Adrian Barrell

Whilst I know next to nothing about the drop cages, I would say that a small proportion of the one at Malvern was fairly new.

CAV? 

From the manual. 

It's not a feature per se, just a part of the tank equipment, CES in today's terms.  It fastens to the glacis plate at the top edge and presumably can be folded up for use or down as shown in your picture. It's not armoured glass, just laminated for safety and has a wiper and demister. Shermans have them too but they are either fitted or not, there is no facility to fold them down.

Yes, M5A1 but known as Stuart VI in British service. The drivers screen and hood was a standard part of the equipment, known as approach hood in British parlance.

According to my technical literature, the generator is made by Pioneer but the engine is made by B&S. The PE-77-A to C used the model IL, the D and E used the model N. 

PE-77-D is 115V DC. 

Mine used to run at 170 F if I drove it at my normal speed of around 40 mph. If the speed went up to 45 mph, the temp rose to 180 F. The fuel consumption rose in a similar fashion!

I know very little really Jack, I just have a lot of books.....

Items 4 and 21.

Hi Carl, glad to help! Just to clarify, it's not fitted to the gun itself but to the air reservoir used to charge the recuperator, it's like a small oxygen cylinder, 5 1/2" in diameter.

CM3334 is a Plug, preserving, no 2 and caps the outlet of the compressed air reservoir used to fill the recuperators on  artillerysuch as 17 pdr and 25 pdr. 

13 hours ago, Richard Farrant said:

You would need to check width as Aussie LP Carrier track is wider between the horns than British and Canadian Carrier track.

As is Windsor Carrier track

The turret is a 105mm turret as it has the rear ventilator visible. 

C60 would have had 10.50-20 originally which morphed into 11.00-20.

Cheers Paul!

Only three actually, just edited to look like more. 

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.

BBMF change squadron codes regularly. Transport command rarely showed squadron codes. 

The large letters are squadron codes and individual letter. The serial number is the smaller alpha numeric set and is particular to each airframe. 

Thanks Robin, I'll keep you informed!

I have a box in Ontario. The plan is to ship it west to go in a container at some point in the future. It may already have left but if not, I can ask for it to get to Toronto instead. 

It is from Sherman.

They are for the T headed clamp bolts that hold the bad weather hood above the hatch. Drivers side only as there was only one hood supplied but possibly added to the other side at some point.

True! Though on a similar note, I have recently been lucky to get the barrel record book for my 17 pdr. It fired it's first proof round on 23rd March 1945 and it's last round on 14th February 2011. That's 66 years in service! 

It is for the barrel I have fitted, not the one that came with the carriage but impressive none the less.