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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

3 minutes ago, sirhc said:

I actually quite like the new format, the unread content page lets me see some of the content in a post so I can decide if I am interested enough to click on it or not.

At the end of the day Joris spent many hours updating the software, he didn't do it for fun. The old software was obsolete and no longer supported by the developer. If we had a major issue with it the forum might have been gone for good. I'm sure everyone will get used to this format before too long... or maybe we should just go back to type writers?

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 ....

6 hours ago, GeePig said:

To try to make finding the new posts easier, I have made a few screenshots and added some notes.

1. Under the big HMVF logo you should see 'New Posts'. Click on it.

 

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 ?

Good link, problem I always have is working out font and size

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 .

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

So, would anyone on here have a clue where I can get a instruction book or assembly instructions for a frame tent that seems to have three of everything and is sending me Bat-**** crazy?

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.

Richard . . . The best book I've found is Automobiles of the World, by W.E. de B. Whittaker and Captain P.A. Barron, published in London by The Aeroplane and General Publishing Co., Ltd, 1921. Not all WW1 vehicles are there, but a goodly number from many countries are. Like all pubs, it can be confusing trying to differentiate between models given the limited amount of data given elsewhere.

Al

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 .

I believe it was due for Sunderland Air show this weekend but failed at Newcastle.

No other detail known.

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 .

Thank you both. So post war without pin up needle, no value!

 

Danny and Bas

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

DLI Museum grounds is a V-Good event , nice location , good parking (non-eventers) , and will probably be the very last ever this year .

Good to see thats still on .

My advice would be to buy the TM9- 801 manual and study the general running and servicing requirements and when going to view take someone with you that is well versed in GMC's.

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.

Andy

 

 

Do you (or anyone else reading!) know what to call "the glittery braid on a sword hilt" so I can research further on google?

 

Thanks

 

Iain

 

PS if anyone can use these or the lanyard they are available to a good home for cost of postage when I remember where I put them after taking the photo!

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.