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Old 07-12-20, 09:27
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Who owns this HUW?
Al Tooes in the UK restored it - see C8A HUW restoration in England for his contact details. He may remember who he sold it to.
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Couple of film stills from a British Pathe film of Canadians landing in Messina.

Some nice and not often seen views looking down onto the HUW.
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Green arrow is the ashtray......

one red arrow is the antenneeeeee

What are the other arrows pointing to???

...and a load of waterproof sleeping bags....
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Old 16-01-25, 22:57
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Forgot the description of the arrows.

Red arrows are antennas. The one on the roof has an antenna guard as well. Blue arrow is the rear hatch for the Chorehorse compartment. Green arrow is the interior side of that compartment painted white. In the other pictures can just make out some writing on the compartment.
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....the roof antenna guard..... as there is a identical one on the right handside.... no doubt "deflectors" of some kind for low objects.......... never seen or noticed them before........ not of much use with the load of sleeping bags......
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Interesting overhead shots of the B-Set aerial guard, Jordan.

You can see the size of the rectangular base plate and the outboard angular strap. The inboard strap has some of the load resting up against it.

I wonder when the designers moved away from that style of guard setup to the ring style guard that clamped to the steel B-Set aerial mount?



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Old 19-01-25, 10:02
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The loop style antenna guards resemble those used on the house style 2K1 body on 15 cwt chassis.
I don't know enough about the wireless installation on the HUW to be sure about how many antennas were on the roof but I agree with Bob that it looks like there is a similar hoop on the right side of the roof with personal kit stuffed between the pair of loops (as shown in other photos) that would be blocking the antenna location. Is it possible that not all installations used antennas on both left and right sides of the vehicle?
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