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  1. Adrian Barrell
    This looks a good route, is this what you had in mind?
  2. Adrian Barrell
    Looks good. That's a 3.5 mile round trip including the run through the town. I suppose we might be able to run just north of the railway to avoid the road at other times?
  3. Adrian Barrell
    Here is a picture of them both, the Auster can just be seen in the top right of the picture.
  4. Adrian Barrell
    With mention of the Elvington Halifax, restored as Friday the 13th, the original was on display at the end of the War on the site of the John Lewis building in London. Unfortunately, at the end of the exhibition, it was scrapped! Also on display was an Auster IV, MT243, which I am now restoring back to flight!
  5. Adrian Barrell
    That's a good demonstration of why it didn't matter whether your Sherman was petrol or diesel.
  6. Adrian Barrell
    Drilling beans (insert other crop here)?
  7. Adrian Barrell
    Anything we can look at yet Jack?
  8. Adrian Barrell
    So would that be the same weekend as Tankfest at Bovington?
  9. Adrian Barrell
    A9 was a cruiser but that was not fast, on road or off, so that argument does not hold water! The differences between the design brief and the finished article of most tanks are enough to make you wonder if they could be considered as the same vehicle. Centurion was considered a heavy cruiser at one point, probably because it was a direct development of the cruiser line, though equally different in many ways. It was not however intended as a traditional cruiser tank and indeed was not used as such.
  10. Adrian Barrell
    Centurion was, at one point of it's development known as a heavy cruiser but it stemmed from a 1943 requirement for a 'general service' tank. Even then it was realised that the cruiser/infantry idea was perhaps not the ideal.
  11. Adrian Barrell
    The first British built tank with a name as part of the official designation was Covenanter. It was a cruiser tank and it started the trend. Infantry tanks were named differently, Matilda and Valentine. Churchill was, presumably named after the man himself. The cruiser line ran, Covenanter, Crusader, Cavalier, Centaur, Cromwell, Challenger, Comet, Centurion, Chieftain and Challenger. They also mostly had alpha-numeric designations. Covenanter was A13 Mk111, Crusader A15 etc.
  12. Adrian Barrell
    I don't think there is any evidence to support this oft quoted rumour.
  13. Adrian Barrell
    Covenanter looked fantastic but had some 'interesting' design issues. It was not as bad as many accounts make out as most of its systems were used more or less succesfully in other vehicles. It did have a propensity to overheat however and as, at the time, armoured warfare was being conducted in the desert, it was deemed sensible to keep it for training in the UK.
  14. Adrian Barrell
    Anyone can view the posts but you have to be a Friend to post.
  15. Adrian Barrell
    Diamond T is the same. I think it's simply a result of the way the brakes work. You soon get used to it!
  16. Adrian Barrell
    I wouldn't worry about the thread, it will be a very good grade of steel. The tube nut that holds the clutch on is tightened to 650 ft pds and that looks like it would break at 50!
  17. Adrian Barrell
    I've never done one myself but you should tighten until the bolt has stretched .005" to .007". I expect this only applies to new bolts. Are you using a new bolt?
  18. Adrian Barrell
    Magneto points gap is 0.020" on both HRH and the HRUH.
  19. Adrian Barrell
    I have...... :cool2: Standby....
  20. Adrian Barrell
    All this techno babble....... Could be made up for all I know!
  21. Adrian Barrell
    Did anyone else read posts 4 and 5 and think 'what the hell are you on about?' :???
  22. Adrian Barrell
    Is he a driver of said deep wading vehicle?
  23. Adrian Barrell
    Either rescuing crew or more likely connecting a towing rope to recover the casualty?
  24. Adrian Barrell
    A failed deep wading, such as a drowned vehicle?
  25. Adrian Barrell
    Deep wading?
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