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This guy on ebay is making repos & listing them as WW1 but when I sent him a message about the WW2 clips he said these are also WW2 as the pattern he used & still has is dated 1942.

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/361890005737?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

There are a number of different patterns but the type I have observed the most are of the pattern fitted to the bike for sale on e-bay.

Is anyone making the WW2 pattern of Rifle Clips featured on this bicycle?

Normally loads on E-bay.

Avoid the pattern with the modern burner head.

The proper war-time ones with detachable Petrol Tank are very rare and expensive.

The second pattern appears in the 1945 Manual so presumably are very late war.

Unfortunately all Police Forces take different views on things and the conditions to apply

A neighbouring county to me require the whole vehicle and weapon to be stored in a secure building with a monitored alarm which can make it expensive.

My conditions are similar to Ammo Man's.

You will be looking for 11:00X20 tyres as 10.50's have probably not been manufactured for 60 years. You will however have to keep one 10.50 as a spare as I could not fit an 11:00 on the side of my Humber. Once again British Track Grip 11:00 tyres have not been made for about 40 years so you will probably be looking at American Bar Grips. As always in theory Simex have all the old Dunlop moulds but try making them manufacture any.

The vehicles that survive in quantity do so for a reason i.e. the US MAP Scheme providing huge quantities of US war-time vehicles to most European Armies. These were released during the 1980's to flood the market. I can remember previous to this basket case American vehicles being restored which would get scraped now.

With British vehicles anything which survived in service into the 1960's/70's like Daimler Dingo's/ Armoured Cars, Leyland Hippo's and the entire Bedford range are relatively common, in many cases going straight into preservation. Anything which did not survive into post-war service are generally rare.

The only reason Humber Armoured Cars have survived in quantity is because of the batch which came out of Portugal during the 1980's along with the Grizzly's, Sextons, Fox Armoured Cars, 3.7" AA Guns and Bofors Guns etc. Just a pity so much stuff also got cut up in Portugal and was never saved.

The British ones I have seen have a cloth lining.

There were loads of these about a few years usually missing the body and normally in a lot worse state than this. No one wanted them.

From memory they were originally acquired by the Department of Transport for snow clearance and subsequently passed on to Council Highway Authorities. Some remained on standby into the 1980's which is why so many relatively survive.

I have a number of British war-time generators I want to sell if anyone is interested.

Not German. Spanish or one of the South American users.

Google it.

Ex-Batus Series 2 Land Rover.

Interesting history especially being an early Land Rover but obviously don't expect to get your money back if you include your labour.

They come up for sale fairly regularly on e-bay and often a lot cheaper than quoted. I believe large numbers got burnt when the large consignment came in from Australia at the same time as the Vickers.

My Army Cadet Force recently threw out a few so I grabbed one.

A lot of the serious writers now do articles in model magazines and similar.

Getting some of these articles where individuals have done serious research into their fields would help.

One reason I left the MVT after 30 years was the lack of anything interesting in the magazine, but as always if people are not willing to contribute and or do all their articles online these days, its very difficult for the magazine editors.

Complete set for sale - £150.00.

Collection only from Trowbridge Wiltshire.

Are you part of the Garrison Artillery Group at Larkhill?

Having found Chris's article he states rear lights must have an illuminated circular area of no more than 2" or if not circular big enough to contain a circle of 1" diameter.

There was a lot of discussion at the time if standard WW2 American light clusters are actually legal.

Any vehicle manufactured after 1936 and pre 1971 needs a minimum of one stop light.

Chris Davies referred to earlier wrote a series of articles in Windscreen many years ago on the law governing military vehicles including lighting.

Basically Construction and Use Regulations cannot be retrospectively applied so the lighting regulations at the time of the manufacture of your vehicle are those that apply now. Having said this if they are not adequate after the dark or indeed in heavy traffic if hand signals are not sufficent, they can obviously hit you with lots of offences if you are deemed to be driving dangerously and or cause an accident. Also as previously mention the WD often ignored the regulations of the day on military vehicles.

If they are not legal I would assume it is because of the area / size of the lenses is not large enough. You will need to check what was regulation at the time of construction.

A standard Air Ministry Set and relatively common.

Even without the AM any data plate referring to accumulators is Air Ministry as accumulators is not an army term.

I gave up trying to down load anything from the 19 set Web Site a long time ago.

Thanks for all the contributions to the thread. I read that a number of Humber Scouts were put on UK ranges, did anyone photograph any of them 'back in the day'? I know a chap who is working on three or four that were wrecks but I don't remember where the wrecks were sourced from.

Most Range Photography dates back to the 1980's at the earliest. The Humber's would have been battered to scrap on UK ranges long before this.

Dingo's and DAC's have survived in fairly large numbers because they remained in service until the 1960's when the preservation movement was starting. The same goes for other British war-time vehicles such as Bedfords and Leyland Hippo's.

Anything which was not selected to serve post-war disappeared at an early stage and the vast majority were scrapped. There is a reason for anything which has survived in substantial numbers. Unfortunately Humber Scouts are not amongst these.

From memory there is at least one other village up North somewhere which was evacuated during the war and not given back,

Although not impossible it was unlikely to have been painted RAF blue from new. The RAF had gone over to standard army camouflage colours by then.

It was probably re-sprayed Blue during the post-war rebuild.

Can we see some pictures of the data plates.

Do they have WD or AM on them?

A friend has a Welbike with the civilian version of the engine fitted, or at least with a flywheel made of the wrong metal. As far as I am aware apart from this it is complete and running.

I have no further details and he is asking for a ball park value on the machine.

Any suggestions?

My Humber Armoured Car had white as the original internal paint.