Identification request

[Mike Cecil]

Hi Bruce,

That was my first thought, but on examination there are a number of differences. The power plug on an R210 is in the top left corner of the front face, for example, whereas this set has it half way down the left side.

Regards

Mike

[Robin Craig]

Mike, silly question, have you asked on HMVF at all?

If not I would be happy to ask, I am sure someone like Clive Elliott will answer.

So a right hand drive series Land Rover with a unitised radio mounting of some sort?

[Mike Cecil]

Ahhh, Robin of the Black Art of Texting, not a silly question at all: remember, I am a Luddite, so my range of internet forums is as severely limited as my use of a cell phone!! (My flip phone has only just died, so I may have to move into one of those modern flat thingys to replace it)

I don't frequent HMVF, and would be happy for you to ask the question on my behalf. Thank you for offering.

Yes, a Land Rover Series 2 109 inch FFW, with the standard wireless table fit, but this particular combination has me beaten and crying for help. Bruce's suggestion it is 2 x R210 reception sets & PSUs was a good one, but I have discounted that: the PSU for the C11/R210 combination was a common PSU to both sets and the front face is entirely different. The wireless sets in the image also have a different layout on the front face, so not an R210 either (unless there were variants?).

Regards

Mike

[Robin Craig]

Mike,

Don't put yourself down too much, you are quite swift, trust me.

FFW? I would have said FFR with the R being radio, perhaps FFW was a wartime thing, R was what we called that in the UK. Wireless had connotations of grandad and a pipe and carpet slippers.

Be back at you with suggestions

[Mike Cecil]

Hi Robin

In the 1950s and early 1960s, the Larkspur series were generally all 'wireless', it was the US that used 'radio' (and antenna instead of aerial). By the end of the 1960s, just about everyone had converted to 'radios' with 'antennas'. I stuck with FFW (Fitted for Wireless) as that was the nomenclature used when the vehicle pictured was under development.

Interestingly, the same vehicle type at the same time was listed as an FFR when fitted with US sourced radios. Go figure: wonder what the Aust Army called a vehicle with a US and a Brit radio!!

Mike

[David Dunlop]

Mike.

They might be a pair of R216 Receivers and PSU’s, but I have no idea if that would be part of the Larkspur series or Clansman, or even what frequencies they lurked about on.

David

[Bruce MacMillan]

Originally Posted by David Dunlop

Mike.
They might be a pair of R216 Receivers and PSU’s, but I have no idea if that would be part of the Larkspur series or Clansman, or even what frequencies they lurked about on.
David

Spot on David. They are a pair of R216 receivers with PSU #45. These are a vhf monitor/intercept receiver covering 19 MHz to 157 MHz. They are a part of the Larkspur family.