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.
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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.
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