Stableboy

Hi having a clear out of 'stuff in boxes'... can any kind person tell me what vehicles the above items relate to, please? Collimator packing date label gives 1959 = Centurion? Thanks

Am looking for any images or records of WOT8 30cwt in service..can any kind person help? rumours of use in North Africa and/or Italy as towing vehicle for 17pdr a/t gun - any confirmation of this..? any old images of this model around (not photos in recent years of the one vehicle seen at shows) As a 30cwt 'light lorry' it should be possible to fit the 'Berridge' 4 stretcher conversion (mainly hanging from the tilt frame and body sides by straps); does anyone have detail or plan of this ...apart from a vague mention in the 1935 RAMC Manual? Many Thanks

certainly rocked a Suffolk airbase when someone N.D.'ed a GAU-8 across the field during the '80s......:shocked:

Boy Browning or Mountbatten......

Does any kind person have plans ie detailed information and photos of this early ww2 Guy armoured command vehicle? please...

This is likely to be the dingo left by Bill Close just outside the citadel; chatting with Singe over google maps, we both agreed that the site is now flattened as a carpark and there is no obvious ground level comparison... although the curve in the railway line (also all gone) is a give away for the location...

or just jump straight to where we are now - adopting a 7.62mm Armalite; Dodges...oh look here comes another dodge, followed by another do....snore; about as much character as a Mcburger...

if you want to part with it, i'm yr man..

I do know of one for sale, pm me re contact only if seriously interested. Guy wanted cash and it wouldnt be cheap, but it's in the UK, and i hear he might now take a p/ex....

Hi, new to this forum, but i had the Eddie Smith Ant wireless truck before it was restored.. Originally found on a farm near Ash in Kent, the hand adjustment on the clutch was wound right in and there had been a circular saw run from a rear wheel via a band (old conveyor belt?). The MCC Mk3 wireless body was elsewhere on the farm, on blocks with the inspection panel in the floor lifted so that it could be used as a 'gentleman's place of relief'! Work commitments (very) sadly meant although i had saved it from being sent to the scrap (although someone else had actually rescued it from the farm, they had no storage so it came to me), it was sold on to a guy called Shaun in Suffolk in the 80's. I did offer E.S various small parts as well as some related documentation, but it's still here 'somewhere in a box', so in about 2 years should come to the surface again... There is also a backcopy of 'Old Motor' magazine with a centrespread of an original colour pic of a Guy Ant gin-palace somewhere in Italy, Ravenna iirc. The peaked radiator on the wireless trucks originates from the Guy Vixant commercial truck which ran in parallel production with the Ant during the war; as i recall from a 70's visit to the Guy Motors historian, metal doors were fitted to wireless trucks from 1942, some chassis being new and some updated from earlier production. As i recall, at that time the Guy librarian had various wartime military manuals including one covering waterproofing.. This particular vehicle had been handpainted by it's civvie owner a typical shade of 30s/50s green over it's original paint of black and dark earth/brown; It's also worth pointing out that i uncovered the original census number - but on the vertical sides of the bonnet, not on the doors - the doors had the original large white stars on! The front of the bonnet was too rusted for the original markings to have survived, but on the original radio body there was a clear marking of a red figures '81' on a white/blue background. Hope this is of interest.. ps wish i had kept it - looking for an Ant again now! :nut: