gritineye

Sorry joris, get yer hanky out

I built this just to sleep in at shows etc. and look military-ish, on an Arrows trailer, it is made of wood and ply, it's a little Tardis being bigger on the inside than it looks outside.

It has a hob and grill, sink, toilet, food storage, a seat along one side that can be a single or double bed, with storage underneath, and a catalitic heater

It is not insulated as I never bothered but that would be easy to do, At this size the window in the door is enough, but a small one in each side would help.

It has more lockers around the outside now, and we can be comfortable for a week, 8 people parties can be held in squeezy comfort using a few fold up chairs inside on rainy days!

I don't have pics of the inside but if it would help you to plan I could take a few in the next few days and post them.

The dipstick is the wrong one, put more oil in! you couldn't make it up! :???

A certain someone in the All Wheel Drive Club wrecked his new bogs dollocks racing engine twice for the same reason !

I received this email via my website a while ago,

can any one help, is this vehicle still around?

"hi

i like the site,

i thought you might like this pic of one of our workshop vehicles

which was in use in the fifties when i was on operation grapple on

Xmas's island i am the one on the left,

we closed down and put some of our vehicles on pontoons to be hoisted

aboard a boat to bring them back to uk.

regards

john powell ( EX R.E.M.E.)

hello again

i should have asked you if this vehicle i sent a pic of could still be around?

regards

john powell

(ex no 2 spec.eng. w/shop r.e.m.e. Christmas island)"

...Not any more, nope !

I love that picture, it says so much about the time when it was taken.

If steering wheels had been invented then, would the men be able to understand how to use it?

Respirators were made for horses too !

 

Wasn't there a report from an old Royal Horse Artilleryman who said that the new motorised gun tractors were OK "

Are you sure :eek:

After many years of the same daft questions and arguments I put this in the window, it didn't help, they still know best!

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

As I have one of the things I know EXACTALY what he means.

But do annealed springs still work?

Forcful has a very useful tilt and frame- was this a typical "in service" adaptation or a 'preservation special'?

'Preservation special' I'm afraid as he lives out doors and he can't stand moss in his lockers, a few chaps have commented that it's nice to see one with it's original tilt still fitted :whistle:

I found this while searching for Chore Horse chargers, there have been a couple of times when this tip would have got me going again!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/23/a4565423.shtml

weyyy twickenham off roaders marshals. Scammells are awesome

Staging for the Explorer drag race, also organized and marshaled by the Twickenham Off Roaders, thanks Guys and Gals you do a good job throughout the show, :clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::thanx: same again this year?

This is Angus, he used to race sidecars, he had the skill, but Forceful didn't have the speed to do him justice!

Note: short mudflaps!

You'd be very welcome, we have a good time and try to keep out of Gingers till the suns gone down :coffee:

come on then how have the rest of u lot become scammell mad and for exeplorers ?

That's between me and my shrink, he took years to tease it out of my addled brain, and even he thinks we're all bonkers :-D

Meanwhile to make it worse, here's Lightning giving his Cummins L10 a workout

A shorter version of a similar thing just for reference

http://www.milweb.net/classifieds/large_image.php?ad=41120&cat=8

Just a bit of fun

it did have a radio casset fitted in the cab i spose it was so the onwner could play a casset of a medows petrol when he was driving it :cool2:

:rofl::rofl::rofl:SEE! IT'S GETTING TO YA! and you're only looking at em, you just wait till it gets BAD, and you can't hide one under your bed so your folks can't see it, or hear it :-D

The 2.55m thing simply cannot be true for every vehicle type. There must be exemptions for 'special types' otherwise how would people like Ainscough register new heavy cranes? A quick peek at their website reveals that some of their 200+tonne wagons are 3m wide. Their fleet must change periodically and you're not telling me that they are going to be limited to 2.55m wide??? Also, what about new heavy haulage tractors? - I know most are based on commercial chassis but the really heavy ones are very wide.

 

Incidentally does this mean there may be problems with collectors who want to register newly-restored Antars, Pacifics etc.? Even the bloomin' WLF is 2.5m wide and that's not even a big truck! What about Mack NOs & NMs, White C666s etc. etc.?

 

I've been trying to find info. on 'special types' (as a vehicle type, NOT taxation status) but am struggling to find anything. Can anyone help?

 

- Mike

Try Special Type General Order.

When I bought my Scammell Explorer in 1993 I was told I was lucky to get one straight from disposal with a civillan reg no, as it was too wide to be registered then (2635 wide).Many have been put back on the road since so I can only assume that some slackness was in the system which has now been tightened up,

This may have been the reason 3 derelict Pioneers (2593 wide) were sold on ebay for £5.50 the other day!

Hi Bernard I cant get your video to run for more than a few seconds ! Any ideas mate ?

maybe you need to wait for it to load mate

I didn't see the gardener, was he standing behind the Scammell?:-D

Yep! trying to get a mobile phone signal in order to wreck the gearbox ECU to get the price down :cool2:

dosent look gd dous it ?

doesn't look too bad overall though, the drivetrain should have had an easy life and the Gardener will go on and on, windscreen and cab look good too

You trashed the rear wheel arches:confused:

Takes one to know one Mike, got it in one :clap:

I had spent the last few days straightening them, filling holes, repairing the stays, making mudflaps, fitting original lights etc. Decided not to climb further to save the new tank bottom panel then ran back over the mudflaps and pulled it all to bits, both sides! :argh:

This bank has since been climbed, the tank panel has since been battered!

the predictable results :cry:

Other wimpy type drivers took lesser routes :nono: (220 Cummins!)

And even wimpier drove the almost flat route :yawn:

A prime example of the GDSF playpen disease :-D

to see another example of this strange behavior look here about 01.50

http://www.HMVFTV.com/watch/e51891440e4da0b65a70/Heavies-playing-on-Slab-Common

An unhappy story and maybe should not have happened, I found this just now, not a lot of comfort for you though, found it here,

http://www.opsi.gov.uk/SI/si1995/Uksi_19953051_en_1.htm

A concentration of forum members may be able to dig out some more info, good luck.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

• These Regulations further amend the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986.
  

• With the exception of a locomotive (not being an agricultural motor vehicle) and a refrigerated vehicle, each of which is already subject to a maximum overall width of 2.75 and 2.6 metres respectively, the maximum overall width of any other motor vehicle is increased from 2.5 metres to 2.55 metres.
  

• The same increase in maximum overall width also applies in the case of—
  
  • (i) a trailer drawn by a motor vehicle having a maximum gross weight exceeding 3500 kg;
    

   

   

   

  • (ii) an agricultural trailer;
    

   

   

   

  • (iii) an agricultural trailed appliance;
    

   

   

   

  • (iv) an off-set combination of an agricultural motor vehicle drawing a wheeled trailer; and
    

   

   

   

  • (v) an agricultural, horticultural or forestry implement mounted rigidly but not permanently on a wheeled agricultural motor vehicle, agricultural trailer or agricultural trailed appliance.
    

   

   

   

• The definition of "overall width" in the Table in regulation 3(2) of the 1986 Regulations is amended so that in calculating the overall width of a vehicle, any guide-wheels fitted to a bus can be disregarded provided that they do not project more than 75 mm beyond the side of the bus.
  

ISBN 0 11 053685 1

Notes:

[1] 1988 c. 52. There are amendments to section 41 which are not relevant to this instrument. back

[2] S.I.1986/1078. The relevant amending instruments are S.I.1988/1871 and 1991/2125. back

maybe something like this would be easier if it fits?

http://www.witham-sv.com/infopage.php?ID=1661&Overide=1