ploughman

Is the attached photo of any interest to you.

Not the Horse drawn thing in the front but lurking at the back.

Photo taken in 1930 in the London area probably near Liverpool st station or Kings Cross.

No knowledge of any history of the photo it just turned up in a bag of rubbish for recycling.

While the box may have had a prior use for something official.

Seeing it has a personal name painted on it, I would hazard a guess that it was the owners spare kit and goody box.

If you had a regular vehicle most people would amass a bit of spare kit somewhere.

I know I always had an old ammo box with some tools above the official CES issue and odd bits in it that made life a bit easier.

Well, to quote Sean "No one has bitten', I shall say the same about those ghibli-battered frame tent shelters that served as the REME workshops for 2RTR LAD in Wavell Barracks, Benghazi. I'm not though, able to tell you what the correct nomenclature/designation/name was for those structures (prior to damage :-))? Does anyone know? I hope they do and posts the answer so we can get out of Cyrenaica and back into Tripolitania District.

To further aid you, a photo by John Empson REME.

No idea about the name in the 50s-60s but in the 90s a similar structure was called a RUBB Shelter.

We had 4 of them for our heavy plant storage at RAF Leeming

3 of them are visible on Google maps on the SW side of the runway.

The 4th looks like it is being dismantled.

Where and when was the bus being railed from? Glasgow area?

The Lowmac is very similar to one that we have at Newbridge as part of our fleet.

25ton capacity so the bus should be well within limits.

Decking should be Oak planking.

Re your fuel problem.

No use changing the filler cap if a drain plug is handy.

Is a plug fitted?

MODS is there a possibility of splitting this topic off into a new thread?

Huntington Aircraft or similar?

I had words with the current Huntington Service station owner this morning.

Mentioned about the Helicopters.

He said after racking his brain for an hour or two that there was another garage that I had forgotten about on New Lane midway between Malton Rd and Jockey lane that was more 2nd hand car sales. There were 2 helicopters at the back of the building and he thinks they were removed mid 70s and went to Tockwith. This site on new lane has now been built on with new housing.

He was going to ask someone else about the Mosquito

I had a 100B for a couple of weeks on a footbridge construction job at Aberlour in the Spey valley back in 81 or 82.

We borrowed it from a TA unit in Aberdeen.

I severely annoyed the locals by driving it in the river fetching rocks.

Can't think why they were getting upset.:-D

I remember someone rebuilding a Mosquito in their back garden in Huntington near York back in the late 60s/early 70s, by the time it was finished a housing estate had been built behind it and the Mosquito had to be craned over the owners house.

Could this be the one at the Yorkshire Air Museum?

As an aside, around the same time there were 2 Dragonfly helicopters parked next to a garage on the outskirts of Huntington near the Portakabin factory, does anyone on here from the York area remember these or the Mosquito?

HUntington is where I have lived since 1980.

Not known any garage near Portacabin but there is one in the middle of the village a bit further North.

Never seen any Helicopters or Mosquitos other than those flying overhead.

Any closer detail of whereabouts in Huntington they where?

Do I get the impression of Cyprus?

Found out about this booklet the other day.

Subtitled The Bulldozer goes to War.

Seems to be a personal history of all types of muck movers in use during the 2WW.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/cka/Muck-Shifting-King-George-Maurice-H-Saunders/1904686281/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1483289588&sr=1-2&keywords=%27Muck+Shifting+for+King+George%27

The photos have been visible all the time on your first post.

Not to me and neither is the new link.

That's my theory blown out the window, because hull 248 being a BB registration has a later serial number than 245 with a CC !

Look on the numbers as one 4 digit set, so BB is 0681 and CC is 0148. All I can think here is that on base overhauls the hulls were switched, in other words so long as a vehicle came off the line with a number that came in, then that number would go back into service. I do know that some WW2 armoured cars with separate hulls did get switched between chassis' on base overhaul.

 

Richard

In railway workshops it was common practice to strip everything off a loco, carry out an overhaul then rebuild the Loco.

As long as the parts were the same, then to save delaying the reassembly, any suitable overhauled part would be refitted to the loco.

In one particular case I was tasked with recording all the loco numbers that had been stamped into the wheels of an LMS 3F 0-6-0T loco that we were restoring. I found 45 different numbers in the 3 wheelsets.

I would think it quite likely that something similar would happen in an MOD Workshop.

Bryan,

Diesel engines do not produce a vacuum in the inlet manifold like petrol engines do. Hence why you have to have a vacuum pump fitted to a diesel to operate a servo.

Thanks for that Richard.

Just thinking aloud to myself and wondering if it could be of use for the Diesel side of things.

As you may have gathered I am not a mechanic despite what RSME Chatham tried to drum into me on a POM course.

As an aside to this thread.

The fault chart for the Vac gauging.

I know that that is for Petrol engines.

Is there anything similar for Diesel engines?

Or would it not work at all?

Didn't notice any CP vehicles.

Prestolite still in the alternator business.

We use them a lot at work.

Storage baskets for heavy items.

Should they have coloured tabs on to identify the fuel type?

That's 2 examples.

What about the rest?

Such as the Capacity of the axles.

The Brake Horsepower of the engine.

Capacity of loading the racks.

King Trailer, Cargo, Skeletal, Wheeled (Drops)-???????? .

Coupling & Uncoupling of a trailer.????????-LWB using a Leyland DROPS MMLC

There are more.

I suppose the redacted bits are secret? :-D

Didn't the D8s have a small petrol donkey engine used to turn the main engine over on starting?

Do they look a bit PORCINE?:laugh:

I will wait and see if one goes past my window.

Not connected in any way other than as regular working volunteer on the railway.

email sent, do you now want to edit out your email address from the post to avoid it being harvested?

Dont forget to delete the quote comment as well

Just a quick word of warning.

Traffic from the South using the A64 / A169 junction should be aware of a set of roadworks just off the A64 junction.

Building a new roundabout to access Eden Camp area.

Traffic lights in operation causing queuing traffic back onto the roundabout.

For those heading away back towards York late afternoon queues on a Sunday can be about a mile long.

Worth considering diverting via Kirkby Misperton, Amotherby, Slingsby, Sherrif Hutton and York Ringroad.

Takes about 10 - 15 minutes longer than a normal day on the A64.