602 re the two key start up on the raf vehicle is that like a nuclear thing where keys must be turned in sync and with full authorsation and agreement? Might one have been a battery master cut off switch?Hi 2286,
You are probably right. These were the first diesel LandRovers that I'd met. This was on a SAM site in Malaya, and were painted Jungle Greem ... sorry ... Olive Drab. I stocked with green towels (RAF Regiment for the drying of), prior to demob, and got Barbara a pair of military sun specs.(also Rock Ape issue) Completly OT. one bloke kept his pet chameleon (sp?) in his locker, to catch any prowling flies, and another bloke had a Venus Flytrap that he fed with the flies he'd swatted.
Prior to then, at RAF Weeton, nobody needed a key to start an Austin Loadster (Lode Star?) nor Bedford SL/RL.. Just take the cover off the fuse box, remove one fuse ... and put it back, but in the gap
between the clips, thus linking all the circuits together. Everything became live.
. I don't know if that would work with an S2 fuse box ... I think later fuse boxes had a "detent" between the fuse clips.
OT ... everybody, but everybody, had a skeleton key to fit all NAAFI issue locker padlocks. Just file off all the sprags except the outer pair.
602
PS. To prevent your Landy being stolen, wire the CB side of your coil to earth, through a secret switch ... or better still, through one of those little plastic blade type fuses. Insert fuse to immobilise your your truck. OK, it might cook your coil, but only if somebody does try to nick your chariot.