00DA was made in 1960 and served with the Blues and Royals, Scots Guards,
the Anglian Regiment and a few other units in the British Army of the,
Rhine. It is fitted with a Larkspur harness with C42 and B47 radio. The B47
is a boatanchor, while the C42 appears to function in so far as the
receiver goes. I haven't tried transmitting as I can't seem to get the ATU
to wiggle nor do I have an FCC license yet (another project).
For more information on Ferrets, try the Ferret Heaven web site.
Jim Burrill and I purchased this vehicle from a dealer in the UK that bought them from the Portuguese Govt. It will require a bit of work, but once done should look quite nice and run like a dream. The Chassis on these are quite simple (effectively a medium truck of the era).
This Humber MkIV should give a better idea of what this is supposed to look like. This excellent specimin belongs to the 15th Recce's brother unit in the UK, the 43rd Recce.
This Daimler Armored car was owned by Andrew Honeychuch in the UK. He's since sold it as he's concentrating on other projects (an M8 Greyhound iirc). The Daimler Armored Car is similar to the Ferret (or more rightly the other way around). These were introduced by the British in 1941 and were used through the war and afterwards up through the 50's until replaced by the ferret.
It has a 4.5 liter Daimler straight 6 engine with a wilson gearbox and 5 speeds forwards and 5 speeds in reverse. Max speed is about 50 mph (just like the Ferret). Armament was a 2 pounder main gun and a 7.92mm besa MG. A .303 Bren was also carried as an anti-aircraft weapon. I have more data from a manual data sheet on a gallery of diagrams.
This cute little piece of Armour is a MkII that I purchased early in 2002.
As is typical for many vehicles, I'm searching for all sorts of components
like vision blocks, No19 Wireless Set bits and other things.
The fighting compartment is pretty small but well layed out. The debut (with me) event for it was at the Reading Airshow with the 15th Recce. We had a short tactical that was quite fun, albeit very un-realistic.
Daimler dingos are powered by a 2.5 liter Daimler straight 6 engine. They make about 55 HP with quite a bit of low end gearing to allow for some amazing maneuverability. Like the Ferret, the Dingo has a Daimler Fluid Coupling and a Wilson Pre-selector Gearbox. Additionally, it has a separate transfer box direction lever allowing reverse and forwards in gears 1-5. Reverse has a slightly lower output ratio, but not by much.
At right is a carrier that belongs to one of the Lads in the 15th Recce.
I have additional photo's of Dingos and stowage diagrams on a gallery.
Barry (one of the blokes in the 15th Recce) owns this carrier. Its a Mk I Universal Carrier. They were commonly known as Bren Carriers. It has a flat head ford V-8 engine. Armament was typically a Bren LMG, a Boyes AT rifle (.55 cal) and typical crew personal weapons (Enfields, STENs and .38 cal revolvers). The Boyes AT rifle was mostly obsolete by 1944, however it was still useful against lightly armored vehicles and soft skin trucks.
This is Jim B. (driving) and Barry W. at Reading. The infantry have already dismounted and are off shooting at Jerry. My dingo is in the background.
LEFT: At the Reading Airshow. Ryan's Dingo with two of the Para's that were quite happy to not walk/in to the tactical. Lou, brought his Bren gun along and had quite a blast firing it from the Dingo. I was nearly deaf and hoarse from the noise and cordite smoke, but quite happy after both tacticals.
RIGHT: This was the combat capable portion of the unit heading out to the tactical at reading. Jim is in the gunner's position of the carrier, Barry is driving his baby. Ryan (me) is in the Dingo driving and Lou (who really doesn't fit in the Dingo very well), was operating his Bren.
