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Dont forget to roll the whole vehicle back and too as you adjust the torsion bars.

Why is it so noisey, I used to help Mark Galley with his at shows and it just ran off batteries ?

After a 455 mile round trip the Loyd project has a good condition ex-Norwegian 1943 dated front axle with drums, the diff and one drum turn too! Many thanks to both Clive Hughes and Bob Grundy.. There is a bit of history with this axle, it was purchased from a Norwegian scrap dealer in 1986 with a batch of other Universal Carrier parts. When it was found that it was in fact Loyd rather than Universal it was of no use and left in the back of a lean too, it then changed owners but not location. It changed owners again this year and has moved to Lincoln....after 26 years sitting in the same spot.

 

 

I now have enough brake componants to complete the vehicle, and three good brake drums, does anyone have a Loyd drum to make to a full set? Due to some slight issues with rear chassis alignment I need to restore the back axle sooner rather than later as it seems it needs to go on first and then act as a datum for the rest of the back half of the machine! Trouble is one track adjuster has blast damage, bu**er, yet again :-(

Hope Clive didn't charge storage ! 26 years @ £... per week !

Maybe you dropped lucky and Bob will get the bill from Clive next week ...

I am definately going to "bale out" of my spitfire now.

I think they were all cut off prior to them leaving Portugal as part of the de-mil. If I am not mistaken this would be one of the ones imported by Ian Mc Gregor. Bob will probably confirm.

Mark Galley, 50cal, who started the post died a couple of years ago

The ones Mark imported were sold to someone in Russia prior to him passing away but were not collected. It took some time and effort to track down the purchaser after Mark died, however they did eventually finish up with their rightfull owner.

David Crouch would be a good place to start.

You are correct, that is Mr Riley inspecting the remains of an M44, although in 1988 he didn't have a clue what he was looking at ! If he did he would have put it in his pocket and taken it home for good keeping !

they are JCB 4xc 's if im not mistaken , different from the 3cx as they have same size wheels whereas 3xc have a smaller steering front wheel , presumably so they dont have to carry 2 different sized spare wheels.

 

jamie

You are correct 4CXM, the M is for military spec.

No confirmation on the Mule yet I'm afraid.

 

H1HU

Ok thanks for that, I have not booked in anyway, too much to do.

I bumped into an old school friend of mine from the 1940s, we had quite a long conversation about what life had been like for us in those early days. He then chuckled, and reminded me that when we used to build trolley`s in them days (A trolley was constructed by useing a plank of wood for the main body, we then used old pram wheels (4) and axles, the axles were secured onto matching lengths of wood and fixed across the plank). The front axle was secured with a centre bolt, enableing the axle to be swivelled for steering, the steering was done by useing your feet whilst sitting on the plank.

We had no brakes, and depending on the length and severity of any descent that we used, you could achieve some very hair raising speeds. He reminded me that I had fixed a sail onto my trolley in order to achieve wind power, and how all my friends had a good laugh at my expense, thinking that I was completely nuts......... I was very quick to point out to him that I was obviously years ahead of my time, today all kinds of things have sails fixed, on water, on ice, on snow and on TROLLEYS, that took the smile off his face. In the winter months we used to devote our efforts to building sleds. Its an absolute fact that we had considerably more snow in those days, the weather has definitely changed and become much milder over recent decades. As an adult I went on to develop and manufacture many tools and implements.

In my area Ray they were called bogeys. I work for JCB which as you know is in your neck of the woods the assembly guys in the factories call bolts or sets "pins", when I first started there I was confused as to what they were talking about as we also use a lot of pivot pins, strange how local dialects have different meanings for words. Anyway called by your club house today to meet up with John to go and have a look at a lorry loader crane he is selling, nice set up you have there with the nissen hut.

Just Google mapped it, if it is true then that puts around 60 more miles on the current round trip of 530. I think it is time to call it a day and start develloping a Beltring of the North.

Never seen a press announcement with so many typos in it ! maybe a hoax !

I to have been looking everyday and haven`t send anything.i put a couple of bids in(heard nothing so quess i didn`t win) but would like to know what they went for.A lot of the stuff didn`t sell as it keeps popping up on there auction site.The next small tender sale is next week.

Simon;)

If you win any lots they telephone you usually within 2 days of the tender date.

Yes they were always displayed but not usually until about 3 weeks after and then not always for the 2 weeks it suggests they are left on the website.

I doubt there will be a full tender between now and Christmas, the results are often posted late and dont always stay on there for 2 weeks, Ialso have been watching daily and they certainly have not been published yet.

PM sent regarding tail pipes, I also have the short pipes which go up to the bottom of the exhaust boxes.

Can you confirm if the Mule will be there next Saturday please ?

And if you want to know what its supercharged straight 8 Rolls diesel sounds like on open pipes try this....

 

 

Paul, If you need any MK3 exhaust tail pipes I still have some NOS ones "in stock". Brings back happy memories hearing that growl.

Bob, it was Bernie Jones who had one, well before the 2 Scammells.

Thanks for the update, interesting thread.

Also be aware that to use the manual lever efficiently the fuel pump needs to be "off cam" so you are getting maximum travel of the diaphram. If it is "on cam" you will only get a tiny movement when you operate the lever, try cranking the engine slightly so the camshaft rotates the lobe away from the pump piston.

Are you supposed to be winding the none existant engine ?

Yes when it arrived and GS found that it had no engine we named it "Bobs clockwork tank"

From what I can recall this was the first Chieftain from the AVSD Luggershall tenders to arrive at Bob's yard.

The vehicle below was seen in a Staffordshire breakers yard in around 2001, when I eventually got the cash together to go and buy it, I had missed it. I have recently tried to track it down again and understand that it did appear at a few shows around the Bristol area shortly after it was purchased on the back of a low loader pulled by an Autocar tractor unit. I have spoken to the person who owned the low loader but he seems to be a bit vague about where he sold the Goer, does anyone know where it is ?