Mark Ellis

4 hours ago, Mk3iain said:

I have some EB manuals in paper form but Croc who used to be on here scanned them and put them on Facebook. 🥴

My bad, I forgot that Steve (Croc) did copy the scanned EB manuals to me. Thanks Steve !

I'll send them to you tomorrow along with other stuff.

I'll look forward to that.

Mean whilst, here's a different view of the Stalwart Instruction hull. It's a Mark 1 hull

20 minutes ago, Mk3iain said:

Fantastic work and open to all !

Needs a section on Eager Beavers though  😁

I've spent 3 years wasting time with Kustartilleri officer who think the KA is a secret cult that no body knows about, with equipment that no other organisation in the world had. Still lots to be prised out of those &*&*s, who have clearly never heard of Russian and American spy planes and satellites 🙄 

I now have contact with people who were involved with the Italian Stalwart in 1963, and Sri Lanka in the 80s. 

I'm struggling to get owners of Hydra cooking stands to give me the missing dimensions, despite some of them wanting the other dimensions so that they can make their own Hydra stands

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Wdp7DGbzTXBPC3LP9MU-DObv0wXjwwPT/view?usp=sharing

But most of the help has come through Facebook 😉

If you have any Eager Bever manuals, than ping them this way

2 minutes ago, Mk3iain said:

Mark, I know of folk that live in Facebook but that's not for me or many others.  I also know folk who do use this and other forums purely as a source to feed the Facebook habit, many do not contribute to the forums.  I think it is well known that  Facebook is having a negative effect on specialist forums in general.

Each to their own.

Each to their own. But I'll still use every resource available to gather evidenced fact for my website, especially compared to the utter tosh that gets broadcast on websites like Wikipedia and some of the books that have been published based on thought.

There is much evidence still out there which has still yet to see the public light of day, and needs coaxing out into the daylight 😉

My site (which needs updating) is here
https://sites.google.com/view/alvis-stalwart-hmlc-files

@Mk3iain the images might all get on here one day, but they're certainly not at the moment.

Not quite sure as to why you think a Facebook group would undermine a web forum. There's many that never get outside of Facebook, the same as there's many who would never enter into Facebook - because it's the unknown wicked world of evil and temptation 😉 

In an attempt to one day get better images of the Alvis FV600 sectional hulls, I've set up a group on Facebook to encourage people to share any images they have of Instructional or Sectioned military hulls.

If you do have any images of such vehicles, do please share them by winging them this way.

The group is at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1148269459635844

Instructional Stalwart, which apparently was at Shrivenham. The Detroit Locker (side to side) differential is the white ball in the black transfer box 😉

The Alvis Saracen Instructional hull, which was at ASMT Leconfield

The Alvis Scorpion Sectioned hull, which I think is at Shrivenham.

Apparently, this was at the Royal Military College of Science at Shrivenham - which is just east of Swindon along the Oxford road.

Now called The Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, they tell me that they have no record of it, but it probably went to a museum 

Bit of a funny request.

My Stolly/Bedford website is slowing gathering workshop and user manuals for various vehicles.

I've been offered a row of truck workshop manuals, which takes up 32 inches of shelf space. This is from a closed truck garage.

The problem is that I'm on the south coast of Dorset, and they're near Manchester.

I wonder if there's anyone who comes down from Manchester area, or anyone who occasionally visits Manchester area - than could bring these south for me. Even getting them to Birmingham or Milton Keynes would be a massive step in the right direction.

All the files on my website are free for anyone to download.

https://sites.google.com/view/alvis-stalwart-hmlc-files

It's about helping others to keep their old vehicles out of the scrap yard.

Many thanks

Mark

11 minutes ago, Citroman said:

In sweden they have day driving lights, maybe this was installed later to upgrade the truck to the new laws?

In 1974 the Swedish carried out a number of modifications to their Stalwarts. The Mk1 had hydraulic winches mounted on the front. The Mk 1 and 2 had FOCO cranes fitted. The cab roof spotlight was removed, and various things were welded on, etc.

The Mark 2 dashboard had the hour timer removed, oil temperature gauges added for engine, gearbox and transfer box, and  the lighting switches changed.

The original dash

The revised dash of 1974

I am advised today that

"The lighting button has three positions: off, low beam, and high beam. You select the mode by pulling out the button."

It is one of three switches that deal with lights

Well some people were clearly spoilt. Ours were all concrete, apart from the metal centre for the fuse - and a very short rope handle, designed to take your knuckle skin off on the concrete.

