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Have a search in this forum under "Light Warning" and you should come up trumps.

After making some criticisms about CMV (which were then deleted) in the previous thread a month ago, I have to say I thought the latest edition was an improvement. A good step in the right direction.

Oh, the VAT rate changes won't make any difference to the price - magazines are zero-rated so the consumer won't be charged tax, but the publisher/printer can recover any tax incurred on his raw materials.

The pictures here will give some idea of the set up: http://www.plusmodel.cz/gallery/276/HTML/

Basically, there's a worm to each axle and the pair pivot on a central fulcrum (which you can see in Stefano's picture).

The Humber you are also being offered has it's own complexities if it is the 4x4 version. They have an independent front suspension set up that uses sliding tracta joints.

The bofors tractor is said to weigh 3 ton 12 3/4 cwt unladen (data book of wheeled vehicles). The field artillery tractor is going to be somewhere thereabouts as well.

I'm not surprised that there's been a bit of interest in this opportunity - Morris six wheelers don't come up for sale very often.

Just to put you off a bit :-D they have a complicated WD pattern worm drive rear bogie, which means they don't go very quickly either.

Some nice footage of the field artillery tractor here: http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=20723

And of the bofors tractor, right at the end here: http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=75281

As in the earlier photographs, only the bofors gun tractor had a full piece windscreen, so it is obviously converted from one of them. No doubt captured in France, 1940.

The field gun tractor and recovery versions both had aero screens (for the driver only).

A CDSW came up for sale recently on Milweb - described in October's Classic Military Vehicle magazine as "needing a little love and care sold within hours of the advert appearing." I wonder if it is the same one back on the market already.

Another picture of interest here: http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/morris_commercial.htm

Another neat picture of a Federal tanker combo here (worth someone copying across): http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/forum01/index.php?topic=32678.195

You need to chat to "25 Pounder" - see post 567+ here: http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?t=437&page=57

Welcome aboard and enjoy this little piece of inspiration: http://dlxs.lib.wayne.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?med=1;sid=6b6d0bf995c507a311a85944ba8e0cbd;q1=194*;rgn1=vmc_da;c=vmc;evl=full-image;quality=2;view=entry;subview=detail;lasttype=boolean;cc=vmc;entryid=x-34010-und-1;viewid=34010_1;start=421;resnum=426

anyone know if the armored Jeffry Quad is available as a model

I think the simple answer is "no"!

Have a look here for more info and leads:

http://www.landships.freeservers.com/new_pages/jeffrey_ac_no1_info.htm

http://www.warwheels.net/jeffery1915ACNo1INDEX.html

The Guy is definately a Guy! - The badge will say "Guy Motors Limited".

The first four lorries in the first picture are all Leyland "RAF" types.

Yep, the ambulances are definately Charrons: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charron_%28automobiles%29

Like you Steve, I was uneasy with a Renault ID - there are so many marques with a coal scuttle bonnet that it is easy to get it wrong. After a bit of head scratching I think it is actually a Charron.

This may be of interest: http://www.fareham-darc.co.uk/G8KZO/g8kzo.htm

I stumbled across this museum about a year and a half ago. It was still there then: http://www.atwellwilson.org.uk/feature_aec_tanker.htm

The first is of the RAF Museum Model T. More on it here: http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?t=7114

The second, a Foden steamer, is also well known. It was restored many years ago and was kept at Kew Bridge pumping museum for a while. It has the correct war time buffers, which makes it quite distinctive, as does the tipping body.

For a bit of inspiration, here are a couple of vids of a replica:

More info here:

http://www.21stpanzer.co.uk/

...and a picture of the WOT2 (from 1988) appears in Wheels & Tracks #25, on page 6.

The A F Budge collection was set up in the 1980s (?) by Tony Budge.

He established a world renowed collection of mainly tracked and armoured MVs. The collection is now disbanded but a fair number of his collection made their way into Jacques Littlefield's Military Vehicle Technology Foundation.

The WOT2 may have been sold off at the end the Budge collection or during the collection's existence - Budge was always refining his collection.

There was a write-up on the collection in Wheels & Tracks #22.

A possibly sobering thought for those in Cumbria - a reporter commented today on one of the news channels (can't recall which one - I was channel hopping) that if the Gov't had not flogged off all the bridging equipment the Army had that had been in storage a lot of the problems with river crossings could have been solved in the interim quickly and cheaply.......

The BBC are reporting that Mabey and Johnson Ltd are being consulted: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/gloucestershire/8376602.stm which does rather suggest the army can't help out.

More on military bridging here: http://www.hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?t=10038

Ok, this string is about waterproofing canvas but...

http://www.hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?t=5609

Try khaki coloured canvas waterproofer: http://www.rrservices.co.uk/

There are several Star commercials in preservation:

http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/Museum/Transport/Cars/staregister/starreg18.htm

I hope one of them rescues the spares.

Thanks Les. I expect someone else has a better shot of it but it just be seen here (with what looks like an Austin ATV in the background):