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Parking on the side of the road, I've fitted an simple keyed ignition switch in the ignition circuit. if left for longer periods I remove the steering wheel if longer still, I remove the rotor arm, battery, and sometimes one or two the wheels to be stored elsewhere

Attended last years event at North Weald. Was a really enjoyable day and well worth making the effort

Mark howes gets my recomendation

Mark Bowes gets my recommendation.

Thefollowing extracts are from the home office Guide on Firearms Licensing Law April 2016. I suggest that anyone fromoutside the UK should not attempt to bring deactivated weapons as they arelikely to have trouble if inspected at the border. EU Firearms Deactivation Regulation 2.21 An EU ImplementingRegulation establishing common guidelines on deactivation standards andtechniques for ensuring that deactivated firearms are rendered irreversiblyinoperable will come into force on 8 April 2016. This places a new level ofstandard for deactivating firearms across the EU. The new standards shall notapply to firearms deactivated prior to 8 April 2016 (when the Regulation comesinto effect) unless those firearms are transferred to another Member State orplaced on the market. The Proof Houses will be applying these standards tofirearms submitted to them on or after 8 April 2016. A link to the Implementing Regulation 2015/2403 is attached here. 2.22 Further informationwill be made available on the .GOV website. A link to the firearms pages isattached: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/firearms-licensing-police-guidance Deactivated Firearms 28.11 CommissionImplementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2403 introduced EU-wide standards fordeactivated firearms and an EU Deactivation Certificate. To ensure thatdeactivated firearms are compliant with this legislation, from 8th April 2016,an import licence will be required for the import or transfer into the UK of adeactivated firearm. There is no exemption from the need for an import licencefor deactivated firearms manufactured on or before 31 December 1899. An importlicence will be required for each shipment along with a transfer licence issuedby the exporting Member State. The only acceptable proof that a firearm isdeactivated is an EU Deactivation Certificate. No other DeactivationCertificate will be accepted. 28.12 Re-enactors willbe able to apply for a three year import licence provided you have the new EUCertificate of deactivation and are a member of a re-enactment society when youattend the overseas re-enactment event. Separate import licences will berequired for EU and non-EU events

