antarmike

I think LT's recovery vehicle(s) were bus based (else was an AEC lorry) and it had double capstans, one on either side at the rear, just behind the rear wheels, They used two men and two ropes, one on either side of the vehicle to control the lift. I am tyrying to remeber where I have seen the photographs.

The blackk thing looks like a bead breaker for quess what breaking the beads on tyres:D

No it doesn't, it is for tightening or loosening pipe fittings, Click the link and see

http://www.williamsons-oldham.co.uk/fire/catalogue/pics.php?imgid=000046

The pipe fastener has four lugs, The oval hole in the swinging part goes over one lug, and the rounded fork at the other end goes against the diameterically opposite lug...

The black thing is suspiciously like the tool for tightening and loosing large pipe connectors of the size found on fire engines or fuel tankers...

http://www.williamsons-oldham.co.uk/fire/catalogue/pics.php?imgid=000046

The green thing is a green thing......

Here is a tip that could be of use on lighter vehicles that have overturned completely. Daft as it sounds these can be really annoying to get to start to turn over. If a light vehicle has overturned and is on its roof and say its roof has got flattened or is a soft top and its lying on wet grass or hard surface it seems you can winch as much as you like all that happens is the vehicle sledges towards the winch truck. To stop this the light transporters we have carry with them a lump of 4”x4” timber about 3ft long with a v cut in one end .We rig with a bridle as shown in picture works every time

 

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London Transport used a pole strapped to the chassis and ropes taken through open top deck window of buses lying on their sides, but what surprises me is the winch vehicle righting the buses is always using hemp rope and Capstan winches. I have often used Capstan winches, and have never had one slip, but I wonder if you get a bus halfway back up, and the winch starts to slip, because you haven't enough turns round the drum, what you do next. There is not normally a reverse on a Capstan winch!

The Aeroparts rear Capstan winch for a Land Rover does have a reverse, Yes I know that!

Still no answer on my braking system question...

 

Lee and Mike, stop talking in code and tell us what info was released :-)

 

- MG

The only E-mail Lee passed to me was very general, in terms of their reponse, I could not see a lot relevent to this problem but of interest they say that there first duty is to ensure that vehicles are registered in accordance with Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 (VERA), and that they meet the legal requirements of this act. (Maybe we ought to be looking more closely at VERA, when deciding whether we should be trying to register a vehicle)

Lee asked in effect whether the DVLA was looking more closely at the registration of ex military vehicles,

The gist of their reply seems to me to be that there have been instances of vehicles having been modified "on a temporary basis" in order to get them to comply with C and U regs, ( and although not stated in their reply , this seems to imply they are probably aware the vehicles where later returned to their original specification) and that certain vehicles were too wide to comply with regs and DVLA where working with VOSA and had introduced "Certain measures" to ensure that these vehicles do not get registered for road use.

Lee asked whether there was a change in policy regarding registering Ex Military vehicles, Their response, as I read it, is that there has been no change of policy, but that Local Offices have been told "to seek advice" whenever a non common Marque is presented for registration. (IE a type of vehicle they are not familiar with.)

Because of copyright matters I cannot at the moment give their exact response, Lee can do that when he gets clarification, but this is "in outline" how I read what they have said. Please bear in mind my interpretation may not be what they actually mean.

Mike

Brake lining are very thick, they should be 3/4" 19.05mm thick. Rear linings are exactly twice as wide as the fronts. There are different linings for front and back, but the back can be relined with two front linings, riveted side by side. In fact some illustrations in the Maintenance manual show this done.

Width front shoes 3"

Dia front shoes 15 1/2" (17" over linings)

Rear same diameters but width is 6"

Munga fans might like the 1957 model in "Eye of the needle", appearing a bit to early in this tale of Operation Fortitude (1944).

Yep hopefully post tomorrow.. did you get my email Mike re other FOI request??

Yes thanks, I got that one. Not sure what I make of the answer.

