Richard Farrant

Hi Martin,

Part number for complete Dingo pump is 1524242.

Remember I showed you the number cast on the arm to confirm it is the correct one? The arm number should read 1524151

cheers Richard

1 hour ago, ruxy said:

Anna Wolkoff  & Tyler Kent owned car that apparently towed a AFS fire pump. 

 

http://slickpic.us/1557384NDBz

 

When reading this - I suspected the veracity , however how can you argue with established history  ?

That is not a Morris, it is a Ford

13 minutes ago, super6 said:

I don't think it is a cut down Fordson Y type van body as long rad vans did not have a front bumper or running boards  or wind down door glass

According to the DVLA it was first registered in 1936, here is a photo of another 1936 van with running boards and bumper, back end of body looks identical shape.

Click on space below and picture will appear:

More likely a farmer's conversion, giving the rear body a little more width to carry workers out to the fields or take produce to market. Those Model Y's could hardly pull the skin off a rice pudding, let alone a fire pump!

A video of the whole ceremony at Ashford yesterday, by Forces Radio:

http://www.forces.net/radio/battle-cambrai-centenary-commemorated-ashford

Apologies for the back of my head appearing in it half way through.

Both myself and Tim Hewitt attended the service in front of Ashford's MkIV Tank this morning. It was very well attended and glad that I was able to be there. The Royal Tank Regiment were involved and a new plaque has been placed on the plinth, unveiled by a Challenger tank crew member.

A replica WW1 tank was brought down from Cambridge by a living history group and parked in the street close by.

11 hours ago, Nic.Clay said:

Oddly I have a Mk1 Pig that looks like a Mk2!

30BK43 was one of two that spent the 'Troubles' as training aids in barracks in Kent, so while it is 'dressed' as an NI operational vehicle it was never up-armoured. Probably has one of the best Pig drive trains in the world as a consequence.

 

 

 

 

 

Hi Nic,

Your Pig would have been based at Lydd then. I would have seen it when it came up to the workshops no doubt. One Pig down there had a Shorland turret mounted on it, think it was an idea they were trialing at the time.

13 minutes ago, Timbo3945 said:

Hi Richard,

It's fantastic to know the last remaining presentation tank is so close to home. I've often visited it over the years. And now it's so significant that it would be amiss not to attend this Friday's remembrance service.  

I hope to get to he service at the tank on Friday. See you there. 

All the best, Tim

Hi Tim,

I am planning to be there, so might catch up with you.

regards, Richard

39 minutes ago, terryb said:

46mt3 prefix on a part number-does anyone know which vehicle it relates to?

thanks

Terry

Terry,

The 4 seems an odd addition, all I can say is 6MT3 is the Vocab section for Vehicle lamps and  a 6MT number means it is a generally used part not for a specific vehicle

My lorry was registered in 1987 with a JSU number in Maidstone. They used these numbers countrywide. Reason being not so many vehicles were registered in the country areas of Scotland and when the reg numbers were changed to the suffix letter in mid Sixties, there were a lot of unused numbers available to use at a later date when age-related came into being.

Tony,

Is the second photo of the inside of the hub cap? Looks like it might have Armstrong Siddeley car wheels and hubs on it.

3 hours ago, Tony B said:

Thanks Guys. Seems easy enough to get in US, but not over here. 

Is it an AC lift pump? If so, don't frig about, just get a repair kit. I get kits for Land Rover 2a or 3 and they are suitable for most AC pumps on postwar British engines. Make sure it is not an old stock kit, best ones have a red diaphragm material.

Hi John,

I am sure the Scorpion turrets were just dropped on to the turretless Fox as a means of disposing of them at the sales. There would never have been an official fitment of this turret to a Fox, no point.

The Profile on Ferret and Fox is good, but a bit more insight in George Forty's book.

regards, Richard

8 hours ago, ChasSomT. said:

 

Wasn't there a difference in the turrets between Fox and Scimitar, requiring a 'spacer' when Sabre was made?

