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Many of the "WW2" Jeeps LoL that are on 'straight-plates' , are in fact MALT Hotchpotch , so the fake up was done in a France. Often these are missing a proper nomenclature plate on the glove locker lid or wherever & they have a plate that looks anodised but is nylon printed off Ebay for abt. £5
These often have so many numbers branded on the chassis - you would be spoilt for choice , even in 2021 it should be possible to cobble up spurious document(s).
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16 minutes ago, MartinN said:
Do they all fit or do I need a specific one? If so how do I tell which is which.
Only the correct one is suitable , others would look stupid (I should have a note of the Part No.) I will try & photograph a Rover 1 /S2A grille - this afternoon with a tape measure across top & possibly two civvy inverted T types for comparison , I have a Rover 10/11 type (only difference - no hole for bonnet release) - no access to that vehicle just now. ISTR there are other minor dims. IIRC the main difference is across top - two extra squares = abt. ".1/2" greater.
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There are abt. 3 different S2A 'inverted T' grille , however the Rover 1 S2A grille is dimension unique to that vehicle. I normally count the squares - basically for easy I.D. - the top is wider.
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Without going into squeezers. Your size of rivet , you could do the hammer work on the inside of the chassis , just basic flattening to spread. If you wish for say round heads neat at both sides , then it would be best to have a suitable 'bucking-bar' or at a pinch you could use a second snap. There are tables / formula to cut rivet to correct lengths prior to closing.
You would need a mate , but two would be best - 1 as rivet heater & the other as the "Holder-up" (he uses the bucking bar).
A riveting squad is a minimum of three , could be four if a 'catcher' is needed. At times - a squeezer is not practicable and a pneumatic riveter can't access - in this case two riveters work together - the hammer normally weigh 1.1/2 - 2 lb. shafts vary in length but normally about 30".
Rivet hearths are normally on a wheeled trolley lined with refractory bricks , fueled with coke , they have a adjustable air-blast from the bottom. Even for easy jobs where no long cooling distance &/or a catcher is not involved , the rivets are raised to white heat , leaving the heaters tongs they will be like a sparkler. Using refractory bricks as a mini-furnace & a propane torch - I would aim for bright red , just short of white (if not doing it frequently - you can burn the rivets). Dull red is just not right even working fast , forging stage they must be at least bright red.
A proper riveter does not just bray rivet heads - he is a team leader with the most colourfull loud language. Always was interesting to watch a good squad throwing & catching rivets using just tongs , a learner at catching , often had a tin in the other hand. Apprentice riveters who were obviously never going to lead a full squad often ended up as platers.
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15 hours ago, Dave 892 said:
And my mates dad who died recently always used to tell the tale about the Germans bombing Cockfield on a bright sunny day. Everyone initially came out in the streets to jeer as the RAF engaged the bombers - then the bombs started to fall!!!!!
We always used to joke that Hitler specified neutralising the threat of Cockfield before taking on Russia!!
QuoteI know the Cockfield area better than any on the planet probably. I bit of glass was broken but the bulk of the bombs were dropped at Peathrow - approx. 1 mile from village. https://www.google.com/maps/@54.6155616,-1.8280293,394m/data=!3m1!1e3
Take the road to Hollymoor (road ends) , take road to Butterknowle, after 100 yards - track to East Pethrow Farm, you will notice the first cultivated field, in the corner adj. the fell a few small trees & some stonework , you can see line of a old tub track , New Copley Pit to New Copley Brickworks (no trace at all) . There were sidings long before my time from Cockfield Station to the brickworks (that were directly below Peathrow). The field I mentioned earlier was O.C.C. mined 1958-1960 , most of the bombs dropped here , no sign as land restored after opencasting. Back to where you left the tarmac road & in direction of towards Cockfield Station - you will see quite clearly (if you know the signs) the two remaining bomb holes (on Cockfield Fell). I suspect they were at a height , on bombing run for Lands Viaduct. Near Toronto Lodge P.H. road from Bp. Auckland to Crook , over road entrance to farm (you can't see the pond - bomb hole for trees now) , this was a real lucky shot because just across is the electricity sub-station (one grid branch H.T. to Barnard Castle). However - I think they were aiming for Newton Cap Viaduct (converted ex-rail to highway 1994).
