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The Rover / MOD Parts Books are fine but in isolated locations are a bit dis-jointed and Hoods / Tilt thingies are one of these area. As far as I am aware , the duck & trim for RAF blue/grey has not been around for a good while. Possibly only Undercover Covers have any ?? The civvy blue would look truly awfull. In later years , there have been three shades of duck used for Army / Tri-Service Contracts Khaki, Olive Drab and Green , generally (but not always) these come lumped under the same Land Rover Part No. with a label Green (this is the case of genuine Land Rover trim-shop products with labels) - in any case they wash out & fade once the dressing with colour has gone - they all end up more or less faded to sand. I have a few genuine tilts (new) I keep for reference , some I have had for over 35 years and they are S2A, I have a note in a book somewhere with part No. & colour labels stapled in. The only other info. I have is on similar NOS S3 tilts , such as Sand , other labels just state Green (I would say Olive Drab) , the numbers tie up with Factory build up sheets I have that are 1979 / 1980 when the truck would be NATO green Tri-Service. Then you get such as :- FULL LENGTH HOOD See Pages 27-16 and 27-17 in RTC9009C (E1206) Hood Complete (27-14) 1. qty. Part No. 320876 (AD) (= additional) That would be a std. 88" FFR radio type hood I would suggest , if ever they had a new factory RAF blue / grey hood , then it was only when they left Solihull , after that it would be a olive drab one that may / may not be emulsion painted in RAF blue/grey.. That is probably the only practical solution. ------------ As you are aware the Army Parts Books had :- Army Code No. --- FOR USE IN THE ARMY ROYAL AIR FORCE Unless there was some supplementary parts book for sole use of RAF (that I doubt) , then they would have no Part No. to order on . Most such books don't even list Sand hoods for Army.

============= Not with Landie but with VW Beetles , the speedo head design will be similar. Speeds started to be indicated higher than actual , then needle zoooomed up the clock LoL Decided to investigate the speedo head, what I found was there are two metal discs (rotating) with a air-gap , one disc is part of the needle mechanism IIRC with a torsion spring for damping. What I found was that grease had got from drive cable Bowden and a little had entered the clock and got between the disc(s) , therefore there was no air-gap , just a part direct coupling to the needle with variable slippage , until there was too much grease and then the neele is solid & zooomes to end of scale..

As you are aware , the webbing & duck colour was available :- http://www.surplusandoutdoors.com/shop/army-surplus-uk/37-pattern-webbing/geunine-raf-small-pack-446140.html Documentary evidence of hoods available by way of Rover / MOD Parts books & literature - not so easy for me to come by. RAF (in service) - photographs are not easy to come by , esp for Lightweight

69AA79 tilt has not been emulsion painted , if it had - then the duck would be same colour as the seam tape ,,,,

Remains of shed extant - must have been a woody

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1700262 Any idea which model LoL , the pre-pro original Range Rover ?? ========= Long way to go to check out the targets http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2463057

======================= Yes, when I was a teenager in the 1960's a friends farm had a WW1 truck similar to this with a hay rake type cast seat. It had been used during WW2 as a tractor , had a second gearbox mounted behind the original gearbox & shortened prop-shaft. I understand this was quite common during WW2

A good book , probably everything BUT http://www.amazon.co.uk/Armoured-Vehicles-Ulster-Constabulary-1922-2001/dp/0711031606

Sales Order # 81359355 Ordered on 05 November 2012 Order Total: £ 19.35 Bookseller: Michael Rogers (cornwall, United Kingdom) Half-Ton Military Land Rovers Cook, Mark Hide Book Description Item Status: Shipped The book has been shipped to you. Request Return/Refund | Contact Bookseller Price: £ 16.00 Book Description: Estimated Delivery: on/before 13 November 2012 Shipping Speed: 1-5 business days Shipping: £ 3.35 Subtotal: £ 19.35 Payment & Shipping Details ------------------------------ The above was a 1st Edn. HARDBACK purchased by self , it was FINE condition (MINTA - as unread) , I purchased it for only one reason , it was FINE and cheap. The price has dropped , you can pick them up as cheap as this , I would say the price now should be abt. £30 or possibly £40. They went for abt. £40 and then silly money at times for a hardback. The 2004 SOFTBACK sometimes made BIG money that IMHO it was never worth. --------------------------- The going rate for a NEW 2010 Edn. (softback) is abt. £18 tops and you can get them for £13 , apparently a few corrections were made and a little new material added.

RADAR - or should I say what later became known as RADAR , location & direction finding by radio means , radio navigation , RDF (that at first apparently had no meaning). Who had it first , Michael Bragg in RDF1 - skates around it , stating more or less the subject was a non-topic at Bawdsley Manor. R.V. Jones in Most Secret War was quite specific , quoting the Oslo Report. Stating the fact that the Admiralty report on the survey of the wreck of the Graf Spee (Dec. 1939 - sunk) should have been quite conclusive - she had radar type aerials (meaning German research and construction was probably years prior). However - it does seem that arguably John Logie Baird was involved at a very early stage , and probably was secretly involved during WW2 http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/authors-claim-john-logie-baird-invented-radar-1.589481 IMHO , what we now know as RADAR was so far above top secret for all countries - we will never know. The stage work done by Germany (and other countries inc. U.K.) was / is suppressed still. PreWW2 , free published university research , commercial / industrial espionage . Multi-National Companies for product manufacture & badge-engineering - it was all there. Military financed research (secret) - was not always at the cutting-edge.