Or for the Anoraks, 1950 AEC RT double decker in Atonement?

This will be interesting Lee.....

Mike are you aware that those rims and tyres are actually of the special lightweight that was developed for the marshland on the Falklands. There is a cracking picture in Mark Cook's book.

 

I may be wrong but they look like the flotation tyres!

These wheels and tyres are I believe Suacat. Surely the Leightweight had 5 stud hubs, not six studs as per Supacat/ 101 and these rims.

I hadn't read all the posts when I replied, I now see someone else has pointed this out!

I guess this is what tyres would look like!

The wires on the IR relay are doing nothing, the brown/pink goes to the 6 way switch and the pair of browns are permanantly live (and unfused!) and come from fuse box and go to where the switch was. Behind where the switch was you'll see two blue wires connected and possibly some unused ones, they just removed the switch and joined the wires (something any sensible owner would do anyway as the switch lets all the smoke out if you play with it!)

 

Just been working on an 82ish 109FFR which doesn't have IR, no relay but the wiring loom is still the same with a bundle of redundant wires floating around behind the aux panel!

 

I've attached the 101 colour wiring diagram if you don't already have one (it doesn't show the fog light circuit though).

 

This site has some brilliant colour circuits which, although Lightweight specific, are relavant to any military series 2A/3Land Rover as wiring colours, relays etc are standard. http://www.land-rover-lightweight.co.uk/LRL%20K.html

That looks like it started out as the driver's handbook wiring Diagram, which I have.

My current problem is the indicators/ hazzards are totally spasmodic. Sometimes they work, sometimes they dont (I suspect a faulty flasher unit, since if you turn them on and they don't work, but just walk away from the vehicle, after a few minutes they might start flashing.) I don't know whther it is hot wire technology or what inside the flasher. I am endevouring to find anothe unit, before I pull all the wiring apart!

Stonehenge not being in a Mountainous wooded area of Britain, over a 100 miles from London (such as Scotland?), is a smaller mistake than placing Krakatoa East of Java, rather than to its West.

but that is another film entirely and getting further off topic....

Back on topic

http://imcdb.org/movie.php?id=75784

1952 Mercedes Benz 220, AMX-13 105mm and a 1951 M47 Patten also star in "A Bridge Too Far"

Nice photos -it does need some TLC though,

 

 

Dyson 50 ton trailer wheel / track chocks hold it in place! Are there normally the keyhole slots to take them at the start of a tank layed bridge? Why are they in the wrong way round, So many questions, so little time!

................................going to some events??

I live in Bath, so I would be interested in local(ish) events like Kemble, stean rally near Yeovil, Great Dorset Steam, Beaulieu etc.

Some I know we ring up and book, but not sure on some of these other's, this will be our 'virgin' year!

If i can get there, we plan on getting out to Melksham on Dec. ? but we have a new shower room going in at that time so no promises, and its dependant on the Landy working properly too!

GDSF is notoriously hard to get into, and is often heavily oversubscribed with enties. Apply as early as possible, send best photo you can find, and try to enter the rarest exhibit you can find!

What have you got? (sorry the Reg you give is too modern to mean anything to me)

They were added when the truck was bodied as a Rapier tractor, by the time they were converted they had become a legal requirement. You'll find your infra-red system was removed at the same time.

Yes Infra red has gone, but I don't Understand the wiring yet. The Infra red relay is still in place, with live wires apparently connected. The switch on the dash is now a blanking plug.

I thought some (or all) of the Neval and Cossacks had a 3x2 transmission. Ie the sidecar was powered. Surely then a Cossack or a Neval is a three wheeler not a motorbike with a sidecar?

The term "Elementary School" existed until at least the 1944 Education Act, Elementary education was commonplace up to that time and beyond, it was education in a single local authority funded estabishment for children aged 5 to 14years.

