Stableboy

the girly pink suzuki 'jeep' :wow:

does anyone please have any 'original' images of the 30cwt WOT8 to share please?

Thanks

Last night, Churchill tank on military lowloader, on M25 near Godstone.....

is something on? :nut:

That's the Madsen Mike, Stableboy was referring to the Marsden.......

i thank you....

.....it's all about getting the right letters in the right order...

The Marsden SMG is often used in films.

very rare - issued only to staff at one hospital. alledgedly.........

R H Specialist Insurance......

approached R H following suggestions that a price from them would be competitive....

gave all info and was told they would ring me back with a quotation...

still waiting since early May - do they think i meant a price for next year's renewal....???

(went back to original company & 'negotiated' a price better than that given in renewal notice letter...!)

Anyone heard of Dover Transport Museum...?

military-wise, has a WW1 Pierce Arrow lorry (albeit in postwar civvie paint, which it is hoped to have running for 2014 Dover WW1 commemorative event) and a WW2 WOT8 both on loan....but loads of other stuff too! including 1936 Humber Super Snipe and a possibly unique 1939 Delage 3litre tourer.

check current opening hours etc; NB - bargain entry fee - £4.00 adult - permits free additional visit for up to 1 year!

new website on: www.dovertransportmuseum.org.uk

ps - it's a charity & needs your money...

the cats just leave instructions for me...

"Oi slave, open door / open food / clean litter tray / etc etc etc"

they're black & white - i know black's technically not a colour...but that's where this thread started, wasn't it?

'men of colour'....??wtf?

hint of apple, maybe, or pillar box red....

what utter pc shoemakers! if you have no colour then you're most likely dead!

All the best! :nut:

i believe that this is the aircraft that a Sec5 dealer friend of mine dealt with regarding deactivation of the cannon etc; appparently it was force landed due to lack of fuel and left half in a snow drift - the locals pulled it out and put it in a barn although some instruments and the compass were souveniered, although returned when umm,...'requested'. ;iirc there was a 189 aircraft involved too but which failed to leave the country due to insufficiently thick brown envelope....

how many troops in a Commando?

found it - yippee

Ford Dagenham vehicle production -

Source: PEP, Report on the Motor Industry (London: HMSO, 1950)

_______________________________________________________

Model Total quantity produced

_______________________________________________________

Anglia 5,136

Prefect 14,281

61 Model 212

5/7 cwt. Van 2,882

10 cwt. Van 15,516

15 cwt. Van 375

25 cwt. Van 2,375

2/5 Ton Normal Control Truck 4,525

2/5 Ton Forward Control Truck 29,188

Fordson Tractor 134,474

Major Tractor 786

WOA-1 Utility Car 1,623

WOA-2 Utility Car 9,059

WOC1 15 cwt. Truck 2,001

WOT-1 6 Wheeler Survey Truck 9,154

WOT-2 15 cwt. Truck 59,498

WOT-3 30 cwt. Truck 17,966

WOT-6 3 Ton Truck 29,693

WOT-8 30 cwt. Truck 2,516

AOP Carrier 4,576

Lyod Carrier (sic) Loyd Carrier 4,213

Universal Carrier 5,153

and i bet you that it won't tally with info from other sources...................

Many thanks for the details so far - fascinating, and not just from a vehicle point of view!

looks like another night with no sleep - i'll have to trawl the net again to find the original info i found -gave list of models and quantities, which is what i want (god knows where my saved document went..) - iirc it looked like a page scanned onto the website so not findable from just a direct search..

Ford at War - the booklet with the hand drawn image on the front of WOTs, tractors at Dagenham loading pier, is that the one - am keeping an eye out for that.

I have a 1945 hardback 'British War Production 1939-1945 A Record Complied by the Times, London' which gives all kinds of info.......but not a Ford vehicle production breakdown, which is what i need...

Can any kind person help with the above info please?

I did find something on t'net but cannot locate it since; besides someone is bound to have more comprehensive info here. hopefully.

Presumably models included (at least) -

WOT trucks/lorries of various models and sizes (eg iirc WOT6 =26500; WOT8 2500. ish)

Carriers

Tractors

V8 engines

looking for model types and quantities produced 1939 - 45.

any further detail welcomed too!!

Thanks

It's not a Model T - they have a very distinctive reverse dished steering wheel. Very different to the one shown.

thanks, one deleted from the list of possibles.....sorry all, this image is as scanned from the licence document and is all that we have to work from..still hoping, and searching internet images...surely at that date and 'through the military' test, the car is likely to have been a service pattern which could be expected to limit the options ....? (Vauxhall, Crossley, why?)

Could be the address is like that to pin down the miscreant, if a modern mil vehicle gets cought out but not stopped they just contact the central issueing authority and they tell them which unit the vehicle belongs to. Instant letter to the MTWO, after that its childs play to find out who was actually driving. :-(

 

Regards

Tim

sounds likely enough, thanks..

re car i.d., wondered if a model T Ford buckboard as so open cab+doesn't seem to be much behind the drivers seat..also hoped that the type and position of headlamp combined with the very low back height of the drivers seat might help i.d.?

The licence allows use of 12-16hp motors, does this help...?

My wife just found her Grandad's RAC Driving Licence; 24 September 1908 !

CQMS Thomas Massey, 1st Dorset Rgt

Would like to identify the car in the image from the licence, and clarify why his given address is "c/o Officer I/C Motor Class, Southern Coast Defence, Portsmouth". (ie, was this the regional test co-ordinator for the military at the time?)

just putting togther his life of undetected military crime...sorry, 'long service displaying unimpeachable conduct';

alternative query (seems like third one!) - Regt Museum records show him taken pow in 1918, but incorrect as turned himself in wounded after Mons 1914 to protect the French family who nursed him and in fact repatriated via neutral Holland in '18, so have lots of info to sort out..

...where do you turn when even that level of source is incorrect?

think you'll find that just the P marking will do, on its own....

Glad to be stirring the brain cells!

yes, the feed roller is long but the packing case stating ".30bmg" was sealed until i opened it to take the piccie..

.50 Spotting / Springfield not so long in the case anyway but maybe an option?...thanks for the thoughts anyway

£30 for old ex govt wooden box...free mount paperweight included! :red:

There's a very pretty restored C15TA that lives in the south east....

Be very aware re unexploded nasties in old tunnels over there; the last one i went in was left very quietly and gently as there was a cast iron German land mine on top of a pile of rotting stuff, and the filling was spilling out and crystallising on the outside and pile...

do not disturb!

Thanks again

have emailed Churchill to ask...

(now why didn't i think of that earlier...:red:)

Thanks for thoughts so far - came from a source who had many RR tools...?