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You would not use armour plate or indeed steel of the same thickness if you were building a replica (just give the external impression) . To do so would be prohibitively expensive and very few companies in the country would be able to fabricate in such scale. If you are doing this with the full support of the City Council and veterans organisations you may be able to aquire / buy a bare hull that has been on a range and rebuild a static vehicle from that, but still at great expense. If you are working for an offical body and or have a very rich benifactor, I would recommend you identify yourself as such if you want to be taken seriously by dealers / Museums.

Probably best to look or advertise. in the vintage commercial vehicles magazines. They have for sale sections and these vehicles do come up for sale.

Can anyone identify the use of these fittings please which came with my Daimler Armoured Car but don't appear to be related. I am assuming WW2 AFV as both are of very heavy duty construction.

I used to have one with a printed Polish Eagle stiched on the front.

If you have the details as Wally has suggested apply for the vehicles records as any MV owner would and see how they have described its disposal / struck off strength. That way you won't unecessary be alerting the MOD that anything is wrong unless you have to. They are just as likely to insist on putting it through their contracted disposal company if it is still their property.

We all know Wikipedia is not always 100% correct so still possible.

Does anyone know where this Gun was manufactured? Clearly a Royal Ordance Factory with the initals RD.

There is one on a plinth in Belgum where they have reversed engineered it making up metal wheels as per the WW1 pattern and passing it off as an 8 inch Howitzer. Sadly it must have been in excellent condition prior to putting it outside and the leather pouch has rotted and the Oil Reservoir Tank had been allowed to fill with water and has been burst by freezing.

Originally a WW1 - 8 inch Howitzer with a liner inserted during WW2 to produce the 7.2 - inch gun. The carriage was also retro fitted with pneumatic tyres. The latter longer barreled Mk6 version was mounted on the ammerican 155mm carriage. Fort Nelson have or did have one set up outside by the entrance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BL_7.2-inch_howitzer

They had another much better running Stug which the current one replaced on display probably 10 to 20 years ago. That then went into what was at the time a far from ideal storage building in which it started to deteriorate. Just going from memory which others can correct me on they were then criticized as a registered museum for allowing it to deterioate and I believe it eas lent out to another Museum. Others can confirm how accurate my memory is.

Presumably a Mk IX Mount as used in the 1970's - 1980's on many Frigates and Mine sweepers.

Things like this are freely available and Aquarium shops sell simlar things to empty Fish Tanks. Alternatively you could always get a mouth full of petrol and syphon it out yourself. https://www.seton.co.uk/syphon-pumps-2.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI8fTO78Dl6gIVgbHtCh1dKgOsEAQYAyABEgLXsfD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds#SYP2

No picture.

As an inservice weapon It is presumably still clasified as a Restricted Document so excempt from the FOI Act.

Banisters may have some. https://www.milweb.net/go/banister/

I will have a play this weekend. It did not leak before being rebuilt but I don't want to send it back to the company if I can avoid it as it will take so long to come back..

One of the carbs on my Daimler AC is flooding after rebuild leaking out of the top cover gasket. Assuming that the float has not sprung a leak can this be cured by simply bending the arm very slightly which acts upon the inlet valve?

You should be able to find find the trousers on e-bay if you keep a watch out probably size 18 but your chest measurement is bigger than the normal stock sizes so a special order through the system at the time. All large size BD's are very hard to find as the average person was much smaller then so very few large sizes were manufactured.

Does anyone manufacture the flexiable metal spouts the war-time versions of these oil cans were fitted with?

Both FB Groups and sites like this have a place and should work together. Unfortunately a lot of very good sites like this have folded to the detriment of their subject areas when people have migrated to FB. The thing I don’t like about FB sites is they attract a lot of people who know very little about their subjects but which does not stop them commenting at great length. When questions get answered you can also get huge long threads where individuals comment without making any attempt to read the previous answers and wrong facts have to be repeatedly corrected. Due to weak admins on some FB Pages they can also get flooded with non-relevant posts or taken in a direction which does not reflect their subject areas. The Eager Beaver FB Group probably works a lot better as I assume the membership will be limited and hopefully does nor attract tire kickers.

I will scan the drawings in next week.

I have the 'Manual of Recovery' Part IV which covers Winches Portable. It lists 4 types in use namely the No. 1 Mks. 1 & 2, No. 2 Mks. 1 & 2, the 5 ton two speed and the and the single speed 3 ton.

Presumably if you have written proof of the loan of the Medal from the owner of the Museum you have obtained a crime incident number from the Police. The medal may be tracable by advertising on the varions collecters sites but obviously you stand no chance of recovering the medal without evidence. One reason I don't give/loan things to Museums including Bovington in my case as items can disappear.

When I first joined the MVT in the late 70's it was the american vehicles that were relatively rare and people would restore them from wrecks. Then during the 1980's the flood gates opened with all the MAP supplied vehicles being released from the NATO armies and we were flooded with huge quanities of American vehicles of all descriptions. Many British war-time vehicles have alse been exported to the continent or the states.

Nice looking T16 Carrier. Used by the Canadians during the NW Europe Campaign. They fitted many of theirs with mounts for .50 MG upfront which may be that casting in one of the pictures.