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I'd try another coil.

I didn't think of a QLB seat least it isn't out the back of a k9. Still like you say it'll be the same cushion with a different part number for the mw. So i'm not to far off, and i can see how the green is faded out to leave the canvass the same colour as what i've got. Thank you richard you certainly made sence of the numbers. I got these along with some other stuff i got from an old collector, possibly he got them from the same source as you.

I remember you telling me now, about the tilly canvass. I've not seen them stamped before. I've just realised i didn't check inside mine properly. So i've just been and turned the covers inside out and there's nothing on any of them. I do think the back i've got is an original one and the colour is a perfect match for the bases when inside out. Also the workmanship isn't what i would have expected on either the bases or the back. The canvass is roughly cut leaving alot of loose string, but it is consistant in them both.To be honest if the ladel hadn't been on the bases i would have thought they were re-made. Can you make anything out from the numbers richard? I guess the 7067949 will be the part number. Would it be fair to assume these had been made by Vauxhall motors? as they've not got anyone else's name on. Another thing is these covers haven't got the securing staps on the front that hold the cushion to the seat base. As far as i know that was a pretty standard thing on all the bedfords ox-oy (passenger seat) and on the QL. But on the early bedford MW's (i'm not sure about the other models) there were no securing straps, the cushion was held in place by the seat securing bolts so the cushion couldn't be removed without removing the seat. I guess this was soon deemed a bad idea as the seat cushions were always going to get wet and it was soon changed to the straps. The cushions are bolted down through the seats on maurices, and that is how they were originaly on his, and he doesn't have the press dot stiuds on the front of his seat. My seats do have the press studs on the front, but under the heads of the bolts that secure the seat to the cab floor, there is the remains of the canvass under the heads. I did try to remove the bolts from the seat and get a peice of the canvass out, but after a couple of taps with the hammer i gave it up as a bad idea, as there was more chance of damaging the seat. So if i am right in assuming that Vauxhall made these cushions, then they must have been made for the earlier seat.

Richard, I was a bit uncertain weather there was a desert colour, and it was in fact green canvass with blanco on. From what you've said there certainly was so there were four colours. I thought the industrial mop and tent co was odd. You beat me hands down there!!! Robert, Thanks for your help, Thats intresting to hear about the bodies coming with the canvass already. The bedford bodys came from an outside contractor so i wonder if it was the same? I guess its hard to tell from the pictures but are the canvass's a totally different colour or dfferent shades of the same colour? What kind of bodies did the fords have fitted? I know later ones had a steel body similar to the morris, but was the early ones the same body as the bedford? Thanks

Hello Hanno, Thanks thats also very intresting as that green is very simillar to what i imagined the british colour would be. Is there any date on them?

Hello Richard, Bloody Austin K9, darn it!! I have some brown seat covers also, ATTACH]28331[/ATTACH] These are very similiar to bedford ones, but they have an extra securing tab at the back. So i'm not to sure what they are off. I have always associated the brown canvass with the armoured cars. I have seen some tillys and fordsons with brown, but i've not come across brown used on a bedford.

I've got two radiator muff, they are similar to a bedford one but not right. Anybody recognise them. This one measures 26"x 24" This one measure 30.5"x 20.5" The bedford ones don't have the press studs across the top edge, so what are they?

Hello, I think i've taken rivet counting to a whole new level i'm now counting the stiches in my canvass!! What i'm trying to figure out is what was the original colour of the british canvass's during the war. There are certainly two or three definate colour differences, brown, green, khaki. If anyone knows why or if a particular colour was used on certain vehicles it would be intresting to hear. At the moment my truck has khaki canvass's on it which you see most canvass's made of, But i found a small piece of canvass still nailed to the seat when i was restoring it and that was definatley green. Thats what got me thinking. Then i saw maurices bedford at war and peace and he's remade his canvass's in green. And also sirhc'c were remade in green. Then i came across some orignal factory drawings that state the colour as "khaki green to comply with w.d. spec" So this added some confusion to it again. When i was on my travels last year, i discussed this with some like minded folk, and some said the canvass on mine was correct, others thought i should be green. Earlier on this year i picked this up. It has the part number LV7 AN 2540-99-831-9903 on it and was packed it 1963 then repacked in 1966. Inside the bag is a brand new canvass for the rear of an mw, or so i was told, looking at it again it may well be a k9 one. Peeping through the bag i could see it had mildew on it so expected it to be rotten. I took it out of the bag, and fortunatley isn't rotten at all. Covered in mildew but it "seems" to wash off. Its a slightly different patten to the others i've seen, the back door is one piece and it has leather renforcing on the window straps. It's certainly green but is that because it was produce in the 60's? Also i have some original seat covers. These have the vauxhall bedford label on, no date. But they are certainly green, my camera makes them look khaki, but they aren't as green as the rear sheet. These are some seat backs, although slightly faded on the outside, on the inside they are green nearly the same colour as the new bases above. The green on the inside you can see is more a true reflection of the cushions above. So could it be the case the canvass did start of light green and the faded to khaki once it had been in use? I also have these side screens for the later mw's These are also green the same as the rear canvass, but again i'm not sure when they were made. There have been a number of these turn up at the shows and they have aways been that colour. The one without the siganling window is an mw one, but the other is very slightly different, i tapers to alow for the slope of the windscreen so not mw, does anyone recognise it?. Does anyone else have any original canvass? I'm now of the mind the canvass should be green and then it'll fade to khaki, but how green i'm not quite sure. And lastly i picked up this roll of canvass. The wrong green al together i was going to use it for dust sheets. Somebody said it was the AFS and NFS that used this colour, and i seem to remember the Q4's and RLs fitted with something similar. Anyone shead and light on it? Its 3 ft wide and 20 meters long. It would be a shame to cut it up if someone can use it.

