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  1. Richard Farrant
    Mike, Transmission jack sounds better option Mike. You can tilt them if needed, when refitting through a twin plate clutch you do not want to be pushing and shoving as it is easy to damage a clutch plate, then you get drag :shake:. I used to use on on the 15 speed Fuller Roadrangers, made life easy. Recollect setting up a gantry in the cab of a Martian gun tractor once, to change a transfer box.
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    Top of piston come off or piece broken off a valve ? We used to have a piece of equipment called an endoscope, could poke it down the injector hole and have a look around the cylinder, everything magnified and lit up, marvellous for this sort of thing.
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    ............or hang a bucket from a prearranged part of the vehicle, such as rear tow hook :rofl::rofl::rofl:
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    A transformation from how it was......you would not think it was the same vehicle :thumbsup:
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    WS88 manpack set, take a look at this, www.vmars.org.uk/ws88.html
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    Mike, Try the Green Spark Plug Company, www.gsparkplug.com , they are pretty good with locating suitable replacement plugs.
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    Mike, On reflection you are correct, I knew there was a 3 in the total somewhere :-D
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    Crikey, you have'nt been to GDSF in a while, it moved from Stourpaine in the late Eighties, now at Tarrant Hinton
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    Thats right, they built the fire equipment on the vehicle :thumbsup:
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    We used to carry out the repair work for C Sqn. Royal Yeo ( and HQ Sqn ) and after any of these annual exercises, we would have to deal with all the destruction that had taken place.........kept us very busy. I remember the first outings they had when Fox was introduced and I do not think there was one that did not want a new gearbox .
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    That would have been the Bedford (RL) Mk8 RAF crash tender, not Green Goddess. I always said, they had the engines the wrong way around, the 4.2 Jag should have driven the vehicle and the old Bedford engine driving the foam pump. Might have got to the incident a bit quicker
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    I seem to think the MoD bought about 130 Foden EKA recovery trucks, pretty sure none have been disposed off although a handful have been written off, they have all been through a mid-life overhaul. I was involved in dismantling and cutting one up in the early 90's. Would think the price would be out of range for collectors, but remains to be seen.
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    Thanks Ted, I just need an authentic WW2 type RAF number for the car, it being a late war contract. If you have any good photos ( wartime period ), I would be pleased to see them :tup::
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    "Allocation by Central Census tanks & Vehicles of "B" Vehicle W.D. Numbers" an official document from RAOC Central Ornanace Depot, Chilwell up to and including 23rd Nov. 1944 This lists all B Veh. numbers from WD No. 1 (Impressed vehicles) to L6277385 ( FWD Lorry 4 ton 4x4 G/S ). It lists groups of census numbers allocated to Contract number and vehicle description. Copies of this rare to find document are produced by Groucho Publishing ( no connection - no commission :-D .......yet )
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    Baz, The Key Card info lines up with the Chilwell Census list; Contract no. S3479 (on card) H5297118 to 5298117 Bedford Tractor 4x2
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    The choke ? :rofl:
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    The RAF reverted to this colour postwar, so it is correct. Whilst restoring a RAF contract Humber staff car of 1944/45 build, it was found to be originally painted Olive Drab, it had subsequently been overpainted in RAF Blue Grey and demobbed about 1951. One for Ted here, do you have any records of contracts for Humbers to the RAF and their RAF serial numbers?
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    Move over Wordsworth........Catweazle's coming through :-D
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    Baz, That would have been Paul with the Austin K3, named "Vera Lynn", and Eddie with an early CMP Chev in RAF blue
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    H1HU, The side panel and grille show it to be a Ford E83W 10 cwt van, built between 1938 and 1957.
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    I see Borat in his Kazakistan Riot Squad uniform and a chap who once banged the drums for the best rock 'n roll group in the country.............. and of course Patweazle :-D
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    Chris, Thought you were getting a WW2 truck for the Normandy tour next year? Just the thing for this show
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    Jack, Was it the one pictured in the latest MVT Windscreen that came this week? Looked to be a big project for you, been laying around too long, so don't lose sleep over it.
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    Adrian, I understand that Tony has relocated or changed the air cleaner so as to use an original type bonnet. Engine is still a Rolls.
  25. Richard Farrant
    :confused::confused::confused::confused: must be the other Richard.......:sweat:
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