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Um, have you seen this? http://www.albion-cx22.co.uk/survivors.html

Still trying to figure out the offside wing marking. The usual culprits seem to have missed this thread, and am sure that people like Wally Dugan, Clive Elliot or Richard Farrant would have the answer.

1967 formed as 55 Thames and Chelsea Squadron (V), renamed in 1970 to 55 West Lancashire Squadron. Renamed in 1999 as 55 Merseyside squadron. SHQ was always in Liverpool. When formed in 1967, one troop was in Cardiff, and the other was in Chelsea. page 168 of Royal Corps of Signals Unit histories 1920-2001. Better heads will elaborate on this, but as far as I know, command markings placed on the near side wing differ. So if it were in Cardiff, it would have one marking, but in Liverpool would have another. http://books.google.com.mt/books?id=031WegRPmM8C&pg=PA404&lpg=PA404&dq=55+signal+squadron+history&source=bl&ots=r9nZMAU0yr&sig=YXovU7QtodJkvWZ4N6Vb19M98Zs&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ZBriUpSGD5SthQeJ-YDYDA&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=55%20signal%20squadron%20history&f=false

55 signal squadron (Volunteers). Now 33 squadron.

Welcome. Hope you find something.

In addition, try to find contact details for a chap called Bob Morrison. Back in the day, apart from loads of articles on military Landrovers first on LROi and then LRW, he also had a few books regarding landies, especially leaf sprung ones, and early 110s. When on LRW, he ran a series of articles and was always asking people to send him vehicle reg numbers of ex military Landrovers and if he had taken pics of the vehicle in question, he would do an article on it. On his book 'Land Rovers in military service', on page 66, there is an article on AMF, and I can see 2 FFR 109s, vrn 87KB00, and 75KC99. In addition there is a lightweight, vrn 53HG77. The other vehicles in the article have no visible vrns. Hope that helps. regards Martin

Try contacting a user called Neill, who goes by the name of AR4412 on the militarylightweight.co.uk forum. He was in AMF(L), as far as I recall. Being ex REME, he probably would have had more contact with their vehicles than most. regards Martin

Umm, not sure about that, although the last time I had a smoking relay, turned out the earthing was completely duff. suppose another possibility could be the battery being too strong? I'm sure if Clive Elliott saw this thread, he'd have the answer! I just got lucky with the indicator problem, being a member of that forum as well! Might be worth asking a question there as well , since there's an ex REME fitter who goes by the name of AR4412, who is brilliant at troubleshooting. regards Martin

Does this help? http://forum.militarylightweight.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2113 Martin

With comments in that forum, such as not to worry, the place is now not being so hard to get into, wink wink, I doubt that all of them just trespass. I have commented after having looked through that website and noted everything, including the quickly removed comments from people, such as authorised visitors, accusing people of breaking in. As I said before, if a place is abandoned, and fallen down, and completely open, no problems. But I am not impressed with pictures of people climbing up walls, and going through windows with the ground below showing fresh glass shards. i was always brought up to respect other people's property, and only go in if the owner had given permission, even if the owner was a government entity, or a private corporation, but maybe I was brought up on another planet. I do know that if someone trespassed on my property, a), I would like to be told if anyone found out about it, and b) if I found them on my property, they could wave their silly 'taking pictures is not a crime' badges on the way to kissing the ground after being ejected summarily from said property.

I agree with you completely, it's addictive. But I do wish they'd stick to stuff which has been completely abandoned, and is in ruins. Posting pictures of places with all the goodies inside them, is only asking for someone to find the place, and go and take what they want. I've looked up a few of the places shown, and most of them not that hard to find with google earth and a little knowledge of the areas. Just recently, they put up a post about some vehicles found in Belgium, from an Antarctic expedition, and lo and behold, somebody has now been and chopped up the vehicles to take the artwork off the doors. Coincidence? Methinks not!

So glad she's going to be saved. I felt so sorry for this cent, getting rustier and rustier very time I went to Duxford.

http://www.anti-aircraft.co.uk/images/radar/meadows27.jpg The whole setup shown in the link would have been bolted down to the Sentinel 2 tonne trailer, which is the trailer shown at the start of this thread. Great trailers, but the mudguards simply fell to pieces with rust!

Thanks. Was rather hoping that the warning would go out to the equipment owners really;) Checking back on the site, it seems that the pics have been blocked, which is better. regards Martin

if it was a Meadows genny, then it would have had a metal cover on it, with the exhaust exiting through the roof, with roll up canvas sheets on all four sides. Hand cranking those gennies was a nightmare, with several broken fingers resulting from the starting handle kickbacks. We never did seem to find parts for the original compressed air starting setup!

Hi all. Been monitoring a site called www.28dayslater.co.uk If I recall correctly, it's already been mentioned once or twice on here. Some interesting stuff on it, but I do get worried when they start posting pics of privately owned vehicles, which obviously belong to somebody. The first one is this- http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/military-sites/86488-tank-graveyard-attleborough-oct-2012-a.html Some interesting items there, including the Long Tom in the background on one of the pictures, and the ex british military FH70. The Reo looks like its an early one as well, with a petrol engine, judging by the lack of vertical exhaust stack. The second one refers to the former RAF High Ercall, with a lovely Bedford fire appliance, which they even have the cheek of getting into. Mind you, at least with it being unlocked, the possibility of 'someone else' breaking into it is reduced. http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/military-sites/86545-raf-magna-revisited-shropshire-november-2013-a.html

Hi everybody. After being here for a while, decided to finally put in a post. I'm mainly interested in post war british military vehicles, and currently own a 1975 ex RAF Luqa and Wyton Landrover 1/2 ton GS, a 1975 ex RAF Catterick Landrover 109 GS, and also an ex Malta Garrison 1962 Landrover 88" GS. If anybody has any questions regarding the Bofors 40/70, and its ancillary equipment, I can help, and what I don't remember, I can dig up from the various manuals and EMERs I managed to salvage when I left the military. As a matter of fact, in 2007, I donated a full set of manuals and EMERs to the Coalhouse Fort, which helped them restore their 40/70. regards Martin

http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?39776-Trailer-Identity This is the trailer that the Meadows generator were usually mounted on for air defence duties.