Commer Q2: Truck, 15-cwt, 4x2, Van

[Hanno Spoelstra]

The Type 105 Radio Vehicle's purpose was a mobile VHF direction finder station:

Ref. https://hmvf.co.uk/topic/7705-light-...comment=106646

I have been lent a manual called Concise Details of Radio Vehicles, an Air Ministry publication, but dated 1950.

It covers many types of radio trucks, but there are two that are simular to my Light Warning Truck,

One refurs to a Type 105 Radio Vehicle, the other a Type 267 mk.1 although this is on a Bedford cab/chassis, the back body is very simular to mine, the body is refured to as a 'type E' stores ref 16a/1672.

The discription states:-

This is a mobile Monitoring unit used for centimetric pulsed transmissions. Three aerial systems are provided, one to cover the upper end, one set in the horizontal plane and the other in the vertical plane.

the equipment consists of a pair of waveguid aerials mounted on a suitable turning gear...............it goes on for pages!

The Equipment listed is :-

• Two recievers Type R.1392D
• Two power units Type 234A
• Control Unit Type 7a
• Transmitter-Reciever Type TR.5043
• Power unit type 15
• Petrol Generating set, 1260w, 35V
• Control unit Type 714
• Control unit Type 715
• Indicator CRT Type4
• Power unit type 820
• Amplifying unit type A.3269
• Test set Type 219

The purpose of this installation is a mobile VHF direction finder station.

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