C8A s/n 3844515289 1943

[M.Morren]

The HUM passed the RDW inspection this morning!

Now we need to wait for the registration certificate to arrive to order the license plates.
The HUM should be able to get on the road in a week or two, finally!



And yes, it now has this very nice stamped chassis number...

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Congrats! Another C8A graces the Dutch roads again.

[M.Morren]

Today I fitted the new blinkers that I made so that they can be removed easily if I want to. The blinkers itself are, what I believe to be, from the Belgian army around the 1950s or '60s. These are much nicer than the blinkers that were fitted when I bought the HUM.







I didn't want to drill any holes so I had to pick a location that has a bolt that is easily removable. Luckily the bottom bolt which holds the windshield post is exactly that! I ordered some laser-cut metal plates which are held together by the two M5 screws in the blinker body. The bottom plate has an M10 threaded rod with a hole drilled through the center to accept the positive wire for the light.



After tapping, the bottom (thickest) plate had to be modified a bit to let the cable through to the tapped hole and into the threaded rod. (I didn't want to break the tap of course)

It took a bit of tinkering to get what I wanted, but I'm very pleased with the result!

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Nice job Marty, really looks good!

[M.Morren]

Not much has happened since the HUM passed the inspection. Last August, the Generator stopped working again. This was after I had a quick repair done to the armature coil as it was burned through at one point. I decided to send it off so it could be professionally rebuilt. The armature was sent to Italy where they could rewind it for several hundred euros less (the rest was done here in NL). Because of this, and most likely covid, it took several months to get it back. And when I got it back the truck did not come out of the garage because the winter had arrived and I don't want to drive the truck with all roads covered in wet salt...



Since the winter has passed (mostly...) we have driven it a couple of times and very much enjoyed it!

One of the last major visible changes for a while will be the restoration of the side curtains. 2 of them seem to be original with little to no work done to them while the other 5 had the canvas replaced. I'm not really a fan of the 'new' canvas, which has to be around 40 years old already, so I'll be using the 2 remaining original ones as templates for the new canvas.

While examining the, what seems to be, still original side curtains I noticed that they have some kind of small metal plates under some of the nuts.





One of the curtains which had new canvas added still has the original paint left, and the locations where the plates used to be are still visible. So it looks like the plates used to be on all the side curtains. (at least, all side curtains from the workshop area of the HUM.)

Does anyone know what these are and why they are there? Any info on this will be greatly appreciated!

[Phil Waterman]

Hi

On my late 1945 HUP those little metal tabs are apparently to help hold the canvas weather strip against door or body. They are fairly springy steel as they don't seem to bend. Though on HUP some of them have been broken off, I suspect from handling and storage in the side rack when not in the openings.

Can take photos of mine if that would help.

When looking for material to replace broken or missing ones, you might look at metal banding.

Cheers Phil

[M.Morren]

Originally Posted by Phil Waterman

Hi

On my late 1945 HUP those little metal tabs are apparently to help hold the canvas weather strip against door or body. They are fairly springy steel as they don't seem to bend. Though on HUP some of them have been broken off, I suspect from handling and storage in the side rack when not in the openings.

Can take photos of mine if that would help.

When looking for material to replace broken or missing ones, you might look at metal banding.

Cheers Phil

Thanks for the info! Some pictures would definitely help though, as I'm not really seeing how they work.

[M.Morren]

Originally Posted by M.Morren

Thanks for the info! Some pictures would definitely help though, as I'm not really seeing how they work.

Pictures no longer needed. Had a good look while dismantling my side curtains. I am going to make some so all frames have them, but I still don't exactly see why these would be useful... The canvas is already held against the frame by the outside metal stips. (I guess that they could all be broken, but that's probably not the case )