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Sean don't believe so, I have never unearthed anything to suggest changes to wheelbases. I think its an illusion created because the flatbed ends at the rear short of the rear crossmember, whereas on the gun tractor RAF GS and later RAF flatbeds they all overhung. Also the rear mudguard appears to be a slightly larger radius and is mounted higher as is the actual bed . TED

Hi Ian, hope this finds you well in the sunny south; Yes & No the chassis cab are no different but, The flatbed is slightly higher and a lot shorter that the RAF ( both early & late pattern flatbeds ) ones, It has a spare wheel with handling derick behind the cab and much beefier towing attachments at the rear; An interesting subject for model makers; I am told it was finished in gloss deep bronze green gloss. regards TED

Afraid once again Pat Ware is Dreaming and Steve Richards has made an assumption RGX was one of the registration blocks used by Ministry vehicles on experimental and research establishments, RGX 309 was one of a pair which were purpose built for the Ministry of Supply to use on the test ranges at PENDINE in the early 1950s. The statement saying" until acceptance by the RAF" is not accurate- Raf vehicles being subject to research test conditions would normally bear an RAF Reg or manufacturers trade plates; There were occassions when Ministry vehicles swapped their civillian plates for military or vice versa; such as when Establishments on re-organisations of government depts, moved from Ministry to direct military control or vice versa, TED

Thanks for sharing the shots- i wonder if the Officer's Mess silver was in the back of the truck ?? A very understated aircraft the old Wellington. mmy cousin Died in a 12 Sqn wellington on the first thousand bomber raid on Cologne shot down by flak just south of Shipol airport which of course at the time was a heavily defended Luftwaffe base. Sorry I digress but I alway think of him when Wellingtons are mentioned. TEd

I have a SUBSCRIPTION on CMV which runs out after one more issue; I also used to buy MMI on an Ad Hoc basis but little of its content was interesting to me. Maybe it's my age and I am becoming a total moaner -but more and more errors are appearing in CMV- I find Pat Ware's articles lacking in content and rarely contain new images. They are often full of errors which show he actually has little real knowledge of the subjects, a classic is in his FORD article this issue he says all military Fords were badged Fordson but in all his images in the article its clearly Ford, his Gipsy article could have been much more informative with far more content on the Home Office use. He gives the two FV numbers allotted to the short & long wheelbase models, saying they were both termed the 4GM10 by Austin- sorry Pat the long wheelbase was designated 4GM15. And then there was the series on US 6x4 & 6x6trucks of WW2- the author always gave litres in brackets after quoting capacities in Gallons- a pity his knowledge was so narrow that he didn't know a US gallon was a good bit smaller than an imperial one. I gave up writing to both magazines, MMI never acknowledged correspondence let alone publish it! Afraid I definitely won't be taking out another subscription to CMV.

Yes The HO was the same BS 224 Deep Bronze Green Gloss

Welcome, I spent 2 fantastic tours in Germany - your group looks very busy -well done. Ted

Oh yes the exhaust got HOT !! still looking for a picture for you

The trailer was used to carry the PALOUSTE gas turbine air starter for V Bombers, buccaneers and a handful of other RAF aircraft. As far as we were concerned it is not a roadgoing trailer but for slow towing on camp roads , flightlines taxiways etc; I will try and find a picture of one in its original form.

This style was used later in WW2 , no charging set like the early ones had, they were taken to the battery charging room for recharge. There is a bar just in front of each wheel, the tow bar pivots from just above the axle, the bars are connected to the tow bar. when uncoupled from the tractor the tow bar dropped down until the bars contacted the tyres This acted as the parking brake ! the plug on the cable was stowed in a receptacle on the lid; the position of this varied. the one in the picture is very likely post WW2 as it has the holed rims. These remained in RAF service until the very late 1990s when they were replaced by a new bit of kit that had on on board 7 KW charging set- talk about full circle- Oh yes the new bit of kit was absolute garbage.

