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  1. The camouflage could simply be an easy way of covering up (overpainting) the DAK insignia. Magnakater.
  2. When at 19 Armd Wksp I used to send off the "State of the Workshops" report every month the HQ MELF 57 Cyprus. Tony Burton
  3. The phase 1 Vanguard "belonged" to CREME and the Black Humber Pullman "belonged" to the GOC Tripoli District and NO it wasn't me who parked them under the rickety corrugated iron roof! lol Tony Burton
  4. Sorry but I can't help with the wording on the "Road Test" plate. The ruinous state of the masonry building reflects the ferocity of the fighting there during WW2. One only had to kick the sand around to discover old shell cases, mainly 50cal or thereabouts. Sadly John Middleton died 4 years ago from a brain tumour and our mutual friend Maurice Cooling 2 years ago from Non-Hodgkinsons lymphoma. Tony Burton aka Magnakater.
  5. Sadly no Ian. This was 60 years ago! One thing I can tell you is that the vehicle was originally painted khaki so an army vehicle not RAF.
  6. Wiki is correct. The Moggie 1000 was introduced in 1956 in the UK, hence my comment that the photo must post date 1956 :-) Magnakater
  7. Good luck with your restoration Ian. I served my time as a civilian mechanic 1950-56. We had a very early version of your "tilly" as a runabout. It was vitually identical to your vehicles except that it still had the civilian "waterfall" radiator shell fitted. We constructed a sheet metal upper body to replace the canvas tilt making it warmer and drier! Magnakater QUOTE=Ian L;468690]Bought these 2 Tillys about 3-4 years ago & put them into storage but now the Humber is on the road I thought I would make a start.
  8. Wiki is correct. The Moggie 1000 WAS first introduced in 1956 in the UK hence my statement that the photo MUST be post 1956. :-) Magnakater. QUOTE=BlueBelle;485239]
  9. The Moggie has the enlarged rear window of the 1000 which dates this photo as post 1956. I first saw a 1000 in 1957 in Tripoli.. Magnakater QUOTE=BlueBelle;484991]Well, that's the K9s parked up for now, shelter tents packed away neatly ...... until the next time! :-) We certainly learn lots here, don't we? Of course we do, all good stuff as far as I'm concerned. Now, we're back in Tripoli, Tripolitania where 10 Armd Div Ord Fd Pk had been formed from the smaller 25 Armd Bde Ord Fd Pk, which, if I'm not misinterpreting the records, had existed in cadre form as part of the parent unit, 595 Ord Depot RAOC Kassala Bks (Mareth Bks pre-1955). The Ord Fd Pk seems to have been located in some other barracks and not with 595 Ord Depot. Could have been they were at Gurgi which seems most likely as the 595 Ord Veh Park were there, sharing 'the land' (a very basic 'barracks' with supposedly, no accommodation blocks though plenty of .... TENTS!) with 19 Armd Wksp REME and 5 Medium Wksp REME. RAOC Journals are so vague and provide no barrack names for units but they do tell you what the football score was having played against some other unit! Paff! So, here's the some of the unit lined up in 1956, with their warpaint on (H) ready to go to somewhere they were not allowed to go to after all. Oh, look at all them RL Binners, and even Hippos! Some vehicles do not display the 97 on the RAOC arm of service flash which makes me think those were issued from the main Ord or Veh depot to bolster the Ord Fd Pk (97) vehicle numbers. What purpose the rectangular concrete arches serve is beyond me, though there are two b&w signs visible with the closest saying 'Receipts'. Perhaps the other says 'Issues' though I'm told that as stores were for storing, there were never any issues! Can you see a caged Hippo? I can. A Moggie too!
  10. Hello Kuno. The White half track with German markings is almost certainly a hangover from either Ice Cold in Alex or No Time to Die. Both these films were made "back to back" during 1957 by Warwick Films. Ice Cold starred John Mills while No Time starred Victor Mature, Antony Newly, Leo Genn and Bonar Coleano. I have photographs of Queen's Bays Centurions in Afrika Korps livery for No Time to Die. I was temporarily attached to the Bays to supplement their LAD during the making of the latter film. Cheers, Tony B 56:10
  11. I served with 19 Armd Wksps and also 5 Medium Wksps, later Station Wksps REME, between 1956--58. This location does not look familiar to me at all. I was also temporarily attached to the Queen's Bays during the making of the film "No Time to Die" with Victor Mature, Antony Newly et al[ATTACH=CONFIG]118243[/ATTACH]I know you're all as keen as Richard to see 'those' Libya vehicle photos that I wrote about, so lets start with this: (All photos belong to me unless otherwise indicated/accredited, and where this is the case, I have express written permission to show them. so please, no copying). The year is 1959/60 or summer 1961. The car photographed is parked up at a barracks in Tripoli, Tripoli it is as (I know it’s not Homs Barracks or D’Aosta Barracks, Benghazi) I can see the Tripolitania Dhow flash on the Bedford RL and on the Landrover (can you?). There’s also a Ferret Mk? and a couple of 1ton trailers (Brockhouse or Sankey – I can’t make out the panel x ribbing?). I’m guessing this was the Tripoli Station Workshop? I also know who the car belonged to (a 2RTR officer) and that it did end up in Tripoli Station Workshop. In which Tripoli barracks though, were the workshops located? The workshops were known in the early 50s as 1 Base Wksp, then 1st Infantry Wksp, then 5 Medium Wksp, then Station Wksp and finally, from 1960 to 1966 and withdrawal of British forces from Tripolitania by March 1966, as 61 Station Wksp though trying to find ‘official’ corroboration is not easy or as yet, complete. The question also is, were the workshops always in the same barracks? Don't be shy in coming forward as I don't know and can't find the answer anywhere, yet. Besides, the REME Museum don’t want to play as they’re busy reorganising their furniture and polishing exhibits having recently moved from Arborfield to Lyneham. An accredited critic once said of this car that it was the most ineffective bit of engineering since the Maginot Line. The metal was so thin and rickety that you could hear rusting taking place. Its most salient feature was its slowness, a rate of acceleration you could measure with a calendar, frequently losing in drag races with vintage farm equipment. The car was made world-wide and over 2 million of them were sold, thus proving how desperately people wanted cars. Any cars. The car is, of course the Renault Dauphine.
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