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  1. Citroman
    Nice model, I did some research in the Zeeland archives and found some pictures. They are from the liberation off the island of Walcheren. At the battle of the Schelde.
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    The bridge over the Rhine was in use till 1953. Later my uncle was ordered to Zeeland. A lot of dikes were damaged by the battle for the Schelde river. He said they used a lot of DUKWs and Terrapins. I have never heard of the last though. I am not shure if the the RE helped in the rebuild too?
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    Looks like it. Mertens is Belgian/Dutch name indeed. But in the north of france in the region of Flandres they have also lots of dutch names. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Flanders
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    With the Volvo i did heat it up, put the puller on under tension, spayed it with Imal oil and left it over night. Next day a bit more tension and gave a wack with the hammer and it jumped loose with a bang. On the cone you could see the penetrating oil did only creep half way in the bearing.
  5. Citroman
    Can anyone read the town were Mr Mertens delivered water? Nice pics.
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    Thanks, nice pics, there was story of an other bridge near Rees (germany) several kms west of the Wesel bridge. But i think that was build a lot later. Im Belgium there have been several Bailey bridges over canals that were still in use in the late 80s. One was in bad condtion. Several diagonal bars under the road deck were broken. And lots of rust would fall on your head if a car passed over it. 😉
  7. Citroman
    I think you are right and it was my uncle... ;-)
  8. Citroman
    By coïncidence i heard that my uncle was detached by the dutch army to the REME for helping building a bridge over the Rhine near Wesel. I was a very long Bailey bridge. That was build in 45/46 and stayed in use till 1953. Here some pics.
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    If you need shock absorber parts look here. https://www.completeautomobilist.com/categories/complete-automobilist-andre-hartford
  10. Citroman
    See i told you ... 😊
  11. Citroman
    I think they are both numbers. If i see the shape of the cooler/radiator it looks a bit like this one from 1914. But this is a question for Marcel (Cel on this forum). He knows a lot of this.
  12. Citroman
    Nice monsters. The huge tractors seem american too. Can you reed the make?
  13. Citroman
    He has a very simple mould made of bent flat iron. Bolted together. See page 16 and further
  14. Citroman
    Here on the website is someone building a german Panzer replica. He did cast massive rubber tyres in a mould. I don't know how strong they will be.
  15. Citroman
    I almost wrecked one of those pullers in trying to pull the brake drum of a Volvo 544 😕
  16. Citroman
    Dutch army had some of them too in 1940.
  17. Citroman
    The French Matford COE has also a bit of this looks.
  18. Citroman
    I worked at a newspaper and i can tell you they write a lot of s... No thinking, no checking, just bla bla. 🤭
  19. Citroman
    I was reading a book about the Somme and there was a letter of a soldier in it, whose job it was to collect rifles left on the battelfield. He said the load was so heavy that the only truck they could use for that was the Foden steam truck with trailer. The charge was so bulky that they had to reinforce the wooden sides of the load bed with iron bars...
  20. Citroman
    Thanks.. 😉
  21. Citroman
    I did find this Busch DF 10x80 flak binoculars for a low price, but it needs a bit of TLC. Lenses and prisms needed to be cleaned. Does anyone have an german army maintenance info prehaps? Regards Fer
  22. Citroman
    There was an old film over Kreta or Greece ww2, it shows a burned out wreck at the base of a cliff. It was a 2cv.
  23. Citroman
    They all have civil license plates from the Swiss Kanton of Geneva .
  24. Citroman
    Nice, a lot of converted buses.
  25. Citroman
    The truck on the right hand side is a Citroen 45.
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