Thread: The Ultimate FC

Originally Posted by 101 Ron

I have been thinking of a name for it.
The family farm is called Leebold
My ultralite plane was called skybold.
My current boat is called Seabold.
I will have to sell my current boat to keep the stolly , so I think it will be Seabold unless I uncover a name whisle sanding back the paint work.

The propulsion system is a water jet isn't it? You could name it "jetbold".

Another option is that the word "run" is sometimes used to describe a watercourse and particularly the flow of a river. "Run" is also used in it's traditional meaning for locomotion on land. You could therefore call it "runbold" describing it's land and aquatic abilities.

Was the Tank power pack being transported in the Stolly to repair a disabled tank? or was the Stolly repowered with the engine? which I assume would have been a RR Meteor.If so,.I bet the Stollys bevel boxes would have lasted all of 5 minutes.
Wagoo.

The Reme stollys carried a spare tank motor and the REME boys fit it to a tank if required using the crane.
The stollys role in the British army/ Nato was resupply.
The 60 Reme versions made had safety check valves on the crane(now a standard fitting on most boom lifts and truck cranes)/
If my crane blows a hose.....down goes the load.
A bulk fuel blader was fitted to other models with a petrol motor fuel pump which had a bad habit of setting everything on fire.

The crane was carried forward over the cabin on Reme nodels.

This is a new alloy carrier tray for the boiling vessel which I had made up.


All the video links seem to have dissappeared from this thread. ????????

Haven't touched any links

Radiator....floor-cover plate now has new renforcing channel under it to replace that rusty stuff.

reme stollys very rarely carried a tank engine, this was usually done by a 434 from an frg. tank engines where usually changed by 2nd line repair. 1st line (lad) could remove an engine to work on it but not fit a new one . lad vehicles would usually have a locally made `penthouse' on the back for the crew to live in on exercise. there are a couple of pictures on here showing penthouses, one of them looks like it has a turret stand in the back and has a cvr(w) parked in the background.

Another up date.
At this stage it still suits me to be mucking around with the various bits and pieces I have removed from the vehicle as the yard at work is full of forklifts to be repaired instead of my toys.
I am spending about a hour every second afternoon needle gunning or sand blasting.
The problem is the pommie army has a habit of painting every thing often if it needs it or not.
To paint this great lump of a vehicle properly I need to strip it back as the existing paint coats are just flaking off.
The drivers seat is now getting uphostered while I have the local uphosterer bloke in the mood of doing army green seats.
The drivers seat turns out to be in poor shape and I had to start bending and steaming ply wood again.
I am waiting for a Jolley Engineering electronic ignition kit to arrive from UK at a cost of 350 dollars aust.
The Rolls B81 badly needs this and the following is a interesting read about military suspressed ignition systems and why we in RAEME had so much trouble with the series 3 FFR landies and fitted normal HT leads etc..
http://www.hmvf.co.uk/pdf/IGNITIONMATTERS.pdf
It also explains why the 101 24volt landy has a drop down resistors for the coil and so does the Rolls B81