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16-03-08, 22:35
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Another Ariel W/NG, again from "The Classic Motorcycle", with number 10872RN. Has anybody ever noticed that the vehicles on the pictures RN008.jpg and RN014.jpg (both posted by Alan Brock), have very close RN numbers? The mobile workshop is 41677RN, the mobile crane is 41675RN. Would this mean that these RN numbers were not allocated in blocks, as in the army? It seems to me that there are many completely different Royal Navy vehicles with very close RN numbers... (OK, the Navy used lessvehicles than the army, but still... Just a thought...)
Jan
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16-03-08, 22:44
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To prove my point: this is a Norton 16H, number 26938RN. I also have a picture of an Ariel with number 26254RN, and previous postings contain pictures of a tilly with number 25256RN, and a lorry with number 25440RN. All quite close or not?
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16-03-08, 22:48
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And this is the Ariel. Most of the RN vehicles seem to have white paint on the edges of the mudguards...
Jan
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16-03-08, 23:00
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Jan, As the RN vehicles would be mostly based in the UK, this was to aid their appearance in blackout conditions. A lot of vehicles were painted as such during the war at home.
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16-03-08, 23:15
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Last one before somebody thinks that I'm trying to hijack this forum
 A Royal Enfield CO this time (this is not a WD/CO, but one of the 100 “Model CO” motorcycles which were ordered by the Royal Navy in 1941). If anybody would have any other war time pictures of these fine motorcycles I'm always interested!  Jan
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21-03-08, 18:02
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David Brown tracked tractor
This David Brown Roadless pic was canned from a mag. Are there any more photos out there of this fully tracked version. I for one, had never seen it before.
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21-03-08, 20:09
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I am not sure whether Roadless had any input on this tractor, but early in the war, the Air Ministry instructed David Brown to produce a tracked tractor for airfield use. Apparantly there was problems with the tracks causing damage at the air bases and the tractors were converted to wheeled Taskmasters. I believe this was all detailed in a history of David Brown. The tractor's original designation was TAG1. The fact that the RAF used Roadless Fordsons as well, makes me wonder about this story, but it does at least authenticate the crawler, of which about 550 were supposed to have been built.
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