I've received the following from the RE museum today

 

Good afternoon Mark,

I have checked our records and can confirm that we no longer have the FV437. Unfortunately, there is no paperwork associated with it, though I did speak to several colleagues who have worked here for considerable time and they do not have memory of the vehicle being in the collection, so it would have been many years ago.

You also requested any information on the FV432. This is the information from the catalogue and display that we have; unfortunately there is no paperwork associated with this vehicle:

200708.2: An FV432 Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) and Bar Mine Layer; fitted with bar mine layer (trailer) and ranger (roof) mine laying systems. On the roof is a Ranger anti-personnel mine-laying system. This rapidly throws down mines to prevent the passage of enemy troops. It could scatter 1296 mines in under six minutes. The APC tows a Barmine layer; these are mines designed to disable enemy tanks. It could lay around 700 per hour.

Engine: Rolls-Royce K60 multi-fuel

It would have been used in Germany (BAOR) but also in the Gulf War.

Mines: L9 Anti-Tank Barmine, L10 Anti-Personnel Mine

Weight: 15 tons

Crew: 2 plus passengers

Speed: 32 mph (unladen)

2 hours ago, wally dugan said:

the symbols look like full and dip so could be as simple as  PUSH DIP SWITCH

Could be. But the floor switch is still installed. And I don't think the Swedish would leave that if they had a new one. I think it's the vehicle lights, as in side and head. 
I just thought that maybe it's been used in Volvo army trucks or some other Swedish thing, and one of the members might recognise it.

22 minutes ago, Citroman said:

Is there no makers mark on the back?

But I'm wondering if it's a Hella 2 stage pull switch. 
Will try to get him to find a younger volunteer, to jump in the cab and see how it works.

7 minutes ago, Citroman said:

Is there no makers mark on the back?

Photo kindly provided by an 85 year old in Sweden, who climbed into the Stalwart cab for me.

Hi all,

Wondered if anyone has ever seen a light switch like this. It's fitted to a Swedish Stalwart. Swedish Coastal Artillery appear to have redone the dash board when they did other works around 1974. 
The main Swedish forum I rely on appears to have gone off the internet.

Thanks

Hi all,

I wonder if anyone has any decent photos of Alvis' Stalwart Demonstration hull. This was dragged around numerous shows, Commercial Motor shows, etc.

Or maybe someone knows what happened to it?

Thanks

18 hours ago, SimonBrown said:

The photo is me as a small nipper and was taken (I think) at Bovington Tank Museum in the early 70s. Tank included for scale.

But the question for the HMVF pool of knowledge...what is the tank is in the photo?

I think its a Centurion...but is it?

Well, back in those days the floating Centurion was still there - compared to when they dumped it on the ranges. So it might have been that one, or this one if they've taken the side skirt supports off.

No idea if this one is still there 

Just wondering if anyone has any drawings, or anything with dimensions for the Hydra cooking stands please? For the number 1 burner.

Some people want to get some made now, as they seem impossible to find.

Stands, Cooking, Mk. 5 - 2-Container (Cat. No. JB12755)

Stands, Cooking, Mk. 5 - 3-Container (Cat. No. JB12756).

Any help gratefully received. 

Thanks

Woolwich

Woolich

2 hours ago, andym said:

Are we absolutely sure that was the case, Mark?  Some drawings or interior photos would be really helpful.

Andy

As well as what David said, I shared a screenshot on Page 1 of the area next to the driver being flat plate 

18 minutes ago, ltwtbarmy said:

I managed to find this publication online if anyone’s interested. Happy new year everyone!

https://boxartden.com/reference/gallery/index.php/AFV-Profiles/FV-432-Series

It's amazing that no one mentions the engine being in the middle of the vehicle. 

They put a Stalwart up against a hovercraft, at that site near Matchams on the Dorset border.

Someone said they had a copy of the film, but it's not materialised yet.

I wonder if the Alvis / Westland one is there as well?

1 hour ago, wally dugan said:

CLIVE was looking for  a list of foreign manufactured armour at FVRDE  and remembered  FV426 mockup sorry do not have a picture or drawings  but funny the other day my wife watched a salvage hunters from the hovercraft museum and there was a number of FVRDE mockups from beverley and the westland helicopter made out of wood on truck the museum at beverley had a large collection of mockup models from FVRDE BOVINGTON collected some when l was there

This place ?
https://www.hovercraft-museum.org/collections/ 

1 hour ago, Tarland said:

 

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That's brilliant. Thank you for that, @Tarland