Loyd carrier progress

[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.

[RichardT10829]

keep up the good work buddy.... i hated the strip down phase of my carrier everything was seized solid ! but its done now so thats the main thing

[ajmac]

I found the chassis number just where Paul suggested.... well after some cleaning and sanding. From the number I presume that it was made by Ford or Wolsley as only these two manufactures made more than 3979 units. Of course that is if the chassis number started at 0 for a contact, and that is by no means sure. However I hope that I may be able to trace the number either in the disposal records (kew?) or the Belgian army records, we will have to see. Any opinions or clues welcome.

You will also see that due to range damage the left hand front chassis rail where the number is located was detached once the front axle had been removed.