Richard Farrant

We eventually worked out the cause.......will not say what it was though........just let him sweat :-D

Many years back, probably around 1990, a small group of us were invited over to the annual steam and vintage rally at Haven Street station, from recollection, the ferry was paid for by the organisers. We had a great time touring the island before the show. The chap who owns the Ford 21A staff car in the photos on the Show thread was amongst our group and I think it was its first showing after restoration. The only down point being that the whole lot of us came down with a stomach bug. Not good when you are in a tent..........hope they now have an electric light in the loo on the station platform :-D. Looks like you enjoyed good weather.

Catweazle............glad to see you were getting in to the spirit of the event, with your period clothes :-D:-D................at least you did not have your cap on back to front

Vince, Sorry to hear that and just before the big one. Does this mean a field workshop demo taking place in a field in Kent next week? Richard

Do I recollect Grasshopper saying he was taking TTMike's WLF to Isle of Wight, can't be that many running around SE England.

The Bedford MK did not enter military service until about 1970, then about 1977 the MJ came in. Gross weight of a MK is 9.45 tonne (inc. canopy and hoops). It is not unheard of to have one of these downrated, if you are not using it as a commercial load carrier, but as a historic collectors vehicle, then losing 2 tonne payload, matters very little. The body is heavy and an alloy flat bed would help, but again not if you want it for what it is .........a military vehicle.

Are you sure you know this subject? :nono: Mark, I suggest you look at this website under their menu heading of "re-rating" www.svtech.co.uk

My guess is that he has found some suitably sized road wheels from an armoured tracked vehicle, and cut the centres out. Come on Tim I am sure you know

Hi Graham, Sparkies work in mysterious ways, that only they know. Normally there are printed sleeves on each end of the cable, but they fade over the years making it a much longer job to trace through. I guess when our Sparkies wired up the K6, they might not have put identifying sleeves on the cables. What it did mean was that a common cable could used, rather than carrying around a heap of the colour coded cables ( a military thing! ), nothing worse than tracing colours to find someone has used a wrong colour, which can cause confusion. Richard

Is this one of your trick questions, Clive? Could be corroded inside as they are not wholly waterproof, also got those damned ID sleeves on the cables and lettering fades over the years.

FUF47 used to be in the Warnham War Museum in Sussex, many years ago, and I think was owned by Jeff Theobald. He used to tow a 7 1/2 ton recovery trailer with Bren Carrier on it.

An AEC Y type?

I agree with Clive, Holland 1 engine room

Tony, You keep on about solenoids, but I am sure GMC's do not have them, it is like a Jeep, and many other vehicles of the era, just a main starter switch direct from battery. No wonder Jack is getting confused. As for the rubber hammer, you might feel better after using it, but very doubtful of it curing anything :???

Hi CW, That body reminds me of the map printing trailers that were operated by the Royal Engineers, they had expandable sides like this and were towed by Militant Mk1 5th wheel tractors. The printing machine was about the width of the trailer, with the sides pushed out it gave a walkway around the machine. The shape of this particular body is not like the trailers though, so not sure what it might have originally been fitted on.

FVRDE predates DERA by some considerable time and a lot of things changed in between times. Namely FVRDE changed to MVEE, then RARDE, before going to DERA and QinetiQ. From recollection, pure military vehicles in the hands of Chertsey or other branches often carried the ARN with letter group "SP", meaning Special Project.

Sorry Degsy, did not read your post. :confused:

My Invoice for diagnostic fee is in the post, Mr Beckett

These Yank motors have pretty basic electrics :-D, so I am thinking that as the live battery lead, usually goes straight to the starter switch, all other feeds often come from that terminal on the switch, it might be that a connection has broken here. Assume starter did not turn over, but as you had a "click" there must have been some power there, but not any to other circuits.

Tony, I was holding back so some of you Yank truck owners had a go. :-D Not sure really, about thermal cut out, because the starter feed is direct from battery, so think it dies not go through the cut out. It depends what Jack calls, a "click" when operating the starter switch :???. Just wonder if it is a broken or loose main battery lead, either the live or earth one. Richard, aka "Kewelde"

Would not think it is for a FV432 gearbox as the Allison box in those was not electrically controlled.

You will get to see it Andy. Apparantly it has not been shipped out yet and is billed to appear at War & Peace Show

and it smells something awful

Hi CW, That looks to be off Southsea, is that you accelerating away? Or did it blow up :confused: So what did you do at Falmouth? I hope you did not load it on a lorry to get it to Pembroke Dock.

By chance I had just been looking at the race website. The boat that he was helping with, Gee, was leading the Historic class, with its new Cummins engines, but apparantly they lost 2 hours, rescuing a fellow racer, so at the halfway stage are in 2nd place. No mention of Catweazle though...........probably run out of red diesel now and having to row it :-D