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  1. Adrian Barrell
    Actually, you turret is the later style as normally seen with a 75mm so more suited to a Cromwell than a Centaur though that turret is also sometimes seen on Cavalier! In your position, I would be torn between 'keeping it right' and doing as you propose. To do the former would mean modifying a turret front plate and a mantlet and making a 95mm. I did look into all of this when David owned Ians stuff as the dozer was a Centaur IV and David wanted to restore it as such. The 95 is not too bad as it was originally a 25 pdr ring fitted to a modified 3.7" AA tube, all of which is obtainable. The turret front is not too hard, though I would not want to cut a good 75mm front as yours, I have a couple of 6 pdr fronts here. The mantlet is the hardest part but not insurmountable. David did have a cradle which I don't think you have. It is certainly much easier to go the 75mm route and I wouldn't criticise you for doing so! Anyway, this is probably the wrong thread for this.....
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    The latest VOSA newsletter stated that all existing testing exemptions for LGVs are being removed. It was a very matter of fact statement and when I read it I was surprised. It is, however, just a newsletter!
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    I have made new large ones, complete with the correct catches.
  4. Adrian Barrell
    Cough, cough...... 75mm Cromwell VI.....cough, cough.....
  5. Adrian Barrell
    I don't know of a V in the UK but there is one at Overloon in The Netherlands.
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    Benji, thanks for your kind words and your diagnosis of my mental state..... you are dead right! I think you have to be a bit mad to do it but hey, what can you do! Adrian
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    From the ''it had a picnic table on it'', I can only assume it was an E3 Sentry, aka AWACS.
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    It's the British version of the good old E6B, aka wizz wheel. It's just a simple computer, a rotary slide rule in effect used to work out conversions and headings. The front is fairly self explanatary, 'corr oat' means corrected outside air temperature, this, together with pressure altitude is necessary to work out true airspeed. The reverse is used to work out headings to obtain required course allowing for wind. It is missing the sliding wind speed board. Still used today and required for passing ppl nav exam.
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    The registration would be F 20204, from a batch of 500 on contract T.9867. That's all I have I'm afraid.
  10. Adrian Barrell
    I'm taking the Sherman this year and though I don't do the dressing up bit, if any reenactors want it for their display, I may be persuaded to have them as crew! I will be driving it at times so it can't be hemmed in but otherwise open to suggestions.
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    Broad arrow

    Adrian Barrell replied to nz2's topic in MV Chatter

    Only for Colonials I believe........
  12. Adrian Barrell
    That's nothing to a man of your calibre! Congratulations to you both!
  13. Adrian Barrell
    Exactly the problem, hence the experimenting......
  14. Adrian Barrell
    I don't think you will have any choice as to bead angle. All the currently available tyres are to suit the US style , 5 degree bead angle rim. The wartime British rim is flat bead and is a true 16" diameter. The US style, also Ferret and all modern types, is a 15 3/4" bead diameter hence the problem of fitting modern tyres. I am currently experimenting with modifying a ToTec supplied MRF to fit a British split rim and the only way I have been able to persuade it to fit is by trimming the tyre beads slightly.
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    I'll do some 'then and now' on both to show the differences, though I'm not sure I have a post-war lamp to take a picture of....
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    The Lucas horn changes several times over the years and though similar, the post-war style as shown in the link is not the same as the wartime pattern. The afv interior light is also not the same wartime and post-war. They are developments of the same but surely that does not count?
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    I know that bracket, I bought a box full for a pound each...... Only kidding!
  19. Adrian Barrell
    No Sherman there, just a Ram and a Sexton.
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    After we have all had a play......
  21. Adrian Barrell
    Indeed, I suspect that is why there was no Sherman IIIC.
  22. Adrian Barrell
    Work also continues on the electrical side, with conduits and plugs being made up as well as the internal structure. There is not a lot of the latter, mainly propshaft tunnel and floor panels but it all requires lots of time!
  23. Adrian Barrell
    The final stage in the cooling system is to fit the newly recored radiators. Each engine has its own rad and they fit behind the fans and mount on flexible blocks.
  24. Adrian Barrell
    Peter has been busy fitting out the engine bay with coolant, oil and fuel fittings. These pictures show the work that has gone into the coolant elbows. Peter has very neatly grafted in some extra pipes.
  25. Adrian Barrell
    After final painting, the whole assembly is fitted into the turret.
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