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Would a 2BA bolt (4.699mm dia) suitable? https://www.ba-bolts.co.uk/steelrnd.html

Another example of a black star:- This new M4A3E8 tank is covering highway H-4 outside Bastogne, Belgium on 8 January 1945. The tank is parked at the edge of a field along the highway in a hull down position. Source:- https://mikesresearch.com/2019/01/27/m4a3e8-sherman/ 10. Unit markings.—Gasoline solvent paint or paint as prescribed by the War Department will be used. a. Unit markings.—National symbol. (3) Whenever requirements for camouflage and concealment outweigh the requirements for recognition, the national symbol may be covered by lusterless olive-drab gasoline solvent paint, camouflage nets, oil and dirt, etc., or will be removed. Source:- http://www.lonesentry.com/panzer/jeep-markings.html

A Briggs and Stratton 8GB is the or one of the engines used on the quad 50 cal Stationary Engine Collectors maybe able to help you:- https://www.facebook.com/groups/56806961770/?ref=share

What is on the plate in the second photo?

WWII Military Allied Vehicle Stars explained:- https://armyvehiclemarking.com/blog/2018/03/22/alliedstar/

There are companies that cast reproduction plates. Just one example:- https://www.falon-nameplates.co.uk/our-products/land-rover/

XML is a London registration.

I'm not sure what the Bedford hinges look like but are either of these correct? https://www.vintagecarparts.co.uk/products/389-container-door-hinge-self-align https://www.johncraddockltd.co.uk/lr075817-hinge-lower-rear-safari-door-and-rh-front-lower-series-22a-also-centre-on-3-hinge-safari-door.html

1949 for 2 numbers, followed by 2 letters, and another 2 numbers. In the immediate post-war period British Army vehicles were painted in high gloss Deep Bronze Green. More information in Clive Elliott's "British Army Green Paint BritishArmyGreenPaintsElliott2.pdf

To paint the inside, a giant wool or foam mop might work. The image is of a shotgun cleaning mop.

Sorry, no idea of the vehicle(s) but the filter is still available https://filters.filpro.com/item/v/vokes/c6358256

Could the red run just be because of the colourisation of something on the roundel or of a mark/damage on the black and white photo?

Have you seen these? https://www.trucksnl.com/trucks/bedford

Back issues are available including the April one:- https://shop.kelsey.co.uk/issue/HCM

Have you looked at liquid masking tape?

From:- British AFV Camouflage, 1939-45 Version 2.6 August 2001: AMENDED 30th APRIL 2019 by Michael Starmer. Mike Starmer and Mike Cooper 1944-45 – The final change in colour came in April 1944 when A.C.I. 533 authorised S.C.C.15 Olive Drab for use as the new basic colour, to remove the need to repaint U.S. supplied vehicles. S.C.C.15 Olive Drab was used to replace the old S.C.C.2 in M.T.P.46 patterns or on its own particularly after the abandonment of pattern painting with ACI 1100 of August 1944 except on vehicles still in S.C.C.2. S.C.C.15 Olive Drab was the first colour in this standard range to be formally named. It does not match U.S. Army Olive Drab No.9. https://www.mafva.org/british-vehicle-camouflage-1939-45/

Contents of the first aid kit:- https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1008777

Newton Derby maybe able to help you with the sensor. Grangefield House Richardshaw Road Pudsey, Leeds LS28 6QS Call us. Tel: 0113 255 5666 Fax: 0113 257 2206 Email us. Email: sales@winder.co.uk https://newtonderby.co.uk/

Key Aviation Forum. https://www.key.aero/forum

The glass for the 52mm gauges measures 48mm diameter. https://www.merlinmotorsport.co.uk/p/smiths-spare-glass-lens-for-classic-gauges-cb-glass?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=ShoppingUK&utm_campaign=ShoppingUK&vat=on&currency=GBP&gclid=CjwKCAjwp-X0BRAFEiwAheRui7YdnJA0kTJ72s13Kk7icliA5XAO_inEkLkUbXn6HnQd0g9etsBv7hoCwF8QAvD_BwE

Making for a museum is covered:- Section 37 provides various defences to the new offence. It makes it a defence to show that the manufacture, importation, sale or modification was only for the purpose of making the realistic imitation firearm available for: a museum or gallery theatrical performances and rehearsals of such performances the production of films and television programmes the organisation and holding of historical re-enactments crown servants.

Example of VCR applying to the PIAT https://www.real-gun.com/replica-piat.html Example of VCR applying to a mortar https://www.milweb.net/classifieds/large_image.php?ad=78864&cat=57

An interesting video

Would it have to have been tested by the military to be available with a subsidy?

Found this post on Land Rover Series One Club forum (Reply #247):- No...this sort of extra reflector remains the one thing that makes the rear of any trailer distinctive. At the time the post war Brockhouse trailers were made they might have had a single or pair of T shaped ones ...an arrangement of small round red reflectors against a white background. On a vintage display trailer you might get away with this. But I suspect that traffic police would be looking for the modern pair of regulation triangles if someone ran into the back of you. I am sorry but I have to argue against that popular misconception. What you say is true only of trailers built on or after 1st July 1970. Road vehicle lighting regulations say that any trailer needs two rear retro reflectors. That I do not dispute. Reg 18 and Schedule 1 states all vehicle and trailers must have rear retro reflectors, without any exceptions. Schedule 18 of the 1989 act and Reg 3 EEC directive 76/757 require that any trailer (other than a broken down motor vehicle being towed) manufactured on or after 1.7.70 must have a pair rear retro reflectors that show certain approval marks. (The reflectors can only have the approval mark if they are triangles, the size and shape being part of their design that allows them to carry that mark, ie they will a triangle Length of side 150 to 200mm etc or they cannot gain that mark). Slightly different requirements apply to trailers manufactured between 1.7.70 and 1.10.89, to the requirements that apply to those manufactured after that date but that doesn't concern my trailer or an early Brockhouse. (Requirement relate to approval markings the retro reflectors must carry.) There is a requirement for a pre 1.1.70 to be fitted with rear retro reflective makers (schedule 1) but there is no requirement as to the shape, size or any markings they must carry (schedule 18 5. (b) (iii)) The Roset trailer I am towing is 1953 hence pre 1.7.70, so the only requirement is that it has two rear retro reflectors, which it has. They are round, which is acceptable since there is no requirement for them to be triangular or to have any markings or for them to be in any particular position on a trailer of this date. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1796/contents/made http://www.lrsoc.com/forum/index.php?topic=11701.240