My personal Landie in the Falklands in 95 was a 3 door 110 with a V8 then when I returned to UK I found the RAF Police on my station were operating the next vehicle in reg sequence- I found out they were a batch taken up from LR from a cancelled export order- Now moving to the 5 door station wagon the RAF Mountain Rescue Service operated these with a V8 The V8 was required for long distance blue light runs which diesels at the time couldn't cope with. In MR service we normally removed the very rear inward facing seats to accomadate secure cabinets for medical drugs and pyro such as flares; So here is another possibility; If you look on various websites you will see LRs were accepted in many colours for non tactical use- in the Falklands we had civillian glossy green, blue white to name a few; In the UK many in the gossy green. You need to get the vehicle record card and all will be revealed ! TED PS I have just found a picture of 11KJ 75 in MR service at RAF Leeming and at my last station RAF Leuchars there was 11KJ 89 & 90 with the MR service . so I am confident MR service was the origin of yours ! They were all delivered in a glossy green to BS 381c tint 241. The RAF uses this colour or should I say used this colour for non tactical vehicles.

Woderful work Tony regards TED

Richard, no problem getting MLU through my BT broadband- my problem is the BB is so slow I struggle to get certain forums/sites to open Good Luck TED

I can see the pictures of Neil's CD truck BUT not the truck in question the links to the pictures are corrupted ????

google Airborne & SAS jeeps and then go into the facebook for it- I am not a FB member but hit on the link whilst researching these jeeps. go into photos there is a drawing that shows the hole pattern and shows the dimension between the 2 rows of holes. good luck TED

Thanks Wally regards TED

I had exactly those symptoms and it turned out to be the rotor arm- it was a brand new LUCAS product, I fitted another one same problem- put the old original one in I retrieved from the dustbin and its been good ever since- when you open the carb in addition to checking needle function etc check that the float has not become pourous good luck TED

Correct, mine was green great bit of kit but mine was nicked a fair number of ground trades wore the blue though.

A Gipsy would be the icing on the cake for your column ! TED

All due to a mispent life I won't tell you how many of those towing arms i fixed over the years ! you will note a very limited lock. TEd

This chassis dates from early 1950s and was designed to carry 4 cylinders of gas. this could be oxygen, air dry air, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, breathing quality air. In the attached it is configured to carry nitrogen. The container on the box contains a pressure regulater and associated valves and gauges. In later years surplus chassis were employed in various roles on airfields. Towing speed was 5 mph, manufactured in a blue colour, to BS 169 known in the BS table as Traffic Blue. We refered to the colour as ground equipment blue. at various times yellow was employed as the colour for this type of kit, later in 1974 we went over to BS 285 NATO green on mist operational airfields. This colour blue was much brighter than the Blue grey colour used on MT vehicles. The equipment was replaced in the late 1990s !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi Diego, Sorry but I don't have any frame numbers for Jeeps, good luck with your research regards TED

Duncan you definately need a Gipsy for your convoy ! TED

Yes that is it the other 6x4 open cab types have a handle on the outward face TED

Hopefully sorted the PC so much easier to move between messages Firstly I have found a positive ID feature foir the bridging truck it is as Degsy stated its an Albion model Albion BY5 the recognition feature is the grab handle on the forward edge of the cab side- There is a grab handle on all the various 6x4 types but the Albion is the only one with it in this location, the rear body is a Bridging FBE to give it its full title Folding Boat Body No 1 Mk11 by Weymans - it is the onlt variant of the bridging trucks with that high locker arrangement behind the cab- I will stick my neck out and say it is only this variant that carries the spare wheel as seen in the picture at message 17 all the other variants carry it behind the cab. re The Fordsons with the motor cycles in the back are WOT3 4x2 The WOT3A was a 1 tonner the BCD & E were 30 cwt. For your interest the WOT1 was a 6x4 3 tonner sharing an identical cab with the WOT3; The WOT2 was a smaller vehicle of 15cwt capacity. TED