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2 minutes ago, Dave 892 said:
Thats great. When i can i’ll cycle up and speak to them. I know all the places to which you refer as I used to work up the dale myself for a while and i still get up there (in the normal world) regularly. I had planned to speak to the landowner but for some strange reason i find myself spending all my time at home these days!! Was the family at Clove Lodge called Purvis?
No - Atkinson , my bro-in-law is - Bill Parmley at Snaisgill Farm , the amount of stone walling he has done as a hobby - he would be a good bet to quiz. Spent lots of time since before 1970 @ Clove Lodge & since.
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ps. Startforth not Startford , don't seem to be able to recall for spelin correction any more ?
Hudeshope ' up-bye' as they say , to locals always Yutsop ,,
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Probably your best bet would be to contact Lorne Tallentire (the Ford garage on Alston Road family) , he will be approx. 73 yrs and always been a bit of an academic.
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Also DCC councillor Richard Bell (teacher I think) , I think his mother would be my mothers cousin, of the Sanderson (Vallance Lodge) branch.
About 4 years ago , apparently he purchased a block of property in central M-in-T , that was in hands of John Toulson's bankers. He may live in a house there ?
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My brother in law married a girl from Clove Lodge , near Hanna Hauxwell's place. This is more or less nearest habitation to the tank wreck.
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The Battle Hill grazing probably belongs , to a man called Coverdale (specialist building restoration etc. etc. etc. (I think he must own the Bowes RAF site & will still be well compensated). It may be the tank is actually on property he owns. ISTR he also owns a BIG farm shop place at 3 Lane Ends - Startford to A666 , near crossing towards The Stang.
Tony
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Dave . I will PM you with details of two people who may be able to help.
ISTR , that 'talk' said - damage to the County Bridge , the Army did offer to put up a bridge over the Tees , I assume a Bailey Bridge. However the west would have been in North Yorkshire and East in Co. Durham - hence unresolved.
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QUOTE. You obviously know the area and im really surprised that it has lain here for so long without anyone apparently knowing or bothering about it (or remembering it!).
True, I had another cousin I used to go to on a farm at Flitholme , @ Warcop . I have asked my wife to phone her brother and ask the question(s) , he married a girl at the Baldersdale (Yorkshire side) , in fact they probably stint graze sheep on the moor where the tank wreck is. The problem is very little WW2 was locally recorded much of what I supposedly know is hearsay. My old man only ever said he was a sapper lifting mines for 6 years. My old man originated from Cockfield , you will appreciate that researching for the location of Luftwaffe several bomb holes on Cockfield Fell would be an impossible task without assistance, extracting this was a difficult task - but I am probably the only living person who knows. A aunt was the 'station master' @ Cotherstone during WW2 - she would have been good to know. My mother trained as a nurse @ Hammersmith pre-WW2 and was then a theatre sister far east & Egypt , a Captain taking her tented hospital ashore at Normandy and into Belgium - I suppose from her I gained my WW2 history interests - that would not extend to thumbing through the archives of the Teesdale Mercury. The main problem as I see it , now my M-in-T cousin is deceased , I can only think of two born and bred local historians and that is general , not military specific. Most of my relations are upper Teesdale and in the main sheep farmers, tractors - yes, tanks - no.
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https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/18979978.wrecked-second-world-war-tank-lie-teesdale-moors/
All I can add is one of my mothers sisters married a soldier in training at Barny , his brother was also a tanker based there. My cousin and I used to roam get told off for rowking where we should not 1960's. One place was Snaisgill (where my wife originated), the hillsides were covered with rusted 'practice shells' - these were approx. 3" dia x 10" (every few yards) , quite a few perforated corrugated sheets as targets , they work down the beck. Even presently the police occasionally are notified when one is found. I should have quizzed my uncle more when he was alive. My cousin (also now deceased) once said tanks fired from Battle Hill with the projectiles arcing over Middleton-in Teesdale towards Snaisgill - hardly possible ? even during WW2. IMHO Snaisgill must have been used for a anti-tank gun range ?.
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Search on this forum + ExMLRA for inputs by - Matt Rimmer
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I knew somebody who purchased a S1 in 1967 , can't remember the Mk. He used it as transport to/from university , purchased it from a dealer on Exchange & Mart . Probably on the family farm books ? It had obviously had radio fitted as lots of extra wiring still in situ. can't remember any more.
