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thanks for info ill contact them :-)

Hi does anyone out there know where i can buy a new turbo for my 1955 reo, or get it rebuilt?:-)

If you are looking at paint I can highly recommend Mike Starmer's books. I've got 3 out of 4 and they've been extremely useful and interesting. He has colour matched paint chips at the rear of each book so you can identify colour or get correct ones mixed up.

 

http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?6759-BRITISH-ARMY-COLOURS-by-Mike-Starmer

 

Apparently there's a colour matched SCC15 available from The Vintage Paint Company, but they're not producing it at the moment (or weren't when I emailed). I've picked up some 381 olive drab from RR's warpaint range in the mean time.

 

I know there's a lot of rivet counting on the paint side these days, and there would have been a fair bit of variation. That said, the british olive drab looks like a very different green to the more common NATO & US olive drab's. I think the British SCC15 olive drab is a much prettier colour, but that's personal choice (and I'm colourblind so I'm probably seeing it a completely different way to everyone else) :-\.

hi ,just seen your chat about the paint colours ive got a reo to repaint ,its all sorts of shades at the moment and i want to get it back to the us mat green , is that the same shade as the nato colour thanks bill dodds

hi tony i only joined myself a couple of weeks ago im sure you will find the lads very helpfull and informative as i do i spent a bit of time in queensland . i was up around cairns and a small spot called babinda i loved it and should have stayed best regards and welcome bill

Hi Bill,

 

if you have a build sheet which shows the chassis number, and the engine number etc, this was what I used as proof to register the militant. It was however, back in 1994, and I can't really remember what I did, but I think I rang the DVLA and they sent someone out who inspected my build sheet, looked at the chassis number on the militant and was satisfied. I don't know if I had to wait for them to issue a logbook and registration number before I could tax it though. I'd strongly advise against getting a Q plate, it might seem easier, but in the longer term I think it looks crap. An MOT is a bit of a bind, just ask Jules, another member on here with a militant that needs testing. However we have a responsibility to keep the vehicles roadworthy, which I'm begining to think might be easier if you have an annnual test to attend, that is if you get testers that know what they are looking at! My militant is 1953, and appears in the thread Mk1 militants. We are going to York with the 5.5 gun this Sunday, God willing, so if you see us please come and say hello.

 

This will keep you busy for a while

 

http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?7394-A-E-C-Militant-MK-1-Gallery

hi simon i should have got your mobile no as i could have made it on sunday but yorks a big place and tourist info in harrogate couldnt find any ref to a military meeting and york information was imposible to access hope your day went well anyway , what does your milly do to the gall,

thanks again for info on aec , im having to rewire lights thro a separate system with my own brand of switches etc to get everthing working as it should .the on off switch and light switches are shot but they shoud be easy to get as most of them appear to be standard design and interchageable i cant find the low air warning buzzer and im not sure if it ever had one. i got a build cert from commertial veh museum in lancs so thats not a problem ,it shoud be ready for testing in a couple of weeks thanks agian bill

think this will explain what you need to know regards the reo wrecker

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jovlia0vs5u

 

never used or operated one or indeed watched the above video but have been told by a contact thats how he sorted his out

hi cosrec and thanks a lot i just watched the film it was exactley what i wanted to know it dosent come any clearer than that! Il be winching myself around the yard now! Thanks again the music wasnt bad either regards bill

hello bill,was over your neck of the woods this morning i was at hedon, i wanted to sneak over to fort paull, but had to go back to the rotherham office, is it worth visiting ?

 

Looking forward to seeing pics of your reo !

 

John

hi john yes it is worth a visit but try to pick a nice day its a bit bleak there on the banks of the humber its ages since i went but they tell me theres a bit more stuff there now. If you get chance theres a good nuclier bunker not far from there its at holmpton on the withernsea road, this is proving to be a brilliant forum,im glad i joined regards bill

Welcome aboard Bill, always room for another Militant in the clubhouse parking area, we'll just get the Scammells to move up a bit :-D

thanks, the millys ok its the reo that needs the hammer!

hi simon thanks for the info ,im having to take my wife to harrogate this weekend as a penalty for buying the reo but if i can do a swerve towards york i will do! we will just have to persivere with the mot , its a bind but we will get there , i should not complain realy because mots are my livelyhood and i know most of the testers at our local VOSA stn at beverley ,your dead right when you say we have a responsibility to keep our vehs right ,the reo i bought is a good example of a dealer selling a potential death trap i bought it down near portsmouth, and all you can do is look at the thing its impossible to see inside them! anyway when it arrived here i stripped the brakes down it took me a week to do 4 hubs! lineings were non existant 1 bearing had collapsed and had torn the oil seal to shreds the hubs were all heavily contaminated with oil, the adjusing cams were so siezed i had to remove the backplates and press them out in the workshop! the w/cyls were all leaking and the m/cylinder was dry ,once round the block and someone could have died! i still have the front hubs to do if i had not had my workshop facilliteis i cound not have been able to do it, needless to say hes not answering the phone to me, but when i do get it finnished it ill know its right. ill get in touch with the other milly owner to see how hes going on with his mot regards bill

hi a warm welcome to the forum :-)

thanks im sure it will prove to be a mine of usefull information regards bill

Welcome to the forum Bill

thankyou im sure it will be a very informative site regards bill

Welcome Bill any pics, :-D

hi and thanks militants nearly done reo still has plenty to do will send pics when it stops raining regards bill

hi a warm welcome to the forum :-)

thanks im sure it will prove to be good source of info regards bill

Hi Bill,

 

welcome to the forums.

 

I have a Militant, how's yours coming along?

 

Simon

hi simon thanks for your reply. i think this forum will be very handy for infomation on all types of vehicals including finding parts . i found my millitant 2 years ago in a scrapyard i put 2 batterys on it and it started an drove home , i sandblasted it back to bare metal and painted it in desert colours it looks well ill send you some pics when it stops raining . got a build sheet from british museum and it shows it was built in 1965 which mean it needs an mot thats a bit of a blow i cant find out how far to go with the repairs needed so ill just do it as we would with a 65 car and see what they say when i present it i drove one of these in the army youve realy got to pick your route, bloody numb steering. my veh has never been registered before . have you any info on that subject . it would not have been any problem if it had been pre 60 what years yours? do you know anyone with a reo wrecker i need info on winch and crane controls thanks again regards bill

Hi everyone my name is bill dodds and i live on a farm near hornsea east yorks we have an mot testing station and garage on the farm my intrests are military vehicals and armour of any type , i spent a few years in the reme in the sixtys and it gave me the trade that has kept the work all my life . I have an abbott ferrit aec and a reo wrecker . The last 2 are my current projects and would like to hear from anyone who has similar vehicals thank you bill dodds