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Thanks richard, dont disappear please mate i may need some advice.

hello, I'm without my manual and having trouble with the bedford, can someone tell me the firing order please, i need to get it running tonight and my manuals an hour away.

To be honest mate it wouldn't suprise me if they did only make just one. Have a look at this thread for the picture of an Mw fitted with an AA gun http://www.hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?t=10507&page=7 With the AA gun it was only the prototype which was on an early chassis, it only went in to production on the later ones.

Bart Vandveens Kalidascope of vauxhall bedford states at least one Mw was made into a K-type machinery truck. As you can see from the picture it was a later type Mw. The other picture you have posted is of a 1943 Mw made to look like an early mw, it is now restored back to its original cabbed spec. the picture you have posted is the only picture i have seen of the K-type machinery trucks, i've never seen a restored one if one exsists.

hello mate The MWG was the gun carrage not the welder, I think there is a picture of an MW with a welding set on in barts bedford bible, i'll have a read up on it later, but i think you'll find it was only the later cabbed Mw's that had them on, and it was the early type, Aeroscreen, that were MWG's, the MWG's were just a modified gs body. Have you got any pictures of your Mw or any others over there. Reading in Bart's book, there was only one MW modified to the Machinery k light truck role, carring murex electric welding equipment, so i think you'll be hard pushed to find one, from what it says it was a modified MWD GS truck. Sirhc has a nice flat bed that a welding set would go onto, or if you really want to be different stick a polsten AA gun on it. I can tell you the aeroscreens may look fun, but i wouldn't take the full screen a doors off to put them on. I had i nine hour trip in mine and for six of them it was raining, no fun at all!! How many Mw's do you think there is in NZ?

Yeah i've seen my boots, was quite touched you take a picture of my boots!! Yet another failing of the weekend, new pair of boots needed!! Patweasle touching words will stay with me "well done your trucks running now your ***** your tent" straight to the point, love that. I'm still bloody knackered, hopefully i'll make it for a couple more days next year.

Yeah the power of the forum certainly worked for me!! The oil pressure gauge developed a leak on the way home, crimped the pipe and all was well. It started raining just after the M25 and did so all the way home. Even without the traffic on the M25 it still took me 8 hours. all good fun and well worth the trip to meet some faces off here. Thanks again mate

I'd only just arrived after a 19 hours trip. I was hoping to arrive friday morning, but the truck let me down so i arrived late. But to be honest i'd totaly missed this event. Got to meet a few members on saturday night when the fuel pump packed up. Big thanks to the fantastic Mr catweasle for all his help, i wish i'd took a picture of him sat on his play mat with the fuel pump in a number of bits. Thanks to the chap in the picture above, i've forgot your name, who treked back to dig monktons to get us some tools. Sorry we'd sorted it by the time you got back!! and to everyone else who held the bonnet for me.

Snapper, Can you tell me who the photographer with the white hair and beard is? I think he's on the end in photo 4336. I was in the ring on the sunday and i think he took some pictures of me coming over one of the mounds.

Nice site, MEH 224 is the one my dad restored, its now Dsu 600

This is an intresting one. I know with the bedfords some cab pannels were similar to pre war ones. The O type cab of course, was used for allot of bedford models, and it was also used on the scammell scarab. I think there are slight variations between different manufactures, i dont think bedford o type cabs are the same as the austin K type, there just very similar, i think its just the style of truck at the time.

I completely forgot about this thread. Thanks for the comments, a lot of hard work went into "willow" and it paid off in france, i'm glad i got it right!! David i remember you dashing about on the beach whilst i was busy fending people off the truck. Thats is a real shame i missed you hanno i think there was only one day I left the mw and went out in the car, are you going to war and peace?

It says, "Items that are or could be used for military purposes". what exactly does that mean? lots of cilivian vehcles could be used for military purpose, and in fact are, is every landrover that goes to france going to need one of these? My truck was used for a military purpose once, but i wouldn't fancy it's chances now, does that make me exempt? :-D And it does say "certain items". So maybe it won't apply to everyone.