Hello Mate, I have a classic car shop near me, and i just ask for a standard 12 volt coil. The mw has run ok on them. You just need to make sure you don't get a more modern 9 volt coil.

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Hello, Can anyone tell me why this can has an odd cap? Dated 1941 with the crows foot on the top. Any ideas?

Hello, Can anyone help me identify these parts? 1943 on the face and a crows foot but where's it from? Wartime rifle clips, not on a bedford base plate. so before i cut them up to make bedford ones does anyone recognise them? Another slight variation on the rifle clip, looks like it might fasten to a hoop? Diff light and trailer socket, this could well be and MW one i'm not to sure, the early ones certainly didn't have them but the later ones may have, any idea's? I have no idea on this one, ignition switch and ampmeter.

Hello tim, From what i've been told, the filter fitted to yours is the early morris filter. I don't think it has anything to do with the desert. I think the morris's also went over to the oil bath filter about the same time as the bedfords. So that is the morris equivlent of the belows. I think one of glynn beresfords morris's has been converted to the sand filter from the type in yours.

Hello All, Most early british vehicles were fitted with the volkes bellows air cleaners. Sometime about 1941 (i think) this changed and the large oil bath air filter was fitted. Sorry i haven't got any pictures to hand, and the volkes bellows were replaced with these, or that my understanding of it. sorry i haven't got any pictures to hand of the oil bath, but i think its same one used on most wartime british? vehicles. To me this seemed to make sence with the war in the dessert and problems with sand in the engine. I can remember a veteran telling my dad they changed the bedford engines on a weekly basis, due to the sand. So changing the filter from a cloth one to a oil bath seemed to make perfect sence. Not just for the desert but also to deal with the dust kicked up by a convoy in normal service. It cetainly seem's, to me, under all conditions you'll get a longer life from the engine with the oil bath fitted. Now i've been taiking to someone this week who disagrees with this and says the bellows were more effective than the oil bath in the dessert, and even the long range dessert group kept the bellows filters, opposed to the oil bath. Which at first I thought unlikely, but thinking about it, there does seem to be, or was, a lot of volkes bellows filters fitted in australia. I think GOANNA has a couple!!! So i've ended up confused, i don't have the kind of information to hand that could prove diffrently so thought i'd pick the brains of the forum.

Hanno said if i eat my ham and cheese up, i'll grow as tall as him!!! There's loads of cheese but it all tastes the same!! I have found corned beef, in the super market its between the washing powder and the crisps. Tesco's could really clean up over here!!

Hello richard, I've not seen a single pie, of any kind since i've been here. I'd kill for a steak and kidney pudding, chips and gravey. Could do with an emergency food drop!!!

You're from the netherlands when.... Your meals consitst mainly of ham and cheese. The road your driving on becomes a cycle path, then a car park, then the road again. You look in your rear view mirror and the driver behind is sat on your back seat, with his finger super glued to the horn if you brake!! Or if you hesitate when the road becomes a cycle path/car park/buss lane. Love holland, great place, great people :-D

Hello nick, I have some photo's and a drawing of the lid, if you pm me your email address i'll send them over to you.

Hello Mate, Richards correct as usual. These were fitted to most early british vehicles, the filter is the same just the fittings and pipes varied from vehicle to vehicle. And are rarer than hens teeth!! There are some pictures, on here, of them complete, http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?9957-early-Mw-s-how-many-left/page7 Your missing the felt bellows, a tubular concertina of felt material, and the metal disc the same diameter as the tube that fastens to the end of the felt. I have some pictures at home. I know of a firm remaking the felt part but i'm not sure they have the correct pattern. http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?15114-Volkes-bellows-air-cleaner-Replacement-felt.&highlight=volkes If you put a small cone filter inside what you have there you'll get the same result, depends how picky you are.

hello, I came across this one this morning in kornwderzand holland. I don't think the tank is underneath. there is a museum and a number of dutch bunkers in the area, but everything was written in dutch. I've found a website but thats all in dutch too, http://www.strijdbewijs.nl/kornwerderzand/museum.htm

Hello tim, I know for sure the morris wheel nuts and bedford are different, the morris ones are a smaller size across flats, but i think they are the same thread. I think the wheel nuts on a guy ant are similar. I'm sure someone will have some morris ones kicking about.

Look what you done again Glynn :laugh:, just like the morris's their turning up all over now. Don't be sticking picture's of your bedford up. Very nice looking truck kiwi.

Hello Nick, Each time i see your post's i rack my brains where an oy is up north, there use to be a few about but they seem to have vanished. There is an OXD up in yorkshire, sparky on here knows the owner or will be able to point you in the right direction, drop him a pm. Failing that i would have thought you'd get a couple of OY's at beltring.

Hello ktp, I like your work :-D, Looks to be coming together nicely. I have found another one for you to do after that, Little bit of gardening first, and i bit of touching up it'll be a good un!!

hello, The tanks is definatley on area of historic MV's that has seen the price jump. I was talking to the chap that bought the sexton from the grange cavern when it closed, i guess it must have 20 years ago now, he said nobody wanted it at the auction and he paid £1200 for it. :shocked: