Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 5:07 pm Post subject: Royal Sigs Radios, Vehicles and Equipment (Petra's Drawings)
Hello everyone,
This is a copy of a post just made in the KS reunion forum, but this one for those not going to the Reunion and so who may have otherwise missed it...
I would like to make public some artwork I have been creating for many months. Consider it a virtual museum, but with an option to do some good for the group.
Take a look through the pages to see if anything helps jog lost memories or refocus those which became slightly fuzzy due to years of NAAFI and Sgts Mess Beer... lol.
On the right side you will find main-links to Radios, then under them sub-menus by year groups, similarly clicking on Vehicles opens sub-sections by different year segments. Look also at the year group before and after you served if you do not see a vehicle you actually want.
If you have a private (i.e. non-commercial) home page and want to copy any of the artwork onto it, please do so, but I ask that you in return send the Langeleben group/Memorial fund a donation of around a pound per picture, or what-ever you can afford. It is Honour-ware, i.e. no one will chase you for the donation, I just hope you see fit to make one.
Please send your memorial donations to the Treasurer Gerry Kane at: 39 Lacey Court, Charnwood Road, Shepshed, Loughborough. LE129QY. (Cheques to be made out to Langeleben Reunion Association.)
Do not send me any money, send to Paul or Gerry instead, but I do not mind if you send me an e-mail to let me know what you think of the efforts so far, and what you feel is wrong, missing or could be improved.
There is a special page for Langeleben, (with combined I-corps and RS background) but most of the R. Signals vehicles and radios are on their respective main pages... Also some special pages exist for Snow, Deep Pictures, Blue-Light Vehicles and a collection of all Land Rovers, and all Post-War Bedfords on separate pages.
Intercept radios are also grouped together on a special page, from ww2 through to todays models. Look for the respective page in the radios sub-menu.
Any feedback, either here or via my e-mail (on bottom of each page) is much appreciated.
Paul or Ernie can confirm details of where to make your donations to for the pictures you want to use on your own home pages.
Best Regards
Petra _________________ Petra (Mrs. P. Henderson),
ex Royal Signals, 1971-1976
I go along with Gerry, it seems the work of a lifetime, pity you don't imbibe Petra I was going to buy you a drink but am looking forward to meeting you anyway. Thank you for your generous donations to the exhibition. _________________ Langeleben Dec 1957- March 1959.
I have made two new sections, on request for two specific vehicles which are now in part of new sets of similar vehicles...
The two new sections are "Fire Service" and "Armd & Tracked" even though I have not yet got round to finishing the first of the tracked vehichles I have planed.
Go to the Vehicles page and seek either the links in the red text area, or scroll down to the sample pictures and click on these...
--- In royal-signals@yahoogroups.com, "Peter FOY" <peter-foy@...> wrote:
>
> Petra,I did not see any Champs in you pages.We had them in Germany when I was there 1960-1961 doing my N.S.
> I believe that Austin made them and they were supposed to be British Army's answer to the U.S Jeep.
Hi again Peter, (and everyone else)
The Champs were (as I said) always in the 1946-1959 page which I believe you have now found, but as a result of that I have made a new page containing Champs, the daddy of the Champ the Mudlark, and the granddad of the Champ the Gutty (the last of which only three or four were made). This will help others to find them quicker.
I also made some new drawings of the Ambulance Champ, the permanent in Fire service made "Firefly" champ and temporary RASC Fire Service Champ which is in the respective sections but also in the "Champs & Co" only page.
I have also added a picture of what maybe the final Champ would have looked like had they retained their orders for vehicles over the Land Rover.
I have also added some more vehicles to the following pages;
1). Fire Service Section, (New Series 1 Land-Rovers, Champs, range Rovers and even a Ford Mondeo)
2). the the Blue-lights (new Ambulances and MOD police vehicles as well as a Brixmis Vehicle, our counterpart to the Soxmis)
3). in the Armored and Tracked vehicle section I have made a series of Alvis "S" series Tanks and APCs (including the Sultan Command and Signals version)
I have not yet "weathered" the Alvis vehicles, so they look a bit too clean and maybe "Plastic" for these pages...?
Go to the Vehicles page and select the appropriate sub-menu from the list on the right...
Jammy, I will make some Morris and Bedford open cab trucks as you remembered them and put them into the 1920-38 section later, still have a long list of missing vehicles that I am working on for others.