Responce from Catherine Bearder MEP................ Dear Constituent, Thank you for your email about possible changes to firearms regulation in the European Union (EU). The European Commission has recently announced two sets of proposals about firearms. Firstly, on 2nd December the Commission adopted a package of measures to step up the fight against terrorism and the illegal trafficking of firearms and explosives. Although I would welcome more details on the plans, I am minded to support these proposals. However, there are also plans announced in November that are more wide ranging and, judging by the amount of correspondence I have received since, not supported by many people. The Commission has tabled proposals to amend the Firearms Directive to make it more difficult to acquire firearms, including deactivated firearms by: - Stricter conditions for the online acquisition of firearms, to avoid the acquisition of firearms, pieces thereof or munition through the Internet; - Stricter rules to ban certain semi-automatic firearms, which move from Category B to Category A and will not, under any circumstances, be allowed to be held by private persons, even if they have been permanently deactivated; - The inclusion of blank-firing weapons (e.g. alarm, signaling, life-saving weapons) in the scope of the Directive, because of their potential to be transformed into firearms. - Further restrictions to the use and circulation of deactivated firearms. National registries should keep records of deactivated firearms and their owners. Under no circumstances will civilians be authorised to own any of the most dangerous firearms falling under Category A (e.g. a Kalashnikov), which is currently possible if they have been deactivated. The enforcement of the ban is a national responsibility, and Member States have all necessary tools at their disposal including the destruction of illegally held deactivated arms; - Collectors, as defined by national law, are currently excluded from the scope of the Directive. The Commission is proposing today to change this, since collectors have been identified as a possible source of traffic of firearms. In the future, collectors will have the possibility to acquire firearms, but subject to the same authorisation/declaration requirements as private persons. - Brokers will be brought into the scope of the Directive, since they provide services similar to those of dealers. Member States will have to introduce regulation covering the registration, licensing and/or authorisation of brokers and dealers operating within their territory. The Commission also wants tighter rules on marking of firearms to improve the traceability of weapons by making them harder to erase (e.g. by affixing markings on the receiver), extending the obligation to imported firearms and clarifying on which components the marking should be affixed. Member States will have to keep the data until the destruction of the firearm (i.e. not only for 20 years as currently the case) – and better exchange of information between Member States, for example on any refusal of authorisation decided by another national authority, interconnection of national registers to ensure full European cooperation, and obligations for dealers and brokers to connect their registers to national registers. Regarding deactivation, this package of measures also includes an Implementing Regulation imposing stringent minimum common guidelines for the deactivation of firearms which will render reactivation much more difficult. The Firearms Directive specifies that weapons which have been rendered unfit for use are no longer considered firearms but pieces of metal which can move freely within the internal market without authorization/declaration. However, recent experience shows that deactivated arms can be illegally reactivated by using pieces from other deactivated arms, home-made pieces or pieces acquired via the Internet. The fact that there is no harmonised way to deactivate weapons across the EU increases the security risk. To solve this problem, the Commission has prepared a Regulation that sets out common, strict, harmonised criteria on how Member States must deactivate weapons so they are rendered unfit to use. This is complemented by the ban on the possession of Category A firearms – even when they are deactivated. The Implementing Regulation is based on the criteria for deactivation developed by the Permanent International Commission for the Proof of Small Arms (the CIP). The Commission has been negotiating this Implementing Regulation with Member States since April 2015 in the context of the comitology procedure, with discussions intensifying in the last few weeks. The draft text sent to Member States on Friday 13 November was adopted in committee on 18 November, following which the College adopted the implementing act on the same day. In summary, the proposed revision of the Firearms Directive will debated by European Parliament and Council in the near future. I understand the Commission are hoping its plans will be approved and come into effect by July 2016. I can assure you I will be monitoring the proposals closely. Although I think the EU needs to play its part in the fight against crime and terrorism, I will not support over-regulation and a knee-jerk reaction. Yours sincerely, Catherine Bearder MEP Liberal Democrat member of the European Parliament for the South East of England Constituency Office 27 Park End Street Oxford OX1 1HU +44 1865 249838 http://www.bearder.eu

The BASC now have a terrific link to an auto generating email to all your local MPs regarding the proposed EU Firearms Directive change fiasco. The body text of the email is very shooter/hunter biased but you can make as many changes as you want (to include deactivated firearms, re-enacting and airsoft hobbies for example) but if you don't want to make changes that is okay too. Main thing is that as many emails get sent to these MPs as possible http://e-activist.com/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1979&ea.campaign.id=47315

How many photos of dingos in service do the RCA museum have? might be interested in a swap photos for a rotor....I have a few spare. does it need to be the Rev limiter type I also have the fixed alternative cheers 'Singe' http://www.daimler-fighting-vehicles.co.uk/

Daimler armoured car. Three people

Any chance a posting something generic here that we all can use as a basis of our own assesmnent? thanks singe

Here a thread with photos of em http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?46928-WW2-British-Airbourne-Handcart-wheels&p=425323#post425323 im in Dartford Kent.

I've got two airborne wheels if these are of any use

What happens if you give the fuel pump a few squeezes with the priming lever? does that not push a few more drops of fuel past the valve

Rick are these you new helpers? http://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Auxiliary_Territorial_Service#/image/File:Auxiliary_Territorial_Service_(ATS)_women_working_on_a_Churchill_tank_at_a_Royal_Army_Ordnance_Corps_depot,_10_October_1942._H24517.jpg

Just to clarify. with my carb fitted and plugs and timing reset it had a very crisp throttle response with no hesitancy what'soever. with the original carb, it. accelerated but more sluggishly and appeared to have a flat spot from low rev acceleration. Swapped my float bowl (where most of the jets live) and made of noticeable difference. After changing the seal in the carb top and replacing the original float bowl things were better but still not as good as my carb. However drove it down the lane quite easily and as final test pulled away from a standing start in 4th gear. The engine pulled cleanly through the revs with no problem so the car is quite drivable. I understand it had before only managed 100 feet before it conked out before. with regards the plug these were the original lodges with WD stamps.... God knows how long they had been in the engine and no wonder they were not helping the engine to run well. thanks for an entertaining day Mike & Chris (and free fry up from your mother in law). If you need any help again please get in touch. Singe