 

Even when I was in primary school 1959-64 our school had a residual elementary component mainly girls aged 11-14 who were deemed too thick for even secondary education -system was by then Primary [infants -Juniors], Secondary modern and Grammar. In 1964 the system changed again becoming Primary and Comprhensive -this eliminated the above mentioned residual elementary component.

 

It is not uncommon to still see elementary school names plaques on older school buildings, esp. in rural areas -I've even seen a "Board School" .

 

Steve

Yes but it seems a bit odd to build a film set in Canada, to represent a location near Stonehenge, and to use this name. It is not a leftover from a past age, it is a recreation in Canada, built in 2010...so Why Elementary? It is one thing to explain a elemental chiselled into stone, but if painted on a board it is much harder to explain.

But never mind the School name, try this one,

There are in this film,standing stones in the middle of the mountains and evergreen trees of British Columbia porporting to be the ancient monument that sits on Salisbury Plain. Besides the lack of mountains in Salisbury, there are also some very busy roads right there next to Stonehenge: it’s not in the middle of nowhere.

The fact that Stonehenge isn't in the middle of nowhere seriously affects the plot. If a 100 mile radius is to be cleared around stonehenge for it to be nuked, that would include all of London and it would not be possible to evacuate 30+ million people in a 100 mile radius in a few hours.

Yes but they are based, however loosely, on real events. A science fiction film is just that, pure fiction and therefore all need for reality is gone!

 

I agree about the clips but that is just laziness on the part of the researchers. Never seen a meteor engined aircraft, the Spanish did use merlins though.

typo Merlin

Hello Martin,

 

Looked at your Reo on ebay, thought it would have sold ? anyway we are looking for the old canvas back drop side, like Adrian Knott sold, if I thought I could change the body over then I would snap your hand off:cool2:

http://www.milweb.net/webverts/54005/

Is this one still available?

It is a science fiction film, not a documentary.

Surely Battle of Britain, 633 Squadron, Force 10 from Navarone, Pearl Harbor, Saving Private Ryan et alia are not documentaries.

All are entertainment.

What annoys me most are documentaries where black and white clips are inserted, and often these are clearly anachronisms. Or they are images from totally different battles or theatres of operation.

There has been a lot of documentaries that have relied on clips from films such as Battle of Britain, but why oh why do they, in a documentary show us Rolls Royce Merlin powered Me109's and He111's.

I think it is time to move GDSF Diamond T entries to a separate thread. I will try and get some info together for this time tomorrow.

Now here:-

http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?21628-Great-Dorset-Steam-Fair-(Diesel-Heavy-Haulage)-2011-Diamond-T-70th-Birthday-bash

Please publicise this amongst friends and acquaintances. I NEED MORE ENTRIES!

There a sci fi film called "stonehenge apocolypse"(sp?)

 

It's set in the UK and USA with the British and American soldiers driving Mungas and Reos (Well I think they're Reos, if anyone lasts through the whole film they can let me know!)

Stonehenge Apocalypse apparently has the following howler.

The primary school the scientists base themselves at on Salisbury Plain is called an "Elementary School" (written on the side of the school), a term which does not exist in the UK.

Speaks volumes about the worth of watching it.....

Pearl Harbor (from the 90's).

 

A Willys MB jeep with Jerrycan....

Whats wrong? The US didn't have the German style jerrycan in Dec. 1944...nor a MB.

They would have had a Bantam, Willys MA, early Ford and maybe a slat grill without Jerrycan.

 

And a Dodge KD 64 ambulance. That's a very late war 3/4 ton ambulance...hell they didn't even have any 3/4 ton Dodges...only the 1/2 ton or even earlier ones.

 

These mistakes are very avoidable with a bit of research or effort.

The mothball fleet, OK. Its not correct to bomb or set fire to original WW2 ones. These were just screenfillers...CGI is expensive after all.

 

So what else I forgot?

Or the Willys M38, the M-35...

http://www.imcdb.org/movie.php?id=213149