Loyd carrier progress

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Alistair,

Take a look at the thread carrier, full-track, loyd for some detail pictures of a Loyd Carrier found in France some four years back. They may come in handy as reference for your project.

HTH,
Hanno

[ajmac]

Thanks Hanno, a good number of photos i've not seen before.
So you all know, this is what I'm dealing with......... Can anyone suggest what the extra brackets are for... a post war Dynamo? The engine has a rebuild data plate on the bell housing giving a rebuild date or 5/3/63, it says 'Arsernal ???', I presume the ??? used to say 'Refurbished'. I have been through both vehicles and I do have at least one of everything, however without some serious remanufacturing there will not be enough to rebuild two Loyds. Starting next week I will strip down the complete chassis of everything so that the bare chassis can go to the fab shop to have the main rails remanufactured. I'll need a flathead V8, but I don't want to spec it up until I have determined what Version of V8 and electrics it had.

[RichardT10829]

Alistair.....your lass must love you !!! hahahahahha alot of work there buddy but i am sure you will prevail.

Richie

[The Bedford Boys]

That bracket atop the engine looks interesting. What is it for exactly? Large generator? Perhaps this carrier was a TS&C?

[tankbarrell]

The TS&C used dedicated belt driven generators, one 12 volt and one 24 volt. It still used the standard engine mounted dynamo to charge its own battery.
I wonder if it was a Belgian conversion to a larger, possibly Autolite 12v dynamo.

[ajmac]

Work is progressing on one of the Loyds.
I've noticed that one vehicle has cast bogies and the other fabricated, the fabricated ones are in very poor condition, I doubt if any can be recovered. Martyn also pointed out that one of the fabricated bogies has a regular UC / Loyd road wheel and a Windsor one with the wide lip and no grooves to for the rubber to bond with! The track and sprockets are very worn, those Belgian army guys must have driven the last of there Loyds into the ground before they were sent to the firing range

[ajmac]

A spell of clear weather offered me the chance to further dismantle the front of the Loyd, you will see from the photos that there isn't much left at the farm now, at least from the front of the Carrier.
The torque tube and drive shaft within are in perfect condition, without any damage. Coupled to the back of the torque tube is a short propshaft which interfaces with the gearbox output shaft. This was in usable condition but the cover will need repair as it has three holes and the propshaft within has two impacts. These are part of it's history so they can stay without any issue with the shaft operation.

All of the nuts and bolts holding the rear of the torque tube coupling to the cross member were covered in grease so same off without any problem, most of the larger fastners holding on the front lower hull plate came undone surprisingly easly. It was the smaller ones that gave the most problems, so in the end they had to be cut with the little 4.5" angle grinder. While I was cutting I took off all the large bolts holding the rear chassis angle to the chassis, thus on the next visit we can lift out the engine & gearbox. That just leaves three axles to be removed and the chassis can to taken the two miles into Lincoln where it is to be repaired.