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Thanks for the reply, Ruxy. Looks a really neat unit. I have now found pumps which deliver at 1.5 psi so hopefully too much pressure should not be a problem, but the unit might be worth considering. Hanno - thanks for the info. I wonder if the Indian fitment is due to high ambient heat and fuel evaporation? Does your CMP have an electric pump only? If it also retains a mechanical pump, can you advise how the two pumps are piped in?

Mark, there should be a tacho drive take-off point on the front of the B Series timing cover, on left hand side in line with fuel pump drive. A little plastic drive adaptor fits over the lock nut for the pump drive gear, to take a tacho drive cable or electric sender unit.

Well it was obviously worth it to the buyer - which is all that matters really :-) I recently bid at auction for a very large and battered old National Oil & Gas Engine Co enamel sign - I'd have got it for £40 but then one guy came in and decided he was going to have it and that was that. I went to 3 times my planned max. bid (:-X) and still he bid. It was fairly apparent he was going to have it at whatever cost so I backed out (phew). Speaking to him afterwards he had just sold a lovely old large National engine and wanted the sign as a reminder and was going to have it and that was that. He was very pleased with his purchase and wasn't in the least bit bothered about the price he had to pay, though you would't have thought he had two shillings to rub together. I was very relieved I lost. I never cease to be amazed at what some people will pay for things, just like some of my friends never cease to be amazed at what I pay for some things. Says it all really

Good idea? Bad idea? Thinking vehicles like GMC or Jeep which are not used weekly, and so always require priming or, if no hand primer on lift pump, cranking over to get fuel up. Problems with over pressuring? If so, how to resolve? Keep existing mechanical pump or bypass? What about availability of 6v pumps? recommended makes - e.g. S.U. pumps? Comments welcome :-)

I believe Steve Guest has or had one, here is one (may be the same one) which was for sale a year or two back - could have been an ex Cyprus vehicle?

A few years back in a vintage truck mag there was a story of a guy working out there who bought a cut up Constructor from the oil company. It cost a lot to crane them onto transport and move to his company's yard where he skillfully welded the bits back together. As soon as he had finished this local person turned up and claimed ownership, insisting the vehicle be returned and refusing to sell it. The guy had no choice but to take it back to where he'd found the bits. Looks like these could be pics from the same place?

Phew, lucky we came up with the same answer, Glassfibreman

That, Monty, is a WW2 vintage Pioneer. Nice find - be very careful though as it may only be sleeping, and not in fact dead. They have been known to awaken suddenly in the presence of a caring soul and this one might even follow you home if it thinks you will fuel and water it :-)

I checked very recently on the question of insurance of passengers in a lwb GMC This can carry 12 in the back on folding troop seats and 3 in the cab. The insurance company (a well-known classic mv insurer) will only cover driver plus 8 passengers. Quite sensible when you think about it, and ties in with the psv regs. So worth checking with your insurer to make sure!!

Not at all, makes an intersting challenge to recreate an old photograph!

As an aside, this Sunday at least six of their 'relatives', the Desert Rats, will be attending the memorial service at the High Ash Memorial site in Thetford forest. Vehicles courtessey NMVG and Suffolk area MVT, with 3,000 poppies to be dropped by Auster plane.

Great bit of recovery! Adrian - does the Sherman have any braking when dead?

Another problem, according to info previously posted on the forum (how's that for a disclaimer ), is you cannot tow a laden trailer with an MOT exempt vehicle running under Historic tax. Well actually you can, but you shouldn't :cool2:

The M6 is like the nearest ambulance, but maybe even slightly darker - just like Lindy Lou in fact. The new arrival is like the ambulance at the back - and that looks good too. Confused just like you! But the answer I think Paul is use the one you like best!

I think that was Grasshopper, Mark. Jack might have been out of sight working the pedals though... And judging by the passengers little work was done this weekend on the Federal and Autocar.

Just what I thought - quite relieved about that in fact

That's interesting, Robert. The photo is obviously well known to you. The odd uniform colour could be put down to the variable nature of colour photography, but the diference between greens on the ambulances cannot be doubted.

But what about the colour of the ambulance crews' uniform?

Here is part of a WW2 image which kind of knocks into a cocked hat the idea that there is only one correct shade of O.D.! The full image photo is available on ebay (photo of B-17 landing somewhere in Europe): http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Photo-B-17-Fortress-Landing-England-Ambulance-ETO-ww2-/220601979175?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item335ce71127

Thanks, Radek. Here is an appalling translation (not my doing ): The plane Focke-Wulf Fw-190, which crashed of Hyères last Saturday, during repetitions precedent the meeting of the centenary of naval aeronautics in roads, was raised (see photographs in this article). The Jifmar Offshore society Services undertook the relevage of the wreck between Wednesday and Thursday. To complete successfully this operation, Jifmar unfolded one multi-adult training centre, Paul B (Ex-Beagle), a team of scaphandriers and a modular pontoon, on whom the carcass was put down. FW-190 was brought back, then, to earth. « It was a very technical manipulation because it is about a plane of collection, a mythical apparatus of the second world war. Objective was to take back it up without harming it more, in possible perspective to make it re-steal one day, explains Foad Zahedi, manager of Jifmar. Entered in service from 1941 in German aviation, Focke-Wulf Fw-190 was a hunter. At the end of the second world war, national Navy accepted two apparatuses of this type, which it made under the appellation SNCAC NC.900 steal. Victim of a breakdown during repetitions preceding the air meeting of last Sunday, the apparatus raised yesterday accomplished a landing about 250 km / h. Luckily, Fw-190 did not turn round, what probably saved the life of the pilot, that miraculeusement taken out unharmed.

Not just EU legislation - business rates have taken their toll too. The government is catching up with many smaller yards which until recently could fly under the radar. It now costs too much money to store scrap - particularly given the area complete old vehicles take up.

Lucky b^gger!

I'm wondering if this might rule out the chance of a drive of Adrian's Sherman, Rosie?

Oh boy, that makes for fun fault-finding :sweat: Herbert is still not fit enough to travel far, but hopefully at some stage he will be able to entertain you with loads of crafty solutions to doing difficult jobs on these machines - many of which no doubt you've already discovered the hard way!!

Hang on a moment - Yes, Multibank. So is there just one oil sump, i.e. engines are dry sump, or are you talking about just one of the engines with sump dilution? If one sump, is there one oil pump, or does each engine draw its own supply? Sorry, mine is a very steep learning curve :blush: