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  1. Richard Farrant
    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.
  2. Richard Farrant
    An AEC Y type?
  3. Richard Farrant
    I agree with Clive, Holland 1 engine room
  4. Richard Farrant
    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 :???
  5. Richard Farrant
    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.
  6. Richard Farrant
    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.
  7. Richard Farrant
    Sorry Degsy, did not read your post. :confused:
  8. Richard Farrant
    My Invoice for diagnostic fee is in the post, Mr Beckett
  9. Richard Farrant
    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.
  10. Richard Farrant
    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"
  11. Richard Farrant
    Would not think it is for a FV432 gearbox as the Allison box in those was not electrically controlled.
  12. Richard Farrant
    You will get to see it Andy. Apparantly it has not been shipped out yet and is billed to appear at War & Peace Show
  13. Richard Farrant
    and it smells something awful
  14. Richard Farrant
    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.
  15. Richard Farrant
    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
  16. Richard Farrant
    Cycylist :confused::confused::confused:............sounds like a medical condition :shake:, did you get that before you changed the saddle? :rofl:
  17. Richard Farrant
    Robert, I think the can is dated around '45. I would think it is something to do with the Far East. Don't know where it came from other than it was with a vehicle, unlikely that one was in FE though.
  18. Richard Farrant
    and more enviromentally friendly, Graham, saves on glass and cans :beer:
  19. Richard Farrant
    Here is an unusually marked army can ;
  20. Richard Farrant
    Well those are civilian cans, so correct colour depends on the make of petrol. The Shell one on the right, looks the correct colour, I think the shell motif on top may have been painted yellow. Not sure about Pratt's can, green may be right. If you look on the bottoms it will probably have Valor stamped in (paraffin stove makes) and a date.
  21. Richard Farrant
    When the Leyland DROPS trucks were first introduced, I was sent to SEME on a 3 week workshop course. One week alone was dedicated to the fault finding and repairs of the ZF auto transmission. The electronic box controlling it was in a nuclear proof box in the cab, so that the gearbox would be unaffected by EMP waves. My question was what about the rest of the vehicle and crew?
  22. Richard Farrant
    Tony, That is the same with most trucks, etc. everything nowadays. I recently had to move an in-service Mowag Piranha APC, and it defied all logic when you got into it. Even the Foden EKA recovery used at present has quite a complex electro-hydraulic layout for the recovery equipment and that is nearly 20 years old now. :??? Gone are the days of fixing by the roadside with get-you-home methods, if the "logic gizmo, or whatever" has gone down then that is the end of it
  23. Richard Farrant
    A British made heavy recovery vehicle equal in size and capacity to the MAN, was being trialled, as far back as 1992. It was made by Unipower, a company that took over where Scammell left off. There is a bridging version of their truck in service and it was intended at the time to procure a family of vehicle for different roles base on this Unipower. As is so often seen, it was dropped :-(
  24. Richard Farrant
    I know that man ........he has since joined the MV movement and is now restoring a Daimler Dingo.
  25. Richard Farrant
    Degsy, Think you will find the J Bug and Harrier were from the REME historic vehicle collection at Bordon Richard
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