Sean N

Great job Jack, sounds excellent.

Yes indeed

 

"An Exhibitors Information Booklet will be included in your Welcome Pack and will include all of the shows rules and regulations, which you are required to abide by. On arrival you will be asked to sign agreeing to the show rules."

 

When you submit an entry you seem to have to be saying you agree to that arrangement.

You'd have thought that, if push came to shove and there was a serious issue, any agreement given would be invalidated as the contract would be unfair.

Why can they not publish the rules and conditions on the website?

Maybe, they aren't away of HMVF.......

At present there are just snippets from a magazine, bits from facebook & a motorcycle forum. If you look at the news section on the show website it is blank...

None of this says much for their "digital marketing platform" or expertise.

As it's labelled 'Projector Mount M.R.S.' and the mount looks as though it fits to something about gun barrel diameter, I think it's a projector for an optical muzzle reference system; though as it doesn't look rugged or weatherproof enough for an operational device, perhaps it's something early, experimental or a training device as Clive suggests?

(edit - sorry Andy, got distracted in the middle of posting and cross-posted)

Are those tyres Avon Traction Mileage, and are they moulded to take studs?

Next thing you know someone will claim a Nazi armoured gold train has been found buried in Poland...

These are the quite well known X-type trainer wrecks in Aberlady Bay on the south coast of the Firth of Forth.

Chris, you're probably better placed over there for Chev bits. There are a number of specialists in the US, or try asking in the forums on http://www.stovebolt.com/ - or you could ask on Maple Leaf Up!

A shift fork seems an odd thing to break - do you know the root cause?

Good luck

Peter, I've got one good one, UK south coast

The inside was gutted in the 1920's to convert it into a electricity sub-station...

:wow: - though it probably saved it from the WW2 scrap drive...

The IWM collections note about it also refers to it as Mk IV no. 245

I don't think there's an official source you can consult easily to find how many vehicles of a particular type are registered.

Sites such as 'How Many Left' are the nearest you'll get, but very limited production or rare vehicles are often not listed, or listed as 'Missing Type'.

How Many Left doesn't list Mungas, or even any Auto Union or DKW vehicles, and I cba to wade through the many pages of Audis in the hope of finding some!

Putting registrations of known Mungas into DVLA's vehicle enquiry page using DKW, Auto Union, Audi or Missing as a make just brings up 'vehicle details could not be found'.

A quick flick through the Munga Talk topic seems to show about 10 - 15 UK vehicles known to or owned by HMVF members.

On Film 4 9pm tonight. No doubt it'll be on repeatedly over the next few weeks.

Have to say I can't get too excited about minor anachronisms like a Mk2 Pig in '71. Having been involved in trying to get vehicles for film & TV and knowing what a nightmare it can be, and given that 99% of viewers would not distinguish between Pigs and Saracens, let alone different marks of Pig, I can understand why producers would be glad of what they can get that was somewhere handy. Film makers have perpetrated far worse outrages over the years...

Hollebone it is.

Just been shown some photos of what looks to be a very tidy Ferret - but then they all look good in photos. DBG, looks at least repainted if not restored. De-act guns. For sale at about £8k - £9k, open to offers, Dorset. Can find out more if anyone's interested.

Line up photo looks like K9, Pioneer, Hippo, not sure, then a whole load of Bedford RLs.

Second photo the Scammell is on an EWK Gillois ferrying rig

Silly question, maybe, but these are definitely from BIS and link back to the real BIS SPIRE website, I assume? A sudden flurry of emails like this often smacks of phishing scams...

I have seen this photo several times on the internet i think the vehicle in the foreground with the spare wheel mounted on the tail board is MWR but the photo has either been reversed when printed...

 

Nick

Lettering on the ship and the library number on the photo are both the wrong way round, which is a bit of a giveaway. Hans' version looks a lot better - now all you have to do is get the IWM to reverse their watermark!

Alec, I have a couple of Edbro mechanical PTOs that came from a recovery company that were running Bedfords.

It is for the SAE 6 bolt fixing but neither look quite right on the gear; one has a straight cut gear, while the other the gear looks too coarse pitch:

The straight cut one is marked PTO.602.15 922015 while the other is just marked 18 x 84 S, I assume a reference to the ratio.

If they are any help let me know

I'll try to get photos tomorrow.

Pierced. I think on reflection the fist "P" stands for Pierced (ie all the holes...)

 

Could be wrong though.

I've seen it called 'Pierced' or 'Perforated' but not pressed.

NOS, your picture is not showing though it does link.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marston_Mat

Terry, some years ago I was offered a large quantity of PSP. I had a fair idea people used it in ones and twos e.g. as sand channel, so I made enquiries. It turned out that it was in demand at the time and sold for considerably more (10 - 20 times?) its value in scrap. That might well still be the case.

As scrap it'd probably go as light iron, so just a few tens of pounds a tonne these days.

It makes a lot of difference whether it's straight, as obviously after years of use it tends to get bowed, rusty and the edges get bent so it won't interlock.

All the ones I've ever seen, irrespective of manufacturing date, have always had the holes punched right through.

I've been able to dig all this out now.

I have all the interior fittings bar one desk and the radios themselves, plus a number of components and loose fittings, plus bags of stakes and cabling that came with the vehicle.

Interior fittings: All radio mounting brackets and pins etc., shelves for above the windows either side, table for OSR with box under, base for NSR desk with heater, fold down seats and cushions, interior lights, notice boards, 240V distribution board for OSR, breaker etc. board for NSR, complete interior wiring loom, various connectors, fasteners, clips etc.

Components and loose fittings: Marconi power transformer, Marconi HF transformer, telephone handset in case, morse key, large ceramic aerial mount, bags of cable etc.

Chris, you have a PM.

Yes, that's fine. Many older British (and German, and other) vehicles have riveted chassis plates without stamped numbers.

John, CBF have it, see http://storage.cbf.uk.com/pdf/STEELSECTION299.pdf

I'm not sure about etched and enamelled or embossed, the drawing says sheet brass pressing, so I'd guess they were just stamped out from a sheet. I have an identical badge, from brass, that came from an O870, clearly made in a single press operation. I'd guess the 'slight dish to facilitate manufacture' would be to aid release from the press tool.

As Richard says, 23 Aug '74 is probably a copy issue date, last amendment looks like the addition of sheet steel as an alternative material on 11.10.43 presumably due to MoS supply concerns?

'Background to be sunk' I would guess is indicated because there is no cross section so without that instruction it would not be clear, rather than to show a second operation.