gritineye

Interesting thread, thanks Cutaway

If we are preserving Military History, they need to be seen in all their Mighty Stature actually on the road!

I totally agree, but it gets harder every day, a couple of show organizers do sometimes pay appearance monies to larger (non steam) exhibits, for which I am very grateful, but not as a matter of course.

But then we've got these things for our own pleasure and would most likely take them out on the road anyway, so we can't really winge about the cost, and driving round in circles with nowhere to go gets boring.

If whoever buys it takes it out for us to see and hear he has my respect,:bow:impressive lads, these Antar men.

Can't help wondering just how low one has to fly to pick up the Hun on One's cannon. That'll teach him !

:??? :-D :-D :-D:rofl::rofl::rofl:

I found it here :-

 

I saw a pick-up truck referred to as an "H.R.V." on a motorcycle forum. Apparently it stands for "Harley Recovery Vehicle"

Best thing I ever saw on a pickup was when I saw a bunch of bikers with a Cadillac Eldorado stretched with 6 wheels on the side it had "Redskin Builders, heap good job"

A clip can be seen here, but it spoils the ending for those who want to watch the entire program,

http://www.channel4.com/video/scrapheap-challenge/series-10/episode-6/sink-or-swim_p_1.html

It's a Hardly Ableson, the Germans captured one once I believe :coffee:

OK then Harley Davidson. :-D

Oh B......... just read 79X100s post properly!

And he can drift a tracked vehicle with one arm out resting on the window!

Didn't see the program but just watched a clip, NLBA on the side of the boat LOL

Has it got a driven sidecar wheel?

Thanks for that fv1620, this chap is not known as 'Liquid Brain' for nothing, which suits him well!

Someone I know once told me he was stopped by a mobile speed trap officer and asked what illegal device he had fitted to jam the vascar (or whatever it was), when all he had done was to apply a fresh coat of IRR green!

In your collective opinions, was this chap in the real world or cloud cuckoo land?

Where did you go ?

Well we set off to go round the world (the Commer cost £2 :-D) but got caught up in the troubles between Greece and Turkey, when Turkey invaded Cyprus. This was interesting to say the least, but it meant we could go no further in that direction with the stamps we had on our passports, so we wandered back through France & Spain intending to winter in Morocco and then go via north Africa, heading for Gib, We never got there as we had a few close shaves and decided to go to Ireland for a bit, never got there either as a very cheap house came up! Lived in the van for over a year in all, damp & condensation was an issue in the UK as my wife got rheumatism while living in the van here! All better now though, loved it.

Thanks guys but it is just a product of having had a string of camper vans since the seventies when I converted a Commer walk-through van for our big Hippy Trip.

As promised here are some interior pics,

No insulation is fitted but this would be easy to do at any time.

Note low tech water system, small drinking water can, it is often a long way to the tap! a larger one is kept for washing.

Sink folds to access toilet, this could possibly be improved by installing a

cassette type that can be emptied form out side the pod, as well as a SOG system, http://www.outdoorbits.com/system-kits-motorhomes-p-26.html

I have one of these in my Ducato camper van and it is very effective as smells are sucked out side, (real men may skip this bit) but it does get away from the KISS principal.

Mattresses are old sun lounger ones, just happened to fit. A small dog can sleep in the space beside the box to warm ones feet.

The cover held in place with wing nuts is a bad design fault, i had a louvred panel laying about and thought it would fit above the bed for a through draft, unfortunately it lined up perfectly with Forceful's rear wheel so after driving to an event in a heavy down pour the bedding was soaking wet all over! :rofl:hence the cover!

Back rest makes up double bed, easy with one hand in the hole and the other underneath it balances nicely.

And so to bed. :yawn:

There is ventilation above the door and a gap at the bottom of the door to allow any leaking gas to drain out.

As can be seen the design would still work even with around 300mm less floor width on narrower vehicles.

There was one for sale at Beltring, I was walking by when the buyers were negotiating, can't remember the price though.

You have sourced some good components there, I suspect the finished camper will look very authentic. I will post some interior pics soon.

The wooden sections referred to on traction engines wheels were blocks bolted as a tyre to reduce road noise on cobbled streets in villages. The wooden blocks as tyres in wet weather were not the most stable to operate with as slippery surfaces resulted and a loss of traction.

 

In the photos of the Ransome wheels we have here, the wooden sections are packers and not part of a tyre.

The steel band for the tyre is 755 mm ID where as the Ransome wheel is 720mm OD.

The 755 mm is the same as on an American truck here on solid tyres so the question is posed if this was an American size of wheel and has been adapted to fit on the small wheel.

Doug:coffee:

The wheels I refer to were constructed with the tyre being held on in the same way as your picture, the wooden blocks were in fact low angle 'folding wedges' driven in from each side to adjust and centralize the tyre on the wheel, to remove the tyre they could be knocked out again. After the steel tyre was secure the ends of the uneven ends of the wedges were trimmed off.

It would be interesting to examine your wheels to see if in fact the wood is comprised of wedges (at 11.58 oclock in your pic) if so it may be that someone remembered this old way of doing things and used it to modify these wheels.

That was me !

Yer bugger, and I fell for it HLAS

last week a chap walked past my Explorer, looked at the newly applied F.V.R.D.E. markings on the wing and said " it'll be alright when you get the proper R.E.M.E. markings on it!:argh: I have a sneaky feeling he may well have visited this forum though!

Today, the inevitable happened again when a chap came up and spoke the immortal words "I know the bloke who keeps one of these beside the road at Horsebridge":pfrt:

Damned RIOs

There have been old official works pictures of traction engines with wheels assembled with wood blocks like that in Old Glory steam magazine, although using steel tyres, and some have been restored. So they may possibly have been manufactured like that, but why, with rubber tyres as well I can't imagine.

Graham at Cuckoo Fair last weekend

The same style of boat as the one in the question, with a long pole carrying the explosive charge. It would appear the illustrated drawing of the Russian boat has the pole in a transport or loading position, prior to it been moved forward.

Doug:coffee:

Do you mean the enemy ship was just sort of poked with an explosive stick?:eek: And this was considered to be a good idea? Please tell me there was more to it than that! It seems a bit Kamikaze

almost as daft as a steam submarine! :rolleyes:

Far fetched I know, but it looks to me like it is a torpedo boat and the torpedo used the firework rocket on a stick principal of guidance, with the prop on the nose.

What I want to know is who had the tracks out from behind the cab? I was once told that was the place to look for some overall tracks to fit my Explorer as they were never used on those things and too hard to bother get out. Any truth in that chaps?

Even I get asked Q12, Bernie........ :???.........see you at Tinkers. :-D

 

Andy

Andy, I can believe it, but I thought you were going to pull me up on Q5, oh bother I'll have to redo it now, although it's not all over DOG!

Sunny Tinkers next, see ya!

A pioneer we towed home started first time after standing 20 odd years, diesels are better than petrol engines as the bores are protected to some degree by the fuel, petrol washes them clean. and electrics aren't involved.