sundance Posted September 30, 2022 Share #21901 Posted September 30, 2022 Or rather kerosene. I thought that looked wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted September 30, 2022 Share #21902 Posted September 30, 2022 1 hour ago, sundance said: Looking at the bicycle picture reminded me that I have a German made kerosine (I think) lantern that looks like a small, black railroad lantern. It has a clip on it to attach it to the front post of a bicycle. There's a reflector behind where the flame would be. Probably pre - WW2. I was told it was used by the German army but I'm sure civilians used them also. . Hi Sundance, If there's an opportunity to post a shot of your lamp I am sure several of us would like to see it. Mention of your Kerosene lamp reminded me that I have a pair of US Army Deitz rear red lamps, looking at the trucks in the advert they might be for a U.S. WWI Liberty truck. Just imagine that these were the technology just a hundred years ago and look where we are no with technology !!! I used to say to my parents that their generation must have see the greatest advances of technology, born a few years just after the Wright Brothers flew their first plane and then seeing man land on the moon and all the other ' advances ' that were made ( some we could certainly live without ) . Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, September 30 2022. ( Last day of September - winter draws on !! ) ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundance Posted October 1, 2022 Share #21903 Posted October 1, 2022 I'm a bit technologically challenged so I'll see if I can get my son to assist. Every picture I have on this site, and there aren't that many, were put on by him. Exceptional kid if I do say so myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundance Posted October 1, 2022 Share #21904 Posted October 1, 2022 Well, I pulled it off its perch in the basement ceiling and it's marked Feuerhand Superbaby (in English) 175. A sort of funny story. my wife and I were in the basement talking to a gentleman working there who said, "that's a nice collection". Whereupon my wonderful wife said "Where did those come from!" The glass globe says Jena er Glas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundance Posted October 1, 2022 Share #21905 Posted October 1, 2022 General Apathy, since you mentioned advances in technology, I'm always telling my late 30ish boys what wasn't around when I was a kid. I remember as a teen watching a very early color TV at a friends house. It had a small round (I believe) screen, I know this is not surprising to most of us advanced age citizens but I tell them there were no computers, cell phones, microwave ovens, seatbelts, satellites and on and on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundance Posted October 1, 2022 Share #21906 Posted October 1, 2022 I just read back a bit and saw someone had beat me to the Tour de France comment - my apologies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johan Willaert Posted October 1, 2022 Share #21907 Posted October 1, 2022 On 9/28/2022 at 8:19 PM, General Apathy said: It was a case of replacing parts and rebuilding the starter, remounted it and all good again, starts first crack of the button, no cranking of the engine. And that is just the way a properly restored and maintained Jeep should start, even on the original 6Volts system. Many people whose Jeep just doesn't start as it should stand in awe when I start mine and just like yours it doesn't even crank the engine, the starter motor barely touches the engine flywheel and it runs... They're even more amazed when I stand next to the jeep and push the starter button with my finger and the engine fires right up... A lot has to do with proper grounding, tinning, correct gauge wiring and a prefectly timed ignition along with a good starter motor... But there's also the difference in starting Jeeps fitted with an American Carter carburettor versus a French Solex one... A page from an Army Motors magazine published in 1945 shows they already knew back then different carbs required different starting methods... When I explain this to Jeep drivers that have starting issues, many times their Jeeps start much easier when they follow the correct procedure... Carter carb: Cold Engine = Full Choke and Throttle - Warm Engine = No Choke and no Throttle Solex carb: Cold Engine = Full Choke and no Throttle - Warm Engine = No Choke and full or at least some Throttle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johan Willaert Posted October 1, 2022 Share #21908 Posted October 1, 2022 5 minutes ago, Johan Willaert said: And the upside down bumper described in the article at the bottom of the same page from Army Motors can be seen on Steve Greenberg's Diamond T Wrecker which I saw at the MVPA Convention in Portland, OR in August 1996... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted October 1, 2022 Share #21909 Posted October 1, 2022 2 hours ago, Johan Willaert said: And that is just the way a properly restored and maintained Jeep should start, even on the original 6Volts system. Many people whose Jeep just doesn't start as it should stand in awe when I start mine and just like yours it doesn't even crank the engine, the starter motor barely touches the engine flywheel and it runs................ . Hi Johan, Congratulations bit I think when people look at your beautifully restored Jeep they KNOW it's going to start !!. When people look at my wreck and it starts it ' Gasts-their-Flabbers ', ( three levels up from Flabber-Gasted ). Went to a small show at the Brasserie in Ste Mere this morning, as I walked to the Jeep to leave one French vehicle owner congratulated me by saying ' excellent appearance ', he was stood watching a couple of vehicles away when I started the Jeep both he and his friends gave me the thumbs up with smiles that it fired without cranking, ( proud owner smiles back and exits carpark ). . Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, October 01 2022. ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted October 1, 2022 Share #21910 Posted October 1, 2022 On 9/24/2022 at 7:55 PM, Dogsbody said: Windscreen up???? . Hi Rene, here's a rare scene of the Jeep with it's windscreen up but just for checking water and oil before leaving for car-show this morning, it's evident that I wouldn't be able to drive screen up . . . . . . . . . . !!! 