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There is a story on here about an entire tank transporter convoy held up in Wales for 2 days over a bank holiday just because an outrider motorcycle was low on oil - apparently under the lease terms the users are not allowed to put oil in, only the approved contractor? We can be quite confident they would have topped it up had there been a war on :nut:

As to legality of use on the road, I'm guessing none of us outside the U.S. will have a clue. Sad to say in the UK we have some stringent restrictions such as width which are very frustrating given our limited use of these vehicles.

Portable trackway roll dispenser?

Some oil manufacturers advise their hydraulic 32 oil meets OM33 spec. I guess OM33 is a standard 32 hydraulic oil with some anti wear additives. Try Morris oils for advice, but without doubt any hydraulic oil will do the job in a truck power steering system. I do as Cosrec does.

So it boils down to what you're after. If you want a budget Jeep project to make into what you want - a wartime U.S. buggy for example - it is of no consequence if you undo any mods, however interesting they may be. If you have an interest in the history of the vehicle, or an appreciation of what you see - the specific post war mods in this case - then fine.

:-D Wizard!

Is it a fold-out screen deployed when under threat to make the tank look much bigger and thus frighten the enemy? (well used trick of nature).

I had a TM that poured out smoke (unburnt fuel) when cold - made the eyes smart. Which made me sure it was the cold start system which lets derv into the manifold. I never got round to checking before selling it on but guessed the valve was leaking.

Yes Mark, you should certainly be ok on that front. My understanding is just as Edd laid out. Just be aware there could be issues with moving other peoples' vehicles, even as a cost free favour. Might pay to get a good understanding of the private HGV conditions - good luck with that!!

What adhesives are you using for the foil and joining all the other dissimilar materials?

You're not wrong about that cab graft - the neatest I've seen!

Off topic a bit - My friend jumped his Mini over a canal bridge outside Derby. We thought we'd got away with it until we tried to get out later - both doors were stuck tight, due to the big crease cross the roof..........:wow:

This is the only other photo I've found of a C-2 trailer with dolly (other than that 25ft stacked on 40ft photo). Also note the fixed 5th wheel dolly has a landing leg at the rear end to park it with no trailer.

The two types of converter dolly: Fixed 5th Wheel Pivoting 5th Wheel

Don't forget to pack a couple of batteries, Bob - a pair of red top Optima would be ideal :cool2:

You've had a few junior moments recently though :cheesy:

Thanks TB - fascinating stuff.

Just been sent this - it seems plausible, but can anyone substantiate this as true? From around 1941, an increasing number of British Airmen found themselves as the involuntary guests of the Third Reich, and the Crown was casting about for ways and means to facilitate their escape... Now obviously, one of the most helpful aids to that end is a useful and accurate map, one showing not only locations, but also the locations of 'safe houses' where a POW on-the-lam could go for food and shelter. Paper maps had some real drawbacks -- they make a lot of noise when you open and fold them, they wear out rapidly, and if they get wet, they turn into mush. Someone in MI-5 (similar to America's OSS) got the idea of printing escape maps on silk. It's durable, can be scrunched-up into tiny wads, and unfolded as many times as needed, and makes no noise whatsoever. At that time, there was only one manufacturer in Great Britain that had perfected the technology of printing on silk, and that was John Waddington, Ltd. When approached by the government, the firm was only too happy to do its bit for the war effort. By pure coincidence, Waddington was also the U.K. Licensee for the popular American board game, Monopoly. As it happened, 'games and pastimes' was a category of item qualified for insertion into 'CARE packages', dispatched by the International Red Cross to prisoners of war. Under the strictest of secrecy, in a securely guarded and inaccessible old workshop on the grounds of Waddington's, a group of sworn-to-secrecy employees began mass-producing escape maps, keyed to each region of Germany or Italy where Allied POW camps were regional system). When processed, these maps could be folded into such tiny dots that they would actually fit inside a Monopoly playing piece. As long as they were at it, the clever workmen at Waddington's also managed to add: 1. A playing token, containing a small magnetic compass 2. A two-part metal file that could easily be screwed together 3. Useful amounts of genuine high-denomination German, Italian, and French currency, hidden within the piles of Monopoly money! British and American air crews were advised, before taking off on their first mission, how to identify a 'rigged' Monopoly set -- by means of a tiny red dot, one cleverly rigged to look like an ordinary printing glitch, located in the corner of the Free Parking square. Of the estimated 35,000 Allied POWS who successfully escaped, an estimated one-third were aided in their flight by the rigged Monopoly sets. Everyone who did so was sworn to secrecy indefinitely, since the British Government might want to use this highly successful ruse in still another, future war. The story wasn't declassified until 2007, when the surviving craftsmen from Waddington's, as well as the firm itself, were finally honoured in a public ceremony. It's always nice when you can play that 'Get Out of Jail' Free' card!

Not burnt yet but I haven't a clue when I put it in, so will now have to risk overcooking it :-(

What a crazy world. Sherman final drives a plenty, post 106. Rogers trailer post 144.

But on the other hand Jack's not at all pretty

Here we go again - why pick on Richard and Degsy? I haven't found them to be troublesome at all :whistle:

I just don't know what to say about this one.

Yep - there are a few :laugh:

I can hear Richard Farrant thinking how one of those 6x6 Landrovers would make a great Service Vehicle for his business :idea: