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Not vehicle related but for anyone interested Millers Auctioneers , Newcastle ( UK ) , have a few lots which some might find of interest up next Tuesday 21st November , there is online bidding etc Lot 121 is a WW2 German incendiary currently @ £10 , there's also an M29 practice anti tank rocket ( Lot 126 ) currently £ 25, a 40 mm Bofors drill round currently @ £ 10 ( Lot 125 ) , grenades and mortars etc., are across 6 different lots ( 121-126 ) , theres also an L1A3 SLR bayonet currently at £ 30 ( Lot 127 ) , 2 x army pocket knives ( Lot 129 ) currently @ £ 10 , a mk vi clinometer ( Lot 321 ) currently no bids as I type this Might be of interest to someone on here , you can find the site by Googling ' Millers Auctioneers ' click the ' upcoming auctions' link and looking for the 21st November sale.

If I remember rightly there are a number of such manuals available on the Governments FOI ( Freedom of Information ) web site , in any case if you type in to Google ' FOI army stove ' you'll turn up as one of the first results someone elses FOI request for the Mk12 stove ( and Mk2 and Mk3 which you apparently have ) . Others may be available but i'll leave you to find them yourself. There are a whole load of free , and legitimate, resources out there which anyone can find by creative use of the various search engines. As an aside if at a later date you want manuals for US field stoves I always found a good source of manuals to be the internet archive which you can find via Google , I also think there used to be British manuals on there but they tended to be older rather than the more modern manuals you get from the FOI web site. As it's a quiet night I checked and you'll find at least ' TM 8-615 Gasoline Stoves and Burners ' from 1944 on there plus ' M 10-405 The Army Cook ' from 1942 on there which kind of seemed relevant but may not be ( it's info on field cooking ).

Your ' bob pouch ' looks to be a '37 pattern webbing compass pouch ( if it's lined ) , a cartridge pouch if it's not lined . If periscopes are going for that kind of money I think I'd better check the loft, pretty sure I have a few stashed up there .... funny how you forget over the years what stuff you have squirelled away .... I probably need to start a clear out 🤔

Internet Archive ( archive.org ) has a copy of this , quickest way to find it is to Google the manual reference TM 9-883 .

As the title says ... anyone in need of DUKW parts ..... might want to check Withams website at the minute as the online auction has a fair few lots of DUKW spares

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Try the UK Governments FOI website ( Freedom of Information ) , a search on Google will usually turn up the links ... and having just looked there's a few on there

I don't think anyone is suggesting the changes were done for fun . Time moves on and things change, sometimes you have to rewrite a website and unfortunately it seems to be one of those things thats increasing in regularity. That said I can't see anything wrong with constructive comment and surely it's much better that people say something rather than just drift away. As for typewriters, it depends on your perspective ....

Unless this is a future development , I'm not seeing it and I've tried in both firefox and explorer browsers . The only way I'm seeing new posts is by using the ' activity ' link which for me isn't a great way to keep up with whats new on here but I appreciate that for some people it might be okay. Edit - okay that'll teach me to log in next time , it's there when I log in but I remember there used to be something called ' todays posts' or similar on the old version of the site which was handy and didn't require you to log in to see the last 24 hours posts

I'll keep a look out for it next year :tup::

Is this a regular event as a replacement for the DLI museum rally or just a one off ?

There is I think, floating around somewhere on this forum, a post about fonts and stencils . In any event there's lots of information elsewhere online on military fonts and where to find/download them . As an aside for those wanting to make stencils its worth checking what facilities are available locally for you to use . The local Fablab here ( Fablab info can be found via Google ) offers facilities including a decent size vinyl cutter . Videos on vinyl stencils and how to use them can be found on Youtube .

http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?26909-Make-your-own-decals

Thanks for the heads up , always liked Volvo 4x4's :-D

As an aside I'd recommend doing a Google search ( other search engines are available ) for anyone needing manuals , I'd certainly do this before splashing out heard earned cash , often considerable amounts of hard earned cash , for manuals that may be in the public domain and freely available online. If you have an American vehicle chances are good that there are manuals out there, occasionally it'll help if you know what you are looking for and in this respect its worth finding a copy of FM21-6 which is a list of publications for training - this gives you lists of Field Manuals, Tech Manuals, Tech Bulletins etc ., FM21-6 in various publication dates can be found online as simply as typing ' FM21-6 ' in to Google search .

http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?7903-WW2-Manuals

it might help and then again it might not but there are manuals for shelters on the UK Government web site , might be that your shelter is similar plus or minus a few poles but you never know they may give you a few pointers. Go to Google and search for ' shelter general purpose operating instructions ' which will give you the links , top two results are for a 12x12 general purpose shelter and a 9x9 command post shelter , there may be others if you look further in to it. How you craft your Google query determines the search results and if you just type ' shelter operating instructions ' you'll not get the command post link on the first page.

Not sure if any of this helps but ; If you're not aware, commercialmotor . com has an archive section, link is top right of their home page, the archive has copies of articles going back to 1905 . Other resources are archive . org which is good for books, movies and pretty much everything , as an example of whats on there if of interest is ' The Motor Truck ' published 1912 , look through the site and you'll probably find lots more .

It was there I presume on Friday night ( flying started at 6pm on Friday for a few hours ) as I saw it around 6:40ish Friday night over South Shields ( north of Sunderland and on the coast ) heading towards Newcastle .

the pins on the back you might be able to fix fairly easily , the clutch pins are readily available and cheap , if you google butterfly clutch pin you'll find them for sale

American, basic para qualification badge , theres also a senior and a master para qualification badge which have a star and a star in a wreath above the 'chute. G23 is a makers mark. If you want to see pictures of the other badges they're about half way down this page http://www.britishbadge.co.uk/index.php?cPath=37 Link posted for information only

Good to see thats still on .

It might be worth pointing out to anyone interested that this manual is freely available on this website in the section ' MV Chatter ' which has a section for vehicle manuals , you don't even need to have to search the internet for it.

Sword knot is what I think you may be looking for . They do have some value so you might want to check .

If you look at the fullers it looks like the blade has been cut down , the Germans converted a number of longer blade old bayonets in WW1 . If you look along the blade back (by the crossguard) you'll possibly see a crown with a letter and a date underneath which will give you an indication of how old the blade is.