Bedford MW aeroscreen restoration

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by rampant rivet

Well its been a while since I last posted on this forum I've been flirting with an Austin Champ resto project ,but thought you good folks on here might enjoy this tale of fun with this old Bedford Mw aeroscreen which I guess is a cousin of sorts to all those Chevy CMP's

For those of you who don't know already, Jeremy restored a C15 back in 2004-2007 - see my C15 restoration (just cleaned up the thread a little by merging postings and threads).

Jeremy, here's hoping you reach the same sort of standard with the MW!

H.

[rampant rivet]

Thanks Hanno I certainly hope that the Bedford will turn out just as good if not better than the C 15 luckily this time the MW came with an engine and the spares situation is a bit better though there will always be that elusive part that will finish off the truck 100% first pic is of the small fitting that holds two spare spark plugs on the bulkhead under the bonnet, then general views of the chassis and finally one of the same just in 1/35 scale

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one major problem was the front springs were broken when I took them apart luckily Pete Gaine had a pair of good ones also had some nice xmas presents which inc an original air hose and gauge. the steering wheel is now refurbished and so are the headlamps.

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A couple of weeks ago I was lucky to pick up this early type air filter as you can see I have had to make a new filter element.

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Work has also been started on the bulkhead lots of tin worm to sort

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Managed to get the air filter element together today and it looks like it should work bit more fettling and paint and that's another part of the jigsaw coming together

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Got stuck in today with lots of painting and replacing repaired front cross member and engine mount also fitted new oil filter will have filter finished by tomo will post pics then.