🙀 . Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, October 01 2022. ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted October 1, 2022 Share #21911 Posted October 1, 2022 . Original new old stock versus modern made replacements . . . . . . . going back to my post about a noise / starting problem with the Jeep, the part that malfunctioned the 'Bendix drive and spring ' this was a new replacement I put on maybe less than a year ago and it came apart through poor manufacture. There are generally less or no problems with genuine old eighty year old stock, American made parts when found or available. Photo below shows the part of the starter motor that came apart, the spring should be about an inch long and all thats left are the top and bottom coils of the spring. . Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, October 01 2022. ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikie Posted October 1, 2022 Share #21912 Posted October 1, 2022 2 hours ago, General Apathy said: . Hi Rene, here's a rare scene of the Jeep with it's windscreen up but just for checking water and oil before leaving for car-show this morning, it's evident that I wouldn't be able to drive screen up . . . . . . . . . . !!! 🙀 . Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, October 01 2022. ... 😂😲 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikie Posted October 1, 2022 Share #21913 Posted October 1, 2022 2 hours ago, General Apathy said: . Original new old stock versus modern made replacements . . . . . . . going back to my post about a noise / starting problem with the Jeep, the part that malfunctioned the 'Bendix drive and spring ' this was a new replacement I put on maybe less than a year ago and it came apart through poor manufacture. There are generally less or no problems with genuine old eighty year old stock, American made parts when found or available. Photo below shows the part of the starter motor that came apart, the spring should be about an inch long and all thats left are the top and bottom coils of the spring. . Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, October 01 2022. Are there sources for good quality newer parts? And this turned out not to be one of them? Do you guys have good enough stock of old parts to keep you going for a while? Just curious about the issue of keeping thousands of vintage vehicles around the world running as time goes by. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted October 1, 2022 Share #21914 Posted October 1, 2022 1 hour ago, mikie said: Are there sources for good quality newer parts? And this turned out not to be one of them? Do you guys have good enough stock of old parts to keep you going for a while? Just curious about the issue of keeping thousands of vintage vehicles around the world running as time goes by. . Hi Mikie A friend in London restoring top to bottom a 1970's Triumph motorcar has been having major problems with replacement parts, I think he's tried at least three different suppliers of brake master cylinders and each one has failed. In fact several of his other Triumph friends suggest fitting parts from other modern car manufacturers, I believe they recommend using Volvo brake servo units. He has repeated to me many other problems so many in fact that I can't recall all of them to add here. A Jeep dealer I know in the UK was contacted by one of his suppliers asking why he hadn't ordered parts from them for some time, the dealer said it was because he had received too many complaints about the parts they supplied, the manufacturer said well if you had told me we could have made them of a better quality. !!!!! I think several Jeep accidents over here have been found to have been caused by ineffective flexible brake pipes. Talk to lots of Jeep owners and there is a warning being passed around NOT TO BUY Chinese made combat rims, the centre of the wheel surrounding the wheel lugs snaps away . . . . . read more here https://forums.g503.com/viewtopic.php?t=293333&start=60 Back in the 1970's when I really started to get interested in buying Jeeps I thought then that parts were no longer made fo0r 1940's Jeep so I tried to buy all the original parts that I thought would need to replaced over the coming years. I bought headlamp units, points, condensers, and other parts I thought would be good to have. I bought about ten pairs of headlamp units in anticipation of having to replace burnt out units, it's over forty years now and I still haven't had to replace a single headlamp. I still have one new original Ford cylinder head in it's wartime wrapping and again never had to use that so far, and possibly never will. Every summer when vehicle dealers visit Normandy for the anniversaries of D-Day I search out the ones with original parts and avoid the tables full of reproduction parts, I still buy original parts knowing that there's a great possibility that I will never use them. 😹 Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, October 01 2022. ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted October 1, 2022 Share #21915 Posted October 1, 2022 . no matter that I read my text several times before I post it, that annoying autocorrect always alters something. Sometimes I manage to use the EDIT function and correct the text, but the choice of editing the text runs out after fifteen minutes . . . . . . . Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, October 01 2022. ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted October 1, 2022 Share #21916 Posted October 1, 2022 . Car show this morning . . . . . . funny how much the difference is between these two cars that are perhaps only fifty years separated in design . . . . The 1929 Citroen on the left is a garage find and untouched except for oils and water and brake shoes, everything else is original back to when it was manufactured even the wiring, it passed a control technique several months ago. That's a wet patch from rain under the Citroen and to either side of the Corvette. . Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, October 01 2022. ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogsbody Posted October 1, 2022 Share #21917 Posted October 1, 2022 7 hours ago, General Apathy said: . Hi Rene, here's a rare scene of the Jeep with it's windscreen up but just for checking water and oil before leaving for car-show this morning, it's evident that I wouldn't be able to drive screen up . . . . . . . . . . !!! 