on the road ASAP for shows over the summer. I'm trying to sort its history so I can preserve it. 

I have today managed to get the military reg no and B card for it.

I was wondering if any one can assist in de loading it as it does not make a lot of sense to me. 

Some one has kindly worked out it origanaly started life in Scotland in the Royal Army Medical Corps. So any info on that would be good too

Are you in the Austin gipsy group on Facebook? If you send me the spec code from the glovebox I may be able to tell you origanal colour from factory. I do have a gipsy g4 colour card at home I can send you a pic

20 hours ago, R Laucht said:

I have an 1964 ALF registration Gipsy, presently in restoration.

Not possible to determine the original factory colour, but would like to paint it in blue or white.

What are the Austin Colour References for these two colours, and were they used on ALF vintaged Gipsys ?

On 12/10/2023 at 3:36 PM, FV1604A said:

Hi kd,

 

Just a bit of info regarding the Army Gipsy numbers. Quite a few were sold off at Ruddington still carrying their Special Project numbers. 01 SP 21/22 /24 /25/26/28/30/31/34/35/37/39/40 were at auction in the June 1969 and June 1970 sales. A lot of the DRE 1xx C Civil Defence LWB models were also available in June 1970 too.

 

Good luck on the restoration. I ran one of the SWB ‘ALF’ registrations for a period in 1984 and loved it. Really underestimated truck.

 

Thank you I'm trying along with a couple of others to piece together any information possible to build up a bit of a story on these vehicles

Kind Reguards

Keith Dunderdale 

I am trying to find information on thenl warner 4 pin socket. My Austin gipsy is fitted with one of these as well as a 12 pin socket..

I am finding conflicting information on these as they seem to be fitted to several vehicles including jeep and champ.. 

Mine has the following 4 pin codes

GR 

R

L

S

Thanks 

22 hours ago, 10FM68 said:

The top is as marked on the top of the bracket as shown in your photo.  That is how they all should be fitted - with the bottle above the nozzle.

I realise that it says top on that bracket but the one in my friend's gipsy is fitted upside down but believed to be origanal 

Just an update turns out the bracket I pictured initially is an origanal it's also bent. Conveniently it's bent in a perfect 90deg so thrown every one out. 

This is the extinguisher I need but it appears to be fitted upside down is that common? 

Can any one tell me if when convoy lights are on should the brake lights work? 

I'm a long way off wiring up my vehicle but one of my friends pointed out if you were driving convoy with just diff lights on and you were to brake surely the vehicles would light up like a beacon 

On 7/5/2023 at 6:47 PM, wally dugan said:

well if you think l am wrong then l will apologize to KIETH  for pointing him wrong but l do not  think so there were four sizes of bromide extingusher

 

 

 

 

I've looked them up and they do look correct to be honest. I've got my dad on the look out for one. 

How hard are they to find? 

3 hours ago, wally dugan said:

it's for the METHYL BROMIDE EXTINGUSHER which was still been fitted in the sixties

Thank you Wally. 

Can any one help identify this bracket and provide information of what extinguisher went in it? 

Thanks

Keith

1 hour ago, Citroman said:

Wow, they are not easy to find i think?

They are interesting vehicles, there was one for sale in the Netherland some 2 years ago.. A AFS model with pump trailer in perfect condition.

Gipsies come up a fair amount especially the AFS as they are probably the best preserved and leased used 

22 hours ago, ruxy said:

I would have expecte these Gipsy to have had a mention in Pat Ware's book  QUARTER TON  - but no.   Can't think of anything substantial in  4x4 &/or military  books or magazines.    Interesting your photograph of No. 20  was dressed with tub candlesticks and Larkspur ATU  (aerial tuning units) of the front wings and of course the yellow bridge plate.  I wonder if they went to the trouble of rigging a wiring harness for FFW/FFR .  Tyres are Dunlop Trackgrip - circa. common on MOD Land Rovers.  Hood has radio details - so probably Dexion was incorporated to mount radio  ?  The NATO pintle on front bumper - normally only fitted by Royal Marines.  I have known scrap front bumper blades to be repurposed as bumperettes on Land Rovers  - copy-cat.

The FFR one shown in my pic I belive was for demo purposes it has the early lower rear arch and the long range fuel tank hunging under drivers foot well. It is believed that Austin made several changes each time to the vehicles to addear to army requirements. This particular one is I presume 24v but no record of any of the 20 service ones been 24v. All service ones had the later style high arches to make changing wheels easier. This was adopted for the rest of the gipsy production from 66 onwards.

Also the service gipsys were fitted with 2 mirror image fuel tanks smaller than the production vehicles tank with an external filler on each side. This was never an option on civvi gipsys 

The bumperetts were on front and back of the army versions and a complearly different mounting was used. Along with several modifications to the chassis 

18 minutes ago, Citroman said:

I only have seen one Gipsy in reality in the 1960's on the way to school. I thought what a strange land-rover.. 😉

We have 6 in total 

3 hours ago, wally dugan said:

Thank you Wally, you may remember my father Alan Dunderdale from transport museum days. He sends his regards. 

Hi all

I am currently (slowly) sourcing parts and restoring an Austin gipsy. It is one of only 20 that were supplied to the army. There is various pictures and information of ones before this batch but I belive these were just demo ones. 

This batch of 20 consisted of 15 swb and 5 lwb. Mine is one of the latter. So far there is only mine and 1 more lwb known to survive. 

I'm keen to see if any one has any information on these vehicles or can assist in pointing me in the right direction? 

I do have some information and happy to share with others. 

They were designated SP numberplate initially then moved to ER ones. 

I've added pictures the one with the body is a donor I have to work with. The chassis pic is all I got from the origanal vehicle although I previously got the engine and a few other bits and pieces. 

The last pic is I belive an earlier demo vehicle as there were changes from that to the "production" ones 

Hi my name is Keith

I'm in yorkshire and have been around military vehicles for a long time. My father has had a few and I've had a couple of series land rovers Inc 3s airportable and a champ. 

I'm currently restoring a military austin gipsy but more about that in a later post in the relevant section.

I also have a mk3 sankey that it so go with my gipsy