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  1. Richard Farrant
    I think that was a Red Herring :-D
  2. Richard Farrant
    :-( price has been steadily falling since I last had some. There is a website which show average price for your postcode area at the time.
  3. Richard Farrant
    I had some delivered just before Christmas and it worked out at 43 pence per litre for Shell Thermo Premium
  4. Richard Farrant
    As N.O.S. has already said, Eve Trackway hire this corrugated alloy out but in large flat panels.
  5. Richard Farrant
    CW, Could you not have a special version for us Seniors, with soundtrack of the engines only. Pity about the sad ending :-(
  6. Richard Farrant
    Clive, if Simon paints all his components as this list, the Militant will look like something from a fairground :-D This is the colour chart for training aids Simon, Engines were Sky Blue and gearbox was always same colour as rest of vehicle. Changed a few in my time so can be certain of this.
  7. Richard Farrant
    Mark, That is my brother, Robert who posted those photos. He has just joined, I knew it would cause confusion :-D
  8. Richard Farrant
    hi Jack, Try these people, the advert is old, found it on a website, but company is still going and supply anything to do with aircraft and ground handling. The UK address is out of date, go to www.britishinternational.com
  9. Richard Farrant
    Simon, and an authentic set of unit and division signs front and back will set it off fine.
  10. Richard Farrant
    Agreed Degsy, you have summed it up well
  11. Richard Farrant
    I can see your apprentice is sweating :-D
  12. Richard Farrant
    I was loosing track of where you had got to. :???:confused:
  13. Richard Farrant
    Have you got the head off again, or is that an older photo?
  14. Richard Farrant
    Glen, Be aware that the RL is +Positive Earth, if I recollect.
  15. Richard Farrant
    Hi Piet, Only one C in SACOL I think. Give it a Google, there appear to be some for sale when I searched just now.
  16. Richard Farrant
    By later, I mean they were introduced after the Rubbolite types. I know that Rubbolite rears were in used on army vehicles at least in 1936, but think the rubber shortages might have restricted the manufacture of them early on in the war. I am trying to pin down when the WD metal lamps came in, only way is to go through parts books, manuals and photos.
  17. Richard Farrant
    See what you mean
  18. Richard Farrant
    Yesterday I was looking a a Vocab covering lamps and it stated that as there was a series of WD standard lamps available, they should be used if original types are no longer available, so there is no problem fitting the later ones. If you were portraying a time frame of 1944-45 for instance, there is every chance that later lamps could have been fitted.
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    Hi Glen, I am having to cast my mind back a long time here, but we used to rebuild 300 petrol engines in REME wksps in 70/80 period and had numerous variations depending on the vehicle it was to be built for. I seem to think those destined for the later coaches (SB3 chassis model) might have had alternators. The 330 diesel engine as in TK etc. could offer up parts such as crank and w/pump pulleys. Hope this is of help.
  20. Richard Farrant
    Jack, There is a Leyland Retriever for sale in Norfolk, so if you are looking for a new project, this is for you . Then you can be Monty's double........or is it Monty Stubble :confused:
  21. Richard Farrant
    Ted, Go back to that railway web page and there is a link to a BBC Wiltshire website, where the underground government site was visited by them, there is a video of being driven around the complex and even a detailed map. From the several hundred comments posted on it, from locals and others that have worked down there, such as GPO, builders, RAF, etc..........not one has mentioned steam engines ! Also if that guy who supposedly worked on the steam engines, had driven one of the jeeps home when he retired..........let us see it.
  22. Richard Farrant
    I am looking at the Unipower front hub and it looks very much like Matador :confused:
  23. Richard Farrant
    The bit about the site being used for the assembly of the jeep during the war is interesting. I was led to believe that that the US army base at Ashchurch, near Tewkesbury was a major assembly plant, known as General Depot 25, having see photos of it in action, but guess it was one of several sites around the country. Being close to Bristol docks and good rail access would have been an asset for both sites.
  24. Richard Farrant
    That was an interesting programme, although a repeat it was worth a second look. I used to work with a former member of an Auxilliary Unit, back in the Seventies, he did appear on a similar programme on local TV once. The other fascinating thing was at the end, where they would have to have moved the Royal Family to Madresfield Court near Malvern......my Grandfather worked on the estate there, at that time.
  25. Richard Farrant
    WVEE on the doors, meaning Wheeled Vehicle Experimantal Establishment, which at the time, I think, was located at Farnborough. This would likely to be a prototype or trials vehicle, before it went into service.
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