For everyone else who has not yet looked through the entire site, you can find (in the menu on the right also a selection for Radios, Langeleben and Other items...
Regards
Petra _________________ Petra (Mrs. P. Henderson),
ex Royal Signals, 1971-1976
Mike Buckley was kind enough to give me some details of how the Army numbering
scheme worked and also pointed out some vehicles that were missing from the
Champ set as well as some corrections.
As a result of that I have totally reworked all the Champs, added new vehicles
such as FFW and FFRs with Snorkel, new Line-layers using the later issued No. 11
and No. 8 Kit (then at first I had only the WW2 Recycled Jeep kit that was used
on some Champs.
I have also added some Machine Gun Patrol Champs and the Armoured Champ.
Also you will find the Original Prototype "Gutty" that was before the "Mudlark"
and at the end the "Gyump" Pronounced "Jump" which is possibly how the Champ
would have looked had the makers not lost that important 1953 contract to Land
Rover.
All the champs can be found together in the "Champs and Co." page...
In the tracked vehicles section I have added APCs (FV432 to 439s) completed the
Alvis Scorpion set, and added the new Alvis Stormer that will replace both
Scorpions the derivatives, as well as the nearly 50 year old FV432s still in use
today.
In the 432s (Actually 439s in the Signals) there is a special for the Herforders
(and in particular Jim) drawn based on the one we drove around the square on in
2005.
The Tracked vehicles can be found in the "Armoured and Tracked Vehicles" Page.
In the 1946-1959 page (where naturally I have changed out the old Champ
Drawings), and in the Line-Layers Page you will see the ancient and deadly sport
of Trailer Surfing, Practiced in Germany until the mid 1960s when National
Service stopped the loss of life and limb suddenly became a consideration, even
if only a small one...
Anyway you can see what has changed by going to the Vehicles page and selection
of the linked text on the main page, or from the menu on the right hand side...
In the wheeled page there are also now Saladins, Saracens, and two versions of
the Humber Pig, as well as the basic Humber 1 Ton Truck "CT" in both GS and FFW
versions...
They are there because of the Humber family (Hate to split them up... lol) but
also copied onto the 1946-1959 pages...
The normal Humber Truck was a strange beast, at least when it came to opening
the bonnet (if my memory serves me right, haven seen it only once) then it
looked like it was a normal hinged at the dashboard end affair, but in fact was
hinged down the middle and opened either left or right according to need. Also
the front windows folded down onto the bonnet and not up as was normal with
other vehicles of the time, even though the output (I believe spiral wire
driven?) of the wiper motors were in the top of the cab roof and needed moving
out of the windows area before these could be folded down...
Two roof hatches were common and both had two half hatches...
Last but not least, I have made some 1950s Bedford Ambulances (one was requested
by a Disabled former Signalman for an article he intends to publish about how he
lost a limb in an accident, and he will make a small donation to the RSA for the
special I made him...)
which also reminds me that I have split out the Police (RMP, MOD Police, etc.)
vehicles from the Ambulances and Fire so that all three branches have their own
page...
I have not forgotten the Half Tracks, or other vehicles mentioned, but they all
take a bit of time and the list is still so long...
Regards
Petra
PS to Gerry and Dave, I contacted the person you both mentioned who had asked for help with some vehicles, and he did not seem to like what he saw, instead sending me a long list of corrections, now needed to be done, so in the end he ended up helping me and not as we thought me helping him... _________________ Petra (Mrs. P. Henderson),
ex Royal Signals, 1971-1976
This will enable (for example) anyone using a drawing of an Austin Champ to see that I have reworked them all to be RHD and get a newer copy for their own web pages.
Also it will announce new stuff being added such as the Dingo and Humber WW2 Scout Cars, and the most important and highly developed piece of army technology (before the artillery had Computer controlled fire control) the Hand-drawn Fire Piquet "hose" hand cart... (which were in use in the army from 1903 through to about 1996).
Who remembers running with one (or being run over by one) at three am through the camps?
Many thanks to Mike for the corrections and tips on the Champ drawings, I have made the LHD to RHD changes, but will rework the ones with flat windscreens or aircraft windows, as in them I put the steering wheel in too low.
Regards
Petra
_________________ Petra (Mrs. P. Henderson),
ex Royal Signals, 1971-1976
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