Lauren Child

174 now... Something's not adding up.

The WS19 remote control was "Wireless Remote Control Unit 'E'", which was a modification (the extra key switch at the top right hand side of the case) of the earlier WRCU 'B' used with the Wireless Sets 2, 3 and 9. Most of the "B" units appear to have been converted in this way.

 

Chris.

Thanks Chris

Not sure if this is the right one, but remote controls were used with the Wireless Set 19 with a special junction box to extend a station outside of the vehicle over 2-wire cable.

Welcome along! That sounds like a great garage

Welcome along!

You may want to ask your question on the British vehicles part of the forum

How do you come to be interested in military vehicles?

Welcome along!

Welcome along!

Welcome along Marco!

Do you have any picures of the limo? We'd love to see!

Welcome along!

Any particular favourite vehicles, or just anything big and green?

Welcome along!

The RLC museum hold the vehicle record cards, so they are your best starting point - see if they can track it down

Have you got any photos of your newly restored Matchless? We'd love to see them.

Always nice to see another tank girl. We seem to be a rare breed but there's a few of us on here

I think a visit to the tank museum is in order, its a 6 hr drive from here but I could kill 2 birds with one stone and get some measurements for the chassis. How does one gain access to their archive?

 

Regards,

 

Jon

Theres a website here - best bet is to email them first though, so you can get an understanding of what they've got.

http://www.tankmuseum.org/schools-and-research/bovart52876

There are some good reports on the Panzer 3 & 4 turret and armament, and the Panzer 4 tank itself. I'd be surprised if there weren't equivalent reports on the Panzer 2, but you'll need to check on what they have.

Nice one!

Have you contacted the Tank Museum archives? There are some really good intelligence reports on the Panzers which break out subassemblies and components with photos and drawings. If they've got one on the Panzer 2 it might help you a lot

TTFN

Lauren

Looking at the map on the Battlesbury report, it doesn't look that close to Netheravon.

The detail that you are talking about is fantastic - but the mischievous sense of humour in me thinks we could now add almost anything

"Don't forget the feather edge to the drivers seat, and the dancing girls, just behind the band!"

lauren i also got that book for xmas

LOL, great minds and all that

Hopefully they will look like this. I have finally found my old slides (dated March 1981), converted them to JPEGs, reduced the size and here they are. One interesting point is the symbol on the front stowage bin (last pic) - it appears to be 79th AD which blows all my theories regarding 9th AD out of the window.

 

Possibly Bovington will have a record of what it was like before they restored it. The fifth pic is looking downwards through the turret opening.

Just reading David Fletcher's Crusader and Covenanter Cruiser Tanks 1939-45 (Osprey Press), a Christmas present.

Apparently the 13/18th Hussars recieved Covenanters in August 1941. This regiment transferred from the 9th to the 79th with Covenanters and Crusaders before converting into a DD regiment. That's probably where this one comes in

Sounds like a management post !!!!:cool2:

On the contrary, I'm not on the volunteer MV committee there any more and haven't been for many years.

Maybe Caddy can enlighten us with what he's found, but I'd prefer to wait for info, rather than condemn based on half of a rumour.

I honestly don't think you've got anything to worry about at Duxford. I'm feeling more positive about the place than I have in years.

Lets can the rumouring and naysaying until theres something concrete.

Congratulations Rob!

I'm surprised nobody has posted this, Royal Marines guide to the modern officers ration pack.

Buyer beware! I did this with the intention of gifting the card to the vehicle's first ever driver in service and guess what? The record card was blank for the first 12 years of service history! As much use as a chocolate camel in a Libyan desert! I agitated, 'goods not fit for purpose' and eventually received a refund in full (£30).

The vehicle concerned, if you've not guessed in following my Libya thread in Research area, is the Scammell Explorer 94BD17.

You will be seeing more of this magnificent vehicle in desert sand colours soon; sand-coloured Hippos too and and .... RL Binners galore and even more of K9s and another Scammell Explorer that we've seen before on here, 94BD27!

I think that's a little unfair. You're paying for the museum (a non profit organisation) to find the card (if it exists at all). It's not up to them what's on it, if it's there at all, you're simply paying for them to find and scan it.

Hihi

 

Been on the forum for a while before registering.

 

Researching and looking into getting myself a Tatra 813 (ideally a double cab for all the room) because it makes perfect practical sense on the edge of london to have a 9 metre long soviet era truck destroying all the speedbumps!.

Nice one! Welcome along

That's the V765 scheme. If you have the old log book it is a resonably easy process.

Google V765

Thanks

For me, I have a bike with an old registration doc, and I'd like to recover the original registration number.