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Here are some pictures of my new Bedford MJ and Shop Electronic Repair Radar body. Just got her on the road and took it to it's first show, The War and Peace Show in Kent, England a few weeks ago. The truck is a 1986 and the box is 1977. The truck has 2100 miles on her and the box has 2 air con units that are also heaters and de-humidifiers, NBC filtration and various power sockets. EVERYTHING works and all I need to get now is a generator so I can power up all the equipment for demonstration at shows.
The truck was a Ptarmigan communications truck and I got the dealer to take this off and fit the box body onto it. The truck served with 48 Signals Squadron, 35 Regt Royal Signals. It was cast from service in January this year. The box is a radar repair workshop belonging to 9 Army Air Corps Royal Mechanical and Electrical Engineers (REME) Workshops and was cast from service one week before I bought it (May 2009). It spent most of it's life at Donnington Storage Depot and only had a few years with 9 AAC before being released. It only has 10hrs on the air con units. Voltage options are 0-40v DC, 28v DC and 240v AC single or three phase. I think it was used for servicing radar on Lynx, Apache and Gazelle.
I have the history for both the truck and workshop. The workshop is a "Transportable Container" and after removing 12 tie rods can be lifted off using a crane. The truck is pretty slow at 50mph MAX (I do 40mph in it) but is very good on fuel returning around 16mpg. The engine is a Bedford 330 cubic inch 6 cyl diesel producing 108 bhp. It's built for reliability over performance. I bought it direct from the Army. I am a truck driver and the civilian truck in the photo is my work truck that I drive during the week. My company let me use my truck and the low loader to ship her home from the disposal agents. Hope you guys like the look of it?
The truck was a Ptarmigan communications truck and I got the dealer to take this off and fit the box body onto it. The truck served with 48 Signals Squadron, 35 Regt Royal Signals. It was cast from service in January this year. The box is a radar repair workshop belonging to 9 Army Air Corps Royal Mechanical and Electrical Engineers (REME) Workshops and was cast from service one week before I bought it (May 2009). It spent most of it's life at Donnington Storage Depot and only had a few years with 9 AAC before being released. It only has 10hrs on the air con units. Voltage options are 0-40v DC, 28v DC and 240v AC single or three phase. I think it was used for servicing radar on Lynx, Apache and Gazelle.
I have the history for both the truck and workshop. The workshop is a "Transportable Container" and after removing 12 tie rods can be lifted off using a crane. The truck is pretty slow at 50mph MAX (I do 40mph in it) but is very good on fuel returning around 16mpg. The engine is a Bedford 330 cubic inch 6 cyl diesel producing 108 bhp. It's built for reliability over performance. I bought it direct from the Army. I am a truck driver and the civilian truck in the photo is my work truck that I drive during the week. My company let me use my truck and the low loader to ship her home from the disposal agents. Hope you guys like the look of it?
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