mcspool

This CS8 was pictured in the USA of all places.. I think it belongs to a re-enactment group over there ...I may be wrong however . Does anyone know more ?

Mike,

It is part of the collection of the Virginia Museum of Military Vehicles: http://www.vmmv.org/. This museum hosts one of the largest private collections of WW2 AFVs in the world. This Morris must have been shipped along from the UK with some of the armour coming from the now defunct Budge collection.

It seems this is the fate of other Morris´ in the USA. A rare PU8/4 was shipped to the states when the Victory Museum in Belgium keeled over and most of their collection was sold to a private museum in the states.

Hanno

If you fit it on wrongly the distributer will not bolt down flush on to the block and it will normally shear off the spline on the dog when you try to start it.

I can vouch for that . . . :-(

The problem could be the plug leads are wrongly connected.

Here´s a Life Magazine picture of "Canadian UN troops, probably in Turkish-Cypriot Village" (1964):

I´m sure Clive can tell us the whole history of the Pig in question, including the driver´s name back in 1964!

Enjoy,

Hanno

Excellent pic of Bedford MW on the recently released Life images hosted by Google site:

Petrol prices reached early 2005 levels this month in Holland.

"Enjoy it while stocks last! When it's gone it's gone!"

So far we have not been able to dig anything up, so if anybody could help it would be appriciated.

Jes,

Please join my Sherman Register mailing list at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/G104

There's a bunch of people who can help with info.

Regards,

Hanno

location and year ?

The file name "HurricaneSudan1942-1.jpg" reveals the above

H.

Does the Dutch "roundel" on one of these indicate that is with the Netherlands Air Force??

Indeed!

Here´s a couple of pics of a Dutch military fire applicance, one of four based on the DAF YA328 built in 1954.

Just found two pictures of Dutch trailers, obviously copied from Tasker´s Queen Mary. Go to http://members.home.nl/v.roosmalen/pages/geschiedenis_tropco.html and scroll down for a pic of one behind a 1953 Bedford tractor and one behind a 1962 DAF.

H.

Looks like a tree straddler (for lack of a better word - I´m Dutch, eh!), built from scrap steel and military vehicle components.

Hanno

Good show, thanks!

But by now you must have figured out it was Jack who faked that BBC call? All we wanted was you to take the Autocar out on the road and show piccies here!

Hanno

Go back even further to 1941 and the Russians were capable of mass producing the T-34 with 500bhp @ 1800rpm from a V12 diesel. I gather it was quite a success, even driven by girlies:

 

"Arguably no tank in the history of warfare has come as a greater shock to the enemy, nor inflicted more terror, than did the T-34 when it appeared on the Russian front in the summer of 1941"

And it was the very same tank which elicited the following reply from German industry after they were asked to manufacture a copy:

"No we can not", was the answer. "It would not pass our quality inspection".

H.

A guy I know was a contractor of for the UK MoD, where he onze witnessed a yearly contest held within the DLO. The commander of the DLO would ask his people to come up with the oldest part they could find in the MoD´s supply stocks. Reportedly, someone came up with a 1916 Sopwith Camel carburettor! No, this was not in 1928, but somewhere around the turn of the century.

Hanno

My Hippo was built in March 1944 and sold from Ruddington in December 1981. In 1957 it had a major overhaul and aquired the cab and chassis from the 2nd Hippo built.

Seriously: did your truck receive the chassis from the 2nd Hippo built, or did the 2nd Hippo built receive the body from the March 1944 example?

Or is it like many rebuilt military vehicles, a random selection of overhauled parts assembled into a like new, proper functioning vehicle?

Hanno

Some more Original photos of Morris trucks from my collection.

Keith, interesting shots, thanks!

A word of caution re. the DVD you hope to make with all of "your" photos of british trucks in German use. I bought an original print of the PU Kübel off Ebay a while ago, only to find it up for auction by the same seller, and published in a book. Obviously, it was not an original print, but one of many printed on old photo paper. . .

What I´m trying to say is you might want to look into copyrights before publishing your DVD.

Regards,

Hanno

Waddya mean, the rest of the world? Everybody knows the left side is the right side and the right side is the wrong side. UK, Eire, Japan, India all drive on the left as indeed did Sweden until fairly recently. They phased in the change over two weeks with the trucks going first and the cars a week later.........

You are right, the Goverment Notice should read To Be Used In Real World

H.

Right Turn Assistant

The Right Turn Assistant application provides information to drivers about oncoming traffic to help them make a right turn at a signalised intersection without a phasing right turn arrow.

"Government Notice: Each Driver Of A Right-Hand Drive Vehicle Will Hand In His/Her/Its Right Turn Assistant Before Leaving The Island. It Will Be Exchanged For A Left Turn Assistant, To Be Used In Rest Of World."

Sigh. I´ll stick to using my brain as Adrian suggested!

I understand the official nomenclature was "Semi-Trailer, 5 Ton, Long Low Loading".

So they came in two weight classes (3 and 5 ton)? It looks like the 3 ton version was a shortened 5 ton trailer? That´s what it looks like in the pictures.

Were they built by any other manufacturers than Tasker?

Thanks,

Hanno

In all seriousness, 6x6, I imagine the trailer will have survived very well underneath that lot - the last couple I've seen have been a bit on the 'tender' side.

Like this? http://airfields.fotopic.net/p49286333.html

H.

Wow gents, excellent pics of the Queen Mary trailer! One of the most typical trailers, maybe even typical British, that "Baily bridge on wheels"!

Here in Holland there's one on the show circuit, carrying a Harvard fuselage. Tractive unit is a long-nosed Commer (Q2?).

Cheers,

Hanno

If it is the house type, you don't have a wireless truck, but a light warning truck.

Was the wireless truck a GS body with canvas tilt?

Thanks,

Hanno

Great stuff guys,

but how about some pics of the Queen Mother Of All Trailers, the Queen Mary?

Thanks,

Hanno

doesn't the first category also cover things like Landrovers or even Antars?

Hanno

Schwimvagens

Schwimmwagen

Kübelwagen

Volkswagen

The above is just to make sure you're actually buying a Kdf Typ 166. If you don't know what I mean, google "Kooblekar" before you pay up front for a bucket seat people's car.

H.

IIRC, this picture was made somewhere in the Pacific.

H.