guy66

Hello, I know this Humber from when the owner before the on you bought it from proposed to my, but with my Bedford QL restoration and limited funds I had to let it go.

So I only can wish you very match luck on the Humber, a very fine vehicle!

Guy

Accommodation around Port-en-Bessin and make the drive from Belgium with the Bedford QL and the WD bikes in the back.

Just check if you can join the MVT convoy on the beach to Arromanches on the 6th of June.

Guy

Wood be looking very nice behind a Bedford QL, See you have been treasure hunting today?

Guy

A extra bit for the QL, finally I found the right jack for the Bedford QL. It is a shelley 4 ton type and dated 1943. And now fitted back on to its original spot, under the driver seat.

BSA was the main manufacture for this geney.

Don think so, it was Canadian made and post war it was build by BSA, but this is watch I know about these thinks.

Please I wand to know the complete history.

Guy

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In this lot a gave also a 6v battery box and a leather WD tool box, next step will be to make the generator running, butt I still need the right Ampere meter for the set.

 

Guy

Hi Guy,

That battery box is the seldom seen larger version that was used on the Airborne REME Electrical Repair trailers. I looked for one for a year before tracking it down in UK. You can see where it was used at:

http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?27455-British-WWII-REME-Lightweight-Electrical-Repair-Trailer-Restoration-Project/page14

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I know that the battery box was something special as I follow the threads on HMVF, but it will be a nice combination wit my set 19

The Bedford is under cover for next winter!

I have the right 1/2 gallon oil can to put next to the jerry can rack, will have to make the support for the oil can myself.

This shod be now problem as I have plenty of pictures and measurements of the genuine part.

Wind to collect a charging set MK1 and came home with some outer interesting bits! Always good to ask the seller if he has some outer British stuff !

In this lot a gave also a 6v battery box and a leather WD tool box, next step will be to make the generator running, butt I still need the right Ampere meter for the set.

Guy

Yes Normandy 2014 with the QL is the challenge, if I see al the work that has been done this last year (yes it is almost a year that I made a start on this project) it will be ready in time.

 

This is a very good idea to have QL meet up there, somewhere on the forum there is a tread for a bedford MW meet in 2014, maybe we can make it a WD bedford meet!

 

Guy

And what are the plans for Normandy 2014 QL, and other Bedford owners ?

My plan is ready, a drive from Belgium to Normandy and stay over there for a week.

Guy

Hello, on most of the pictures with a dispatch rider armed with a sten gun on the back it is mostly without the magazine in the gun and if they are wearing dispatch rider boots you can seen the magazine in the boot.

If you drive a bike with a sten gun on your back the magazine sticks always out.I know it because I tray to do it.

Guy

Hello, after following this discussion about these brackets in the cabin made a little test.

Not sure if it is for a machete, but it fits very nice.

Great found Ian, next year in Normandy we will have plenty of water that fore sure. If you still find a 1 ton trailer for my bedford just hive a shout!

Guy

Last wings and wheels meeting here in Belgium together with a friend his QL that I used to take al the measurements for the cargo body.

You can also see his super Hilman Tilly on the picture.

Guy

On the way back from W&P there was a blow by somewhere on the exhaust system and dint improve after tighten up the downpipe. After a little investigation it was obvious that the gasket between the cylinder head and exhaust manifold started to go.

Took the manifold of and had it flatten and now it is back in place and hopefully stays silent.

Guy

I don't can forget Ian and his company as he kept us a nice spot on there MVT group spot and now I know how to replace a cylinder head gasket on a Austin K5;)

 

Guy

:mad::mad: K5 cylinder head gasket :mad::mad: well done on 1st place for your QL restoration Guy.

Thanks Ian for the nice company with your fiends and really enjoyed to work on the Austin, outer ways I was spending to match money on the jumble!

Great to be with such a nice bunch of people and if we can keep Tom motived he will even be more crazier then us on military vehicles .The future looks bright with these lads in to Military vehicles!!

See Tom enjoying his drive in the passenger seat.

Guy

Done a great job on the Ql, drove past a few times, the Ql looked brilliant sitting with the k5 to.

 

And guy the man who had my Ql had a friend looking for you to pick some spares up, did he find you?

 

 

Bill.

Now problem Bill the spare parts for the QLT are on there way to a new project, nice to know that other people take up the challenge to keep a QL Bedford on the road!

Guy

Thanks Scott for these really super pictures, I was mostly behind the steering wheel and therefore don't have match action pictures.

I really enjoyed my trip and met a bunch of like-minded people from the forum. Thanks everybody for the nice comments on the QL and the interesting chat I had with a lot of you.

I don't can forget Ian and his company as he kept us a nice spot on there MVT group spot and now I know how to replace a cylinder head gasket on a Austin K5;)

Guy

Hello,

We made it with the QL to W&P and back without problems, Just on the last leg of the trip there was some blow by on the exhaust system and I think it must be the manifold are the connection to the downpipe.

All by all it was a super weekend and really enjoyed my trip to the show, and as cherry on the cake I revived the 1ste price for best British vehicle over 5cwt.

Guy

A very dusty mousetrap waiting for the return ferry at Dover.

Hello John , we leave on Wednesday morning and it is something around 100 Km drive to Dunkerque to catch are ferry and then it is only peanuts to the meeting.

Guy

We our ready for the trip to W&P show this Wednesday! tool boxes on there place and the wooden side protections are on the side of the cargo section.

Guy

If the problem was only on the Bedford QL engine way dint the other Bedford's suffer with this problem?

It is not the first time that I heard of the engine problems with the K5, we need to investigate a little bit more on this problem:police:

Fist meeting with the QL, made a visit to the open door day's of the local ex para club.

next week I still have to do some fiddling on the Bedford to make the trip to W&P show.

Think the ignition will need some adjustment and the left hand toolbox need to be fitted on to the cargo floor.

Here's some pics for you

 

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Base measures 45mm less radius

 

height 18mm

 

Hope this is of some help.

 

RR.

Thanks for the pictures, now I can make a pair.

Guy

The sides on the originals are pressed inwards and yours are pressed outwards??

 

Richard

Yes Richard you spotted are error, really stupid of us but it has to stay like that.

Guy

The leather strap on the tool box is to hold the lid open, on the top horizontal face of the rub strip, above the strap, there should be a brass nipple, the same as on the rear body on a MW. The leather strap should have a key hole shaped cut out in it for the nipple to go through. Makes good sense when you try and load the locker. If you look closely on the picture below you can just make out the nipple on the rub strip.

 

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In fact guy, where are your rub strips?

 

 

 

reagrds

 

John

Hello John you are right about the leather strap! Is it possible to send my a picture of this brass nipple so I can reproduce this bit. Normally I will fit the rub strips this week, only wait for my carpenter to machine them a bit that there is a slight slope to the outside.

Guy