43 min. some clever thingies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dmyKaIya4c

Std. civvy / 12 volt. PETROL.

============= Rover 551714 NSN 2540-99-802-1041 I have found this in Rover 10 & 11 Parts Book (plus earlier S2A marks) Further description of 8.1/2" wide x 12" long x 20 SWG - so not that one

61278 May 1975 MOD for Lightweight ILLUSTRATED PARTS CATALOGUE. Page B1 unlike many pages in the book does have a B1 Illustration B1 page facing. It only states 551714 GUARD SPLASH ROTOR LV7RU/2540-99-802-1041 ========== This page has one of the greatest errors in the book Illustration in fact shows a "Apron" across the dumb-irons (as civilian) - that the Lightweight never had. 345669 PANEL, FRONT APRON LV7RU/2510-99-822--2814 ---------------------------------------------- There was a period going back a few years when civilian fan guards were mixed up Petrol Part No. on diesel guard & Diesel Part No. on petrol guard. Somewhere - I have a small stock of these as the franchise dealer re-ordered and did not want the returns back. ----- Going back a few years , I came across one of these FFR fan guards on a Lightweight I purchased. It always was a 12 volt but the engine was a Defender 2286 5mb (different water pump). I think I then went on to discover that this FFR fan guard was also used on another civvy model Land Rover Or it could have been a 569212 of similar style (for 2.6 Petrol 6 cyl.) modified to 3 securing tabs from 4 . ------------- My June 1988 CIVILIAN catalogue still shows :- 551714 Petrol 568917 Diesel However somthing makes me think there was a S/S on the Petrol , I would have to find the new guard shrouds that I have to check them. The 1993 Lightweight Parts Catalogue - I am certain does not list these guards. I have the factory build parts lists covering all differences , however not for FFR's

Yes, it is easily made. You need a strip 2.1/8" wide x 18.1/4" long , out of 16 gauge / 1.5mm stuff & a bit extra to make 3 simple brackets to weld or pop-rivet on. Taken a few more photographs with tape measure alongside & showing fixings - will post up later. There should be a Rover part number for this but it does not seem to be in any Parts literature I have & never seen any listed for sale.

ISTR , the place to look for the small type Contract plate (used for very late Contracts in small qty.) - would in fact be on top of the radiator grille panel IIRC opposite side to warning plate - have a look around for holes there. After that the only way for certain - obtain the Leyland Heritage Museum info. , however this costs abt. £25

================================= I need to check this on a truck , the Lightweight spares books have errors ommisions & ISTR this is one of them. I think the FFR one is different because the belts & genny bkt. are in the way. IIRC it is just a narrow strip and in fact goes more towards the exhaust manifold. 551714 GUARD SPLASH ROTOR - is the only one listed. ---------------- Note - the petrol guard is always expensive. http://www.johncraddockltd.co.uk/search/results.html?s=551714 http://www.johncraddockltd.co.uk/search/results.html?s=568917 IIRC you can easy modify a diesel to petrol by making a extra small bracket for fxg. screw. However - if you do this then it gives much less protection to the dizzy & HT wires from road water / fan splash. It could be if the FFR is different - then there is no known part number so you modify a diesel one ??? or if it is just a simple strip , then you just scratch make one - I forget just now.

45 min. of your life http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaJzKjtjZnY Many ifs , too many ifs , something that I doubt Watson-Watt anticipated that his Chain Home would meet head on. Also the comments apparently by Goering about his advanced weaponry ??

Hilton and ISTR Shepshed

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2299032/Rare-200-tonne-railway-gun-make-historic-journey-Utrecht-mark-300th-anniversary-treaty-ended-Spanish-War.html

Latish 1950's / early 1960's - I would guess up to 1964 .

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2298457/Historians-uncover-First-World-War-guns-buried-60-years-Salisbury-Plain-used-target-practice-Spitfires.html

I have had a bit Google around on Mark Chalcroft Mark Chalcroft served in the Territorial Army for 12 years. There is no info. to be found stating that in those 12 years he had in fact received infantryman training including that particular weapon. Without such training , then his status is same as a civilian who has never worked in the arms industry. http://ukcrime.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/mark-chalcroft-under-the-bed-rocket-launcher/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2296888/Former-TA-soldier-46-kept-working-3ft-ROCKET-LAUNCHER-destroy-tank-hidden-bed-souvenir-service.html

Never known a British MOD Land Rover have anything going by description of "convoy stripes" , only the rear diff painted white to reflect the convoy lamp . You may have to do a search at the Leylanbd Heritage museum , the dispatch out record will say if it went to a Ordnance & Storage Depot or wherever .