Ferrit Registration Stencils

[Tony Pearson]

I have been asked to do the stencils that go on the front and rear on the vehicle, could anyone help with the sizes.

 

eg the overall lengh and height they need to be.

 

Cheers Tony

 

Any pictures would be good to

[sirhc]

Tony,

 

I don't know how many registration numbers were painted on Ferrets (and other British armour) but I always use self adhesive letters for my numbers. Most of my vehicles had self adhesive number registration plates on them when I got them. The letters are a standard size, and you can get them in most hardware stores. There is one in Paddock Wood, which has the complete range in white - usually they only have black. (The hardware store is excellent, worth a visit when at Beltring!)

 

Chris

[Tony B]

 

http://www.flints.co.uk/acatalog/index.html try this place they sell the Mylar sheets to make your own. The stuff arrived overnight.

[john fox]

err - read his post. He makes stencils for others so is hardly interested in sources of stencils to buy...

 

Ferret (note the spelling) registration numbers should conform with the legislation covering pre 1973 vehicles. You can research for yourself the difference between group 1 and 2!

 

 

Traditional number plates for vehicles manufactured before 1st January 1973

Vehicles manufactured before 1st January 1973 are allowed to display traditional style 'black and white' plates i.e. white, silver, or grey characters on a black plate.

The characters size must meet the dimensions in one of the two groups below:

 

 

Group 1

Group 2

 

 

Character height

 

89 mm

79 mm

 

 

Character width (except the figure 1 or letter I)

 

64 mm

57 mm

 

 

Character stroke

 

16 mm

14 mm

 

 

Space between characters

 

13 mm

11 mm

 

 

Space between groups

 

38 mm

33 mm

 

 

Top and bottom margins

 

13 mm

11 mm

 

 

Side margin

 

25 mm

11 mm

 

 

 

 

 

[AlienFTM]

At the end of our UNFICYP tour, Force Reserve Squadron had a medal parade in our Mark 2s, driving past a Para battalion who were Britcon. We were instructed to repaint our gloss white Ferrets. The gloss white paint was really messy. It had been applied straight over the top of olive/black cam sometime in the year and a bit between the end of the war and then. Having painted the white, the number plates looked bad so I started to touch up the black number plate base. I sat on the glacis with the can resting on the open driver's hatch. Boy did I feel stupid when I knocked the can and it landed upside down on my driver's seat. I was late into the NAAFI bar that night.

 

If must have been because we were B Sqn 15/19H, since clearly nobody else had tidies up the paint job on our Ferrets. Our nickname wasn't "The Guards" for nothing.

 

Funny I should say that. On Sunday the Regimental Associations of 15/19H, 13/18H and The Light Dragoons attended a church service in Robertson Barracks, Swanton Morley, escorted by B and C Sqns The Light Dragoons and the Guidon, to the music of the Band of the Parachute Regiment. (Neither of the cavalry bands was available and the Paras were closest. First time I ever saw a girly girl wearing a maroon beret.)

 

The order of events included:

 

1100: Regimental Association to parade outside the Guard Room for a photo.

 

1115: March to the church service.

 

So about 1050 there were lots of us hanging around the Guard Room. I looked at the crowd, most of them older, some much so, than my 53 years and jokingly commented. "I hope nobody shouts, 'Tallest on the right, shortest on the left, in single rank SIZE' cos it'll be a mess."

 

At this point, B Sqn marched up to the Guard Room. I have to point out that when 15/19H and 13/18H amalgamated to create the LD, apart from a regimental belt worn over the left shoulder, a new cap badge and a few extra Yorkies, LD were simply 15/19H by another name, including the squadron nicknames. So this B Squadron were "The Guards" and traditionally the squadron has always been the smartest on dress and drill.

 

Imagine my surprise when the Squadron Sergeant Major shouted, "'Tallest on the right, shortest on the left, in single rank SIZE!" More surprised were the wives-of, who had never seen this drill before. They were confused by "From the right NUMBER" (we have discussed all this before in a thread on, IIRC, stretcher-bearers) and it took a lot of explaining.

 

But it was a jolly good weekend, definitely to be repeated.

[Tony Pearson]

Thanks for your reply that should give me somthing to go with.

 

Great Thanks