freddy

you might be thinking of a 9x9 tent which can fit on the back of a spartan or landrover as well as being used free standing.

Big unit to mount on a 432, the only information I have read is that it was a cut down 432 and never entered service.

I saw German and Dutch versions mounted on M113's so imagine it would have looked a little like them.

With no markings and the fact that parts seem to be based or utilising 58 pattern kit could it have been made locally.

Our equipment repair blokes used to make extras for webbing (padding, pouches, belts, straps, etc) and the RAF survival equipment blokes used to do the same when I worked with them.

Quite a few other nations used web kit based on 58 pattern (a few used 58 pattern as well) but the ones I saw had markings on.

The design seems to be to make the yoke quick release with the attachments from kidney pouches on the back straps (which look to be free to move along the belt so not much cop, I cant really see how they would fit and stay in place without coming undone) and the hook catches on the parts going to the ammo pouches.

Not sure if this is the right place to pose a question but here goes.

While I was serving in the RE's we had Millies up until they were replaced at the begining of the 90's by 14 tonne TM's in my Sqn (44 Fd Sp Sqn RE). I never paid too much attention to them as I only had a HGV 3 at the time and was in Res Tp so we just loaded them up.

We called them 10 tonne Knockers (which look like the Millie Mk 1, flip up windscreen, crash gearbox, ratchet handbrake, no power steering, flat side panels) and Millies (occasionally Millie Mk 2, although they look more like the Mk 3 I have seen on the net).

Does anyone know which vehicles we actually would have used (I had T Ganders RE book but can no longer locate it after a couple of moves, nor any of my pictures of them in use).

Took these photos outside a farmers market in New Jersey a couple of years ago while on holiday.

 

Don't plug it into a WS38 battery (or power unit) because those have 3 volt LT and 150 volt HT and you'll blow all the valves on the 4C (the earlier units using ARP12s do take the WS38 battery, which is much larger).

 

Chris

Just a query we were using 4C's into the 1990's (my troop had 50 on the books which I had to do monthly functional checks on), they were transistorised and ran on a single 9V battery in the amplifier unit which you could mount on your belt.

Was the 4C designation used for earlier versions with valves?

Hi my name is Mark also know as Chaz and Tigger (seem to collect nicknames). I am ex forces having spent 24 years as a Sapper in the RE (1983-2007) just wish we had decent digital cameras for most of that time , lost nearly all my service pics on 35mm.

I have a penchant for AFV432 and the 14 Tonne TM having spent large amounts of time with them and getting a appreciation for their finer points, also developing a love for Bridging at the moment (which is strange as I hated building the stuff when serving).

I have been trying (unsuccessfully) for the last 4 years to convince my missus to buy me a Mk 2 biccie box (AFV 432) but I live in hope, the latest tactic was to ask for a model tank (she agreed) and showing her a 1/6 scale Comet and pointing out a 432 was cheaper, never worked.