Help identifying carrier parts?

[John A. Rippingham]

Ok here's a couple more. See if i can get lucky with these. The first ones i was told are petrol tank caps, i've not looked closely for part numbers yet, but looking in the parts book i can't see anything similar.



I bought this thinking it might be the box you sometimes see on the front of a carrier?



I'm pretty sure these are not off a carrier, can anyone recognise them?

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Thanks

John

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Hello John,

Excellent thread, but could you please attach the pictures to your posting instead of using a link to an externally hosted picture?
I'm asking as history tells us that those externally linked pictures disappear one day, and then a useful thread like this becomes useless.

Thanks in advance!
Hanno
MLU Administrator

[John A. Rippingham]

Hello Hanno,

Sorry i have only just found the attachment tab , will save me time uploading them to photobucket, will upload them in future

Thanks

[Lynn Eades]

The big bog is an anmmo box for O(two?) 3.7" shells. Many Loyds had them on the front. they are fairly common. The others are new to me.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by John A. Rippingham

Sorry i have only just found the attachment tab , will save me time uploading them to photobucket, will upload them in future

Hello John,

No problem, just give it a try, I can always rectify. If you need help give me a holler

H.

[Rob Beale]

In the attached pic the two tall boxes are about 8" square and 10" high.
They hold Iron rations and Cooking Utensils in an LP carrier.


If you look at the bits in a Tamiya 1/35 Mk II carrier model, there are a a set of them in the back left corner of the hull in the instructions.
(The Verlinden 1/15 model doesn't have them).

Just for those who don't know LP carriers:
The squat box holds the cooker which is a Coleman type in a cylindrical tin.
The open frame in front holds a wooden ammo box for 1248 rounds of boxed 0.303 and the clips at the back hold 4 Vickers ammo boxes on end. (not bags as Nigel calls them)

The big ammo box is 1200 long and carried two rounds of 3.7" AA as Lynn says. They are virtually the same size as the carrier kit box, and I have seen pics of them used across the front of Kiwi carriers in Italy.

Post war many Kiwi LP2A were converted to Support weapons roles, and the five big bins at the back were replaced by a 3.7" AA box on the shelf.

Rob
ps two more sleeps and off to the UK!!!