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Hello, Nice find, these mw's are popping up all over. The Chassis number is on the passenger side chassis rail, between the step brackets, Here's a picture, not the best but you can just see the numbers. Let me know what it is and i'll tell you the year of manufacture. As richard say it has some early features, and some late ones to. I think thats possibly been a tanker, but the chassis number will tell for sure. Regards Rippo

Hello Richard, Your probably right mate, but all the pictures in Bart Vanderveens Book show a flat door, its a standard box used on the OYD and OXD i think the same box was used post war on bedfords too. Do you have any photos showing the cross on the door? Regards John

Hello, That box isn't from a QLD, the QLD toolboxs have flat doors and a cross pressed in the sides. The door completly covers the front of the box also they have a leather strap on the door to hold it open. That looks like one from a QL tanker, this picture shows it quite clearly. The QLD ones don't have straps around them. Regards Rippo

Hello, That box isn't from a QLD, the QLD toolboxs have flat doors and a cross pressed in the sides, also they have a leather strap on the door to hold it open, that looks like one from a QL tanker, this picture shows it quite clearly. The QLD ones don't have straps around them. Regards Rippo

Hello Richard, I think you will have to change the inlet manifold to fit the army carb. If you put an adaptor plate on to turn the carb it will be to high and the air filter pipe will catch the bonnet. It shouldn't be to hard to pick up a manifold, its the exhaust that are hard to get. Regards john

Hello Julian, I have asked this question before, http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?18973-Canvass-colours/page2 As it says in the thread, i have an original blue print drawing for the bedford canvass. It stated the colour as khaki green on the original drawing dated 1940, then in the amendments box's on the drawing it states the colour changed to brown in 1947 and green in 1957. I think the khaki green is the colour of my canvass on willow, the green part is only a very slight "tint" which tends to fade in the sun. I have put the small amount of green used down to the shortage of green pigment you mentioned to me. I also have some original seat covers that have been weathered slightly, on the outside they are the same colour as mine on willow, but on the inside they have a slight green tint. hope this helps John

Hello, Mine is also black, i have seen the green ones but not sure what the difference is. Rippo

Hello, I've got one of those blasters, they do need a lot of air, and if you haven't got it right they won't work. The hose from the compressor to the blaster needs to be at least 1/2" bore but bigger if you can it sounds like the problem your having, Regards John

Hello, looking though some old stuff, i came across this contract plate, any idea's what its from?

There are two bodies, the early type with hinged sides, and the later type with fixed sides, both have different fittings,

I think I've a pair of these, will have a look......

Hello Richard, I will measure it up tomorrow and let you know. As far as i know there isn't a gaiter on the gearstick. All the best rippo

Hello Richard, The handbrake gaiter is held in place by two metal strips, running along the long sides of the gaiter. These are on top of the gaiter screwed through the floor with self tappers. The plates are about 1/8" thick, 3/8" wide and the lenght of the gaiter. There will probably be the small holes for the self tappers in your floor. Regards rippo

Hello, This is quite a common scam. Replying to wanted ads for rare parts. The picture is from caruthers restoration thread on this forum!!! Would that mean this scammer is a member on here? http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?11210-Bedford-MW-to-Normandy-(via-N-Africa!) john

Hello, The bedford bible, only has the chassis numbers for the war time models, not much on the CA.

Hello Possibly, would the prong on the sump plug have been magnetic to pick up any metal particals in the oil? reminds me of the one's used on the mini. regards John

Also, here are two pictures of two later mw's i had, both had original wood work, the blue one is a 1941 and the green one 1943, They don't have the correct lights on, but there are no spare holes in the middle of the body. So far i haven't seen a later mw with the holes in the middle. This one shows one light, the other may be behind the tail board, but its on the locker rather than the middle. The best thing to do is have to look and see if you have any spare holes, there is nothing to say they were fitted in the same place all the time. The wiring diagram shows Rubbolites too, and shows there is no definative answer, as the period pictures show they weren't rubbolites. Maybe a shortage of lights? and they were put under the body to protect them?. Other 15cwts of the period have rubbolites and they are generally on the locker also, or the outer edge of body. If yor eyes are really good you will notice there is no convoy light on the diagram, later diagrams show it and the headlamps and sidelights change to the smaller ones, but they alwyas show rubbolites on the rear.

Hello, The rubber ones are correct for your mw, the metal ones were fitted to the early 1940-41 models. Rubbolite ones are listed in the parts book for all mw's but pictures show different. I was going to fit rubbolite ones to my mw, untill i saw maurices mw, then looking at pictures, and i had the holes in the right place on the body, they went on the body. Up till then i would have put them on the locker. I have a number of period pictures showing them there also. Here's a picture of a captured early bedford showing the lights in the middle, from the Z number this is from the same contract as mine. The bail out one is also an early MW.

hello Richard, Yes that is the correct badge. Regards rippo

Hello Richard, I don't know of anywhere you can get them off the shelf. Autojumbles are the best bet, they turn up now and again for £20-£30 each. Happy hunting, Regards John

Hello Guy, The correct rear lights for a 1944 mw is No 5 or No 5a rubbolites, i think No 5a has the window for the number plate light and no 5 doesn't. There would have been two of these on the outside rail of the tool box, one for the brake light and one for the tail light. The badgewould have been the rectanglar pressed steel one. Yhe same as the one on this ox regards John

Hello Paul, I've just got a set for mine, John Morter has them too £30 for the full set, Regards John

Hello, Nice lorry. Just out of interest, is the disc on the passenger side of the cab the remains of a reflector, or is it a WD tax disc holder? If it is a tax disc holder it will have WD cast into the rim, and once removed from the cab, the back unscrews to put the tax disc in. This OX has one on, if you zoom in you can see it looks the same. I'm looking for one for my mw that why i noticed it. Rippo

Nice photos, in the second to last photo there is half of another photo, is that a bedford MW by any chance?

Hello, Thats not the the QL jack, the QL one is stood on a plate. The handle is different to a QL one, it should be three peices and a metal handle.