Trailer find

Keith Webb · #1 24-03-06, 00:36

Max Hedges has just found this trailer and intends to recover it.

Looks like a radar trailer. Can someone confirm?

Phil Waterman · #2 24-03-06, 00:39

Keep seeing the finds you guys down under are coming up with and can't help but think that I'm living in the wrong place.

oztankboy · #3 24-03-06, 02:04

Hi there!

Yep... is sure does look like the radar trailer. Here is a photo of a restored one at the RAAOC museum.

Phil...

Max Hedges · #4 04-04-06, 23:47

the trailer is now at willow vale and will be moving on to its new home today at ??????? Kathy and Emm really love it.

found ID plate .... CABIN RADAR 12A MK
NL.CONT. No / VEH/ 4113 SER. No 2
Max

Keith Webb · #5 04-04-06, 23:57

Quote:

Originally posted by Max Hedges
the trailer is now at willow vale and will be moving on to its new home today at ??????? Kathy and Emm really love it

Does that mean they've set up home in it and are moving out????

Keith Webb · #6 05-04-06, 00:00

Max, this one will be worth buying - it's at the Melbourne Tank Museum and Kathy can use it to keep track of you.

Richard Farrant · #7 05-04-06, 21:06

Quote:

Originally posted by Max Hedges
the trailer is now at willow vale and will be moving on to its new home today at ??????? Kathy and Emm really love it.

found ID plate .... CABIN RADAR 12A MK
NL.CONT. No / VEH/ 4113 SER. No 2
Max

hi Max,

Is the trailer chassis, similar to the Scammell one you had before? From the ID plate contract number, I think it is post war, from the "/VEH/" which prefixes numbers on 1950's onwards. Assuming this plate is on the body, there is probably a ID plate on the chassis as well.

Richard

alamotex · #8 29-05-06, 01:42

The land of Aus. seems like a veritable graveyard for old radar trailers. In spite of the misleading ID plate it sure looks like an AA Radar No 3 Mk 7 which went operational in the early 1950's. I guess there are very few old geezers like me who can navigate around the forums on the internet. Cheers... Brian

Hanno Spoelstra · #9 30-05-06, 12:01

Quote:

Originally posted by alamotex
In spite of the misleading ID plate it sure looks like an AA Radar No 3 Mk 7 which went operational in the early 1950's.

Here's a pic of a Trailer, Radar, Anti-Aircraft, No 3 Mk 7:

source

alamotex · #10 30-05-06, 15:21

Hi Hanno...........Attached press photo of a No 3 Mk 7 was taken on entrance level at London's Earls Court Military Tatoo 1950 or 1951. It was gussied up at our shops at Milton Barracks,Gravesend, Kent and delivered for the static exhibit. I was one of those detailed to answer questions from the public. After the show it continued to be used for training radar operator National Service conscripts.

Hanno Spoelstra · #11 30-05-06, 18:58

Quote:

Originally posted by alamotex
Hi Hanno...........Attached press photo of a No 3 Mk 7 was taken on entrance level at London's Earls Court Military Tatoo 1950 or 1951. It was gussied up at our shops at Milton Barracks,Gravesend, Kent and delivered for the static exhibit. I was one of those detailed to answer questions from the public. After the show it continued to be used for training radar operator National Service conscripts.

Here's the picture Brian intended to attach.

Pedr · #12 06-06-06, 21:42

I'm with Hanno, without seeing a nomanclature plate, I'd have said that it was a Mk 7 radar trailer too.

There appears to be a high number of these circa 1950 radar trailers here in Australia ( especially in Adelaide )

There is / was one of this type on display at the National Military Vehicle Museum in Port Adelaide. Another Military Vehicle Museum closing down here in Australia.

The one on display is on loan from the Defence Science Technology Organisation ( DSTO ) and is one of their "historic artifacts" from their museum's collection. It is one of the units used by the British in the '50's for the rocket tests at Woomera in the outback of South Australia.

Perhaps Bob Moseley could post a picture before everything is moved out of the building and put into storage.

Pedr

Alan Brock · #13 12-06-06, 14:49

According to my Identification List(1949), Chassis, 3-ton, 4 wheeled, Radar, AA No3 Mk7 it does indeed have a Cabin No12 fitted.

Also see attached photo

Alan Brock · #14 12-06-06, 14:53

No3 Mk7 photo

Alan Brock · #15 12-06-06, 14:56

According to my Identification List(1949), Chassis, 3-ton, 4 wheeled, Radar, AA No3 Mk7 it does indeed have a Cabin No12 fitted.

Also see attached photo

servicepub (RIP) · #16 17-06-06, 22:20

Fellow MLU'er has told me of a new site dedicated to AA. Some good photos of restorations, etc... although the web-master is still looking for content. Any help provided would be, I am sure, much appreciated.
AA Site

Mike K · #17 21-09-06, 03:14

Andrew Tostevin of Adelaide , South Australia ,has three of these radar trailers . His latest one is the most complete, with the electronics intact .

His web site expands on his passion :

http://www.users.on.net/~tosty/3MK7-...%20Trailer.htm

Mike