How To: Restoration of Ford M8 armoured car US Ordnance number 7373

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Hi David

Thanks for the reply.

There is plenty of room for the shell heads when they are fitted into the ready rack. The rack seems to 'sit' in place just fine, but I figured it must be secured using this front mounts somehow.

I've attached a couple of pictures of other setups. You can see that the rotating door latch locks under the front lip of the radio tray. With my setup, if I fit the radio tray on the mounting tabs with the existing mounting holes lined up, there is about a 40mm gap between the front lip of the shelf and the top of the ready rack. There is a smaller gap at the rear.

If I pull the shelf forward so that it sits above the ready rack in a position so that the door can latch to the front lip, the gap at the rear is about 60mm. I would have thought that is quite wide, but then I don't really know. Looking at these other photos, they seem to have similar gaps.

What do you think?