Our LRDG Chev

[Niels V]

Would these be suitable for aero screens https://www.completeautomobilist.com...nds-aeroscreen ?

[Andrew H.]

Originally Posted by Niels V

Would these be suitable for aero screens https://www.completeautomobilist.com...nds-aeroscreen ?

They might be suitable, but look expensive. We will make our own I think.

[Bob Carriere]

But ......... how practical-useful are they on a LRDG travelling at 25 mph in loose sand/gravel????

Would they actually divert the air flow away from the driver's face??? or is it just another British tradition like the open "C" cabs with a waist high canvass wrap around for the driver's compartment.

They do look pretty!!!!!

Bob C

[Andrew H.]

Hi Bob,
We don't expect them to be very practical or useful, but will install them anyway, to be as authentic as possible. I have already driven our truck at 100km/hour without any protection at all, and at that speed you certainly need something between your face and a bumble bee!

[lynx42]

They are really useful. I have them on my LRDP truck and at 55 mph you sit out of the wind unless you get between the two aeroscreens, then you know it. I do recommend goggles at all times when out on the road as a passing vehicle could throw up a stone , miss the aeroscreen and take out an eye.

Regards Rick.

[Andrew H.]

Originally Posted by lynx42

I do recommend goggles at all times when out on the road as a passing vehicle could throw up a stone , miss the aeroscreen and take out an eye.
Regards Rick.

Thanks for the heads-up, Rick.
Andrew

[Grant Bowker]

Originally Posted by Andrew H.

at 100km/hour you certainly need something between your face and a bumble bee!

Speaking from experience, at a third of that speed, they feel very fuzzy on your tongue before you spit in a hurry (several times in case you failed the first time). On that day the bee must have been more surprised than I was and forgot to sting.

[Niels V]

Aero Screens are very effective at speed, but as Rick mention don't go between them, but it is no problem to sit with the head above them, the wind is deflected upwards. but do wear goggles.
My Triumph TR2 is fitted with Aero screen, and they have been tested to around 100Mph, and I toughly enjoy them.

[Andrew H.]

Over the last few months we have been slowly working towards adding the things that were attached to these trucks in WW2, including making the can-holders for the running boards, the aero screens, the greedy-boards, the tailgate hooks and chains etc. We have also been completing the things necessary to make it "road-legal" in NZ including mirrors (which the LRDG trucks did not have). Without mirrors the rear-vision from these trucks is obscured by the greedy boards, which must have been difficult when driving through the streets of Cairo or Alexandra.