fv1609 Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 Clive,A lot simpler drive line than a FV1600 series Oh yes & at least you can see what's going on/broken :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rlangham Posted September 7, 2012 Author Share Posted September 7, 2012 Here's some photos of the 1913 Thornycroft By rlangham at 2012-09-07 By rlangham at 2012-09-07 By rlangham at 2012-09-07 By rlangham at 2012-09-07 By rlangham at 2012-09-07 By rlangham at 2012-09-07 By rlangham at 2012-09-07 By rlangham at 2012-09-07 By rlangham at 2012-09-07 1915 built Aveling & Porter roller that was built for the Kynoch ammunition firm and spent the war building and repairing roads on their extensive munitions factory site By rlangham at 2012-09-07 1917 built Fowler 'Midnight', built for the Ministry of Munitions By rlangham at 2012-09-07 1912 Aveling & Porter road locomotive that spent the war almost constantly hauling three wagons full of horse poo from the horse lines at Aldershot! Plenty of the traction engines there had interesting WW1 histories, will try and put up a few more images Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artifficer Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 Just watched some footage on Youtube, of the show on Friday, glad to see it was all happening then. Looks like I went there too early in the week :undecided:. Better luck next year.... maybe. Hi Richard We went on Wednesday as well, so wet I had to wring out my socks when we got back to our B & B. Great show in spite of the rain, lots of good bits. I managed to get out of the carpark without a tow, years of driving army trucks, both preserved and serving payed off, I obviously managed to learn something on Salisbury Plain. Thursday was better, I would suggest everyone should go to GDSF once in their life!! Great display of green machines, but no vehicle movement on Wed & Thur! Great static displays especialy the saw benches & road making. Regards Robin Grainger (Artifficer) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Farrant Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 Hi RichardWe went on Wednesday as well, so wet I had to wring out my socks when we got back to our B & B. Great show in spite of the rain, lots of good bits. I managed to get out of the carpark without a tow, years of driving army trucks, both preserved and serving payed off, I obviously managed to learn something on Salisbury Plain. Thursday was better, I would suggest everyone should go to GDSF once in their life!! Great display of green machines, but no vehicle movement on Wed & Thur! Great static displays especialy the saw benches & road making. Regards Robin Grainger (Artifficer) Hi Robin, An awful day, but in all the years of going there since 1987, only the second time that I have got wet. As for being towed out, my VW van is not like an army truck and bogged down within yards of my parking space on leaving, but once towed to the crest of the field, I employed rallycross techniques to get to the entrance ...... ie. Flat out !! When I got to the pub where I was staying the night, they said immediately that they knew where I had come from .... something to do with mud up to my knees I think. A hot shower and several pints of Ringwood and things looked much better!!!! regards, Richard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nz2 Posted September 11, 2012 Share Posted September 11, 2012 This was the most interesting thing I came across: Clive, An interesting front drive set up. Any more photos of the rest of the vehicle? Doug Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted September 11, 2012 Share Posted September 11, 2012 Doug it is 88in Land Rover. The torsion bar is 3 leaf spring. One of 6 prototypes I believe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gritineye Posted September 11, 2012 Share Posted September 11, 2012 Clive,An interesting front drive set up. Any more photos of the rest of the vehicle? Doug Nicely put Doug, I spent quite a while thinking how to ask that question...:-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nz2 Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 Is this independent front suspension similar to that used on the Austin Champ? I haven't any Champ photos to compare with. Doug Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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