goanna

Is this the chap in your model diorama ?

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2663506

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2663508

A few AWM pics of cinema jeeps. A search of the AWM collections will reveal  many pics of mobile cinema jeeps. The mobile cinema units were attached to the Aust. army amenities service. The cinema jeeps seem to have a few mods i.e. a gene set mounted behind the seats

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C67282

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C19523

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C281907

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C63312

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C67804

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C67280

Hi 

This film may be of interest. Seems that not all jeep cinema units had trailers

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C190188

And another cinema jeep 

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C190670

Looking excellent. 

Can you buy imperial size metal stock in the UK ? Or has the steel market  been changed to the EU metric standard.

It is all metric here, since + 40 years , an absolute pain when working on older projects like WW2 vehicles. Unfortunately German vehicles are not too common here !!!!!!! 

Hi Richard

Sorry to be a pest . How did you machine the recessed valve section in the piston ? 

I have saved the 3D  drawing for future reference ! 

Nice work !

Did you have a original pump on loan to copy ? 

This was for sale in Australia for around 5K UK Pounds a few years ago. It was imported from the UK in 1976 by a MV enthusiast. I had the pleasure of driving it a few times. 

On 2/18/2021 at 8:55 PM, Simon Baldock said:

Hi.....is there anyone out there.....i have an Aussie built 42 carrier.....i am looking for some parts....do you still have them?? 

 

Cheers 

Simon

The drawings  https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=364517

Nice work. These things can take some thinking out..nice work on the lathe 

Excellent work. Is the lid for the filter a casting ? If so what is the material ? 

Very nice work !  I need this type of information for my CS8 water tank project but I don't know where or how the Morris differs to the Bedford when it comes to the details .

Hi  Mike Cecil wrote a short article on the 1200 odd Australian issued US6 trucks. Have you seen the article ? The army reserve here used US6 til 1971 at least 

Hi 

Have you seen this movie ?  Interesting scenes with a MWC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN2XU2vsiws

Found a soldiers name and service number scratched into the instrument panel of my 1940 Canadian C8 Chev.   JS Hunter VX65738...... did some searching and found the chap was still alive ,  this was around 1993, and living up near Ballarat. He was a tank gunner in the 2/4 armoured regiment and was wounded in action on Bougainville while in a Matilda tank.  Anyway I wrote him a letter, he replied saying he doesn't recall the truck or his act of vandalism !  

more pics

Ok some pics .   There is more stuff .  The canvas cover and the wooden shipping box .

Hi  back in 1980 I bought a NOS Canadian chorehorse in the original ww2 shipping crate. The chorehorse itself is a matt medium green. The spares box is matt brown The paint is matt flat without any shine . The kit includes tools and a can of oil ... real ww2 oil . Canvas cover too. The Maple leaf decal is on the chorehorse and spares box... spares include ammeter ig. Coil . Can post pics if your interested

hi Paul

I had a T112 for many years , a 46 model, my daily driver car . They normally had a Australian built TJ Richards built body . The earlier military ones , 1942, used by the Australian army had a separate cab like yours but mine had an integral cab rear body like most aussie utes. Yours appears to have a Adelaide built TJ Richards built cab because it has the quarter vent windows in the doors. Is it RHD ? cant tell from the pic. Is it a import from Nth America ?

The present Japanese  owner posts on the Facebook Morris six cylinder CS8 PU page . The vehicle currently has leaky brake wheel cylinders, he is trying to repair things but I think he has limited mechanical knowledge  .  I steered him to Champ Spares ? who I think had some brake bits .  Mike 

Ron

Being a early production Morris , maybe your PU/8 would have been fitted with the rubbolite tailights . 

Back in the 1980's, Colin Anderson the well known military vehicle restorer , installed a GMC 270 into his QL Bedford. He drove it to Corowa one year and later on he sold it to somebody in Sydney. It was used in a TV series as a Jap truck in Malaya !

Richard

Many thanks for those pics and the dimensions  of the rails !

I have a pair of old original MW side curtains that I don't need , these are the small curtains that fit at the rear corners of the cab behind the doors.

This pics may be of interest: post war service in Denmark

2 hours ago, wally dugan said:

 THE second MWC we are doing the  cat walks are five feet long fifteen inches wide the slats are one and three quarters wide by  one inch thick  hard wood we had a enough of the old ones for a pattern. left the metal is u shaped not L shaped.

RICHARD SORRY FOR BUTTING IN

Ah thanks for that . Some close up pics of the catwalks would be a great help  to me

What is the brand of that tyre PETL???  Are these tyres Asian origin ?

Looking at the catwalks along each side of the tank - appears to be 1" angle iron with wooden cross slats ? 

Can anybody provide some sketches or close up pics of the catwalks ?   Mike in Australia

Those tanks look nice Mario. Did you recycle the original end caps and the filler neck ?