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  1. Adrian Barrell
    Generally correct. For a time, British vehicles were painted white but reverted to silver as soon as the special pigments were available again. I have seen silver over white in Covenanter so I'm happy that silver came back into use quite some time before the end of the war. As in most things to do with colour and painting, there would have been a fair bit of variation in timeframe from factory to factory and indeed unit to unit.
  2. Adrian Barrell
    You can do more than touch it, I'm not overly protective!
  3. Adrian Barrell
    At least being an optimist allows you to take on anything. Better to look back and say 'I shouldn't have tried that' than 'I wish I had'. Anyway, if it was easy, everybody would be doing it!
  4. Adrian Barrell
    Yep. Come and say hello!
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    I wouldn't count on it. All you'll get is a copy of the Key Card where it will be one of several and it will give you it's post-war number and engine number together with it's disposal fate. The best way is to work backwards from the Charioteer card. This will cross reference the ZW or ZS number to its ZR, (presumably) Cromwell number and that card will confirm the earlier details. Individual record cards are, AFAIK, extinct.
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    I'll be there, it's my first time for a few years. As you say, it was the show in the south east. Mind you, it always rained back then too......
  7. Adrian Barrell
    It's a typical Ford part, a similar bit is used as the clutch cross shaft end bearings in the Ford built M4A3 Sherman, probably a little larger though... Isn't there a similar part on Jeeps clutch shaft?
  8. Adrian Barrell
    As said, tanksuits are common enough but usually size 3 or 4..... Mine is a 6 and fits perfectly! I was given mine, a 1945, by a friend who served in 2 RTR. He was issued it new in the mid 1960s......
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    There is a bit of confusion here..... The clothing in use in Normandy would be either battledress, two piece denims or the one piece denim tank suit. The denims varied from a dark green to almost grey. The tan tank oversuit, sometimes known as a pixie suit, was not issued to troops until September 1944 and was a winter oversuit, the denim being the summer issue. There are also tan overalls around that can be bought cheaply but though wartime dated I'm not sure they were standard issue as such.
  10. Adrian Barrell
    Chris, it was a conventional four speed gearbox. The steering was achieved with Wilson steering units, one bolted on each side of the gearbox. These used pneumatically controlled brake bands to apply epicyclics that varied the speed of the tracks. There was also a further external band brake between the steeing unit and the final drive to give a skid turn and act as a main brake. The Merritt Brown combined speed change and steering in one unit and was first used in Churchill.
  11. Adrian Barrell
    I have the workshop manual for the Wilson box.
  12. Adrian Barrell
    Well, I do......!:-D Actually, I would not do it that way, air-arc gouging is the way to go. You can cut nickel weld with gas but it only takes a small bite at a time and is more suitable for cutting through a butt weld, fillets are rather harder! The mounting holes are only filled with a stud, they didn't just gas-axe the bolts and leave them there. Do you have a bow machine gun mount to go in it?
  13. Adrian Barrell
    You may have a problem if there are any luminous instruments. British gauges came as luminous, flourescent or plain. The former contain radium and many museums have a zero radiation policy and will not accept anything like that.
  14. Adrian Barrell
    Anyone in particular?
  15. Adrian Barrell
    You know it makes sense! :thumbsup:
  16. Adrian Barrell
    Welcome Andrew from a fellow Suffolk boy! If you're used to heavy plant, a Dodge will seem like a toy.....
  17. Adrian Barrell
    I did but after seeing all the 'bling' thought I wouldn't bother mentioning it.....
  18. Adrian Barrell
    I guessed as much but couldn't resist it!
  19. Adrian Barrell
    Aren't they all......
  20. Adrian Barrell
    To bring the thread back to Adrians M10, I have been working on a new recoil shield from an original kindly lent by Mark Robinson. Not quite finished yet but this is the progress so far.
  21. Adrian Barrell
    Johann, sorry for not replying to your email.....! The spring has a rod that connects it to the clutch pedal, I've been trying to upload a picture but it is not working for me today, I'll e mail you one.
  22. Adrian Barrell
    Carburettor fires was another thing Panther was known for, indeed it was just such a fate that befell the Jagdpanther on Pirbrite that ended up with the SdKfz Foundation.
  23. Adrian Barrell
    The original Meteor was fitted in a Crusader but only as an automotive test, not for a record attempt. I think it is held by an M113, I'll look up my source.
  24. Adrian Barrell
    Richard, I can recommend this book, it tells you all you need to know about Meteor though it reads, not surprisingly with a little bit of RR bias!
  25. Adrian Barrell
    The first Meteors were built from sub-standard and reworked Merlin parts. I have found Packard Merlin banks on Meteors so parts certainly got used but that would only have been early on, once Rover took over production it was probably all Meteor only production.
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