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    Armour Plate

    in I may be stupid, but......

    Posted

    That would be, if on a White halftrack, face hardened armour. You can just about drill it from the soft, inside face. Shermans are homogenous armour and you can drill it quite easily with HSS bits. In fact, it was noted at the time that pre-1943 US armour was a little bit too soft. Armour, yes but not hard.

     

    As I said, there is armour and there is armour!

    It's an International, but probably the same principle. I didn't know that about the Shermans. Interesting.

    - Mike

    IMPS trip to Bethune

    in Future events and meetings

    Posted

    Hi Gang,

    I'm on the 2300 sailing out of Dover Thursday, hope the weather picks up, I find it hard enough to find the holding area in Calais docks where we sleep Thursday night when it's dry never mind having to peer through the rain with WW2 windscreen wipers! :shake:

    Regards,

    John.

    Stiff upper lip that man! - the weather's going to be glorious all weekend. :shocking:

    IMPS trip to Bethune

    in Future events and meetings

    Posted

    Hey all, so else is going?

     

    My truck and the Halftrack are down at the MM site ready to collect on the way to Dover tomorrow late afternoon. We're camping in Calais docks tomorrow night then convoying down to Bethune on Friday and camping at the Stade Carpentiere which should be interesting. Back on Monday afternoon. Looking forward to seeing any other HMVFers there!

     

    - Mike

    Essex MUTT

    in American Vehicles

    Posted

    Just for completeness here:

     

    M151 was supposedly the worst because the rear suspension was pivoted longitudinally along almost the centre line of the vehicle (like on a beetle). This and its light weight combined to cause the rear wheels to tuck under under tight, fast cornering, and over it would go. The biggest problem was that there was no warning or sense that it was about to go, it just flipped.

     

    M151A1 had an improved suspension set up but still basically the same.

     

    M151A2 (Mark's) had a re-designed rear end with the arms pivoting across the vehicle, just behind the front seats. These were much more stable. Mechanically the front end was unchanged from the M151 right through.

     

    There are, however, 2 more points of view to this story:

     

    1. that actually MUTTs were probably no more prone to flipping than wartime jeeps when driven spiritedly by testosterone-fuelled 18 year olds.

     

    2. That GM etc. worked to exaggerate the MUTT's poor reputation in order to stop the US military flooding the market with them on release and destroying the market for their new 4x4s.

     

    - Mike

    What papers required?

    in British Vehicles

    Posted

    As it's coming in from overseas they might give you a customs form to fill in as well. Expect to be there 30 or 40 minutes!

    Be aware you may need to prove that customs duty & VAT were paid when it re-entered the UK. The DVLA will notify HMRC as a matter of course if a vehicle is being registered following import. DVLA may not register the vehicle until they have proof that HMRC are happy - a rare example of government departments working together! I went through this with the MUTT.

     

    PM on its way to you :).

     

    - Mike

    Ward La France Gallery

    in Transporters & Wreckers (All Nations)

    Posted

    Are you sure it was an M746, they do have an M911 with M747 trailer which I saw a couple of years ago. The M911 is later and far greater production numbers. Only 193 M746's were ever built. USA 125 and Morocco 68. 75 of the USA ones were "sold" to Turkey mid 90's.

    It was definitely one of the WLFs. The M911 is a very different beast: conventional for a start. I doubt an M911 would have fitted under the door lintel as they are huge!

    - Mike

    WC54 Scam

    in MV Chatter

    Posted

    Looks like a perfectly normal Luxemburg classic vehicle plate to me. (their normal plates are 5 black numbers on yellow background.) What's the problem?

     

    - Mike

    Recovery and Towing

    in MV Chatter

    Posted

    A passenger hoist rope might have a SF of 12 - not appropriate here other than to illustrate the importance placed on safety when wire rope is involved.

    Just out of interest: I'm a Project Manager in entertainment industry automation and our core business is flying people and scenery in theatres, opera houses, cruise ships, stadia, flim, TV, concerts etc. using winches with steel wire rope of various sizes. http://www.stagetech.com/machinery/bigtowwinches.asp

    For various sorts of lifting equipment we use a SF of either 8 or 10. For performer flying we need to use the smallest diameter rope possible to minimise its visual impact so the SF is very important. Fortunately most aerial performers are tiny so we can usually achieve SF 10 on 2 lines with 3mm SWR. These are our main SWR suppliers & you can see the various safety factors listed here: http://www.ropeassemblies.co.uk/catalogue.php?id2=110&id=81

     

    - Mike

    Recovery and Towing

    in MV Chatter

    Posted

    Just looked at the bid history and I was outbid by the original 2 bidders before me anyway so it doesn't matter. High bidder is new, could be someone on here - if so, any chance of a photocopy of it :-D?

     

    Steelsoldiers has banned links to live auctions but I agree that's not the way for HMVF. :)

     

    - Mike

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