N.O.S.

Gee, whatever floats your boat :rofl:Nice clean transfer box and scullery, I mean bilges!! Where's all the lub oil and diesel gone??

.....between the following:

Answer - www.mqwebmaster.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/jha/story_so_far2.htm

Can you downrate a cart by cutting part way through the wooden spokes? :???

I seem to remember someone downrated a MK series by removing the helper springs from the rear springs - or did they cut the helper spring brackets off?? Thought I'd read it on the forum way back :confused: Still seems a bit drastic, must be an easier way.

I have managed to give myself whiplash whilst changing one of the kids beds :shocked:

Sympathy needed :cry:

 

Yes that is horrible, even with the happy pills. But do spare a thought for poor Grasshoppeer, he has a WLF transfer box hanging from his neck :sweat:

Curved front wings = Series 3, angular front wings = M1A1 series 5 (soft top). TTM will advise, but I think the Jersey ones were M1A1 like TTM's and Mark's

Tony,

Also the Ward laFrance Model 1000 Series 3 (closed cab) was built in 1942 (365 units) solely for Lend-Lease Nations (all went to Great Britain).

Tony

On the website detailing the ship's log, www.pbs.org/odyssey/odyssey/20001117_log_transcript.html there is a real video link under the title but I cannot play it for some reason. You never know, it might just show them!

Note there should be a _ in the gaps between 17 and log, and between log and trans

How about a set of Jeep HANDRAULIC wipers? You can 'accelerate and see', but not 'change gear and see' :-D

So what of the vehicles? Well PGK887 is certainly still alive, albeit with some surgery - PGK888 is "resting pending return to service" - and I'll let Andy tell you what happened to PGK889/890........

 

Well rather than leave this up in the air, it seems all the vehicles and equipment were abandoned on the island after the tests.

As to whether the two Constructors are still there, this is as far as I have been able to get -

Here is an extract from the log from a boat's voyage in 2000, describing the remains on the island -

So it looks likely that the Constructors were removed (scrapped?) in 2001 as part of a cleanup operation. There was also a US operation to remove their kit sometime before 2000.

And from a different source - a picture of a row of Phoenix Model PA bitumen sprayers, used in the constructon of the test area, awaiting clearance as part of the cleanup operation (sorry, this is as close as I've been able to get!!).

Tar boilers - another 'first' on HMVF :-D

I suggest you initially find a place on the Land Rover Ward of the Asylum but it looks as though you may be transferred elsewhere quite soon.

6 pot, you could try the Americas Ward which offers all manner of transplant possibilities - but beware, not all of these procedures are reversible :shake:

Amazing finds - are the front 'helper' coil springs in pic 1 from a Peugot 504? :-D

Howard -

I've discovered the Autocar also has one of these locks, and a red needle hanging around the "over-revved" mark!!!!

Does the key simply let the needle spin back to zero?

Do you reckon all keys would be the same?

Don't suppose you have the key number do you?

Thanks, Tony

Steve -

Do you know if these US planes allowed to give flight experiences whilst over here, or is it a case of UK "safety fever"?

Welcome Chris Toadman, please keep out of the DUKW pond behind the clubhouse - we don't want any nasty accidents involving propellers, also Catweazle is running prop efficiency trials in there at the moment.

I'm begining to wonder if modelling isn't a more sensible option than the real thing, but what amazes me is the time and skil involved in creating some of these stunning miniatures....

Enjoy :n00b:

Probably the best vehicle to "live" in I have seen at a show ! Wonderfull ! Kemble 2008 ! :-D

Be very careful, Andy - Snapper has an "issue" with CARAVANS on the forum........

It's just a shame we cannot get a fix on the route taken. Compare with the Feb 1917 raid which details the exact movements with map references. Who knows, the info might be out there somewhere, but not enough time to search for it!

Thought you had a 12v system? :-D The battery should be giving out 12 volts if fully charged. Sure it doesn't just need charging?

Sounds very much like a duff battery - it might register a good (not that yours does...) voltage with no load, but as soon as you put any load on it, a cell breaks down.

Try puting the battery on something else and see what that vehicle does. Or try running anything 12v off it with jump leads.

How about sticking another battery on the jimmy and see what happens?

