Instrument panels (Dash boards)

[Philliphastings]

Hi Eddy, as Lynn will tell you it's the finer details I like the most. I even try to get the screw heads facing the right way if I can.

So far the this Scout has been the biggest challenge yet to my hunter/gatherer instincts but I'm getting there - not a whole lot is missing from the project now and it seems to have come together by some mysterious series of co-incidences and sheer dumb luck finds.

I would dearly love to be able to post a blog of each part as it is found, restored and ultimately fitted. Maybe Santa will bring me a real comoputer this Christmas.

an enduring database of parts details would be a global asset in my opinion. I wonder if Nigel would conside part three to his carrier books - a comparison of spare parts and their interchangeability...

Cheers

Phill

[Lynn Eades]

Kevin, with ref the ebay auction # 111211420696, maybe it's time I pulled this to the front. The ebay dash panel appears to me to be an AOP panel. Check out mine in this thread. It is wrong for a U.C. carrier because it lacks the bit that holds the gauge at the bottom. Interesting that it carries two part numbers TL 13953 and TL 13954. They had trouble making up their minds.

[RichardT10829]

I thought that weird too... Do both part numbers refer to dash panels Lynn ?

[kevin powles]

Lynn, So an A.O.P. Carrier dash panel, that's rare, not seen a restored one, but is it still not a Universal Carrier?, Do you happen to know why the panel was configured differently to a Brit or Canadian Mk1 standard stowage.

I used to have three of these but gifted two away, also gave a Mk1 Canadian to Richard for his carrier.

[Lynn Eades]

Richard, I don't know the answer. I just noticed two different numbers on the one panel. Maybe an earlier one is modified to a later number?
Another number on it has been cancelled.
Kevin 79 welded Armoured O.Ps (MkIIIw) came to N.Z., 40 of which were later sent to Tonga. Apart from my one, there is one runner here in N.Z, and two bare rebuildable hulls, that I know of.
The only other AOPs that I know of are Nigel Wards MkII here in Australia featured in Nigel Watsons 3rd book (he told me of another Australian MkII) and a late MkIIIw in France also in Nigel Watsons last book.
Your panel has a cut out in the left lower corner. I assume these panels are from the later AOPs like the French one. It IS just my assumption.
So many un answered questions.

[Richard Farrant]

Originally Posted by Lynn Eades

Your panel has a cut out in the left lower corner. I assume these panels are from the later AOPs like the French one. It IS just my assumption.
So many un answered questions.

I assume the cut out is to clear a weld where the vertical hull plate meets the horizontal?

[Ben]

On the later panels the left hand side is lower than the standard MK1 panel, this explains why the right hand section doesn't have the seperate drop down section. The notch is to clear the Frame rail that the armour is riveted to.

Kevin could you offer that panel up against a MK1 type to see if the overall height is the same please? this may help in knowing if the left side drops to the height of the MK1 or the right hand side is shorter, or perhaps a bit of both.

That style looks a lot easier to make, I assume that's why it change.