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3 hours ago, Anchor said:
Just to let everyone know, ANCHOR SUPPLIES LTD will not be attending the war and peace show in 2020
Which shows are you attending?
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6pdr Portee.... nice... and different.
I guess next you'll be making a 6pdr?
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6 hours ago, Danny P said:
Yesterday I read a Dutch newspaper article about the event with which everything became clear to me.
There appear to be two organization groups i.e. "Liberation task force" and "Stichting operation Market Garden". The southern and northern convoy routes are organized by the "Stichting operation Market Garden" in which in particular US vehicles participate. In the "Liberation task force" in particular British vehicles participate.
I didn't know that. The reason of two organization groups is a difference in insight about what the event should look like. Let's not discuss about that topic. So, to me, as a British vehicle enthousiast it doesn't make much sense to drive all the way to Nijmegen or area to see the so called "northern route" on Sunday 22nd of September.
Cheers,
Danny
Danny
Correct there are two tours
The Dutch (Keep them Rolling?) one "Stichting operation Market Garden" which is open to any vehicle and any clothing styles.
The LTF one which is recreating the British 30 corps - so is only open to vehicles which would have been used by 30 corps at the time... and for which the vehicle crews have made an effort to wear authentic uniform and have authentic equipment.
If you want British vehicles etc... then the LTF tour is the one to follow.,, You need to look at their facebook page to find out where they are now and where they will be over the weekend.
Tim
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2 hours ago, Danny P said:
Thank you Pete and Tim! Awesome video …!
Maybe I am late with my questions and had to ask them before all started! I hope all these vehicles shown in the video Pete added to this post will participate in the northern convoy route this comming Sunday? If I'm right this route will travel from base camp in Schijndel to the other camp in Grave, then to Groesbeek and ending in Nijmegen. Does anybody perhaps know? I only have the oppertunity to go on Sunday and I would like to see all the British very much.
Thanks,
Danny
Danny
Take a look at the Liberation Task Force page on Facebook.
Unfortunately I am not in the Netherlands to know what their timetable is for sure.
Tim
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5 hours ago, Danny P said:
Last Saturday I 've watched the 75th anniversary Hells Highway southern route vehicles convoy about 10 km from the starting point in Leopoldsburg Belgium. To me as a British vehicles enthousiast the convoy was very disappointing. Hardly any British WWII vehicles. I remember only one Bedford MW, one Fordson WOT2, one C15 CMP, a few utility cars and that's about it. Maybe I have forgotten one but at least no British armoured vehicles, no bren carriers and no tanks at all. If I have looked closely I have hardly seen British license plates on the vehicles. The passing of the convoy took only half an hour. I hope it will be worth it to drive all the way up to Nijmegen next Sunday September 22nd in the hope to see an awesome convoy. WHERE WILL THE BRITISH BE WITH THEIR BRITISH VEHICLES?????????WHERE DO I HAVE TO BE?????????
Cheers, Danny
You need to look on the Groesbeek DZ/LZ on the edge of Nijmegen to find all the nice British vehicles - I think they arrived last night and are there for 2 days - best check the "Liberation Task Force" Facebook page for full details.
EDIT - if you wait till Sunday 22nd it will be too late and they will have gone somewhere else - now is the time to go.
Tim
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Used to be a Bedford QLR rear body in the hedge at a scrap yard (might have been a farm) in Scamblesby, Louth, Lincolnshire - it also had loads of Austin K2 wrecks in it. I found it just after I sold my QLR... but that was a good 17 years ago - so who knows now!
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1 minute ago, Old Git said:
Hi Spencer54, thanks for those images and the info, I had seen these configurations before and I think I have a copy of War Illustrated from 1944/45 that has an article a two page, centre spread, drawing of a White in this configuration. I am fast coming to the conclusion that removal of the Roller was commonplace on British configurations whilst still being retained in some roles, quite what they were is still a mystery though!
Tim,
thanks for the answers mate. I've got a good understanding of the Battery box but would love to see a couple photos of an original battery. Do you have any, or can you link me to one on the net...I've been searching but haven't yet turned up a good photo of a battery...although admittedly I'm not 100% certain of what I'm looking for so I may already have seen it 😉
Pete
I will sort out some photos of the battery boxes.
