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Happened to me going north out of Nutley over Ashdown Forrest on the A22, A friend was driving his Range Rover towing a heavy 2 wheeled trailer with a trials Landrover on it, rounding a down hill bend it started to snake and built up so bad that the front corner of the trailer bashed in the lh rear corner of the RR, which was rolled so far over to the right that the draw bar went under the exhaust with out hitting it, this caused the trailer brakes to come on which yanked it straight only to have the same thing happen again to the other side!:shake::shake::shake: My mates feet were dancing about undecided and I was yelling 'don't brake don't brake' and thankfully he didn't. :sweat: It yanked straight again and the whole lot then jumped over a ditch and ended up quite a way out on the forrest, there was a big drop the other side of the road.:shake::shake::shake::shake::shake: Skid marks showed we had been on two wheels on both sides of the road with short skid marks from the trailer braking in between. Apart from both sides of the RR no other damage was done and the load was still secure and thankfully the road was clear, after the massive adrenaline rush had abated we drove on. I had towed this trailer at least a couple of thousand of miles over a few years with my LR 110 with no probs, we put it down to worn suspension bushes on the RR and I bought a new 4 wheeled Ifor Williams the next day!

Same goes for me! the completed engine on it's own looks fabulous would draw a good crowd on it's own. I think Carl Brown rebuilt one of these engines a few years ago but i can't remember what it was fitted into, not being too up on tanks. I remember him grinning a lot when he told me it finally ran!

Glad that helped, found it here http://www.rrbew.co.uk/FeatureHtms/F-JP-relining.htm

I suspect you are thinking of the problem that happens when new non asbestos linings are used in old type brake drums. There were many problems with early non-asbestos brake and clutch linings. These included poor friction and rapid wear, often resulting from intolerance of high temperatures for some woven materials, cracking of certain moulded linings and high abrasion leading to rapid wear on discs and drums with some pads and moulded linings. Moulded linings have also been prone to require extensive bedding in. It has not helped that some relining companies appear to have often fitted non-asbestos materials that are completely unsuited to the braking system of the particular vehicle, for example, using abrasive materials for vehicles with steel drums or fitting low friction moulded bonding material, intended for the rear brakes of cars with servos, or to pre-war motorcycle shoes. We have encountered, and rectified, many problems of this kind in recent years and now routinely advise owners of old vehicles who find their brakes are much worse after a reline that the problem is almost certainly due to the wrong material having been fitted. Nevertheless, the more serious initial problems with non-asbestos materials have been largely overcome and in recent years we have been able to use good quality high friction moulded and woven materials for relining and remanufacture of linings. In fact, the non-asbestos woven materials generally have a higher friction value than recent asbestos based materials, withstand similar or higher temperatures, form to radius more satisfactorily and tend to be better in appearance overall. For clutches for older vehicles, we have supplied very satisfactory non-asbestos linings for many years. M. Pugh 212 West End Lane, Horsforth, Leeds LSI 8 5RU Tel & Fax 0113 2583533 Specialist suppliers of brake and clutch linings, pre selector bands, cones, friction materials, disc pads, brake shoes, clutch cover assemblies, centre plates and release bearings for vehicles 1900-1980. Just found and posted this, better than me trying to explain it all, don't know anything about M. Pugh!

No better provenance than that Daz, :thumbsup: I will update index asp.

Daz, the Explorer gallery index shows another one named Thor, index no. 43, post 84 reg no. OSJ 693 any connection or just coincidence?

Presumably a MK 2 scotch, didn't fit in mine either, had to grind the bit where the pin goes and cut a bit out of the support angle iron thingy, made me wonder if there was one for trial fitting at Scammells place! Sadly this has made me look at others and there are a lot of variations about.

Runflat beat me to it The Killinger and Freund Motorrad (motorcycle) was test-driven after the engine was tested on a test stand. Its total weight was 135 kg (297 lb). [1] This design was intended for civilian production but the start of World War II cancelled those plans. One motorcycle was discovered by the US Army in the spring of 1945 at a German military installation but it is not known if this was the original prototype or another Killinger und Freund Motorrad. The disposition of that captured vehicle is not known.

Nice one Younggun, don't miss this one best ever http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/video/video_player.shtml?vid=188026

Fancy making a babe magnet like that with no pillion seat, no wonder they never cought on!

Is it me or is the (radial) engine in the front wheel, I think a little bit of the NSU Quickly is noticeable, maybe the same designer?

Thanks Lee, sorry for dragging this thread off topic.

Hi Wolfie, I reckon you'll enjoy yourself here, welcome to the mad house!

Well done Andy, :clap: Do think your new status would allow you try bending Lee's ear over dinner about restoring editing rights to the Explorer index, after all what use is it to any Scammell Fanatic oops 'serious research student' now it can't be updated?

It looks very Arrows to me, I have altered mine a bit and one easy way to check if it is made up of two trailers is to look at any welds in the chassis and look for areas with no galvanizing under the paint, this would have had to be ground off to weld and should be quite obvious . All original welds are neat and good quality, any welds done without grinding will look bad.

Don't tell us that's not really Winston in the car.

There is a tiny beach not easy to get to but very pretty, below the Fire Hills west of Hastings, we were making our way down to it when I took a snap of it with my zoom lens, and you've guessed it full of nude men all wading in the water but facing the beach! Didn't bother going, why do they get the best places?

Mark, the aerial pic is the one, about 1 1/2 mls south of Leysdown on sea, Apparently the area is now favored by nudists, possibly not this time of year though! The houses in the background are Shellness but look nearer in your pictures.

I found this, looks similar though no houses nearby. Breakwater looks the same though.

Leysdown? Leysdown on Sea was home to the first aircraft-building factory in the World, the first circular mile flight was made at Shellbeach by a British pilot in a British plane that was built on land next to Muswell Manor, in 1909?

Hi Daz, welcome to the forum, it's always a dilemma, rolling restoration or complete rebuild, I opted for rolling resto, the oily bits underneath are still oily! As you say we would all like a shed and another one to do a perfect job on but that ain't going to happen now. To post vids to HMVFTV just register and then go to upload, put in a title and description, a couple of tags, category my MV, post war, continue to upload from your PC, any probs just ask.

Looks like a mod to give a power lift to the jib, up over the pulley block and down, quite clever stuff.

Hi Sean, hadn't seen this thread before, nice work, liked those beasts on first sight, high on my wish list too!

Obviously disinformation here. Enemy spies can often be unmasked by observing their drinking habits, the Germans in this posed photo have forgotten to order English brown ale in straight glasses, preferring their Bavarian lager in jugs. :-D

That one used to belong to Mario many years ago, not a man to go round any thing when it can be driven over! Can't remember the present owners name but he sported a fine quiff and a perfect DA hairstyle, nice chap as well :-D