11 Set stuff

[Ron Pier]

OK some confusion about boxes here. I realise now that the Box David is referring to is actually the storage box for antenna and chorehorse etc that the switchboard is mounted too.
Thanks Chris/Mike for the dry cell info. I doubt I'll bother looking for any!

And Mike is right about the other box next to the switchboard, to stow the regulator in. Currently, mine is erroneously inside my dummy switchboard cabinet and will get changed.

David that is a standard WS19 (and others) aerial base. The 11 set base is something far more complicated and elaborate for something like 3/4"? rods.
Again I have a home made version on my PU. There were different variations, the short squat one was fitted to carriers etc. Ron

[Mike K]

Originally Posted by Ron Pier

OK some confusion about boxes here. I realise now that the Box David is referring to is actually the storage box for antenna and chorehorse etc that the switchboard is mounted too.
Thanks Chris/Mike for the dry cell info. I doubt I'll bother looking for any!

And Mike is right about the other box next to the switchboard, to stow the regulator in. Currently, mine is erroneously inside my dummy switchboard cabinet and will get changed.

David that is a standard WS19 (and others) aerial base. The 11 set base is something far more complicated and elaborate for something like 3/4"? rods.
Again I have a home made version on my PU. There were different variations, the short squat one was fitted to carriers etc. Ron

Ron

You have left the light on , your battery will be flat in no time

The base on the far right. I have one of those, I think its a ground base , sits on a spike and accepts the 5/8" rods .

With the 11 set - they used either 5/8" or 7/8" rods . The thin whip type antenna I think was issued with 19 sets

[cletrac (RIP)]

I don't see how you guys can get so confused about something so simple.
Maybe it comes from living on that little island LOL
The radio operators seats bolt to the floor of the truck box.
Clear as mud now?????

[Mike K]

Originally Posted by cletrac

I don't see how you guys can get so confused about something so simple.
Maybe it comes from living on that little island LOL
The radio operators seats bolt to the floor of the truck box.
Clear as mud now?????

Little Island

There is also a set on the cab roof, for aircraft spotting .

[Ron Pier]

Originally Posted by cletrac

I don't see how you guys can get so confused about something so simple.
Maybe it comes from living on that little island LOL
The radio operators seats bolt to the floor of the truck box.
Clear as mud now?????

Steady on David. Me and Chris live on the tiny little Mother island up here opposite the North coast of France. My house is only about 70 miles from the nearest point of the D Day beaches.

What you refer to as "The Box" We would call "The Body". (Hood/Bonnet, Trunk/Boot, Windsheid/Windscreen, Tomaydo/Tomato Etc) Ron

[cletrac (RIP)]

And here I thought you guys living over there would naturally speak English!!!! LOL

[Ron Pier]

My Wireless operator Private Spoons is always putting the light on. He gets scared in the dark.

Yes Mike I couldn't remember the rod sizes although I knew there are 2 sizes. My aerial base is cast in aluminium. I used one of the 'Golf Bag' ground station mushrooms, machined to fit inside the ally base. I know the mushroom is not quite as wide as it should be for a vehicle mount, but at least it has the correct fitting on top. The toothed base plate came from one of the Australian guys from the Carrier forum. I got the top part cast and machined here, which was scaled up from the limited pictures around of the MK11 version. The whole of the frame that it's mounted on was fabricated by myself from a road work sign that the workers left laying in our road after it was resurfaced. Ron

[Mike K]

Originally Posted by Ron Pier

My Wireless operator Private Spoons is always putting the light on. He gets scared in the dark.

Yes Mike I couldn't remember the rod sizes although I knew there are 2 sizes. My aerial base is cast in aluminium. I used one of the 'Golf Bag' ground station mushrooms, machined to fit inside the ally base. I know the mushroom is not quite as wide as it should be for a vehicle mount, but at least it has the correct fitting on top. The toothed base plate came from one of the Australian guys from the Carrier forum. I got the top part cast and machined here, which was scaled up from the limited pictures around of the MK11 version. The whole of the frame that it's mounted on was fabricated by myself from a road work sign that the workers left laying in our road after it was resurfaced. Ron

It looks the part Ron. Who is going to criticize you if it isn't perfect , not me .
Virtually none of the originals have survived . Rory made a mock up .

Do you have the auxillary generator running off the gearbox ? I do have the PTO unit and the pulley but not the generator . You pull a lever on the cab floor I think ??

[Ron Pier]

Originally Posted by Mike Kelly

Do you have the auxillary generator running off the gearbox ? I do have the PTO unit and the pulley but not the generator . You pull a lever on the cab floor I think ??

No Mike. My PTO actually drives a compressor (tyre pump) and I have the rubber hose that fits onto it that is long enough to reach all the tyres. I think I have a pulley PTO somewhere. Which is the type that your PU would have. My own PU would have had a direct drive to the auxiliary genny. And yes the lever comes up through the floor near the gear stick* (*gear shift for the American continent). Ron

[Mike K]

This is the auxillary generator PTO setup on my PU 8 cwt . I am not sure where the generator actually mounts but I do have a drawing of the setup somewhere .

You are looking at 70 years of grime and dirt . A little bit of the original brunswick green on the gearbox .

This PU is a FFW version , it has the little floor cutout in the body floor for the wireless operators feet and the holes for the wireless set wooden cabinet mount

[Ron Pier]

Mike, somewhere I have also seen the mounting position for your PU genny. On the underside of the floor or the chassis and with a 'V' belt drive.

My PU also has the special panel for Private Spoon's Boots. But there was nothing of any other FFW fittings when I got the truck. It had been used as a garage recovery vehicle with crane jib fitted from sometime after it's de-mob in 1946. I have made the whole FFW interior myself. Ron