I saw this one quite some time ago while at the beach. Yes this fine specimen is but a stone’s throw from lapping waves. However it wasn’t till today that I got around to photoshop.. er I mean record it’s image on my mobile cam.
The challenge for you walking catalogs of military details is to tell me what this is. Because, you see, I don’t know. There is a plaque which I will show later but it’s not of the tell stupid onlooker what this is kind. I rather suspect this is going to be in the too easy basket for some of you.
I begin with the John perspective which is hopefully obscure enough to challenge at least a few of you.
03/03/2009 at 9:55 pm Permalink
You would hit me on a morning where I have to run to some “honoring someone for something” breakfast and can’t dawdle.
And, yes, I admit I don’t know my AFV i.d. by handles, so it could be either an artillery piece or a pre/early WWII vehicle of some sort. Awful lot of rivets for later.
I will search diligently after this event this morning, and before the afternoon-spent-briefing-the-project.
04/03/2009 at 12:21 am Permalink
So, this wouldn’t by chance be one of the guns at North Fort, would it?
04/03/2009 at 2:07 am Permalink
OOh OOh!
Well, I’d venture it’s one of the track controls from an Amtrack.
Or not…..
04/03/2009 at 3:14 am Permalink
Good Lord, don’t let Maggie see it…
04/03/2009 at 4:14 am Permalink
That’s a possibility, Tim.
HFS – gutterminded wench, aincha?
04/03/2009 at 5:52 am Permalink
now I’m thinking along the same lines as Tim. looks like the left side lateral control for a smallish tracked vehicle.
my original thought was that it could also be a winch control.
04/03/2009 at 6:03 am Permalink
Aaron – izzit one of these?
04/03/2009 at 6:20 am Permalink
Woohoo my John perspective is working. Don’t worry I will post up a much easier image in time.
North Fort, Amtrack, I don’t even know what they are.
I will say for the benefit of all this is not what John linked a picture of.
04/03/2009 at 6:54 am Permalink
Looks like the brake control on an old steam loco/electric trolley or the clamp control on a cable tram car but assuming it is a turret, it would be the cam lock to hold it from turning.
04/03/2009 at 12:39 pm Permalink
I am happy to assure everyone this is definitely military.
04/03/2009 at 2:23 pm Permalink
Now you know the power of controlling the image!
I have some other guesses, but since they’re guesses, I’m gonna wait for the next hint.
You have learned the milieu well, weedhopper!
04/03/2009 at 5:33 pm Permalink
John ~ Yes. Yes.I.Am.
04/03/2009 at 11:32 pm Permalink
Oh, and North Fort is where the Australian Artillery Museum is.
05/03/2009 at 1:37 am Permalink
[sound of fingers tapping impatiently]
05/03/2009 at 3:26 am Permalink
It’s a curling iron handle. DUH!!
05/03/2009 at 3:28 am Permalink
Oh, and RetRsvMike…. are you sure you didn’t mean “wench” control? I’m pretty sure that’s where HF6 was heading with that Maggie comment.
*runs away*
05/03/2009 at 5:10 am Permalink
Well, I had thought perhaps it might be one of the track control handles for a Bren Carrier, but then I realized they’d be on the wrong side. But it still has that robin’s egg green colour that the Commonwealth loves to use, so i suspect it’s of that manufacture.
So, yeah… about that next pic…
05/03/2009 at 5:53 am Permalink
Cocking lever Borfors 37mm or 40mm AA GUN?
05/03/2009 at 6:37 am Permalink
This is what the cockpit of the F35 will look like after Obama’s budget cuts have gone through.
05/03/2009 at 7:42 am Permalink
wench control?
impossible. can’t be done.
hence the designation “wench”.
05/03/2009 at 1:11 pm Permalink
Looks like a hand-brake for a towed artillery piece.
Since this is an Oz (i.e. British-derived) thingy, and I don’t have a lot of images to hand except WEAPONS An International Encyclopedia From 5000 B.C. to 2000 A.D. (The Diagram Group), I’ll go out on a limber (heh) and say it’s the hand-brake for a British 25-pounder Mk2.
05/03/2009 at 1:54 pm Permalink
lol Casey see the post above. It’ll help.