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  1. Richard Farrant
    I posted those photos and details up on another thread about 3 weeks ago. It is a Thompson / Ford armoured car, from memory, built at Thompsons works in Eire in 1942 on a Ford truck chassis imported from the USA, to order for the Irish Army.
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    Phil, The Coles crane could be a swb Thornycroft Amazon, with a reworked cab. The yellow half cab, looks very like a cab used by Foden on some dumptrucks.
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    hi Norm, Welcome to the forum, hope you enjoy it. regards, Richard
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    Venue is at top of Wrotham Hill.............not Detling Hill :n00b:
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    Alan, I have been restoring Dingos for many years, so am very familiar with them. Attached is a photo of a friend's one, showing drivers seat, in the foreground can just be seen the upright of the telescopic revolving observers seat.
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    No Alan, the drivers seat is on the right and when facing the enemy, he could slam it in reverse, screw his head around and look through the rear flap to drive backwards. The observers seat turns around 360 degs so he can operate the radio or lay fire through the front port with a bren gun.
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    Dingo was right hand drive. I think the CVR(T) range were made LHD because of the export potential and any conflicts we would use them in were in countries who drove on the wrong side of the road :-D
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    They probably hit all the Red buttons thinking it turn the system on :-D
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    Andy, 333 Foden recovery vehicles were purchased. I have never heard of any other countries using them.
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    Heck..there is even a name for it ! Frustrating, but as you say, it keeps us busy.
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    And I thought it was just me....:undecided:....don't feel so bad now knowing other are like this
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    The best degreaser that I have ever used was with the MoD, ICI Genklene, a 1.1.1. trichloroethane product. Sadly no longer available due to Montreal Protocol in 1995. Stocks were sold until 2000. If you want to clean an item of all grease traces, then one of the brake cleaners is good stuff.
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    I know this is off topic, but to answer your question, Robert. The Jeep transmission brakes were changed to internal expanding (ie drum brake) in July 1944.
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    Laurence Corner.......a name from the past, they had allsorts of wartime British kit, bought quite a bit from them, but many years ago now. Mike's tank was a Stuart M5A1, it is still around the show scene.
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    Phil, I seem to recollect the J60 cams are the same as those in car engines. Found this out when I had an engine with two broken cams and smashed timing gear. I was surprised, expecting a more docile cam.
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    I would not be surprised if there were controls on disposing of this equipment as it is of US origin and they still pull the strings on who can have them or how they are disposed of. Take the M113 carriers that NZ took out of service a few years ago.
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    Steve, The sand painted M110A2 in your photo at Rotunda, Woolwich, was shipped back from the Gulf and selected for the museum. I have mentioned this one before, it had a little surprise under the flooring. It was tidied up and repainted by the Workshops were I worked and is now in the "Field of Fire" display in the Firepower Museum. I would say that your photo was taken before it was repainted, so as you say early Nineties. Alan can probably add more on it.
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    The old story was that it makes it easier to see oil or coolant leaks with that sort of colour.
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    Nigel, The Royal Army Ordnance Corps was the storekeeper and supplier to the Army. They would supply and repair uniforms, inc boots, repair tentage, etc., vehicle and parts, tyres, furniture, food and rations, you name it they supplied it. It might seem the the word "ordnance" refers to weapons and ammo, but that is only part of their role...or was, now joined together with RCT, successors to RASC, to form RLC
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    The cable adjuster may be wound out holding the throttle slide open. If idle adjuster screw makes no difference check that.
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    I did intially put C8 and MRA-1, but on looking at the hub flanges, I thought it more like MRA. The tie rods are hard to spot in the pic.
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    Clive, With forecasting like that then you can never be wrong :-D
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    :undecided::undecided::undecided: Clive, What gets me is the forecasters start giving a prediction for the following weekend on Monday prior. As the end of the week nears, the forecast starts to slip a day or too, so if they said Sat was going to be start of a fine spell, you will find they are getting to Thurs and saying the fine spell starts on Mon. Why bother, no wonder they are the butt of jokes and annoy people.
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    Robert, After the Met Office predicting we would have a "BBQ Summer" last year, I would not trust their long range forecasts. They are only really good up to 3 days ahead.
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    Phil, You have the advantage over us, having taken the photos, but the axle is not all that clear. I think you may be looking at a Morris Commercial axle, could be off a MRA-1, as they had two bars running side to side under the front axle. As for the Guy rad, I would think something has penetrated the core, it does not look like a purpose made hole for a crank handle. By the way, I have sent you a PM, on another subject that you may be able to answer. regards, Richard
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