wally dugan

what ever you do there are problems put in  a building you need to control the  humidity put a roof over it the changes in heat the list go's on wind direction there are advantages to leaving in the open

MARK there many people on this site that know of these gate guardians they are dotted all over this country. I for one have sent vehicles to be gate guardians to parts of this country and have a interest in their fate the one's  at LECONFIELD which is ten minutes from my home l made my comments as stated on them at the time of them been first discussed  also l have had the task of preserving one of the large's out door gate guardians the BLACKBURN BEVERLEY slapping paint on it is not the answer there is much more to it at this moment l am more interested in the one's on my door step 

semiphore indicators were fitted to some series one land rovers in military service but l have never come across champs with them fitted but that does not mean they could have been but all the one's that have worked on never once did l come across them My feeling is they were fitted when  they  left military service

yes they are semiphore  indicators

as l said at the end of the day it comes down to cost  those who once had a connection with these  vehicles and arranged there placing have long moved on

I recall a meeting in the late 1990s about having gate guardian at LECONFIELD there are now a few dotted around the camp; There was at the time a reluctance to  have them it was pointed out that it was all  well and good but they needed on going care something l had experience of at the museum and if even labour was free  there  would still be costs. 

As far as l know they were the same

IT's a TILLY Austin ?

The box is still filling gaps in AESP's now a lot are complete there are a number of CES that belong to vehicles  with there ERM numbers on the covers some with ASH CHURCH discrepancy forms attached

The new box keeps on giving items of ROYAL  ENGINEERS interest and has helped to fill gaps in vehicle documents so now some are complete

On the subject of painting canadian wartime vehicles this from volume one Design  records CDMV WW2

That  looks like the VOLVO 4ton L48546

The role of the equipment used by mainly the Royal ENGINEERS is often over looked so some time ago l asked a retired friend to help find any thing to do with this subject and he has done so l did collect anything to do with military railways but it's not what l am really interested in my friend tubby robins [ MAJOR ] was the expert on this subject with my old  boss David Ronald [ COLONEL ]

It's a while but  the collecting has not stopped a large amount of documents have arrived containing CES's HANDBOOKS for all manner of vehicles just a few

Just seen this the collecting information on AAW's is a work in progress there were several hundred of these ranging from large private companies to small workshops these where all over britian and 1n 1945 employed over twenty thousand civilian workers and a the moment have less than one third listed . At the moment B6 is not a confirmed  one either location or who ran it but l have a large pile of documents still to sift through it's only lately that l found out there was one located ten miles from were l grew up which  council house's were built on  and up till 1948 it was still MOS owned

where some engines were reconditioned by the original manufacturers they were painted in the original colour the morris comercial in the national army museum has a recon engine  and is painted in  the green used by them

There are a number of photographs of the GOERS 8/10/AND fifteen ton prototype's in FRED CRIMSONS book us military wheeled vehicles if  that helps

The last of the contract 6/v/6443 were delivered in 1954/55 numbers ran 00 BK 01 TO 37 BK 00

Its a long time ago since l had to do with the question of patents but from  what i recall there are/were two parts to the registration the first is to check that there is no infringement of any other registered patents and then the final registration how this is displayed  l do not recall. l may have some of the earlier contracts but only from 1949 There is a list some where of earlier contacts but cannot at the moment put my hands on it which should cover 1938 to 1945. l only got home at two o clock this morning after travelling for eighteen hours

52 minutes ago, Mark Ellis said:

Fully agree with the patent comment Wally.

But isn't the first number the data that it was accepted or approved,  with the second number (the date of which is covered up in this example) being when it was submitted.

The No. 2 Mk 2 (with the built in sliding tank) appears in the 1939 manual, so that amendment must have been fairly swift.

Thanks for confirming the start date of 6/v/13891.

How would I find the contract or nsn for any cooking trailer before 6/v/13891, or should I try an FOI

It is normal to register a patent before production to avoid problems in the future 69 BN 70 is from contract 6/v/13891  which starts 1954

it's a tracked dolly used to recover aircraft

they will find other ways to recoup the loss 

Numbers  25 AGB 81 to 25 AG 85 are listed as THORNEYCROFT TFB/B80 DRIVER TRAINING TRUCK?

Built 1942 Wartime number Z 49O4605  you will be very lucky to find anything as to it's army service