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  1. Nick Johns
    Nice one Mark, start checking out all your local breakdown/recovery garages for a source of free fuel?..they usually end up with lots that have been drained out of vehicles that have been filled with wrong fuel, diesel/petrol mix, the multifuel 432 will be fine on it :-)
  2. Nick Johns
    I remember many years ago when living at Camberley Surrey the fighting vehicle research est. used to run steel track tanks on the road between test tracks but they did so much damage to kerbs and tear up tarmac especially at junctions they were then forced to transport them
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    They were Canadian, think they were Mk 1's Must get a slide scanner as got hundreds of slides to copy, keep seeing vehicles at rallies I remember from years ago, some I've even owned or knew its previous owners !
  4. Nick Johns
    Superb restoration,...It was good to see so many carriers at Beltring, reminds me to dig out the colour slide I took in the late 1960's early 70's of a "Brand new" universal carrier being lifted out of its crate, a commercial truck dealer in Hampshire then had a mountain of ww2 crated ones in his yard!!
  5. Nick Johns
    Saw some at Beltring, but Rex Ward, the DUKW / GMC man was advertising new ones recently
  6. Nick Johns
    Have you tried running it for a while on a separate fresh fuel supply, other than the fuel tank, any diesel fuel in it?? .....jerrycan of petrol and bit of pipe connected into the pump while acertain if its fuel contamintion
  7. Nick Johns
    There isn't a problem with "light" vehicles under 7.5 tons gross weight including loaded trailer,I tow my Jeep behind the Dodge, which is MOT'd and thats ok, its when you get into larger ie, over 7.5ton gross HGV stuff, the exemption from test and hgv licence only applies to pre '60 vehicles used privatley and unladen and can tow an unladen trailer.....mmmm spose you could always get a drawbar signals trailer converted into a caravan, which is ok to tow behind your exempt truck and load a vehicle inside it.... keep the curtains drawn though when travellng :-D
  8. Nick Johns
    Towing a loaded trailer then removes the vehicle from the Historic exemption category, you will need the right category HGV licence and the towing vehicle would have to be tested unless its a recovery vehicle with lifting device, ie a crane, and then suitable insurance.....
  9. Nick Johns
    There was a note in MVT's Windscreen mag recently pointing out that many Dodge / Bedford / Morris 15cwt trucks are being operated illegally on MOT exemtion certificate, Adrian is correct the vehicle has to exceed 3500kgs laden to be exempt. You need to find a test station that does class 7 mot's. Just MOT'd my Dodge again this week
  10. Nick Johns
    Plan to be there with Dodge & Jeep but same w/e as MVT Upminster show
  11. Nick Johns
    I'm intending to be there too on the Sunday in the Dodge, least we'll have somewhere dry to sit in......
  12. Nick Johns
    All donations gratefully received :cry:
  13. Nick Johns
    Ho hum slapped wrist and cough up £50 for doing a U turn in the wrong place, Your being watched !!
  14. Nick Johns
    Hi, I too braved the rain at Bromley and met Ward wrecker owner Mark, while other Mark,(Ferret) told me it was about time I joined HMVF, so new member here, took my '44 Dodge WC52 towing my recently restored '45 GPW on the A bar and got 3rd place, a good but damp day. Cheers Nick Johns
  15. Nick Johns
    Yes its an early GAZ jeep based on Ford model A parts, Tony Oliver has a nice restored one in his History on Wheels Museum which is near Eton, Windsor, well worth a visit
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