Jump to content

Richard Farrant

Moderators
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    11,493

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    46

 Content Type 

Everything posted by Richard Farrant

  1. Richard Farrant
    Thanks Mark, I did not spot your posts at that time. There are many other spots around this area where aircraft came down, sadly not all remembered like these examples.
  2. Richard Farrant
    Mark, It is situated at the southern turn off from the A2070, for the village of Hamstreet and is now known as Johnson's Corner, after the pilot.
  3. Richard Farrant
    Looking forward to that one, Andy.
  4. Richard Farrant
    You've been watching the Muppet Show all weekend ??? You need to get out more :-D
  5. Richard Farrant
    Thanks Andy :thumbsup: a very enjoyable afternoon when I came down on Saturday. Had not been to the venue since 1987, a few changes and plenty to look at. Great to catch up with everybody. Look forward to next year's event down there. regards, Richard
  6. Richard Farrant
    Tim, Go to website of the show's organisers, www.fensvintage.co.uk/shows/newark/index.htm , look up pics of last years show under "commercials", there is a Mack of circa WW1 era, guess that might be the one mentioned by CMV.
  7. Richard Farrant
    Hi Geoff, Good news then, as I may have mentioned before, the parts book that I have here covers contact number 6/VEHS/7878 and up to Chassis no. 38A5200. I am pretty sure yours is ex-military due to the contract prefix, 6/VEHS/.... Is there anything else stamped on that plate?
  8. Richard Farrant
    Rick, Are you sure it is not a Brockhouse Corgi? It seems a high number for a Welbike.
  9. Richard Farrant
    John actually :n00b:
  10. Richard Farrant
    Same here, Adrian. Using heat can often cause more problems to the thread. Patience and a good release fluid........I am stripping a vehicle now, and considering it is 67 years old and been out of use for about 40 years, I have only had to drill out a few awkward ones so far. All BSF too.
  11. Richard Farrant
    It looks like the tipper body from an Aveling Barford Dumptruck, not an original tipper body for a Militant Mk1 Just noticed the hydraulic pump is driven off the front of the engine, so not an original tipper and it appears to be a long wheelbase chassis.
  12. Richard Farrant
    Still the same here, only he now drives a Transit and he delivers at 0100 am some things never change :coffee:
  13. Richard Farrant
    Thanks Degsy, I got the facts a bit muddled, for some reason I thought the museum was in Wales :confused:. I know there should be some photos on here somewhere and info on the crane.
  14. Richard Farrant
    No, not the same, AFS ones and early Army RL's had vacuum assisted brakes, no problem with a petrol engine, but if a diesel is to be fitted and you do not want to go to great lengths installing an air system, then it has to have an exhauster to produce the vacuum. Was looking at a Bedford diesel manual today and realised that the early diesels had exhauster fitted in same place as the compressor on later ones, driven from timing gears then driving the injection pump.
  15. Richard Farrant
    Paul, Going by the photo in the advert, it is definitely an RAF Coles, there has been one on here recently, a museum at an old RAF base in Wales, Millom (?) had one donated to them. Note the legs on the jib for doing a static lift, I think for lifting aircraft with undercart problems. Now the Army had AEC/ Coles bridging cranes, cab same as a Mk1 Militant, 11.3 engine and 4 cyl Perkins on top, they lifted 10 ton blocked at min radius. I used to do the SWL tests and repairs on Army and RAF cranes of these types and later, so it is old memories coming back to me.
  16. Richard Farrant
    Paul, Just looked up the data for that crane, going by photo in advert, it would most probably be a Coles 6 ton Model L1210, powered by a AEC A187K 7.7 litre engine of 95 bhp, gross vehicle weight of 23 tons, fuel consumption 3 mpg.
  17. Richard Farrant
    :shake::shake::shake::shake::shake::shake: No, no, no :nono: Colt, you will have bolts that do not fit holes correctly, giving chance of movement, miss alignment, etc. Never know which spanner to use, get National Coarse nuts and bolts mixed with metric, if dismantling at anytime. Put these thoughts out of your head and stick to the appropriate threads for the vehicle..........unless of couse it is a Land Rover 90/110, where they still used BSF, Unified and Metric.
  18. Richard Farrant
    Paul, It is not even a O854, it is an early 1950's Coles crane built with AEC automotive running gear, with the 11.3 litre engine, according to the advert, although my recollection was that it was fitted with a 7.7 engine originally. I was involved in refurbishing one of these for the RAF many years ago.
  19. Richard Farrant
    It was a platform to develop new techniques if I remember right, and may have been something that came from DERA or whatever they were called at the time, at Chertsey. Do recollect seeing pics of it on the web. Not intended as a production vehicle, just used to conduct trials on new ideas. I am sure someone had more info on this.
  20. Richard Farrant
    What about the Nightman coming round? (actually that is a bit before my time:-D)
  21. Richard Farrant
    I have recollections of a holiday in Wales, around 1966 or 67 and seeing one of these AFS Matchless in the fire station at Rhayader in Mid Wales. Also saw convoys of AFS on the road near Moreton in Marsh, where they had a AFS training base. There were a lot of Civil Defence motorcycles sold off in 1970's, I know there were early 1960 BSA B40 like new, also BSA B31 and Matchless. I opted for an ex-army B40 in the end, it had a stronger engine and gearbox.
  22. Richard Farrant
    The 330 has a compressor driven from timing gears, then driving the injection pump. there is usually a take off point on the other side of the engine to drive a steering pump or vacuum pump. Other option is to convert to air over hydraulic, but that gets involved, looks like you will have to forego having power steering then
  23. Richard Farrant
    The 12v vehicles battery is just behind that socket.
  24. Richard Farrant
    Swapping the bell housing would be fine, I suggest you find an engine from a Bedford coach, mountings may well be right and it might have a Turner 5 speed box as well. Don't forget oyu will have to swap the sump over, to retain the deep well type from RL ( and oil pump ). This gives axle clearance. Best of luck.
  25. Richard Farrant
    Ah, I thought they had sockets fitted, but could not recollect them being on the front.
×
×
  • Create New...