REME 245

Is this a Dingo/Daimler Armoured Car Rotar Arm of a Ferret?

I asked the Green Spark Company and they recommended a Plug.   Unfortunately I do not have them here to confirm the type.

http://www.gsparkplug.com/

The one I actually need is 0-100 rather than 40 but the one I pictured is the correct war-time pattern.

Thanks for that.   I have sent an enquiry.

Does anyone have one if these spare anywhere?

You are indeed correct and this 1945 Bedford MW Wiring diagram from elsewhere on this Forum answers the question.  I am more use to armour.   

According to this picture 25' X 15'.   I doubt if the different Marks differed.

From memory construction and use regulations at the time required two side lights, a match pair of head lights during the hours of darkness, and a minimum of one tail and one rear light.

Quite if brake lights continued to be fitted throughout the war I do not know.

From memory you will find the size in the parts list and or stowage diagram.

Any Canvas manufacturer will be able to make one up but at that date it will be presumably be brown.

This lamp appears in the Vocabulary of Army Ordance Spares Section LV6-MT3 in 1943 listed as Lamp Stop and Tail Type No. 981 or B/WD/T1.  The example pictured is missing the cover over the cables.  How many vehicles during the war continued to be fitted with stop lights?

Most early war parts lists detail the light units fitted under particular contracts but as has already been said, after about 1943 most vehicles probably featured the standard Lucas type.

Others can confirm but I would assume that most British and Canadian 15cwt's currently fitted with 9.00x16 Trackgrips are using post war production Ferret type Tires without problem.

Probably lots of things you can do with LED's as well now.

There were lots of the original war-time pattern on the market 20 years ago but not sure what the availability is now.The link I posted may be your only choice to retain the war-time look.

On the front of vehicles you can modify side lights to flash and you can buy magnetic light clusters and Number Plates or modify something to hang on the rear of your vehicle, so hopefully on current restorations no one is drilling holes in wings to fit modern lights.

Also if there is any slight possibilty of the law changing when we leave the EU getting it deactivated again at this stage may be a waste of money.

Not many private owners are going to have Brens to the latest EU Specs so you will be better off looking at dealers lists.

From about 1943 onwards there was a standard pattern of rear light but the visible lenses area is so small they would not be safe driving at night out-side of a built up area.   This is the post-war version of the light which had a window for number plate illumination and a wire braided cable.  Both missing on war-time production.   https://www.buyexmilitarysurplus.co.uk/products/Rear-Tail-Lamp-Number-Plate-Lamp-N1-CM-500.SA.html

All British and Canadian 3 tonners and Daimler and Humber Armoured Cars used 10.50 X 20 during the war.  This size was replaced by 1100 X 20 in the 1950's which everyone uses now.  You also have post-war 4 tonners as well and the Green Godess Fire Engines.

There are other war-time tread patterns so it does not have to be Dunlop Trac-Grip pattern, but they need to look good if people are going to pay a premium.

I can see a rear sight and carrying handle but not a front sight.

I have a nonfunctional Airsoft SA80 which I use for stowage and is missing its complete front sight assembly.

Are these available as spares anywhere?

Just a suggestion but if you want the to get the most orders the two sizes to go for are 900X16 and 1100X20.

I have an 1250 watt Onan for sale if you can identify the type.

I would have expected the Canadian manufactured 300 watt Chorehorse Generator to have been the standard vehicle fit for Royal Signal vehicles.  I don't recall seeing Tiny Tims in stowage diagrams for non-armoured applications but may be wrong.

There is also a Green Goddess Page on Face Book who  may be able to suggest other options.

Also vulnerable to any air burst munitions or as you say fighting in built up areas.

The basic position is no doubt they are trying to find a use for the thousands of vehicles acquired under urgent operational  requirement contracts in Afghanistan and some may not be the best designs for average European use.  Probably also a lot cheaper to use than the proper armour sitting in storage depots. 

If this is 1943 these trailers were in service earlier than I thought.

Is their any evidence that these trailers were ever taken into combat?