I do have a spare box I could sell or swap - it needs some TLC as has been "updated" by an enthusiast.
Tim
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4 hours ago, Old Git said:
Found the dims for the WS 19 wooden battery box over on the WS 19 web site. But would like to know, Tim, what you think about removal of forward stowage locker and replacement with the No.18 Battery mount?
I didn't track down the dimensions... but I do have the batteries, and the frames seem pretty basic.
I haven't removed the stowage lockers - these are original installation for my vehicle... instead I intend installing my batteries under the Canadian WS9 which sits across the rear.
I don't have the dimensions for the correct mountings for the antennas either - I have some which have been made using the photos, but they need slight modification to get them to fit properly.
Tim
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On 6/20/2019 at 10:38 PM, Old Git said:
Hi Tim,
could you post a pic of your spare wheel, front and rear of hub area?
Pete
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39 minutes ago, Adrian Barrell said:
Sub calibre normally refers to a smaller calibre gun fitted inside the chamber and bore of the larger piece, such as the link Tim posted which puts a 6 pdr barrel inside a 9.2 Howitzer.
The 75mm Pack Howitzer sub-caliber is a 37mm Gun barrel mounted on top of the 75mm Pack Howitzer barrel... I will find the pics... I assumed the link I posted would be the same arrangement.
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You may get somewhere if you look for details on "Sub-Calibre" mounts. This is what the mechanism is called for my 75mm Pack Howitzer and it is likely it will be the same for the 6pdr.
Edit, along these lines... https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/30025431
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1 hour ago, Old Git said:
OK, so after a abit of hunting around I have turned up the following images which seem to show the standard British conversions for the White Scout Car. From what I can see in the two photos below...
1.) removal of passenger side headlight and fitting of standard British side light. On Driver's side replacement of US headlight for Hooded British light and British side light.
2.) Removal of unditching Roller
3.) Fitting of Wing Mirrors; and something else I can't quite make out, on the passenger side, just in front of the Wing mirror.
4.) Also top of the cage, protecting head lights, cut away.
5.) This WSC has retained the Skate rail although we do know that it was removed in some others, notably Pip Robert's WSC which we started this thread with. Mods so far seem to accord wit configuration of Robert's WSC.
6.) There does not appear to be any US tools fitted so wonder if indeed they did come with the tools, or if it was intended to replace them with Standard GS Tools?
7.) Bridge Classification plate fitted to passenger side bumperette
8.) The WSC appears to be painted SCC 2 Brown, with a camo pattern overpaint SCC 14 Blue/Black Disruptive
9.) The tilt also looks as though it's been re-painted / re-coloured.
10.) On the rear of the WSC the Bumper has been removed
11.) Rear lights re-configured. Drivers side moved all the way to bottom of plate but Passengers side possibly left in situ or side moved up above where Bumper would have been. Differnt style of mountings for both lights
12.) On drivers rear side there is padlocked cage for mounting what appears to be 3 x Flimseys and I think this was later modified to take Jerrycans.
13.) On the passengers side a mounting, made from basic angle iron, for a spare wheel.
The Third photo show a WSC of the Czech Brigade entering Prague on May 5th, 1945. I believe these chaps may have been equipped by the British for, at the very least, the mods to their WSC's are very similar.
Fourth photo is a zoom in on the spare wheel rack on photo 3.
Would like to know what folks think?
Pete
3 - This is an indicator arm similar to that found on the side of a Bedford QL.
13 - Spare Wheel holder... anyone have the pattern for this please - or able to make me one for my WSC... I have a spare wheel... but the WS9 radio set across the rear end of my WSC prevents me carrying the spare there... and of course it is not ideal having it on the inside of the vehicle?
Cheers
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4 hours ago, Old Git said:
Packhow75, would you be interested in this...
https://www.portrayalpress.com/product-p/bsd-m3a1sc.htm
or this one...
Thanks for the info - I happen to have these already - but better to assume I don't know than I do.
Cheers
Tim
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4 minutes ago, postiegaz said:
Where is this?
Echo that... perhaps some useful parts for someone's restoration if we know where this is?
Tim
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On 6/17/2019 at 5:34 PM, Hair Bear said:
The buyer of the DT turned up with another DT wrecker to collect it. Shame I didn't have time to stick around to see them try and get out of the yard. £7,500ish I think.
