sharky

On 19/10/2017 at 9:54 AM, parka said:

Thanks for the welcome, trust me, if i ever pop in, you may never get rid of me.

No worries plenty of spanners to go round 

Hi Martin welcome aboard .

I used to work at Armourgeddon and they are a cracking bunch with some nice vehicles around them also i'm fairly local to you and run a military vehicle  restoration business up in the hills near penistone so if your ever passing feel free to call in and say hello kettle is usually on.

cheers

Iain AKA Sharky

Give Happydaze(stuart) a shout on here .He works in the nut and bolt trade.

We have a wC54 we are restoring at the minute (in between customer work so not a fast restoration) which would be for sale either finished or with an offer to complete restoration to your spec. private message me and i will send some pics and more imfo we are based in south Yorkshire UK.

There is usually a plate with chassis number ,reg and various other imfo on the engine bulkhead just behind drivers seat on left hand side .

No worries. Hope its still available.

hope this helps .

http://www.milweb.net/webvert/a2445

I'll take a trip to the shops sharky an stock up on tea an biscuits coz I'm sure I'll need help somewhere lol

You could get an awful lot of tea and biscuits in the back top notch bribery .

Welcome aboard.Nice project.

If you need any help or fabrication work we are based over at Barnsley so feel free to give us a shout and can easily be bribed with biscuits and tea.

Try Stuart Garner at Armourgeddon in Leicestershire

https://www.armourgeddon.co.uk/

Thank you,

 

That would be very kind and of course we'd be more than happy to recompense as required.

 

Do you know how soon you'll be doing it?

 

Regards - Mike

I get my scuttle back from blasters next week hopefully i,ll measure it up. Also see what P. marriot comes up with

I know someone who has made the tooling to reproduce both parts of the cowl vent seat on his WC54, will ask him whether he would make up some vents and if so how much they would cost.

 

cheers

 

Paul

If you can find out that would be great

I'm just about to do that job myself.

I have a swager roller so going to see if i can replicate it. if its fairly easy i will attempt to make 2 if you like.

Hoping to attend with about 8 vehicles more if i can get a few more folk interested. We have been working with the armed forces day team and they were up with us the other day to do some promotional photos.

Are you based around Penistone No signals? we are based up at Millhouse green you should call in for a brew if your passing.

Morning Charlie, hope your well.

Adam is Manchester based and is a great chap.

We use him and can't recommend him highly enough.

Iain...aka sharky

welcome aboard. wow what a beautiful mack .

Try this site really useful

http://britmods.freehosting.net/infdiv.htm

For you cable and plug try http://www.classicjeepparts.com/en/trailer/cable-with-plug-willys-mbt-bantam-t3-nors.html

Just bought one quick service and a quality NOS part.

He also does the lights.

Jeeparts can also supply the lights French versions but exactly same other than stamped lyon.

Nice truck if you are on facebook check out "hell's red ball highway express" page, my friend Stuart is organizing a run from Caen up to Rotterdam in 2018 for gmc and other ww2 long haulers owners be a nice run out for you and you 352.

regards

Iain AKA sharky

Ask about but no joy on location or owner but this is what I can find. (thanks to Sam Goddard)

Q645 GFV was purchased by the Blackpool Corporation in 1947 direct from military service for £550, as it was required to replace the many converted bus/ recovery trucks being used at the time. the truck's first years in service it remained in it's military colours being re painted in yellow/black in the early 50's. the truck carried many different fleet numbers other it's years starting with 115, in 1970 it was changed to 405 & in 1996 it was changed again to 905. the truck left active service in September 1996 and then sold into preservation in 1997 to some one in Yorkshire were it is believed to still be sitting in a part dismantled state. the attached pic was taken in 1967

Hi if you have accses to face book there is a rather good diamond t group on there if not i can ask see what is known

Hi everyone,

 

A friend of mine is hoping someone can point him in the right direction with a problem he has with his M45 quad turret

 

He appears to have lost power to the motor that controls the turret traversal. When its switched on at the control box, the motor does not start up (it used to). The firing circuit is working fine though, so the battery seems to be OK. Pressing the circuit breaker reset doesn't make any difference. He suspects a problem with the turret drive assembly switch but he's not sure. Anyone have any suggestions? He would also like to get a hold of a spare turret drive box assembly if someone knows where he can get one.

 

Thanks in advance.

If you want to private message me I'll give you my number I have just restored one so might be able to helpcheers

Iain

At first I thought it was a us army semi trailer converted to British use.

Some more pics.

Are the rails in the roof for meat hooks?

 

John.

Yes they are, it's a fridge unit I believe