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19-08-08, 05:16
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Humber parts from Australia
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Hello Clive, it was good to meet you in July at Beltring. I am still impressed by the original registration number you managed to get on your Pig! Last week I visited Bovington Tank Museum and saw their Hornet - the first I have seen in the flesh and a very impresive machine. Anyway - I have been in touch by e-mail with John Parker, the seller of the ebay Humber near Sydney in Oz. A really nice guy who knows his stuff - has trucks going back to pre-1920 and has in the past sold 130 brand-new Humber dashboard units, some of them shipped back to UK. He is very approachable and I have his e-mail address if anyone wants to ask about specific bits. Interestingly he mentioned a bloke called Russel Altman in Victoria who apparently breaks up Humbers for parts - he has promised to forward contact details if he can find them. Maybe someone on this site knows him? Regards, Tom
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21-08-08, 12:43
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Richard, Pat's book certainly has some good pictures. I briefly looked at it some 12 years ago, but decided not to buy it on the strength of errors that I saw on the pages that were of interest to me. I made the following notes of things that just caught my eye that I felt should need correcting.
FV1609 & FV1620 Page 51 Top caption. Delete: the box on the offside front wheel arch may not be original. Insert: the box on the offside front wheel arch houses the separation kit for remote firing, most photographs available show prototype vehicles before the separation kit became available. Page 105 Middle caption delete: FV1609, insert: FV1611 Lower caption delete: FV1609, insert: FV1612 Page 106 Paragraph 5 Delete: At least one 'Pig' was fitted with the turret from a 'Ferret' or 'Saracen'..... Insert: At least six 'Pigs' were fitted with turrets from 'Shorlands'.... Page 110 Column 2 Paragraph 4 Delete: 10,000m Insert: 4,030m Delete: (HEAT) Insert: (HESH) Delete: 27kg Insert: 25kg containing 15.8kg of high explosive Tom yes it was good to meet you & witness first hand your Humber enthusiasm. If you go to the Great Dorset Steam Fair next week you will be able to see another Hornet.
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22-08-08, 01:06
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Tom
Will PM you Russell and Rose Alltmanns details tonight(8.00 am and going to work now) more known for his stock of Champ parts. Good bloke. Rich
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22-08-08, 12:53
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Tom
PM sent, the museum Humber in Post#191 was restored by Russell Clive, when your as starved for information on Humbers as I am over here you can learn to ignore annoying inaccuracies! Rich
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02-09-08, 23:58
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here's mine loaded up for home after stoneleigh country festival
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driving: austin champ humber 1 ton 4x4 humber pig mk1 extras: 2x 1 ton sankey trailers awaiting restoration: austin champ
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03-09-08, 02:12
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First time I've seen a Humber with two Humber trailers. Sure looks good. Don' know if it would be legal in OZ. I've hooked my jeep trailer on behind my Humber trailer. Maybe I should have bought the one just sold on Ebay.
Rick
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1916 Albion A10 1942 White Scoutcar 1940 Chev Staff Car 1940 F30S Cab11 1940 Chev WA LRDG "Te Hai" 1941 F60L Cab12 1943 Ford Lynx 1942 Bren Gun Carrier VR no.2250 Humber FV1601A Saracen Mk1(?) 25pdr. 1940 Weir No.266 25pdr. Australian Short No.185 (?) KVE Member.
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03-09-08, 20:56
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i dont know if its legal here but i didnt get stopped mabey to much paperwork involved?
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driving: austin champ humber 1 ton 4x4 humber pig mk1 extras: 2x 1 ton sankey trailers awaiting restoration: austin champ
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