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  1. I was a vehicle inspector in Hong Kong and we always considered this model to be a Scammell Constructor.
  2. I saw quite a few of these around the cupolas of Bedford RL gun tractors in the 1960 but never saw them in use or saw anything that would fit them although I did hear that they were for a anti aircraft MG.
  3. FMT3 , that's a blast from the past as I've been out since 1973.
  4. I drove one from Pembroke Dock to Soltau and back and towed Martian Gun Tractors or a 5.5 in gun most of the way. about 750 miles each way.
  5. None of them look like the ones we used on exercise in Libya in the early 60s , ours looked much more robust as I remember.
  6. Was it a wrecker before the civvy recovery gear was put on as far as I remember an RLW was just a GS Bedford RL with a winch, we usually had one in RA regiments to pull guns out of holes without calling for REME.
  7. We're at cross purposes here. With 25pdrs we had Bedford RL gun tractor sand and then got 5.5s on returning to the UK and had Matadors followed by Martians gun tractors.. I then moved to 5 Regt RA LAD and we had 1 ton Land Rovers towing 105mm light guns.
  8. I learned this sort of trick when attached to the Royal Horse Guards who were running dingoes and Daimler Armoured cars at the time. It's a long time ago now and I've forgotten a lot of things but this one stuck.
  9. And if it's cutting in too son file a little off the weight and if too late lay some solder on it.
  10. You'll find some excellent photos of the regiment on http://www.42regt.com including lots of them when they had 25pdrs in Plymouth , Cyprus and Libya.
  11. We drove a Leyland Martian Recy and 18 gun tractors from Pembroke Dock to Soltau in about 1962 an dthe only real problems we had were with ignition cables that had perished and consequently broke up.
  12. I was on that expedition along with another REME VM , George Rodgers Temple . The regiment was stationed in Cyprus at the time and tagged this onto the end of an exercise in Libya. The one incident that sticks in my mind is the transfer box falling of a Bedford Rl because the mounting bolts sheared , this was before the strengthening modification was carried out, we ended up using cylinder head bolts of a scrapped American car in Sabba , when we left Cyprus 18 months later the box had still not been modified and still had the same bolts in it. I also did another smaller trip later from Tobruk to Giarabub when we really did master the use of sand channels.
  13. In my time with the regiment we never had Militant gun tractors only ammo trucks , the tractors that the Leylands replaced were Matadors.
  14. These take me back a bit. I was a member of 42 Regt LAD (94 Bty Fitter) during it's time at Pembroke Dock and recognise lots of faces. The pic of the men manhandling a 5.5 is taken when they were taking it into the LAD workshop.
  15. I didn't think armourers came out of their workshops in daylight. Arte et Marte
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