REME 245

Sorry

I thought you were talking about original spares.

I know Clive well and he makes some of the best replica fittings and fixtures in the country.

Just be prepared to wait for a very very long time if he does not already have what you want on the shelf. His list of things to do is very long.

I also have a pair of the side mud guards which I assume Bazza is talking about.

In theory I own the tooling as I ended up being charged for it.

If the Carrier you are talking about is missing a lot of parts it will take a lot of money to fabricate every stowage box and equipment clip in the back. Clive also does the fuel tanks which are the first things to rust out.

You do see the odd wheel at shows, but check if you need British or Canadian wheels as I understand they are not interchangable with machining.

Chris Wilkinson used to have stocks of track but he scrapped what ever he could not sell when he moved yards. Tracks do obviously wear out so they are in demand.

The answer on wheels and tracks is no.

You can get wheels re-rubbered and new track cast and machined, but obviously at great expense. The engine and gear box are standard Ford Truck items.

A Bren Carrier is an early version with a different armour layout at the rear.

My mistake I thought we were talking about a multi-wheeled AFV.

It will be interesting to see what Adrian says but I would have thought that tracked vehicles as in bulldozers etc would have been allowed greater width.

A Sherman is a tracked vehicle and therefore mot exempt and is presumably allowed a much greater width allowance under 'Construction and Use Regulations'.

Was there any advantage in registering the way you have because I am about to register my carrier?

They came back with that certificate after I wrote a letter of complaint.

I am surprised that not more people have commented on this thread because if they have now tighted the law it will effect a lot of future vehicle owners. If confirmed sellers of unregistered vehicles should also be making prospective buyers a where of this change in the law. If you are in one of the vehicle clubs I would recommend taking their advice.

If necessary any type of truck caple of towing could still presumably be classed as a locamotive in the 'Vehicle Type' allowing a greater width.

This is still hopefully just an over zellous officer in a local office.

Try again.

Back in 1994 I had the same problem with my Saladin.

Luckily I was able to successfully agrue that as there was no class specifically for armoured cars, it was unfair for them to place my Saladin in a class that they knew due to width restrictions it could not be registered. They were effectivly trying to manipulate the system to ban my vehicle from the road. They recommended that I register it as a locomotive and I attach a copy of the revelant form below.

If they have now strengthened the law you may be out of luck. If I had owned a Saracen rather than a Saladin they would have been quite within their rights to class it as a people carrier under which all the relevant classes do not allow wide vehicles. Good luck.

If you are a member of the MVT there have been full listings of these unit designations in recent editions.

Unless already on the side wall you will need to check the load rating of the tyres with the manufacturer. Most have web sites witth the details on.

Other owners have already done what you are suggesting and unfortunately its the only way forward. In time all British war-time and post-war vehicles will end up with historically inaccurate tread patterns on.

I am looking for a similar truck myself if anyone knows of one for sale.

There was an article on this vessel in Windscreen magazine several issues again.

It was built too late to see any service, but it is the only surviving example of this war-time class of vessel.

The whole place currently looks like a First World War Battle Field turned into a sea of mud by the builders. The grass area by the side of the museum is fenced off and is currently the builders compound.

Quite how they will arrange things this year will be interesting.

Buy one of the vintage commercial truck magazines in the UK which should have plenty of adverts.

May be one of the one off Northern Ireland conversions.

British wartime tread pattern tyres can be sourced from Wallace Wade in the states, or postwar pattern from Mittas.

The current pound dollar rate makes getting the correct pattern tyres from the states more attractive.

Presumably David did not want the roof and turret?

The only open top Humber LRC was the Mk1 on the Humber Snipe car chassis.

The most complete Humber LRC in the World can be found in the RAF Museum at Hendon.

There are three other examples in the UK with substantially rebuilt hulls.

For plans/manuals of British AFV's, the answer always has to be the Library at Bovington.

I see nothing wrong with having common war-time vehicles on pliths providing they are in a suitable position and they are looked after.

None of these conditions seem to have been matched in this case and idealy the City Council should have taken it on and moved it else where. Possibly even inside the city Musuem if there is one locally.

It was sold presumably because it was owned by a private company who saw a way of making money.

Sounds like they were issued with what ever the ordnance stores had left at this stage of the war.

Its probably very unlikely that the Airborne Division were using any Canadian manufactured 3 tonner's by 1944, but your picture is a very good example of a 3 ton stores truck. Just because a vehicle is described as carrying a binned body does not mean a house body.

There was a body similar to this on a Bedford QL in a scrap yard in Somerset about 10 years ago. If I had known of a suitable donner vehicle (Ford) I would have considered saving it.

Its a pity Fords are so rare, but they were obviously surplussed years before the QL's.

I would be supprised if many if indeed any any mobile workshop bodies were built on to Bedford QL chassis from new.

Many were transfered across post-war as the Fords went out of service. The books suggest Ford WOT6 chassis as do all my Ruddington sales catalogues.

Don't forget not all of the vehicles of an airborne division were delivered by air.

Some would have followed up at a later date by road.

The ROAC element would I assume have been very limited even in Gliders to the size and number of vehicles which could have been delivered by air.

I would suggest most specialist bodies on 3 tonners were fitted to Fords, with the most likely candidate for the 6X4 being a Leyland Retriver.

Try this thread on the reenacting Forum. There are others if you do a search on BEF.

http://www.wwiireenacting.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22599&highlight=bef

The official designation of this type of trailer is 'Trailer 2 ton Beam Wireless' so in theory its a bit lighter than 3 ton.

The Generators do turn up but not necessary in Military Circles. Check E-bay regularly on the manufacturers name and also look in the stationary engine section and magazine.

For more details see:-

http://www.mapleleafup.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4939&perpage=30&pagenumber=1