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"I'll tell you why, Officer - the front tyre has a slow puncture and I have to stop every few miles and use her to top the air up".

Are you sure? I thought she was April, and June was in the front seat.

I think your pc might have been having a liaison with your satnav and caught something :cool2:

Cans of fuel.

Bryan - I'm confused now (not difficult to achieve!). The airfield construction units when under RAF control were called Squadrons (e.g. 5002 Sqdn). When they were transferred to Royal Engineer control I thought they became Regiments. You guys (who were there) talk about Squadrons within the RE - is that particular to the airfield units only?

And it probably costs far more to inspect each component for compliance and give it the official stamp than it does to machine it in the first place (a bit like the aerospace industry?).

The 4 rivets, shape of plate and type of fabric are indicative of a later type of Hardy designed coupling, many of which we used in conveyor and other drives. They were the cheapest and most common style of flexible drive coupling (usually with cast iron disc type coupling halves having 3 holes and 3 slots in each), and were available from most of the power transmission product manufacturers - Fenner, Croft etc, most of which have now gone. Have not bought one since the early 90s, but they may still be available? However here is a company making new couplings from the original Hardy tooling - may be useful: http://www.gmspolymer.co.uk/flexible-couplings.htm (Well, you could spend a lifetime trawling through skips and never find a sheet of pump leather. :cool2: )

Good link, Richard. A pity they rushed the stills of construction plant to fit the melody! Any idea what the bonneted Wimpey tipper was at 2 min 58? A Dodge maybe?

Here's another possibility. Pat Honey wrote a series of articles on his ACB plant days (1950 to 1961ish), and is a leading character in the ACB Association. Here are the contacts for him: http://nsrafa.org/WhereAreThey.aspx If anyone can help I'm sure he can point you in the right direction. Certainly for the ACB Scammell Constructors we found a list of vehicles taken over by the Army in 1966, with pre and post takeover registration numbers. There may exist similar lists for the plant, so if your D6 survived to be taken over in 1966 you may get lucky!

Robert - press the very small blue 'Link' button on the bottom line of Vulture's posts. Tony

Well spotted! I've corrected post to reflect the correct unit - 39 Engineer Regiment. The 'squadron' title disappeared when the Army took over the RAF airfield construction support role. 51 Engineer Regiment is a front line support unit with parachutes as you point out.

Nice. Looking forward to the film Monuments Men - should be good watching given the cast. Care to reveal the make and shade of paint you used, John?

Also try here: http://www.rafacb.org.uk/

You could try contacting (51 Engineer Regt) at Waterbeach Barracks, Cambridgeshire - they took over RAF ACB and may have records. Edit: As Zero-Five-Two points out 51 Eng Regt are a parachute front line unit. Of course I meant to put 39 Engineer Regt., who provide airfield construction support to RAF. It had also pased me by that Waterbeach Barracks closed for ever in March this year, 39 Regt relocating to Kinloss in July 2012. There was a good little museum at the gate house, but I have not been able to track down its fate. If you wish to contact 39 Regt., suggest you try a letter to Major David Hornby and enclose a photo of your Cat.

You owe me a pint in the clubhouse bar for proving you right!!! :cool2: Amazing footage here:

If DUKWs have cowl ventilators, they're going to need a handful of Vulture's new rubber seals. :trustme:

So have I but chances to get the latest rubber GMC fashion accessories don't come along all that often you know.

Ah go on and put your name down - you know you want one really :banana:

Small tank - big low loader - giant story! Well done :thumbsup:

I see they have the snow chains on - must have been for use on soft sand.

Yeah - you could have told us the name of the spotty hound too! Nice pic.

You made a right old mess of scratching out that modern road sign on the right! :-D

I know that hymn sheet - "And on the first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth days, he procrastinated" :-D

Would that be something to do with water quality? :whistle:

I see that a 'plus vat' has now been added to the milweb advert for lights