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philthydirtyanimal


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This month's edition of Military Machines International has a couple of messages from Tim Gosling concerning an AEC Y type truck and a Liberty truck. Real ones! That have been found and are being restored. In one of them Tim appeals for information on any known whereabouts of a Tyler engine.

Tim, if you read this, there is a spare Tyler engine in the museum at CFB Borden, Ontario, Canada. Its one of the Whippet engines and I am not sure if they will part with it. I have a couple of photos of it displayed in front of their Whippet (I bet they removed it and then couldnt get it back in!). I can get some more pics if that would help, but it is a bit too heavy to slip into my backpack when no-one is looking!

So, if we now know everything, we should know where any other Tyler engines are! If you can help, Tim would like to hear from you.

There is also an article about a new armour museum being built in Jordan (90% certain it said Jordan!) and they have built a replica Rolls Royce armoured car (and painted it a nasty shade of mustard).


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Thanks for that. I will let Oliver know about it but from what you say it is unlikely that the museum will part with it. But you never know.

The AEC is a remarkable find. Much as it was when it was parked up all those years ago, only the engine and gearbox were taken away in WW2 by the Fleet Air Arm to put in a truck that they were still using.



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Despite the problems with restoring WW1 trucks, a gearbox and diff (that was also missing) have been found. Probably the best location to find an engine would be in Australia or New Zealand. Things do keep turning up there.

The AEC still had the original body



and hood bows. Quite remarkable.



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Tim, I have nothing but respect for loonies that put old vehicles back to how they were. Sadly, I am a very cack-handed mechanic even at my best (I can fix most things, but the air turns blue with my colourful language!), let alone a resourceful jack of all trades I imagine a vehicle restorer needs to be.

And your photographs are good too; you obviously have an eye for this sort of thing. To my eye, that last photo looks like a healthy crop of (slightly trampled) stinging nettles!

I couldnt afford to buy the magazine, so I just read it in the shop. But I thought you might like a little extra publicity for your quest; I hope you dont mind.

I think the guy that runs CFB Borden's museum is named Beaton. He seems reasonable enough. And I have formed the opinion that there is a lot of WW1 stuff stashed away in all the various museums in Canada (Regimental and Provincial museums etc) and not on show. And he may know someone who knows someone.

Anyways, best of luck, and I for one would like to hear about your progress.

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Thanks for your comments. I have the greatest respect for the model makers on this forum. Things i could never do. At least with a full size hub cap it wont go pinging off behind the table somewhere. Far more likely to drop it on my toes and break one, but at least i wont lose it.

We have been restoring WW1 trucks for about 17 years now, although getting married and having kids has certainly reduced the amount of available time that i have to work on them.

If you are interested, the saga of our WW1 Dennis restoration is on the HMVF forum. http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?t=429

Do excuse me if i  have posted that before, but i thought you might be interested on our progress to date.

Sorry to hear that you cant afford MMI. Is it that expensive in Canada? I occasionally write WW1 truck articles which are published in that magazine.  Gives me something to do when i cant sleep.

Anyway, as you didnt buy the magazine, here are the photos of the Liberty. I hope that you enjoy seeing them again.

Tim







-- Edited by Great War Truck at 00:22, 2008-12-05

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Great stuff, again, Tim!

If I just bought the one magazine it wouldnt be too bad at 12 bucks. Its just that I am quite the nerd, so I also want Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Wargames Illustrated, Military History, New Scientist, Discover etc etc etc, the list goes on and on! (I couldnt find one on 28mm werewolves though!)

I will be having a look through that forum. And thanks again for the photos here.

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Wow - great! Thanks for posting the pictures.

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