What resistance reading do you get across the battery leads without the battery on?

NOS.

 

Stunning looking truck you have there - well done mate. Will have to crawl over it when we meet. Are you going to W+P.

 

Markheliops

Thanks Mark. Yes, but no vehicle I'm afraid. Just working on some "mission stickers" for your WLF, glad you're up and guzzling again :cool2:

96 BG B17 "Blonde Bombshell"?

Just discovered that the 96 BG pane was not called 'Blonde Bombshell' as stated in the 455th website.....

It was in fact 'The Blonde Bomber'. Here is a pic of it.

The babies (one of which is a darker colour) were simply the crew's way of recording missions - nobody seems to know why they chose babies and not bombs, perhaps they were poking fun at themselves for being a 'rookie' crew. The reason for the different coloured baby has also been lost in the mists of time........

Here is some additional information kindly provided by the 96BG historian - many thanks.

Here the link to the Autocar in Yanks ....

Thanks for that, abn jimmy, I remember the scene now. The trailer looks decidedly British.......

And thanks for all the other info and pics, folks.:tup::

Hmm, I guess those of us with more modern machines are perhaps guilty at times of discarding bits which need a little work simply because we have acess to so much NOS or good s/h components. Perhaps that will change in years to come :sweat:You guys are already there!!

:-D

not really obsessed about big green things

Me neither, Thingme Bob

:banana::banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:

A sobering thought, but needs to be remembered.

Surprisingly no, as it was usual to list the names of officers and strpes casualties in the diaries. However the museum officer said she was disappointed that the entry was very brief for that day, the Cheshire diaries usually contained a lot more detail. I have transcibed the diary entry word for word.

Guess it was a busy time, what with having the enemy on the run, and taking a lot of ground.

The chassis nos 9111-2 were supplied under contract no 6/VEH/17778/CB27B, civil (not MEXE), PGK 887-8, no date is shown in list.

 

OK, here is the Sales Order (11940 - 5) for the 4 vehicles originally ordered by M.O.S. in November 1954.

You will see that the registration numbers allocated were PGK887 to PGK890, with 2 vehicles promised by June 1955, the other 2 in July 1955.

Note how this was ammended from 4 to 2 vehicles, the 2 built (to sales orders 11940/1) were chassis nos 9111 and 9112.

At some stage the order for the other 2 was reinstated (see Sales Order 11942/3 alteration note, requesting fitment of 14.00 x 20 tyres).

Now, it was known from Scammell records that the second 2 went to Australia, but that was all. Then some guy called AndyFowler posts a picture of his Dad's RAF Constructor on Christmas Island and I noticed the registration number PGK89something.

It suddenly dawned on me what I was looking at, and then I realised that the photographs in Pat Ware's 'Tugs of War' page 124 showed not an Experimental Constructor-based tow/recovery vehicle as described, but the 2 vehicles which went to Australia and on to Christmas Island, complete with barrage balloon winches!

Back to PGK887/8. Museum of Army Transport Beverley discovered that PGK888 was definitely at Chertsey 1956/7 for experimental work. Steve Guest believed that PGK887 was at MEXE.

Note the slight differences between PGK887/8 and the M.O.S. tank haulers - these two have a 20T military style tow hook fitted, the tank haulers had civilian heavy hauler style jaws.

PGK887/8 also had civilian cabs, in that both driver's and mate's windscreens hinged open - military 20T/30T cabs had only the driver's window hinged. Also civilian instruments. I imagine the tank haulers had a civilian cab too??

So what of the vehicles? Well PGK887 is certainly still alive, albeit with some surgery - PGK888 is "resting pending return to service" - and I'll let Andy tell you what happened to PGK889/890........

So, another mystery solved thanks to HMVF :n00b:

And to think, if Andy had not put the picture up, we would almost certainly never been able to solve the mystery surrounding these vehicles, I would probably never have got to meet his dad (great guy, and he can still handle a Scammell gearbox ater a 50 year tea-break), and I would probably not have clunked my head (yet again) on the roof of my old Constructor cab changing batteries - still got a stiff neck :argh: Wouldn't have missed it for the world though!

Lets have some more military Constructors then :yay: