pc1959

Thank you very much!

I'm keeping all the sign-written sheetmetal, It all needs stripping off as the framework is all rotten, broken or missing. I'll probably put a lot of it back, at least at the rear because I like the cabin/workshop area, but I don't like the deep side-skirts and the flat front.

It looks too much like a fire engine!

Thank you, PM sent

Listerj123:

The Matador was supplied to the RAF in 1943, then went to a bus company in Glasgow for recovery work and finally ended up (via a Scottish museum) near Hereford

The Bus Recovery body is very ugly and in terrible condition so I'm slowly dismantling it.

I am trying to refurbish a CAV control box for an AEC Matador, I'd like to replace the non-original starter button with a CAV type  108 push switch but I can't find any for sale apart from an ancient link on a vintage tractor forum. Does anyone have any good ideas about where to look as I have drawn a blank on the usual online sources?

Many WW1 Lorries:

https://youtu.be/fS3Dfck5OKQ

It looks like HMG is flogging off a load of stuff:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1015447/DESA_Sales_Brochure_2021.pdf

Maybe some will end up at Whithams?

10 hours ago, Motleyholt said:

I need to source some adhesive backed foam to make all the seals too.

Screwfix sell 13mm wide x 10mm foam tape Like This

Otherwise I have used this company and found them pretty good: Rubber and Sponge, They do a wide range and were cheapest when I last looked

I second what Marvin says about using copper as a backing.

Remember the rather grim sitcom Hi-de-Hi?

Someone on the internet has traced every bit of stock footage used in the opening titles!  HERE 

I think the source of the SRN-1 hovercraft clip will be of interest as it's from a Combined Services Exercise in 1959. It shows an amphibious assault on the beach at Eastney. Lots of kit on display.

Combined Services Exercise 1959

There are quite a few tanks here that I had never heard of, Caernarvon for one and what looked like a Russian one in the mix as well. Poor old Saracen loses a wheel in front of everyone

Quite a few dodgy looking dictator types in the crowd as well!

Apologies if you have all seen it before

Fitting EFI to a military vehicle engine should not be too hard as although the cubic capacity is usually large, the peak power is not that big so the injector size is not unreasonable.

As well as the ECU you would need:

A high pressure fuel pump

a 3 bar fuel regulator with return line to tank

A fuel rail to hold the injectors onto the manifold

Crank trigger wheel

Throttle position sensor

All these bits can be got from eBay

A long time ago I wrote an article for Practical Performance Car on choosing the pump and injectors and I will try to dig it out and put the relevant bits on here.

From memory, when Dave Walker (Emerald M3D ECUs) fitted EFI on a Meteor engine in a Rover SD1 he used Rover 800 series injectors. I can also thoroughly recommend Dave's book Engine Management published by Haynes

12 hours ago, danny2364 said:

wie herkend de markering rechts vanboven

"who recognizes the mark at the top right"

1 hour ago, oats and barley said:

this is all off the top of my head so do not quote me there my be inaccuracies  

I think you have nailed it! I recognised some parts around the Regents canal and Paddington, and the strange turret on the building near Kings Cross Station. Thanks for filling in the gaps.

I found this video of Barging Through Old London in 1924 in colour [AI enhanced and colourized] very restful to watch, a few good shots of traffic showing what may be pre WW1 commercial vehicles:

I anyone has one I'd appreciate a copy as well, my Matador was used for bus recovery and lost the original cab.

If I recall correctly (and a quick google says yes) Ford Escort rally cars often used a 12v starter with 24v to spin the engine really fast. This probably shortened the life of the starter a bit but, hopefully, it's only getting intermittent use and should get plenty of time to cool down.

Then you also have the spring starter like the old Simms. Just found out the company who took over the rights for these is making them locally.

In the late 90's I worked for Lucas at what used to be Simms Group R&D in Park Royal, the spring starters used to turn up (out of forgotten cupboards) every so often but I was never allowed to play with them as the H&S police would destroy them ASAP. They were still being fitted for cold weather applications where a dead battery meant you froze or the polar bears got you.

There is still some gold in them thar cupboards as a six cylinder Simms magneto turned up recently.

It was being used to spark up the gas welding kit, itself a casualty of H&S.

Yes John, that picture is a great help,

thank you very much.

Paul

I wonder if anyone can help me.

Some time (2 years!) ago I stripped down the CAV control box from my Matador as it was in very poor condition and incomplete.

It's ready to go back together and I now have a couple of problems:

• I took many photos as I dismantled it but I was burgled and the PC with the pics was stolen
  
• The wiring was chopped about in it's time as a bus recovery truck
  
• The metal cover on the front of the box is missing
  

With the aid of the manual, wiring diagram and some pictures from threads on this site I have got it about 80% complete but the wiring of the internal bus-bars from the main isolating switch to the upper board with the light switches and connector strips is not shown on these.

Does anyone have a control box that I could measure and photograph? Preferably off the vehicle so I could look at the back where the bus-bars (actually thick solid copper wires) live.

I'm in South London and sometimes East Sussex.

If anybody has a Matador control box or the metal cover for sale I'd be interested as well.

Thanks

Paul

That's a great video!

Seeing the theory put into practise is a great motivator to have a go myself when I get going on my Matador.

Paul

Long shot: Does anyone have a rough idea of what resistance I should be seeing between the sender output, and its earth, at the limits of its travel? (The WSM doesn't seem to list it, unless I've missed it.) If not, I'll just have to figure out what it should be, by the "lots of error" method.

To find what the values are you could attach a variable resistance (Volume pot from some bit of scrap electronics) across the sender wires and twiddle it to see the guage move. When the needle lines up with Empty or Full measure the resistance with your multimeter.

I measured the sender from a Cortina some time ago and the values are:

Empty 80 Ohms

Full 10 Ohms

Good Luck

Your vehicle was already on the DVLA system.

This one isn't and the owner will have to follow the V55/5 scheme for an age related number

The DVLA have quite a strict requirement for the evidence required to prove date of manufacture. If the system is followed no problems, any anomalies then expect issues (I do speak from experience as I was MVT verification officer for over 3 years.)

 

With hindsight I think I was lucky with the DVLA, the whole process from walking in the door to walking out with the new tax disc took 20 min. It was in the last days of local offices so I could explain what I wanted and fix any mistakes on the forms instantly, I'm sure it's a bit more involved now.

Good luck with the tanker.

Lovely wagon and great research

Just a word about registration, I would be tempted to use the MVT verification service. The DVLA can be difficult if the correct paperwork is not in order. Do they accept dating letters from the BCVM?

I was able to register my Matador on the strength of a letter from the BCVM.

I did not come with a V5, the reg no was already on the DLVLA system but the replacement V5 had it registered as a recovery vehicle first registered in 1960

Turning up at the DVLA office with the letter resulted in a V5 with:

"Was registered and/or used declared manufactured 1943" in the Notes

Date of first Reg: 1960

Body Type: Breakdown Truck

Taxation Class: Historic Vehicle

Which all seems OK to me

Prices are now gone from the website but I wrote down all of them so just ask if you want to know about certain lots.

Could I get the price of Lot 22, the Federal aircraft tractor? I really liked the look of it but good sense prevailed.:undecided:

I thought the stuff had been banned as it's a precursor to RDX which is a naughty bad plastic explosive?

(A level chemistry was very interesting in the late 70's)

I'm rather surprised to see the MOD flogging it off by the bucket load in these troubled times.

Norbury Tank Man and his Abbot blazed a trail of destruction through South West London in the 90's and everybody turned a blind eye (too much paperwork). I recall the cops always stopped him getting into Parliament Square when parliament was sitting though.