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Does anybody out there have a copy of Grading Illustrated available. It was issued to most operators of Army Aveling Barford Graders. It detailed techniques for use of a grader. If possible I would like a copy please as mine seems to have disappeared.

More like Wooden.

And that is the way that most vehicles got repainted in service.

2 more photos just found today. 1 from RAF Bruggen with a Michigan 275 prepared for a road move in convoy. My mate Pete was driving the lead vehicle, basic fact to remember was that if the outside edge of your tyre was about 6 inch from the kerb, then the inside edge of the other tyre was about 6 inch over the centre line of the road. The other shot from Leeming shows the size difference between a Terex 72 71 and a Volvo 4400. The Volvo was more agile but the Terex would beat it on speed. Over 40kph flat out.

Didn't know that Black and Decker did a green version of the Workmate.

More photos and detail have been added to this post. A lot of WW1 and WW2 armour including workshop views.

Wasn't one of the faults something to do with the steering clutches. Very prone to failing and causing the CET to slew violently without warning. Remember it happening to one in Iserlohn back in 1983. I think it ended up embedded in a shop window.

I know its on another forum but it is worth a look. http://ww2talk.com/forums/topic/52068-recovery-repair-vehicle-pictures/

Underground Timbering layout for a buried structure roof.

Found this on the BBC earlier today. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-25869896 At least 1 photo of an overturned loco.

Wait don't scream and shout I know it is from the Daily Mail but:- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2539106/All-aboard-SS-Thistlegorm-Divers-explore-rusting-trains-trucks-motorbikes-British-munitions-ship-sunk-German-bomber-coast-Egypt.html Who will start to drool first?

We used to have a 27.5 KV genny set with that bigger trailer. I seem to remember it having some sort of cover over the gen set though. Used to power the Machinery wagon for the fitters and REME plus powering the offices if needed. Our unit was an RE Field Squadron ADR based near Tidworth in the 70s - 80s

Bet that woke the guy up holding the rope at bottom left.

Seems odd to be labelled as HEAVY. When you compare to the Earthmoving or large plant vehicles from the 70s - 80s. Light Wheeled tractor would equate to a JCB size of machine. Medium Wheeled tractor would be an Allis Chalmers, Terex or Volvo 4400 about 16 tons and A Heavy Wheeled Tractor would be a Michigan 275 or Terex 7271

By Loco cab do you mean the raised glass sided roofed thing? That may be a guards lookout on a brake vehicle.

How many times do you hear on the radio traffic news "No High Siders". Or see it lit up on the overhead gantries. This is what happens when you think it does not apply to me. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-25372502

Is there a reason why the headboard drops down? Seems odd that it is not the tailboard that drops or do both drop?

When I was at Chattenden on my Plant course I asked one of the Ghurkas on the course with me if he could go to the store for a Metric adjustable. The storeman caught on straightaway and said "Sorry only got AF ones will they do?"

the circles wouldn't be for night time convoy driving would they? Like the white patch applied to the diff or a plate bolted underneath on landrovers etc in the 70s. Or would this be before that was developed?

You forgot the other term for the post 1972 version SI = Shirts Itchy.

Thought it about time I posted a few more photos. No real work has been done on the loco yet as this is now our groups bueriod involved with the track renewals on the NYMR. Maybe about March - April we can start to think about other projects. Somebody called it water in the cylinder. That is not what it looks like.

Just having a trawl through this project and spotted the photo on page 3 on the trailer stating Belton Makers of Boston. Do not know if this has been mentioned or not but a Maurice Belton is listed as being an Agricultural Engineer in Sibsey. May be a connection or not but may be worth a call. No website but contact details on a directory are here - http://www.192.com/atoz/business/boston-pe22/sc/maurice-belton-machinery-ltd/52bc7a8d00c084a1fab872d8cbef7ddd33e0ed6a/comp/ Hope this helps.

Railway sleepers not normally made of Oak.

Just found this this film clip from the East Anglian Film Archive elsewhere. http://www.archivealive.org/video/index/id/82 Thought it might be of interest showing some workshop scenes.

There was a documentary sometime last year that featured a small piece on UXBs etc. It mentioned that the farmers tended to gather any old ordnance they found and placed it in a clump and waited for the regular Ordnance disposal unit to come along and dispose of it. From my own experience in Canada in 82 while on road construction at Meaford. I hit this shell with a road grader while doing a final skim on a dirt rd. I was doing about 30 - 40 mph at the time it knocked a hole out of the graders mouldboard blade. No idea what it was but we knew we were likely to meet stuff as we were working just at the end of a tank live fire range.