Adrian Barrell

The 2.5 metre width only applies to goods vehicles operating under construction and use regulations. There are loads of vehicles registered outside of those. Your local office is talking bollocks, though I'm sure through ignorance rather than malice.

Regarding importing into the US, you have to have a Form 6. These can be applied for before you actually have a vehicle in mind but they are specific to type, i.e. Sherman. The main restriction applies to US built armour for which it is almost impossible to get a Form 6 for now. The Daimler and Abbott would be no problem.

The Sherman in question has had a Form 6 for some years now, it's only the shipping that has been delayed.

Adrian

Took the advice from Adrian and put it in to practice this morning driving down to Bovy - my god, it drive like an F1 :schocked: :schocked: very smooth and very slick, thanks Adrian!

 

Well done! Glad it helped.

Adrian

Most problems stem from trying to change down too early. Our old trucks have a very low peak tourque, in the region of 1000 to 1200 rpm and there is no need to change down untill you are at that point. We are all used to changing down at higher revs in modern vehicles and it's not so necessary in the old stuff.

I'm no advocate of the 'stall change' technique, but try leaving the change till a bit later and just giving a blip on the throttle for the down change.

HTH,

Adrian

Its a D2-5J that had its scraper removed at some time Matt.

Never marry a farmers daughter, you can't keep em off stuff like this. :-)

 

The Cat in the picture is a 22 I think. The D-2 was diesel (hence the D).

Adrian

I have a 1939 Cat D4 with LePlante Choate angledozer.

Lee,

I could do with a couple in 1/2" for my Sherman.

Still possible?

Adrian

Actually I meant I didn't know he made it to Mons.

:-D

Didn't know he made it!

 

 

Hmmm, Gizzlies and indeed M4A1 Shermans were never converted to Fireflies. There is a Grizzly/ Firefly at Camp Borden in Canada but this was a one off and not a full conversion. Of course, any owner is free to do whatever they like with their own property....

This would be Mark Hughes with his Grizzly complete with drainpipe 17 pr.... :roll:

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Only if it's a 'goods vehicle, pre 1960, used unladen'. Fire engines don't (technically) qualify.

I've read of cases where a relatively new aircraft has a landing mishap and it was all the crew chief could do to stop other chiefs from stripping parts from it where it lay!

Sorry Adrian :oops:

 

That's ok, only kidding! :-D

Showing my ignorance here of WW2 kit designations - but for me the Morris Quad that was all angles.... Like this:

 

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That's a Chevrolet FAT.....

They are most likely the shipping covers. M10s, being open topped, are harder to seal up than a gun tank and a large box takes care of several things at once. You can see what looks like sealant between the box and the hull.

The intention was presumably to allow them to be driven short distances like this, hence to opening in front of the driver.

Regarding the Diamond Ts, (no hyphen) they were originally designed to a British contract. The US Army also bought some due to a lack of supply of the M25 transporter. DTs in US service are quite common.

Who's Andy? :dunno:

Anyway......., the Grizzly is a Canadian assembled M4A1 Sherman. Montreal Locomotive Works built 188 from July to December 1943. They followed the Ram on the production line. Only used for training in Canada during the war but supplied to Portugal post war. Ian McGregor imported about 45 in the 1980s and some ended up on ranges.

Actually not that common in the UK now, can think of 9 1/2 off the top of my head.

Adrian

They were originally used in the Vickers MG & Bren which was fitted with a shredder, they are still about too.. frightening as recently some re-enactors in the States have been using them in bolt action rifles..

 

So they were presumably used for training to allow automatic fire.... learn something new every day! Probably not what was used in the execution though......?

They were probably wooden tipped blanks so there would be little difference.. & without a shredder could still kill anyway..

 

So what would be the point? I must admit, I've never heard of such a thing. A military blank round is just that, a blank, and produces no recoil at all. A .303 ball produces plenty!

And finally, some slightly more odd ones, a battery of German artillery and a Gloster Meteor

An M3 Grant many of you will have seen recently.....

Stuart gun tower and M10

Covenanter

Black Prince and Churchill Bridgelayer

Matilda 2 and Cavalier

M40 155mm sp and a Valentine 1