There was somebody on here , does not attend now & I can't recall his handle - he rigged up a S1 for radio , he obtained a proper frame from one of the forum tankers. Search around - thread may be there from 10 + years ago, he lived / lives near Barmouth, North Wales (leading light on a WW2 aircraft crash sites forum) & purchased a Bomber Maid. I may be able to lock on memory - he had collected lots of info. on this subject.
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Obviously had a recent paint 'glam-job' - pity the seller has obscured half of the nomenclature plate. Interesting design but probably a bit numb on a single axle ?
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btw I would say all S1 conversions were FFW , this indicates that once converted it more or less a fixed install . It is arguable , however my understanding of FFR is for more modular and progressive to the unitary kit(s) that were more or less readily removable to restore the truck to a General Service CARGO. So in fact Larkspur could be FFW or FFR (FFW would be more or less stand alone battery power (possibly aided by a portable Onan set) without a heavier vehicle generator).
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Both FFW & FFR 'Field Modifications' for 80" , 86" and 88" - EMER Q027 Modification Instructions 3 and 6 , and Miscellaneous instructions 11. Ref. to the 1996 book by Pat Ware 'QUARTER TON' - after that you will be scratching around, IIRC the basic frame carrier for radio was same as British version of Jeep.
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Tax last due , 01/10/1985 , may have stood in a coal-yard somewhere for last 35 years but I doubt it. Not gone through scrapping rules introduced of more recent years with DVLA notification - so they obviously can't help..
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Note - the front screen(s) are a Lomax feature , the optional 'de-luxe' dished bonnet gets the tyre lower to further improve vision. NB tthe "Toastie" grille , that does not mean it was for certain for rectifier protection although the stacked side-lamps does indicate more MOD spec.
The Lomax body style to me has more boxy lines than the alternative Pilcher (Pilcher Green) or Wadham Stringer. The Marshall Ambi. was designed more for Army offroad. Although ISTR the RAF Mountain Rescue did use the alternative(s) to Marshall.
Notice the roof yellow paint under flaking white , that does indicate RAF although I suppose also Fleet Air Arm bases.
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The two photographs you display - are they your vehicle ? IIRC at this time-line there were three coachworks doing ambulance conversions . There are a few differences that can determine.
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ALOCROM , that is the stuff - just Google searched - in the USA it is known as Alodine - hence I stated the process Alondising , I should have spelt - Alodising.. I always avoid sanding through this coating unless there is damage in the area. It seems common throughout the aircraft industry - so must be good anti-corrosion.
https://www.poeton.co.uk/standard-treatments/alocrom-alodine/
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On 12/25/2020 at 6:43 PM, Asciidv said:
Andy, when through hole PCB soldering was superseded by surface mount technology I couldn’t bare to get rid of our Hollis wave flow soldering machine. It has at least a 50kg solder tank and 3 phase heating. There is a fluxing tank at one end a long conveyor with titanium fingers which passes the boards over pre-heaters and then the wave solder tank at the opposite end. By adjusting the wave height it would probably solder gilled tubes in a longitudinal manner easily.
Burroughs Machines @ Cramlington , ISTR they had two HME 100 ton blanking out 'milk-bottle' tops ,,
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1 hour ago, Old Bill said:
Thanks for the pics Ruxy. Not quite sure what I am looking at though?
Steve.
It is hardly modern , been around for many years - a pneumatic "thin strip-feeder" for power presses (this will take up to 6" wide stock). You could just lay the strip horizontal or wider stuff (above approx. 2") use a simple axle type de-coiler (the stip coil is vertical). You only need a straightender/feeder on thicker coil, they take up a lot of floor-space , normally have a Kopp variator , two methods of feed , what is known as 'down-loop' or 'top loop' , top-loop is very efficient but needs a in-feed table and the material is set to loop upwards until it hits the clutch limit switch - the loop then forces the material through the tools. In my experience a mechanical feeder is seldom used on a 40 ton press & comes into it's own with 100 tons and above. A pneumatic feeds like this takes up no room and is easily set up.
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IMHO If the entry £$ you have in mind will get you a real nice genuine Hotchkiss M201 (then go for that) - then go for that . Keep off any that have MALT or Greek origins (that could be from approx. before 1980 shoreside), many Willys MB or Ford GPW have been turned by substitution of parts and ask top$ , you would need expert opinion - as a sound tub etc. could be Filipino , a repaired tub could be just rubbish , 2021 - a bit late in the day for a heavy project.