Tag Picture Quiz

[Jakko]

F87 HMS Chatham, batch 3 type 22, my first ship when I completed training back in 1989

Unfortunately it wasn’t a question, but I doubt you had to look at the filename to identify it I don’t think they did tours of the ship the day before the naval review I mentioned, when many of the ships involved were in Vlissingen port, else I probably would have taken one.

 

[Lee W]

Oh I knew it wasn't a question, I was just stating what it was and what I served on

Lee

 

[Jon Heptonstall]

The tragic zoot suit fashion faux pas of 1943 leading directly to the riots and running battles with the police and drunken sailors on the streets of Los Angeles.

 

[Jakko]

Function of all parts, country, period.

Too obscure for me, but Google’s image search provides the answer: “Flame resistant suit with hood and bulletproof vest” of the American Women’s Voluntary Services (there’s your country) in 1942.

 

[Deleted member 6559]

Oh that Google image search - makes this a bit pointless sometimes. Correct.

 

[Jakko]

I resorted to it mainly because nobody else seemed to know either. I feel it’s a bit cheating somehow, but like I said, the outfit was rather too obscure for me. Want to have another go?

 

[Deleted member 6559]

No. You go ahead Jakko.

 

[Jakko]

Thanks. What is the following thing?

 

[Jon Heptonstall]

It looks like it should fit into the cargo area of the truck.There's a central compartment and two rear gates. It looks for all the world like a transportable chicken coop.
Jon.

 

[rickoshea52]

It looks like an unfinished picnic table.

 

[minitnkr]

Maybe for wardogs. PaulE

 

[Lee W]

Looks like the roof section of a Hummer ambulance!?

Lee

 

[Tim Marlow]

It has lifting eyes, so is craned or airportable, yet has a fixing lug at the bottom, so is fixed for use. There are guides on the sloping sides, and a stop on the same edges, which are recessed. The top is chequerplated, so could be for walking on. It looks like a jig or frame for folding or bundling something prior to loading or trying off. Perhaps to do with repacking large canvas structures after use?

 

[Jakko]

It looks like it should fit into the cargo area of the truck.

It does. Or at least: it should fit in the back of the HMMWV parked in front of it, though I can’t be sure because this is the only photo I’ve ever seen of it.

It looks for all the world like a transportable chicken coop.

I’m more inclined to agree with:—

It looks like an unfinished picnic table.

A picnic table to military specifications is what I’d probably say myself, if I didn’t know its real purpose.

Maybe for wardogs.

It’s not a cage. It only looks like one because the top is metal mesh that casts shadows on the struts (you can tell the top isn’t a plate by the shadow on the ground).

Looks like the roof section of a Hummer ambulance!?

Not big enough for that, and I don’t think you’d be a happy patient if they stuffed you into it

It has lifting eyes, so is craned or airportable

I think those are for lifting it into the back of an HMMWV.

yet has a fixing lug at the bottom, so is fixed for use.

See above.

Perhaps to do with repacking large canvas structures after use?

Not at all to do with canvas.

 

[Deleted member 6559]

I know what it is - Google Image search......

 

[Jakko]

I was kind of hoping you’d be the one to try that, yes

 

[minitnkr]

For carrier pigeons?

 

[PaulTRose]

its either a carrying rack for something or it gives a platform to stand on, like launching missiles or observing or something

 

[Jakko]

Peter, would you like to answer it or shall we let them try a little longer? Paul (beowulf, not minitnkr) is getting warmer, I notice.

 

[Lee W]

Is for a team of spec ops or something like that?

Lee