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You been putting up some more barns, Howard?

Here is a pic found via google search which appears on HMVF somewhere:

Again the W looks as Richard suggests like 2 x Vs, but is that a K or the symbol for Chinese Yen?

I wonder if it is a Maudsley badge? If so, at this time it would be a product of AEC?

EDIT: No - I don't think it is now. magnified photo up and can't work out what the heck it is.

I have had several six volt military vehicles over the years and still have a Ford GPW and Cadillac Staff Car. Both are still 6v, in most cases poor starting and lighting is purely down to either bad earthing or the wrong earth cables/battery. My GPW was a sluggish starter and I considered the 12v route but then discovered an American website which explained the above causes. I hadn't realised that 6v earth leads are virtually twice the thickness of 12v ones and sometime in its life my jeep had had modern 12v earths fitted. I changed the leads to proper 6v ones and my jeep actually starts better than virtually all my friends running 12v. Most cannot believe mine is 6v. Again the Caddy is 6v and it is a 5.7 litre flathead V8 no problems at all, both have good lighting and start virtually instantly. As long as your battery is the correct amperage your starter is in good condition and your leads are both correct 6v items and earthed properly there really is nothing to be gained by going to 12v. As they said if 6v was good enough when they were being shot at they are good enough now. Try checking your system from top to bottom especially the items mentioned first you may save yourself a few quid :-D

Thanks for that - I know it's been put on here before but easy to forget something as simple.

Might give that a look before messing with MB.

The wriggly experts claim you only have to adjust regulator only as the dynamo will put out enough voltage. Starter fine, I always think a fuel pump with priming handle to be essential unless very regularly started, especially if cranking over original 6v starter on 12v just tho get petrol up.

Lazy way and also probably better reliability is an alternator kit, I have one of the side-splitting Mr. J's waiting to go on a jeep. By the time I've begged a freebie scrap alternator (Landrover ones are right pattern for GMC) and exchanged it as core unit for a rebuild from local auto electrical factor and sorted pulley, it's cheaper and simpler to order a full kit.

I'm hearing very mixed reviews of electronic ignition kit reliability which gives me cause to consider retaining the old points system (I guess I'd need another condenser or will they do either voltage?) - don't know which way to go now as I have an electronic kit here ready.......

I think it is a towed grader. Iron wheeled, the rear is at the front of the trailer with big adjusting wheels on side of rear-mounted operator's platform. You can see the large cylindrical horizontal blade carrier in lower centre which can be angled horizontally. A bigger version of this maybe?

One of the world's best beaches.

What was it Sir John Betjeman said? "Norfolk is cut off on three sides by the sea, and on the fourth by British Rail".

Strange. It was a PNG file - try this JPEG:

The lengths I have are red oxide colour and look like they've been on a long sea journey or stored exposed to sea air - possibly returned unused from Falklands?

There are 2 styles of Pierced Steel Planking floating about -

1) wartime pattern which has (approx) 2 1/2" dia. punched holes, and

2) later pattern which has the 2 1/2 " hole detented but not punched right through, and with 3 x small holes in the detent.

I'm looking for a fair quantity of first type if you can get it at a good price and it is straight and clean :-)

Hello everyone,

 

Although my main interest is vehicles associated with 4x4 woodland & timber tugs etc I get great pleasure in seeing that members keep a number of old mach:-)ines alive

It doesn't matter what is at the top of the slippery slope, be it Douglas timber tractors or Series Landrovers -

Congratulations on making it to the bottom!!

I believe the museum is concentrating on WW2 aspects of local military history and MVs. They were rumoured to be disposing of their Cold War era MVs a while ago.

I noticed the 1950s USAF LeToruneau aircraft recovery crane on Milweb a week or so back, and now this Oshkosh. I think this Oshkosh W712 is an early 1950s model.

:cool2:

Have a look 2/3rds down this page:

http://www.airfix.com/uk-en/news/workbench/5889/

:coffee:

Now where's that 40 gallon drum of styrene glue?

It certainly seems quite possible to bury a train - but why on earth would anyone want to do that?

Just finished watching "We'll Meet Again" (another 1982 TV series) about a USAAF B-17 bomb group. Again something made me think of it and I found a DVD set.

Productions from this era seem able to hold their own against modern 'stuff' quite well - what this series lacks in flying sequences is made up by excellent wartime colour footage grafted in, that and the chance for the viewer to use their imagination. Sometimes the less CGI the better!

I think you'll find that if you go to a post office and put a X in the "It doesn't need one" box, you'll get your tax disc and the DVLA vehicle record will be updated ready for next year.

This is what happened when they updated all records for existing vehicles over the last couple of years. Maybe the system is designed to extract a declaration from you that you don't need one.

Fascinating! Interesting use of 3D printed polystyrene patterns to be used in the sand casting process for the new cylinders.

Flying pigs? Reminds me HMVF has had a diesel for some time, but it will be a while before any footplate training can take place…..

BAXTER is a favourite of mine too :thumbsup: (not that I've had the opportunity to use the coal scuttle and trowel on him!).

Like this?

Yep found that when searching for National Clearance Hub (NCH) -

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/vat-information-sheet-0613-notification-of-vehicle-arrivals/vat-information-sheet-0613-notification-of-vehicle-arrivals

and

Thanks!

So - does my receipt for VAT payment form the only HMRC evidence DVLA require for registration?

I don't want to start paying penalties for not notifying HMRC within the 14 day deadline.

It would be helpful if the website made this clear - it seems to suggest that wherever the vehicle comes from a notification via NOVA is required.

I see a phone call to HMRC looming on Monday.

That's right, thanks. I've paid VAT prior to release at port and have the receipt, but I'm trying to comply with the specific requirement to notify HMRC of the import of the vehicle.

Or have I already somehow done that? :rolleyes: