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  1. 20 hours ago, wally dugan said:

     l was once told shy babies get now't

    Sadly Wally, these days its usually poor babies get nowt.

    20 hours ago, Jessie The Jeep said:

    Can you get REME involved in this? I know that locally, they've done vehicle moves for collectors as training exercises.

    The RAF Museum previously used Crash and Smash for aircraft movements, but in more recent years it's been done by commercial firms.  

  2. Jolien, 

    I have replied in the other thread to this.

    The image in that book is of a vehicle in use with 2TAF, they painted roundels on place of the invasions stars.

     

    EDIT: My mistake, just checked the book and it is not 2TAF as the photo was taken after the war. It is in fact serving with BAFO

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  3. Jolien,

    I'm not sure which of my colleagues at the RAF Museum supplied you that information, but I can assure you that they were incorrect, and possibly misunderstood what was being asked. 

    Firstly the RAF had long stopped using blue-grey by the time the C15 was introduced into the RAF.

    Secondly, even assuming it was blue-grey, the roundel on the front offside wasn't officially introduced until April 1941, around the time some commands were camouflaging their vehicles.

    Thirdly, the command letter was introduced in August 1941 at the same time the RAF mandated all vehicles would be camouflaged. The group number that came after the command letter wasn't introduced until January 1942. 

    Also, there would not have been roundels on the sides of the body, and the only roundel on the rear would be a small one on the nearside the same as that carried on the front offside wing.

     

    If your example has evidence of RAF blue-grey paint on it, then this is likely from it's post-war service.

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  4. On 1/24/2020 at 10:18 AM, wally dugan said:

    The RAF museum at HENDON had  a complete Beverley which went for  scrap the  last Beverley's fate will lay in who wants it and who has the cash 

    Contrary to popular belief, the RAF Museum has never owned a Beverly.

    The RAF parked one up at RAF Hendon as a gate guardian, after they finally moved out and many months of badgering by the museum a team was sent to inspect it. The team concluded it was too badly corroded internally and thus the airframe was scrapped before it was ever passed on to the museum.

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  5. 30 minutes ago, smiffy said:

    This dates from 1944 .contract no 294 /S5134/con23A  and 294/23/S2178/con23A  for the 3ton 4x4 load carring chassis  and contract 294/23/S3035 /con 23A  for the4x4 tractor chassis. 

     

    It should be contract V5134 (chassis numbers 56576-57398) and S2178 (chassis numbers 57401-58000) which are for the Load Carrier Type 3.

    Contract S3035 cover Tractor Type 1, chassis numbers 71001-72750 

  6. 12 hours ago, Richard Farrant said:

    Working on the Ministry of Supply contract numbers, my feeling is the contract dates from approx 1941. As this would be an RAF vehicle it is not listed in the Chilwell contract list, but still using the same sequence of numbers.  I could be wrong, but will wait to see what the RAF Museum will come up with.

    Agree on the contract date simply because the MoS used the one number sequence. This is a Type 2, Mk 2. from about mid-way through the contract (chassis numbers for this contract run from 51201 to 55467) which consisted of both Mks 1 and 2. 

    The provisional edition of the maintenance manual (poorly copied typed notes, the preceded the printed first edition) are dated August 1940. 

  7. 4 hours ago, the-blue-cloud said:

    I have the manufacturing documents of the manufacturer and can check the factory equipment in detail.  The MUNGA 4 of the RAF in Berlin were delivered without trailer coupling. Some of the 6 series had a trailer hitch.

    As 10FM68 said earlier, this isn't an RAF trailer, and thus the towing vehicle isn't likely to be RAF either. I assume the Army had different specifications for their equipment.

  8. Give the info on the brass plate, or a picture of it. Chassis number would be good as we can get potentially get a contract number from it.

    Crossley 4x4 manuals aren't impossible to come by, we have a few at work.

  9. I recently had some time to spare at work, so I thought I'd run AP2515A Vol.III, Mechanical Transport Vehicles Complete, dated May 1946 through the scanner. It essentially lists all of the MT vehicles, trailers and associated bodies, in use with the RAF at the time. Interestingly, some of the chassis/complete vehicles have the contract numbers listed and for many of those the chassis number ranges covered by each contract are included.

    Also included at the end is the first amendment list, from January 1947. 

    If it's of interest, we also have the second edition of May '52 and the fifth edition from April '64 

    Apologies if there is a better place to put this.

    AP2515A 1946.pdf

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