Convoy lights and tool brackets?

[Warb]

Talking about military LR's with a friend today, and he presented me with an ex-army wooden crate containing a large number of lights and a set of tool brackets. The tool brackets seem oversized for a LR (see picture!). The lights are of three designs, from left to right:

1/ (left) Marked 6220-12-121-7310. Looks to be a shielded headlight.

2/ (middle) Marked ACCO MS5130somethingsomething. Convoy type light.

3/ (right) Marked MS51330-1, various manufacturers (front covers marked ACCO, ALTEK, Advance Wiring, Altek, DC Electronics) the example in the picture is dated 1993. Convoy type light.

They are all 24V.

Are these applicable to Land Rovers, or does ACCO mean "Australian Constructed Cab Over" (like my old International ACCO truck) and suggest they are for larger vehicles?

They were purchased at an army disposal auction in about 2000, because the box also contained one pair of lights my friend wanted. The rest were of no interest to him and have gathered dust ever since. He is having a clean-out and I offered to see if I could find out what they were, if they were applicable to my S3, and whether they are worth saving!

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[Lotz-A-Landies]

Hi Warb

I would most certainly be interested in the middle bracket on the bonnet/chequer plate to fit inside my Mk3 International. It is the butt bracket for an SLR.

The other two items are the gardening tool brackets from behind the seats of a Land Rover Series II or IIA FFT.

Am also interested in the hooded lamp (reduced lighting headlamp) also for my Mk3 International.

The other two lamps in that image were used on SIII Land Rovers. The small ones were the front and the larger ones on the rear.

Unfortunately the civilian term for my Mk3 would be:
Australian A series Cab Over (AACO) they were designed when IH Australia was still building the AA series normal control trucks.

The later butterbox and tilt cab Internationals were:
Australian C series Cab Over (ACCO) these were built when IH Australia was building the C series normal control trucks. (Australia never got the US B series Inters.)

But even in the army they all got nicknamed ACCO or just Inter and the 6X6 (F1, F2, and F5) got called the Mk5 which wasn't their official name.

[Warb]

Excellent, thanks Diana!

The box only contained one of each of the brackets (though I haven't dug to the bottom to see if there's anything else) but there's a stack of the lights, I just picked one of each for the picture.

[Lotz-A-Landies]

Hi Warb in each of the Inter trucks there were two rifle butt brackets and two large spring clips for the barrel ends. I have neither in the truck, so any would be good.

With the reduced lighting headlamp, I could get away only needing one, I can re-paint another.

The other lamps I don't need any more so put them out there for people who do need them. The FFT gardening tool brackets are usually missing from vehicles these days, there is another member cookey who has a Vietnam veteran FFT so I'll ask him if he needs any brackets.

The hooded lamps were also used on Perenties.

[Warb]

I've now found pictures of the tools in the FFT, so I know where they go! They also fit in my SIII, so I'll probably put them in - not historically accurate but functional! The REMLR site confused me as it states the FFT tool brackets behind the seats are "identical to those used on other variants" when it seems to me that other variants had much smaller brackets with the tools split between the two wings. Perhaps they mean they carried the same tools?

It looks like there should also be a pickaxe head bracket, which I don't think was in the box.

[Lotz-A-Landies]

The bracket for the pick head is the same as the ones on the guards. If you can get be the rifle butt bracket for my Mk3 ACCO I can send you a pick head bracket.

[Warb]

The lights have been stored for the last 15 years, they are dirty and range in condition from "clean up and fit", through to "parts or repair".

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[Mick_Marsh]

Hey, Warb, there is no selling allowed in the main forum.
Put an ad up in the "markets" section of the forum.

[Warb]

Hey, Warb, there is no selling allowed in the main forum.
Put an ad up in the "markets" section of the forum.

As I said in my post, I planned to do just that. My last post was only intended to "wrap up" this thread. I apologise if that broke the rules.

[Mick_Marsh]

As I said in my post, I planned to do just that. My last post was only intended to "wrap up" this thread. I apologise if that broke the rules.

Yep. I understood that. No apology necessary.
You should pop on over to REMLR. There was a fellow there after some tool brackets. I'm sure the other bits will have a market there as well.