🙀 . Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, October 01 2022. ... Wadda ya mean..... I CAN'T SEE ANYTHING wrong with it. Windscreen wipers broken? 😄 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogsbody Posted October 1, 2022 Share #21918 Posted October 1, 2022 On 9/28/2022 at 8:19 PM, General Apathy said: . Maintenance work today . . . . . . . at the weekend a jangling noise started occurring when starting the Jeep, so this afternoon I took the starter motor out to have a look at it, the end of the starter dog had become loose and was moving on it's threads. It was a case of replacing parts and rebuilding the starter, remounted it and all good again, starts first crack of the button, no cranking of the engine. . . . . . . 👍🏼 . Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, September 28 2022. ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogsbody Posted October 1, 2022 Share #21919 Posted October 1, 2022 7 hours ago, General Apathy said: . Hi Johan, Congratulations bit I think when people look at your beautifully restored Jeep they KNOW it's going to start !!. When people look at my wreck and it starts it ' Gasts-their-Flabbers ', ( three levels up from Flabber-Gasted ). Went to a small show at the Brasserie in Ste Mere this morning, as I walked to the Jeep to leave one French vehicle owner congratulated me by saying ' excellent appearance ', he was stood watching a couple of vehicles away when I started the Jeep both he and his friends gave me the thumbs up with smiles that it fired without cranking, ( proud owner smiles back and exits carpark ). . Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, October 01 2022. ... Considering the rest of the vehicles that red Farmall is a bit too pristine looking. 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted October 1, 2022 Share #21920 Posted October 1, 2022 21 minutes ago, Dogsbody said: Wadda ya mean..... I CAN'T SEE ANYTHING wrong with it. Windscreen wipers broken? 😄 . Hi Rene, well lets see if you can see where I am going with this one . . . . . . I quite love Dutch Gouda cheese, however I find it a little too soft when first opening the packet, I much more enjoy it after the packet has been open a couple of days and the texture has hardened off a little , something that you can get your teeth into, a bit more like the texture of English cheddar . . . Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, October 01 2022. ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted October 1, 2022 Share #21921 Posted October 1, 2022 . Special design bolt for a Willys Jeep, this shaped bolt was amongst all the Willys and Ford bolts I have rescued or saved over the years, the sides are chamfered to a small circle at the top and stamped with two capitol ' AA ' letters. I can't think of any Ford bolt that was specifically chamfered like this, would be pleased if any Willys owner has one on their Jeep, I have other Willys owners that would also like to know. . Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, October 01 2022. ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogsbody Posted October 2, 2022 Share #21922 Posted October 2, 2022 21 hours ago, General Apathy said: . Hi Rene, well lets see if you can see where I am going with this one . . . . . . I quite love Dutch Gouda cheese, however I find it a little too soft when first opening the packet, I much more enjoy it after the packet has been open a couple of days and the texture has hardened off a little , something that you can get your teeth into, a bit more like the texture of English cheddar . . . Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, October 01 2022. ... A post about Gouda cheese an Mikie hasn't responded yet? I think you are referring to plastic packaging? I'm not too fond of them. As you mention at opening them cheese tends to be too soft/sweaty. Especially if it's cheese that's not that old yet. At my local cheese shop I get my cheese wrapped in paper. To me that's much better. And I don't mind a piece of cheddar, by the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted October 2, 2022 Share #21923 Posted October 2, 2022 1 hour ago, Dogsbody said: A post about Gouda cheese an Mikie hasn't responded yet? I think you are referring to plastic packaging? I'm not too fond of them. As you mention at opening them cheese tends to be too soft/sweaty. Especially if it's cheese that's not that old yet. At my local cheese shop I get my cheese wrapped in paper. To me that's much better. And I don't mind a piece of cheddar, by the way. . Well it may be soft but certainly not sweaty . . . . . . there are less and less specialist stores any longer the supermarkets have seen to that, at one time every village here had to have a bread store, even they are fewer and farther between, my village has NO commercial premises, its about four kilometres to Ste Mere which is now tourist stores and cafe's and ONE supermarket, clothes and shoes mean a trip to Cherbourg and then it's a shopping mall surrounding THE supermarket. Hey Gromit, have you tried Wensleydale yet, bet you can't get that in Holland. Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, October 02 2022. ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted October 2, 2022 Share #21924 Posted October 2, 2022 . A London friend is on a guided tour of the Ardennes and sent me this Then & Now comparison, but no location so far. That certainly looks like it could be a military wheel rim on the water trailer outside the building . . . . . . . Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, October 02 2022. ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johan Willaert Posted October 2, 2022 Share #21925 Posted October 2, 2022 11 minutes ago, General Apathy said: . A London friend is on a guided tour of the Ardennes and sent me this Then & Now comparison, but no location so far. That certainly looks like it could be a military wheel rim on the water trailer outside the building . . . . . . . Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, October 02 2022. ... from JP Pallus’s Battle of the Bulge Then&Now, After the Battle 1984 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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