guy66

Hello, collected this trailer in France yesterday and I am looking for some information on this model.

Is a British war time trailer ? one thing is sure it came from the Belgian army and the construction is very close to a British trailer .

Didn't find a chassis number are identification plate on the trailer and the tires are 7.50x16.

Guy

Reconditioned water pump by EP services back in place and the gearbox also back on to the engine.

will also have a bit of work on the radiator duct, think the ventilator came louse in the past and did some damage to the duct.

Send you a link to the 20cwt trailer.

Just had my Morris commercial water pump rebuild by EP service.

Good luck with the project , will have a drive in the back seat if reddy! :cheesy:

Guy

started to reassemble some bits around the engine.

Is it possible that there is a section of the angle iron missing around the pedals, just have a look on the picture and you just can see a bit of a piece of angle iron?

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This was the bit of angle iron that was missing !

Engine back on the chassis, it's really a tight fit to get the engine on its supports. when the front cabin section is in place, there is not match space left between the engine and front section.

And don't forget to put the manifold back on the engine as I did ! If you do there are two solutions, take the engine back out are strip some angle iron on the front bulkhead..:cool2:

Oil filter is in place and the cylinder head back on the engine.

Fitted also the New old stock screened distributor I found on Beaulieu auto jumble last September , the C4 came from France with a radio type distributor but the screened top cover was missing.

Also been at work on the passenger side foot well, had to ad a piece of missing thick metal plate on the back side off the foot well. The L profile used on the bottom off the foot well is off a size that's now longer available so had to cut a piece off U profile that is almost the same size.

Luckily I found a side box, will need to reproduce this one as it is in a bad shape and now can lengthen the supports on the bottom off the side box.

The supports where modified to fit tread plates on the breakdown truck.

Ordered my Lct ticket for the channel crossing with the Bedford QL in June 2019 for D-day remembrance;)

Hello, if the steering wheel renovation was done by the same company that did my Bedford QL steering wheel it will start to crack after a few years of use !

Found a good second hand steering wheel for my QL and also for the Morris C4, these wheels are a bit ruff but will go on to the vehicles.

Are you De Bondt Frank by any chance, I recently supplied one of those switches to him in Belgium?

 

 

That must be some wane else, ;-)

Guy

hello, you just can see the fitting of the switch and junction box , but vehicles are Morris C4 and Bedford QL.

Morris

Bedford QL

Steering box is back to original specification, the person go sold it to my had the sector shaft re grind and made also new bushes for the steering box housing.

I replaced the tapper bearing and adjusted everything.

Back to original, looks match better than the modified thing that came with the Morris from France.

Modified French steering box.

And now back to original !

Did some repairs on the battery box, painted and back in place.

Will have to make the lid for this box !

The big regulator box (radio truck type) back in place and the identification plate fitted in the inside of the cabin on the passenger side.

painted some bits for the front of the cabin and reassembled the plate work and some wooden bits that go under the pedals.

The passenger side plate is a temporary fit as the dashboard needs to be fitted first.

Now the big puzzle starts as many bits came in boxes with the Morris C4 from France.

Don't cam fit the rear of the cabin for good as we are making new petrol tanks, I think it is easier to fit these petrol tanks without the cabin over them !

All these treasures :laugh:.

It will running and driving soon with that pace. What condition is the gearbox?

Gearbox looks fine, will just replace the oil seal at the back and put the PTO back on to the side of the box.

Inside of the bonnet into paint and started to assemble the front of the cabin.

Getting there with the engine and will very soon be back in the chassis.

Did a few auto jumbles last weekend in the UK and collected some bits for my project.

hi mate what a cracker ! i dont supose you lnow where ill lay my mits on a water pump for one ov these ? many thanks julian

Maybe I will have a second one spare, two pumps are been repaired for the moment!

Guy

The bonnet came from France in 4 bits and there where some hinges broken.

Repaired the broken hinges and inserted 3 stainless steel rods to keep the bonnet and sides together.

Had also to do some panel beating as there where some nasty dents in these panels.

Panel work as it came with the C4 from France

Repaired hinges and ready for some extra primmer.

Yes Niels , all the way from Norway .

Found so extra bits for the Morris C4 , all the bits for the radiator air lock filler and new old stock clutch lining plus a new carbon clutch release bearing .

Have also the right water pump as the one go came with the C4 was something different ?

The water pump that came with the C4, I don't think it is the right pump for this vehicle but for sure it is Morris.

Assembled the plate work on the wooden frame of the cabin, the metal bits are screwed and nailed to the wooden structure.

Before assembly I painted the inside of the metal bits. Now I will have to find out how the cabin rear bulkhead is arranged, there are only two locking clips left after de passenger seat and a lot of holes in the woodwork that must have been there fore some reason.

Always happy to receive some information on this subject, the Morris was a wireless truck so there was some sort off communication set up between the cabin and rear section.

Had also a look how the A post are fitted to the floor. Now I have to wait the return from the sandblaster off the metal structure that hold the front of the cabin together and where the wooden A posts and sides of the windscreen are bolted on .

And these are the two remaining clips I mention earlier, what is there use ?

the C4 wooden part off the cabin repaired and in paint, now I can start to put the plate work back on.