How then, where they able to mount a Scorpion turret on  a Fox?  Intriguing.

 

I believe Ricardo was it? were involved in trialling a diesel conversion for possible use by the Mexicans? Does anyone know anything about this?

Are there any books about CVR(W), or with a chapter or two on them, does anyone know?

 

 

 

 

 

Hi Chas,

I worked on the CVR(W) Fox vehicles from when they came into service in the 1970's until they were withdrawn, as well as some privately owned ones since. At the Command Workshops we had the Royal Yeomanry ones coming through in large numbers and later on a number of other regular units with them. A delight to drive but not to work on. They were not good for spares, having to wait a long time, and I can see that there was never going to be the amount of parts stock as was with Ferrets and Saracens, etc. Engines and gearboxes were regular problems, and don't ask about changing the complete steering assembly!!

The Scorpion turret, from memory I think this is the story. Some Foxes were selected for conversion and sales for Mexico, as I recall, some of Royal Yeo vehicles. I believe a different turret was going to be used. I think the deal fell through as there were some turret-less Foxes sold at Ludgershall, with Scorpion turrets sat on top of them, the original Fox turret going on to the Scorpion to create Sabre, using an adaptor ring.

There is a book on the CVR(T) written by the former curator of the Tank Museum, Col. George Forty. It has a chapter on Fox in it.

The Scorpion Family by George Forty published by Ian Allan  ISBN 0 7110 1175 3

regards, Richard

1 hour ago, 00EC25 said:

 and is there really only 1 in Aus/NZ . Don't suppose you still have your list to compare notes to?

John,

There are two in Australia, that I know of. One I saw there around 1996 came out of one of the Ludgershall sales with a Scorpion turret on it. The other went over there much later to Tasmania (it was from Surrey), this I believe is now in Western Australia. I do not have note of the numbers.

regards, Richard

4 minutes ago, goanna said:

The captured Fiat spent its post war life on a farm in Gippsland . It still  had the original bodywork in the 1950's.  Two of these captured Fiats were taken up to New Guinea , so the owner says.

Hi Mike,

The owner told me he has both of them, captured in North Africa, brought to Australia then they went to New Guinea. I think he said one was used as a recovery vehicle in NG. Fascinating history.

Some photos of the FIAT SPA seen running in Australia

That date is the set up weekend for War & Peace show

8 hours ago, Morris C8 said:

Can anyone ID what truck ? this came off. 

 Keith

Keith

There is one of those plates on the passenger seat base of my QL, the air cleaner is under the seat.

A FIAT SPA gun tractor? I saw a running one at an event in Australia this year. It was captured in North Africa.

2 hours ago, Ian L said:

Hi Richard nice reply.

 I have just tried to send you a PM / message but it comes back that your not receiving messages ? Regards Ian

Ian, I have sent you an email as it seems I have a mailbox that is now over 700% full, the limit must have changed on the update, something else not mentioned. I emailed you just now, less hassle.

cheers Richard

The axle is from a Bedford lorry

Sorry, I had a brain fart, it was the RL tippers that had dual rears, MK and MJ tippers had singles. Yes the Hands England  drilling rig was definitely on duals, I have worked on them.

2 hours ago, Ian L said:

Hi Richard nice reply.

 I have just tried to send you a PM / message but it comes back that your not receiving messages ? Regards Ian

Hi Ian,

Thanks, I am getting frustrated with all this, it wastes too much time, not as quick as it was before, too much clutter. Not an improvement. Just found out my mailbox is full, wait one and I will do a bit of culling.

cheers Richard

From memory I am pretty sure it is only the rear hubs that are different. The MJ Recovery (there was no MK recovery) has dual 9.00 tyres and the normal MJ has 12.00. The MK and MJ tippers were also on 9.00 tyres with duals on the rear.