Mike I replied to this, this morning but it appears to have vanished? Should be able to come down to you on Saterday 10th if that helps, what dizzy do you have the round top or rectangular topped one? If in doubt post a photo. will bring with me the following proven items coil plugs complete dizzy ( square top type) with leads dizzy round top with leads new condensor good MK2 carb ive a 42 workshop manual that mentions over fueling at the carb and recommends to putting two card gaskets under the fuel pump to reduce the delivery rate. its an easy job to worth a try. ive also had some problems with the spary jet delivering too mich fuel via the accelarator pump and flooding the middle two cylinders same as you. ( it is after all simply throwing neat petrol down the bore) Make sure the accelerator is functioning properly and that the tiny brass/glass/steel ball and seat are in good clean condition. found that differant thickness washers have been used under the needle valve brass seat. these range from 1-3.5mm in thickness. ive added aditional washers under some of my carb valves....this both lowers the float hieght and reduces the amount of fuel present. It appears to reduce the richness of the mixture slightly. dingo carbs are a black art . Ive several, some of which also run dog rough for no apperant reason. ive had them completely appart and they do not appear to be any differant in setup to the good ones? interestingly swapping float bowls ( where most of the jets reside) makes no differance so theres something going on within the main body that ive not yet figured out see you saterday/ singe

Hi Mike if you get no joy in resolving the problem I'm happy to run down to you and lend you a good carb for a day. This will at least prove where the fault lies. That's assuming you are in the gat wick area. might also be able to help with some carb spares can I ask the number of your car. I run the dingo register site regards singe http://www.daimler-fighting-vehicles.co.uk

These have been fitted to a dingo and are the best modern alternative currently availible https://www.universaltire.com/750-18-sta-super-traxion.html see attached photos. However a word of warning. Getting the original tyres off the rims after they have bonded with 60 years of rust can be problematic. One set i did seperated from the rims with little effort but the others were well and truly welded together & stuck. The tyre company used a hydraulic press to push out & remove the rear half of the rim and as a result warped the centre so that it no longer ran true. 2 out of the 4 rims were therefore wrecked. in such a case the only way to get the tyre off is to cut the original tyre in 2 and peal it off the metalwork.! As original tyres are now vary rare its not ideal. hope this helps singe www.daimler-fighting-vehicles.co.uk

Try these people, they have a large stock of new old stock engines 6 cylinder & 8 cylinder that are used by others for building replica bentleys http://www.milweb.net/go/banister/

I enjoy the show and agree that it brings people from all over the world. but have to question if it is still benifiting from the support it has had in the past. On Saterday there was a arena display of D-Day vehicles. these could be US, AXIS or British types. our group (3 dingo's & 2 carriers) drove down there to find a total of ........one jeep, a dingo and one amphibous car! thats a realy poor show from all the availible vehicles on site. Fortunatly the latter carrier event guys turned up early to help provide a display. I was present at our picth on the WW2 vehicles field from Monday to Sunday, i guess we saw about 100 visitors during the whole week. This makes me question if its worth hauling three vehicles 80 miles, when i could get that many with one car at a local fete. At least half field was empty by Friday evening as many packed up and departed before the weekend. This was partly prompted by the weather forecast i suppose. But again this does not give the public a good show.

Its doing a very good job of hidding ive no record of it on any historic register, or any photo of it at any time. If you find it, please let me know and i will add it to the survivers list. http://daimler-fighting-vehicles.co.uk/surviving%20dsc.html cheers, & good luck in your search. 'singe' www.daimler-fighting-vehicles.co.uk