No don't lock or delete this thread, it's great. I think sirhc has got a fair point. But i guess it's down to the owner what they choose to do with there vehicle. I'm not sure if this point has been made already, but to me it's a bit wrong to show a vehicle as i wouldn't have been. Are you not then offending the people who served with these vehicles? To me, apart from the many hours of pleasure i get from working on the truck, its also way of remembering and respecting the scarifices made by these people, and making sure our history isn't forgotten. I'm not saying everything should look like it's just left the factory, but when its out of keeping with it's possible servce history. In the past i have heard comments from veterans that their vehicles were never like that, and have seen the offence this can cause, after all they did take a alot of pride in there vehicles. "rivet countrers" Ha, You'll all need them one day, when posts go up on here it's usually a rivet counter who'll answer it. We were told by a veteran once that they had to be able rebuild a bedford QL transfer case, in the dark, he went on to tell us how many bearing were in each race, and how he had to count them in. So i guess he's a bearing counter!! it is bloody annoying:argh: to see something published that is incorrect. But as long as everyone enjoy's what they are doing them hey good luck to you all. :-D

I know there's listings but i was looking for people's reccomendations of the best ones.

I starting to look for the remaining parts to finish the Mw. Apart from war and peace, stoneliegh, and malvern most of the autojumbles seem to have disappeared, or you just don't get the same standard of rusty metal you used to. I was talking to another forum member and he mentioned some i'd never heard of, so i was wondering how many more there are. any suggestions, i wouldn't mind some european ones if there are any.

Thats the one, thanks. You can see how its supported to, so thats what that holes for!! Is that the picture you were thinking of mick or is there a better one?

hello, I've just been talking to another Mw owner and there is a drawing of the tail pipe in one of the later manuals, i only have the 1940 manual, does anyone have a later manual?

A couple from a brochure i got off ebay. Has anyone heard of this place before, looking in the backgroung of the shots theres plenty of vehicles lined up.

Thanks maurice, i'll bear that in mind. I did wonder why you'd only got the tail pipe done. I've come across this problem before when i wanted a stainless exhaust for a golf, i was never sure why they didn't do the front pipe.

Hello, Well i do have a couple :blush:, It come's from the front, over the rear axle, and out the back, I've got on mine, an original front pipe, and an original silencer, so i'm going to use those as templates, to have some made out of stainless, the tail pipe on mine is a peice of flexy pipe, so i'm going to have one fabricated once the front pipe and box are fitted. It dose show the exhaust on the lubrication diagram, but its no tthe kind of thing there's many pictures of. I think as long as it's made exactly as the original, being made out of stainless steel is more of a plus point. Once its had a coat of matt black you'd have to be pretty keen to notice it. Although i think, maybe, the front pipe may have to be different to allow for the flex.

Hello mate, Yeah the colour came out well, i'm more than happy with it for the time being :cool2:. In a couple of months i'm going to have the bulkhead off, have the gearbox out, finish the inside of the chassis, have the original canvass's made then put camaflage patten on it so i'm not sure what colour it's going to end up yet. One of my neighbours mix's paint, so i'm going to get a price off him in the next couple of days, and maybe get a few cans done. I'll keep you posted. I'll only be going to beltring in the car i'm affraid, i've used all my holidays for this year getting the truck done for normandy, i'd love to take it but its a long way just for a weekend, it took me about a week to recover after normandy. Are you taking the bedford down? I'm going to start looking into the exhausts this week to.

hello chris, Finally i'm starting to sort the few pictures i took in normandy, chris and i met up for a beer, I owe a big favor to chris for letting me have the early side panels off his truck, in trade for the later ones off mine, that one thing really helped make my truck, and saved me a whole heap of time. I saw this truck just after he bought it, the amount of work thats been done is a credit to you mate. I'm sure i sprayed my truck green, but in every photo i've taken it's come out brown, whys this? How you getting on with the front hoops?

It looks similair to the small jerry can cases that carried a cleaning kit, it looks like one half of it made into a can.

I must have just missed you!!