Don't know what the trolley made though, got too involved in a couple of burgers and missed it.
The Airborne Handcart/Trolley sold for @ £3,500 before buyers commission of 12% to 15.6% depending if the buyer used bidspotter or not.. makes it a steal at approx. £4k
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22 hours ago, simon king said:
There is one on sale on Milweb at the moment but it requires some work to take it back to the original configuration
Odd coincidence... this one on milweb was my trailer between roughly 1995 and 2000.
http://www.milweb.net/webvert/a4016/96349
It was restored that way by the previous owner, including US lighting rig and markings. The trailer Data plate is original... I used it with my Jeep and it was a great trailer.
Ok, there are some inaccuracies in the way it has been restored, but should still be sound and serviceable and would definitely tow ok behind an MW.
NB - I don't know the chap who has it now.
Tim
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You probably need a 10cwt GS trailer.
That said - I don't have one - sorry.
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The WSC in use with Phantom GHQ Liaison Regiment is known to have been fitted with the WS22, WS9 (Canadian) and WS52.
I have a WS9 Canadian fitted in mine to represent a patrol vehicle of "A" Squadron in NWE between June and September 44.
Phantom retained the Skate Rail on their vehicles and those attached to American units mounted the 50 cal.
Tim
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3 hours ago, stanleywindrush said:
Hi,
I'd be interested in that shell - I had bought a 75mm but it turns out to be a sherman firefly round. Its only the brass shell with a slightly crumpled rim (where the projectile goes) the french shell is about the same length but thinner and tapering along the entire case.
Funny that... a friend of mine bought this for me thinking it was a Firefly case... and it's not. I would be interested in the firefly case.
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Nice... think I have an unwanted shell case for one of these.
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Looks ok to me - I have the same. Though that said, there are some drums of the same size and look which are 1950s dated.
Tim
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Looks like ww2 cable drum to me.
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On 1/16/2019 at 3:54 PM, LarryH57 said:
A google Translate gives a list of prohibited items as follows:
IV. Combat vehicles
24. Tanks
25. Other armored combat vehicles including the armored combat-supporting vehicles
26. Special vehicles of all kinds designed exclusively for the use of weapons of numbers 1 to 6
27. Chassis for the weapons of numbers 24 and 25 (presumably those above)
28. Towers for main battle tanks (Not a clue what towers are; perhaps towers are things that tow tanks)
V. Pipe weapons
29.a) Machine guns, other than those with water cooling,
(b) Submachine guns, other than those introduced as a model before 2 September 1945 by a military force,
(c) Fully automatic rifles, except those introduced as a model before 2 September 1945 by a military force,
(d) Semi-automatic rifles, except those introduced as a model before 2 September 1945 by a military force,
and hunting and sporting rifles
30. Grenade machine guns, grenade rifles, grenade pistols
31. Cannons, howitzers, mortars of any kind
32. Maschinen kanonen (automatic canons perhaps like chain guns)
33. Plated self-propelled guns for the weapons of Nos. 31 and 32
34. Pipes for the weapons of numbers 29, 31 and 32
35. Enclosures for the weapons of numbers 29, 31 and 32
36. Drums for machine guns
VI. Light antitank weapons, flame throwers, mine-laying and mine-throwing systems
37. Low-recoil, unguided, portable antitank weapons
38. Flame thrower
39. Mining and mining systems for landmines
VII. Torpedoes, mines, bombs, stand-alone ammunition
40. Torpedos
41. Torpedos without warhead (explosive part)
42. Hull torpedoes (torpedoes without warhead - explosive part - and without homing head)
43. Mines of all kinds
44. Bombs of all kinds including the depth charges
45. Handflammpatronen (petrol bombs perhaps)
46. Hand grenades
47. Pioneer explosive devices, hollow and adhesive charges as well as explosive demining equipment
48. Sprengladungen for the weapons of number 43 (help needed)
28. Towers... I have seen Towers come up as a translation for "Turrets" before... so I suspect this means you cannot have a tank turret.
White Scout Car in British use, NWE 1944
in MV Chatter
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Pretty sure there is someone on the Maple Leaf Up forum at the moment asking for Photos of WSC in Canadian service.
Not you by any chance?
Tim