An E-30 is heavier than micro 4/3

[shenstone]

So I had to take a suitable vehicle to carry it

It ended up in a 6 page magazine article which I'm quite pleased with

You see & read the rest by going over to the blog and clicking the picture there if you want to read about Land Rovers ... there are some scenery pictures too...

http://landroverkaty.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/what-katy-did-next.html

[StephenL]

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Fascinating blog. Well done!

[Zuiko]

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A fantastic adventure! I know you have been working hard on Katy for quite some time and it's great to see the reward for all your efforts. You must be chuffed to bits! I look forward to reading about many more adventures with Katy in the future.

[GRAHAMJ]

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I have just sent my son the link to this, right up his street. Thanks for a wonderful and very interesting read.

[PeterBirder]

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Great stuff.
Well done both for all the work and getting the article published.

I can answer your query as to what a NSN is. It's a Nato Stock Number. I worked in military electronics for most of my career and every single item of equipment,component and consumable item (eg fuel/lubricants ) used by any Nato service and many NATO supported sevices has to be codified with a 13 digit NSN. This gives a common logistic system so that all NATO and associated forces can work together and provide support and maintenance for each other.

Katy's NSN would normally be written as 2310-99-893-7291.
2310 indicates she is a "Passenger Motor Vehicle". If she was a motor cycle or bicycle it would be 2340.

99 indicates she was made in the UK.

The remaining seven digits are the unique code for this particular model/variant alocated by the UK Codification Authority.

We had a whole department that had to check every component we used to see if it already had a NSN and if not arrange a new number from the UKCA and also arrange codification for every sub assembly and equipment we designed. Every item used by Nato forces from soldiers boot laces to aircraft carriers and nuclear weapons has a NSN.

Regards and thanks for sharing.

[shenstone]

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Thanks for the nice comments and I was quite chuffed with the published article as it represents a step forward in hopefully doing some more articles for magazines and it's always good to have something in the bag to show what you can do

Especially thanks to Peter for that detailed description of what NSN means. if you don't mind I will add that information and a link back to this thread in thanks to you

Now I just need to get the injector pump refitted (she blotted her copybook in the recent MOT) it's all back from the expert who's refurbished it and in the hands of the master mechanic (old timer who's forgotten more about Land Rovers than I will ever know) who's dealing with that failure for me so hopefully this weekend she'll be back on the road again

Regards
Andy

[PeterBirder]

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Especially thanks to Peter for that detailed description of what NSN means. if you don't mind I will add that information and a link back to this thread in thanks to you

Regards
Andy

No problem Andy.
Here's a couple more links that may be of interest to anyone who really wants to know more.

https://www.gov.uk/uk-national-codification-bureau

[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_Stock_Number"]NATO Stock Number - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

Regards.

[shenstone]

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Thanks Peter

http://landroverkaty.blogspot.co.uk/...katys-nsn.html

I've taken a look at those other links you really would be suffering insomnia to want to wade though that stuff it wasn't for your work

Regards
Andy

[PeterBirder]

Re: An E-30 is heavier than micro 4/3

Thanks Peter

http://landroverkaty.blogspot.co.uk/...katys-nsn.html

I've taken a look at those other links you really would be suffering insomnia to want to wade though that stuff it wasn't for your work

Regards
Andy

Thanks Andy.

NATO is also a hot competitor to the EU for beaurocracy. A treatise on NATO acronyms would be an even better treatment for insomnia. I've sat through meetings where I thought everyone was speaking an unknown foreign language.

Regards.

[shenstone]

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This of you who have taken an interest in this thread may be interested to know that I have just had permission from a photographer who captured images of Katy in active service in Croatia to use those pictures in my blog

2 of them are from an old magazine article so in B&W, the second is however also in another Land Rover book in colour

so if you want to see some scans of old pictures please feel free

They are not mine and they are not olympus so be warned this is for land Rover geeks only

http://landroverkaty.blogspot.co.uk/...n-uniform.html

Regards
Andy