| Rick Cove collection |
Rick's collection of armour. See also some pics from Rick's photo album |
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| Rick Cove is a long-time collector of military vehicles who lives in Paynesville in East Gippsland. In June 2003 Euan McDonald visited him and took these pictures. | |||
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| This is a cab 12 F60L serving as a storage chassis for Rick's Recuperator body. The Recuperator came from Hughes Trading and Rick rescued it in the last stages of the clearing of the Hughes yard in 2001. | The longest CMP fuel tank ever? | ||
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| This pic was one I took in the 1970s of the same body. | The official pic of the Recuperator on a F60L chassis. The Recuperator was designed for work on the recuperator of gun recoil mechanism.Mike Cecil, Senior Curator of Military Technologyof the Australian War Memorial gives more detail: "The 'Truck, 3-ton, Recuperator (Aust)' was specifically for servicing the buffer and recuperator system on artillery pieces. The Buffer is normally a hydro-pneumatic system with something like 600psi of inert gas pressure as well as the oil. It took a specilaised vehicle to be able to bleed the recoil mechanism on a gun, as well as recharge it once the repair or servicing was completed. The Recuperator truck has an overhead gantry to allow the barrel to be swung inside the rear doors, and a RIX multi stage compressor mounted on the front of the body between the body and the truck cabin. There is also provision for gas bottles along one wall " | ||
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| Interiors of the recuperator. This is the left side with the spare wheel box visible. | |||
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| Some interiors of the F60L. | Someone once went to a lot of trouble rewiring and labelling. | ||
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| 25 pounder. | |||
| Rick also has quite a collection of armour. | |||