Jim Please accept the statement that any messages posted are not directed against you in particular, but areintended to raise an issue and perhaps give some people a subject for consideration. You should understand that anumber of armour owners (and also those who are full time employed by the classic vehicle game) are not unreasonably worried about armoured vehicles getting into the hands of ‘muppets’. Either by being stolen, obtained from ebay, being bought cheaply via MOD disposals or hired. Its only a matter of timebefore some idiot does something like: 1. driving their tank/armoured car into the grounds of parliament (happened in Canada). 2. Runs amok on the public highway (happened in California) 3. Deliberately aims to squash members of the public and royal family (Holland, but fortunately(sic) only in a car). 4. Attempts to drive an armoured vehicle painted to look like a police vehicle into the London protests with RIOT painted on the front. As I understand it a number of European countries now have anti armour laws prohibiting private ownership. And the last thing I want to happen is that be imposed here. Because I like you …love this hobby. It may not require a serious incident to spark off some anti armour debate, just a single vindictive writer for the papers and enough evidence that ‘undesirables’ can get hold of them. Or an high profile accident occurring where a child is killed because they stood too near when a vehicle manoeuvring/ slewing. It has been stated that members of the public think that all our toys are really still owned by thearmy. I agree with that statement. Thats why it comes as such a shock when I explain that this is fact my armoured car and will they kindly get off! They are then surprised and state that it surely must be illegal for anyone to own ‘a tank’. Imagine there horror / alarm if they found said ‘tank’ was being driven by ‘swompy’ andhis mates ..........................or by Abu Hamsa and chums! I would like to say im a saint when driving my armour on the road, but of course I would be lying. Only last year I forgot to reattach my magnetic plates and had travelled a considerable distance before I remembered. After having been quizzed afew times buy the boys in blue (they are perhaps more on the ball near London). I have had to ensure that I have taken every reasonable care tooperate in a safe manner when on the public highway. This means employing a competent commander in the turret, who is in direct communication by reliable intercom system. The use of a practiced system of voice commands. The fitment mirrors to eradicate as many blind spots as practicable. Fitment of brake lights. Use of daytime running lights. Painting the front edges of the vehicle white to aid conspicuousness. The ends of the guns are also covered, after having had a long conversation with the Met police about interpretation of the law regarding firearms, deactivated or otherwise in public places and those permanently fitted to armoured vehicles. (They say its an instantly arrestable offence if it is deemed to cause any public alarm). Any insurance company in the event of an accident will be pleased that the above precautions have been taken. And as you are aware if you have not stated all facts to the insurers, such as the use for hire or reward, or can be seen to act undiligently, they willhave an opportunity to get out of any claim. If I remember correctly iveseen your Sherman (Maiden Newton?) and thought it nicely restored. During the Bristol protest its well-presented(very nice signwriting etc) and to my eyes looks totally unthreatening. However ‘unthreatening’depends on the viewer. For example, I once witnessed several elderly Jewish people get very upset at the sight of a picture of Spike Milligan in a German helmet. This was the advertising poster for a play about spikes life. Ive similarly have a friend who became 'very aware' of his surrounding when he broke down outside a Mosque ineast London. My part of GB is full of people who may have left war zones and have altogether different views onmilitary paraphernalia. You only need oncomplaint to the police start a ball rolling……….They have a duty to follow itup afterall. I hope that you continue to be ‘sloppy but safe’. That’s all ive time for now,need to take my ‘large Cojones’ back in the garage where I have 4 gearboxes and two engine blocks waiting my urgent attention. From another piss poor armour owner. 'Singe'

or you can use a steel float. (trowel):-D

The subjects been discussed before: http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?28040-Armoured-vehicles-and-tanks-used-in-silly-publicity-stunts&highlight=publicity If im frank, the Bristol protesters looks all very 'upper - middle class' and generaly law abiding. Some other groups however look much more subversive and likely to cause raised eybrows from those in power. Its the knee jerk reactions from the Daily Mail readers that worries me. Just as a matter of interest why is no DVLA number plate visible on the vehicle?

Alex Be warned This way madness lies..... http://www.milweb.co.uk/events.php owner of: 1944 Dingo scout car 1945 Dingo Scout car 1942 Daimler armoured car 1942 Dingo scout car 1934 Austin 7 tourer 1937 Austin 7 Ruby 1930 Terrot Motorcycle 1955 Triton Motorcycle 1929 BSA Motorcycle & sidecar & website: daimler-fighting-vehicles.co.uk