Restoration of Hull 731- Carrier, MG (Aust) Mortar Carrying

[Darrin Wright]

Have only managed a number of smaller jobs with Christmas, school holidays, etc.
Manufactured a Vickers aiming post, blasted and painted it.

Bought a 3" Mortar aiming post, cleaned that up and painted it black & white. Not exactly sue how & where it should be stowed, Have a suspicion that the 2 threaded mounting blocks on the LH inside hull may be for a tube bracket to take the 2 aiming posts. Will never know.

Utilising the only WW2 internal pic, have scaled the 2 wooden mounting blocks on the engine cover to take the mortar tube and not sure what else. Have only just cut the scallops out for the curve of the tube & undercoated them.

With all the little bits & pieces that I have collected over time, have stowed some of it into the vehicle.

Every couple of days try and get the vehicle out and drive it to bed in steering and brakes, all works fine. I expected to lose some braking as shoes bed in, but it is only very minor at this stage. Around Christmas the temp was too hot to drive (no fun in that for me, vehicle would have been fine),now we have just been drenched with 40mm of rain- now its too wet. Maybe next week...