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By way of diversion, can you explain the wheel and clamp on the engine flywheel please? Doesn't look like an extractor.

OK, so are you going to tell us how, or would the revelation impact on your pension fund?

That explains the odd filler funnel (typical on water tankers for fast filling)!

"I really hope you're using the right pair of glasses, mate"

I'm probably wrong with my thoughts above, as the outlets look to be for light fluid and not big enough for waste. Also the domed rear of the tank could well be just be a cover (there are more photos on the image hosting website).

I think that pump might be a vacuum unit - sh one t tanker springs to mind. Which might explain the alterations to tank -or complete replacement - by a vacuum tank. But the side lockers etc look good and original.

Check out the crawler crane way down the page :shocked: http://www.clubwheels.nl/voertuigen/ex-army.htm

That reminds me of something.....

Thanks,Gordon. What is the SEELITE look? And will I regret asking that?

The time has come to fit some turn signals to the Jeep (6v). Can anyone suggest a neat way of doing this? Some thoughts I've had in the past: 1) Convert front blackout side lights to amber - but then you'd need to put sidelight bulbs in headlight? 2) Making up some LED units incorporating amber to replace the rear light innards, in a similar way to those made by Jessie the Jeep (he described these on here a while back) - but no time / skill base to do this. 3) There are some neat little LED units around - but where to fit them discreetly front / back? Some LEDs state "for 12v" - does this mean they are not suitable for 6v, or that they will tolerate 12v? Any ideas welcome! Tony

They were certainly available for a Jeep almost 12 months ago, with lights but no indicators fitted. You get an Advisory Note with the MOT certificate, listing - 001 Lights not fitted at time of test 002 Tested for daytime use only I wonder if this might be only available for vehicles of a certain age?

That is such a simple solution - the really clever bit is being able to think of it in the first place!

Just reading the first post - :cool2: - Neil refers to manouvering around a Zil.

Erm, without wishing to be too alarmist, how about making any alterations necessary to ensure compliance with C+U and Lighting Regs? (see post no.1) And it looks as if Extreme has got these well covered. As for any possible hidden agenda, he has made a good move by getting in touch with MVT. Good luck to you, and lets hope you don't get any other obstructions put in your way. What might be useful would be for someone to post links to the relevent legislation - is it the 1989 Lighting Regs as ammended 2005, or something later? Are C+U Regs available online? What about the handbook for HGV Examiners - that covers stuff like lighting positions I think. Mine is so old it belongs in a museum.

I didn't know Fred Dibnah ran an MOT test station :coffee:

Who knows - quite fun though!

A friend found this in a Breton village. If only their optimism had been realised.....

Well I'm delighted to be able to say "I stand corrected" Always fancied buildng a work machine on a 6x6 Jimmy

So if timber is an agricultural activity and a Matador timber tractor is an Agricultural Machine and you can meet the regulations/conditions for towing agricultural trailers and intend to pull a laden pole trailer - then I imagine a Matador could and should be taxed AGRICULTURAL for this type of work (you cannot tow laden trailer under HISTORIC tax). If you are using it for off-road timber work only and just move from site to site on the highway,as has been said above it can be taxed HISTORIC. Isn't what the V5 show under TAXATION CLASS the key to how you can use it? A lot of mvs are still described on V5 as being Agricultural Machine/Tractor etc - yet shown on V5 as beng taxation class HISTORIC - because before the days of HISTORIC tax class it was often the only realistic way to register them. It doesn't really matter what the description of vehicle is, because as long as the Taxation class is shown as HISTORIC it can be used for pyurposes allowed by that taxation class (Locomotives etc currently excepted I guess). Tmes have moved on and, as has been said, HISTORIC is the simplest legitimate way to go for recreational use. However frustrating it might be for certain types of vehicle, we are still really lucky to be able to be able to tax most of our old mvs this way :-) If you are lucky enough to own a big estate with a sawmill as well as the Matador (if you could even be more lucky than just owning a Matador ) you can go AGRICULTURAL and have the best of both worlds! Is there (technically) a problem using a pre-1960 vehicle which meets the HISTORIC criteria for recreational use, even if it is taxed as AGRICULTURAL MACHINE? P.S. How's the Albion restoration progressing?

Assuming you don't want to cart loads of timber around on a drug, nor sugarbeet on a trailer, but just trundle from timber job to timber job, then you can always tax it as SPECIAL VEHICLES. £165 per year same as Agricultural Machine. I suppose you could even use a 1983 Bedford TM 4x4 winch truck in this way with no MOT requirement (no load carrying though). OR, if since it is a Matador (pre 1960), you can simply tax it as HISTORIC and pay nothing! You can still trundle from timber job to timber job, but in addition you can take it to rallies and other recreational use (which in theory you cannot do on SPECIAL VEHICLES?). Here's a conundrum - what if it was a 1971 4x4 cargo truck with Hiab? If you taxed it HISTORIC you would need an MOT? But if you taxed it SPECIAL VEHICLES you would not need an MOT but would have to pay £165 tax?? And not be able to travel to rallies???

So, they were turntable steering - thought so from the elongated mudguards. Did both axles steer or just the front?

ISTR it was built on a 4 wheel steer chassis - or two axles on turntables? Probably now has a jib on the back and in use dragging shrubs out of a herbaceous border on some big estate :cool2:

:shocked: - someone tell me that isn't a Petter Diesel !

I'm pretty certain I had the front axle off that blue 6x6 crane :-) (it was later on a site and got rolled over by kids - came back for cutting up).

Thanks guys, but I was asking how the tacho regs affected these vehicles - that was what the first post was about :-)