wally dugan

it would seem now from what you have found out that if it was sold by 1947 the only number you may find under the layers of paint is of course the wartime cenus number beginning with the letter H as to the markings of the RASC yellow and blue these would have be used after it left military service as at the time of sale it would still be green and red l think the markings must have been applied after it left military service by a former owner

the arm of service is royal signals white over blue

THE SENTINEL was fitted with a 7 1/2 ton winch the one we had was used for winching and recovery on the building of the HUMBER BRIDGE ON THE NORH BANK the data sheet states the winch and ground spades as far as l can tell the RAF ones were the same ours was given by the contractors to the museum MANSTON has one the same l gave them a spare half shaft when they broke one as to date early 1960s or there abouts

DANNY is this a rolling chassis no rear body fitted if so its 22 feet long by 6 feet 7inches wide or 5 feet 6 1/2 inches from centre to centre of the tyres across the vehicle

BARTS VANDERVEENS BOOK page 206 tractors wheeled miscellaneous types directory from 1945 clearly shows a sentinel in use with the RAF they were registration numbers in the A N SERIES

RICHARD is correct Douglas made this model first then Sentinel took over both were powered by the ROLLS B80 there were slight differences between the two one been the metal plates at the top of the wings on the DOUGLAS were steel and had tool lockers built in to them on the SENTINEL these were made from aluminium and if you look you can see the oblong marked out but not used on the plate in the picture

WHEN the TRW came for trials at CHERTSEY this is how it looked it first appeared in a CHERTSEY book not until 1956

this is a sentinel powered by a rolls B80 used on airfields we had one at BEVERLEY UNDER THE BLACKBURN BEVERLE USED MAINLY BY RAF

STEFANO l have checked the lists of B VEHICLE RECORDS and yours is not listed as been at BEVERLEY/RLC DEEPCUT but not all is lost I seem to remember that the MORRIS QUAD record cards ARE at the tank museum BOVINGTON so save £25 and E MAIL them and ask if they have you QUADS history card giving them your post war number 81 RD 76 and keep your fingers crossed REGARDS WALLY

DAVEY the plate if there is generally between the front wheel and the petrol tank its about 3x4 inches

DAVEY the z letter denotes a truck under one ton L denotes lorry H tractor and so on has your MW got a rebuild plate on the nearside chassis rail if so on it should be a series of numbers and letters such as xx yp xx if so it may be possible to find its wartime cenus number where do you live in north Yorkshire REGARDS WALLY

AGREE with clive he beat me to it heres a picture of a fv 18067

SORRY TED it was the seventh of april 1959 regards wally

FROM a sale at RUDDINGTON in 1959 the oxford carriers caught my eye also lot 545 for TED and DUSTY

the story of a scammell SV2S in 1988 l got a telephone call from germany from my future boss COL DAVID RONALD he of the LONGMOOR MILITARY RAILWAY BOOKS the call went something a long the lines of got you some bits for the narrow gauge railway at beverley a simplex loco track and other bits do not worry about transport we have a lorry and trailer coming back to the uk after some weeks got a call truck will be with you tomorrow keep the truck for the museum all paper work with driver SO the next day a LANDROVER escort vehicle one scammell sv2s one trailer 20 ton eight wheel arrived the driver then told me the tale of of there trip the route was done in stages from camp to camp from GERMANY on the way it gained seven new bar grips plus spares also some photos of the trip one as shown due to problems in the late 90s after a talk to BRAIN BAXTER it was loaned to the REME MUSEUM where it is today to get to beverley it covered a thousand miles in a round about route with out a problem other than smoking out the vehicle deck on the RO- RO

no snow just foggy

motorcycles and side cars from the 1919 old trafford sale manchester

BILL some of the tyre patterns used during the war on british military vehicles book dated 1944

BILL the tyre size was 10x50x16

I have now finally up dated the records of sales catalogues and it has surprised me l thought l had 40,000 vehicle sales records the true figure is 109,500 from 1945 to 1949 and a mixture of catalogues from 1919 and the 1950s through to the 1990s some thing like 50,000 so in all 159,500 individual vehicle vehicle sales records this time lot 1679 is interesting

NICK will send it by post next week OK as l do not have it on disc and its quite bulky

HI NICK the spec sheet states kerb weight 13-93 tonne better send you a copy does it not give you this on the disc l sent you REGARDS WALLY

as its illuminated is it to do with exposing the light and obscuring it as it would only be of use in poor or dark conditions when it would be required to be lit

CLIVE l have just looked at the picture on post 19 it appears that a portion of the circle is movable as to obscure the other half ?

the only thing l can think is that you could alter the shape so that they blended in to the surroundings