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Hard to see but does that say BAOR?   If so struck of from an Ordanance Depot in Europe.

Bar Grip is the american pattern so the ones I have suggested are probably not suitable for your use.

If you are after tires for a WW2 British vehicle rather than post-war a batch of new 10.50X20 tires will be in the country hopefully soon.  The 11:20X20 tire size only came in very late war.     The tread pattern you are asking for is track-grip rather than the american bar grip.

That sounds highly unlikely if collectors vehicles and more likely inert rounds for stowage which average Police Officers are not trained to recognise.

Still looking for 2 or 3 of these Avon Track-Grips.

This was the standard tool box on most war-time and immeadiate post-war softskin vehicles.  In the lighter leather likely to be 1950's that war-time.

Surely its just a lean too off of an AFV with 2 short poles to keep the other side lifted off the ground.

Looking for one of these Junction Boxes which were fittedto Daimler Armoured Cars and possibly other WW2 British AFV's as well.

Construction and Use regulaions are not applied retrospectively and the regulations at this time refered to "during the hours of darkness" so ok during the day.   A vehicle manufactured at that date should have a minmum of one centraly mounted Brake Light so you can argue the vehicle should have had this.    Obviousy you can have poor visiabilty conditions even during the day so if the lack of lighting caused an accident they would no doubt take you to court for dangerous driving or similar.  Indicators again were not required when built but if you cause an accident as a result of not indicating your intentions beware.   You could have a Comander giving hand signals.

Going back probably 20 years ago a dealer told me that he knew where one was for sale minus its turret.   Subsequent enqueries resulted in a story that it had dispeared from the yead where it was located so quite if it ever existed I do not know.

Optima Batteries do not look period but are designed for starting under difficult conditons.

I have 4 different WD marked Pick Axe Heads and only one fits over the boss on my Daimler Armoured Car so I can screw on the clamping handle.  Obviously lots of variations.

These are the 2 pattern of war-time lights discussed.  Left is Lucas and right Butler.

They tended to alternate between different contracts depending on what was available.  Quite if Butlers were used throughout the production of Ford vehicles others can comment.   As discussed these will not throw out enough light for modern road condotions at night.   Hence my suggestion to have removeable modern lights you can take off at a show.   If you are not worried about having modern indicators etc visable when trying to portray a war-time senerio it is not a problem.

2 hours ago, 67burwood said:

Thanks for your reply, the lights pictured are a new modern equivalent of Jeep / dodge rear lights with both tail and brake lights, why do you say they not be sufficient ? Is it size ?

The lights in the last post of the link I posted are the correct WW2 ones for your truck but if you look at them the anount of light they show is not sufficent for modern roads.   If you want to fit them I am  suggesting having a trailer board or magnetic light clusters you can fit when driving on the road at night.   You can hide a trailer socket somewhere suitable.    Depends on how accurate you want to be.   The lights you picture have never been used on British vehicles.

These are the correct lights for a truck of your year but they would not be sufficent for modern after dark use so you would still need a trailer lighting board.      

Looking for one of these to complete my WW1 Livens Mortar set up.    The pictured one is for the american production version but I assume we used a similar type.

4 hours ago, iainmaoileoin said:

 

Can you explain what you mean by Rarden Turret for Berlin? This FV now appears to have radio racks and no Turret.

 

 

And a different braking system now.

I can sell you a complete generator and panel.

I would question how many war-time markings would survive post-war British Army rebuilds.   If the red is over the other markings it is probably Anti-Aircraft Command.   You could have 3 different markings in different layers if the white is the bottom layer.

The Red over Blue is an RA arm of service indicator.   The yellow badge reminds me of the 12th Infrantry Brigade but does not look 100%.   Is the red paint over the top of the yellow badge hence a different badge again?

I would doubt if you would get one registered now both due to width and the lack of a secondary breaking system.     They were a lot more flexiable in the past on the classes they would tax them in.

The cost of your vehicle Insurance would have be interesting for commerical use.   Also the question of an MOT excempt vehicle for private hire.

Looks like a standard Type T so Dingo plus a lot of other things.

Looks like one of these WW2 Italian Trucks.

We discussed these the last time I asked if any one made reproductions.   Although the seller said he had an original set of this pattern dated 1942 they are not the pattern commonly seen on WW2 Bikes.