Humber FV1600

[Richard Coutts-Smith]

Had high hopes,
but too rough for me. Done some work, by the look of it, it has had double wheels fitted all round. Starting at $450 for anyone near Sydney who wants bits.
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Vintage-Milit...QQcmdZViewItem
Rich

[Humber-One-Ton Tom]

Hi Rich - sorry she was too far gone.
Loas of parts, I hope that some get saved - I e-mailed seller and suggested he try again and advertise elsewhere too before finally scrapping her.
As you will expect me to say, I reckon it could be brought back by someone with access to a few other wrecks for cheap & easy parts and a pragmatic attitude towards finish and originality. But the worst thing would be the whole lot to go into the crusher with no bis saved!

I have saved the seller's phone number of anyone misses the sale - located Varroville, Sydney.
Note to anyone in UK - may not cost too much just to ship a tailgate or a single panel....

Photos attached for the record.
Regards to all -
Tom
Portsmouth
UK

[Humber-One-Ton Tom]

Hi.
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

[fv1620]

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.

[Richard Coutts-Smith]

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

[Richard Coutts-Smith]

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

[waltz]

here's mine loaded up for home after stoneleigh country festival