HUW Interior
Here's some inside shots of a restored HUW. I'd love to tell you who it belongs to or who to credit the pictures to but I don't know.
If you want interior bin and seat details I can copy and send you the drawings I have for my HUW project. Basically there bins on either side, two crew seats on simple bases that face right and left and an operator's seat that is more complicated and faces forward just behind the wireless table. The seats and table are removable, held to to floor with wing nuts. The generator sits in a cabinet on the upper rear left side and is accessible from two outside doors and an inside sliding panel.
As for kit, I've never seen a stowage diagram but figure the following would have been carried:
- Wireless Set No.19, No.19HP (British), No.19 Amplified (Canadian) or No.29
- Switchboard No.5 (mounted under wireless table)
- 12V Johnson 'Chorehorse' generator
- A pair of Remote Control Units (RCU's)
- Satchel, Signals, several for headsets, mics, keys, dummy load ae's, etc.
- Leather aerial gear bag
- Guys, bases and insulators for the 20' and 34' telescopic masts
- 20' and 34' Telescopic masts (one of which mounts upright on the right running board)
- Spares box for the 12V generator set
- W/T Spare Parts and Spare Valves boxes
- Message pads
- First Aid kit
- Aerial elements (F and G sections)
- Reels of signal wire
- Telephone sets (Tele F or Tele D)
- Tool kit
- Control Unit No.2 (loudspeaker)
- Loudspeakers for above (pair)
- Test Set TS-26
- Set of horizontal wire aerials (on wood boards)
- Anti-gas satchel
- No.4 rifles (three in the back and two up front)
If there was any room left the crew might pack rations, coats, water bottles, personal items.
I think that would just about fill up a an HUW.
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