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  1. Richard Farrant
    Hi Kev, It is not unusual for the plate to have no entries in the "Maintenanace Record" areas. This is for major overhaul, rebuilds, etc. and Land Rovers would have rarely gone through one of these programmes. I worked for some years in army workshops and I think only once had I seen an entry on a L/R plate. Some of the older heavy vehicles, and armour would have entries as they tended to have a longer service life.
  2. Richard Farrant
    Hi Piet, Do you have any makers details for this trailer? You are asking for a TM, does this mean it is a US military trailer? I have not seen one of these in British service. I may be wrong, but features of it look remarkably like the 1.75 tonne Arrows 2-wheel trailer :confused:
  3. Richard Farrant
    Andy, Congrats........just noticed you have just done 1,000 posts. Welcome to the club
  4. Richard Farrant
    That must have been another occasion, when I saw it go over to the IoW it was definitely from Lepe.
  5. Richard Farrant
    It looked closer than that when I looked a bit earlier.............still I suppose Dorset is further away :confused::confused::confused::confused::confused:
  6. Richard Farrant
    Not forgetting that the 88" was classed as a 1/4 ton, where as a Airportable / Lightweight was a 1/2 ton. Actually to quote the 1981 MVEE book; Rover 10 88" FFR unladen ; 1.7 tonne laden; 2.17 tonne Lightweight unladen ; 1.496 tonne laden ; 2.02 tonne
  7. Richard Farrant
    Well CW, lets see your photo, it will be more impresive than my digi camera :rofl:
  8. Richard Farrant
    There is a man who has L/R experience :-D
  9. Richard Farrant
    Just gone outside.......and its damn cold. Moon does not look any closer than normal :confused: Is this one of your jokes ?
  10. Richard Farrant
    Mark, Have not got a stamp for a postcard, so will write it here.............doubtful if there is any Metric threads on your Lightweight, unless someone has put some rogue bolts in it. From new they were mostly UNF, with some BSF mainly on the axles.........and possibly gearbox
  11. Richard Farrant
    perhaps it means to start the auxillary generator engine (dynamo) to charge batteries before main engine is started.
  12. Richard Farrant
    Mike, Decimating the pedal box was such a common problem, that stocks of new boxes were soon exhausted. A tech or mod instruction was issued to fabricate them out of stock steel. I cannot recollect if the restriction clamps on the tilt ram were a mod, but suspect so.
  13. Richard Farrant
    Sorry Degsy :confused::confused::confused:......... getting tired, must sign off
  14. Richard Farrant
    Degsy, Now you mention it, I had to lift the cab off one of these boring rigs, but do not recollect what the problem was, could have been a head gasket. There were only a few of them, it was a normal aspirated 500.
  15. Richard Farrant
    Neils, The winch rollers are missing from the rear as well.
  16. Richard Farrant
    Thanks ! That would be one of the rigs we used to repair. It had a Bedford 500 under the cab, and very little room to work on it
  17. Richard Farrant
    Mark, The brewers from Reading is genuine, but I am looking at the man nearest with back to camera.......something does not look right about him :confused:
  18. Richard Farrant
    In later years, The Royal Engineers had a rotary well boring rig mounted on a Magirus Deutz 6x6. The Bedford MJ mounted rigs were Hands England equipment operated by RE Bomb Disposal unit, for locating unexploded ordnance, by boring a pattern of holes and using locaters in them to pin point the position.
  19. Richard Farrant
    Where the bouncing bombs were tested? Seem to think that was Reculver, :confused:
  20. Richard Farrant
    There was a British Purchasing committee in North America during the war and a lot of equipment was paid for. I would be interesting to see a list of what was Lend Lease, and what we actually paid for.
  21. Richard Farrant
    The trucks are Canadian Dodge tippers.........
  22. Richard Farrant
    Oh dear Bernard ........don't tell him that, the sump is back on now :-(
  23. Richard Farrant
    Tony, Check out this one, I put the boot number up and this is the result; www.bendixvrc.com/itemDisplay.asp?documentID=2716 It may be of use for reference.
  24. Richard Farrant
    Looks like the liner has lifted a bit, did you put the bolt in after it moved? :???
  25. Richard Farrant
    Tony, Just a random check on 201271 shows it still having a military stock number. The following link gives alternative part numbers from other suppliers as well; www.tpub.com/content/logistics/25/30/76/00-737-7783.htm
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