Humber FV1600

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Originally Posted by Richard Coutts-Smith

This is the first time I have seen anything mentioning the Commer connection apart from the data plate

Rich sorry for the delay, I never seem to get email notification of replies on MLU although my User CP is set to receive them.

Anyway it is the whole book I have. A number of interesting points.

250 - FV1601 Presumably the production figure for these Commers? The front cover is marked IB 250.

The front cover indicates 1953, so I first thought this was as a stop-gap before the publication of a User Handbook particularly in view of the Sgt who lays claim to the book.

But I have the provisional UHB WO Code No.17765 dated Feb 1953, so that was available early on. Although there is NO reference to "Humber" in it even the amended reprint still doesn't mention Humber.

The term Humber was in use in an AMTS Bordon publication dated July 1953.

The Commer book is A4 being an "Operation & Maintenance Manual" it contains details of servicing fluids which would be in the Servicing Schedule & not the UHB.

The layout of the books is quite different, most but not all of the illustrations are the same.