3 line air brakes according to the LR conversions catalogue. Presumably if it is converted before registration , its not a substantially altered  within the regs., but that is what happens when subsequent rule changes  have unintended consequences! 

Hi Martin,

Thankyou for that. If ever we meet face to face, I will moisten my tongue ... and clean your boots.

Of course, I still have to work out which cable I will require, but that should be the easy part.

I can't work out where my original cable has got to.  I never unplugged the last one.

602

Operation Raleigh was a charity based in London which took volunteers on overseas projects. Now called Raleigh International and still running. I used to supply them with Land Rovers and do driver training for them. Started off in the 1970s as Drake by the King and John Bashford-Snell.

Fair play, I used to get fed up after an hour or so up a pole, but we used spurs, not swedish climbers...might explain the discomfort. On underground cables now but still occasionally climb.

What's Operation Raleigh?

I was in Bude.
So Bideford/Barnstaple district.
I did my Training at Taunton in April 82.
I was Chosen through Local, county and national interviews in London to represent the Electricity Council of GB on Operation Raleigh. Then had to pass the OR selection weekend, hence why I ended up living in Australia.
I was the Mad idiot who sat up a pole for 48hrs in Bude for a fund raiser and a Hurricane hit me. I stayed up and made local/ national News and Radio the next day.

whitehillbilly

I agree with Adam. Let's leave it the FBHVC, after all we've got to put our trust in some organisation. Anyway, any amendments, were they to occur can't be retrospective, the cock up over black and silver number plates is an example. If any amendments were to occur they will be applicable from a certain date.
I think too much can be read into this.

Hi,

Most small trailers use over-run brakes, which might be slightly difficult with an articulated trailer, so suggests "coupled brakes".

Hmmm! Does that mean there is a loophole in the "Substationally Altered Vehicle" regulations, that permits alterations that have already been implemented a specific number of years ago, thus avoiding an SVA/IVA?

I hope that somebody here will know what I'm chuntering on about?

602

The training poles at Taunton are now full 11M ones!

Im curious, what's so wrong with the current system?

I realise EV conversions add a new layer of complexity, but surely it can just be treated as an engine?