Richard Farrant

No Clive, just don't eat beans on a Monday :whistle: Well if they are rivets and as previoly stated the lighter coloured part is not a flap, then it could be two colours of paint, ie camouflage. I am having two wild guesses, that it is a building (although rather unlikely if made of Alloy) or a container of some sort. Richard

Matt, I think L/Cpl was refering to the Dodge D60 3 tonner Richard

Evening all :-D Well Clive, I was going to have beans but changed my mind.......... Not sure at present, a bit mystified by the two groups of five dots, these look like rivets, am I correct? Richard

It was an In-service 432, crewed by members of the 3rd Bn Yorkshire Regt under training, according to articles on Dorset news websites. They had just met and passed a lorry, the car was following the lorry and the APC veered across and mounted the bonnet. An Army spokesman said it was reported that the controls had stuck, sounds like the driver might have inadvertantly locked the button on the tiller. Anyhow, just do a Google search, there are a number of hits.

Rick, I agree with Baz, the transfer boxes are prone to oil leaks at the seal behind the parking brake. This is usually due to slack taper bearings in the mainshaft, same as Land Rovers (which as we know are a copy of a jeep), the box should be stripped to check bearings and gears, then reassembled and shimmed up correctly. Your comment noted, the box is still here! Richard

There was also the Twin Moke prototype with engine/transmission front and back.

This is true, British Army vehicles did carry "tax discs" during WW2. I think it may not have been carried though to the end of the war. As pre-war military vehicles, inc RAF, carried civilian reg. numbers especially allocated, I think these discs were a form of exemption. The disc holder was a rather nice diecast item, which was screwed to the bodywork, the back of it had a screwed disc, which removed to access tax disc. They had W/l\D cast on them and were at one time still found at militaria sales.

or Rough Engineering Made Easy :whistle:

Thanks Degsy ;-) The Dunlop tyres fooled me at first ! Richard

That one was taken over by Dennis Roberts and his son, Mike, from the Midlands, the chap with the Grizzly and DT tank transporter. Richard

Ah.....can see a bit more now. It is a double rear axle truck, the other axle articulated, probably over uneven surface. Wheels look to be civilian pattern, but with British tyres. Could be a WW2 GMC in British service?

Are they cleats for use on a Bedford RS 3 ton tipper ?

There are no vehicles in the illustration, they are all trailers. A mobile laundry consisted of nine trailers. The generator trailer was a 22/24Kw Lister. Two boiler trailers to provide the hot water, which fed into a Washing Machine trailer, complete with soap tank and hydro extractor. Alongside these were the Dryer trailers. The Washing machine and Dryer trailers were positoned back to back alongside another pair. Platforms were mounted between the trailers, with a canvas canopy over the top, this can be seen in the centre of the picture. There were 38 mobile laundries working in overseas theatres during WW2. Richard

Mike, The FW series was used for "C" vehicles, ie. Eager Beaver, Thwaites dumpers, CAT D6, Allis Chalmers 645 loading shovel, etc. This series was issued approx. 1969 to 1970. Richard

Thank you once again, Clive. Richard

I think the case marking, P370, denotes a German manufacturer. Richard

It looks like part of the Bofors 40mm L/70 AA gun Richard

hi Mike, The Army definitely use Deep Bronze Green on vehicles until the NATO drab was used. I worked for them and it "said it on the tin" . ;-) Richard

Clive, That sounds familiar. I recollect preparing a captured 2S1 SP gun from the first Gulf War for a local barracks, and once driven on to the plinth, it was to have the ready mix treatment. Richard

some sort of oven, baking bread, etc. going by the wooden tool in his hand

Bahrain, riots in March 1956

FV1622 Humber 1 ton Missile test truck :dunno:

Well, the objects on the ground look like coconuts, so perhaps, Africa, ....Kenya? And the white uniforms could be because they were called out of the Mess to deal with the situation. :dunno:

Clive, In design principle, it looks like the Mk1 Supacat, which was lousy on hard surfaces. They used Citroen engine and transmission, chain drives and the steering was by braking the drives shafts. On tarmac / concrete, it would only want to go straight. Richard

Tony, I only know them to be used by civilian police, pretty sure the military did not have them. Richard