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Spares in Kefalonia !

I remember the world being awash with ex civil defence Gypsys in the 1970s. My father almost bought a delivery mileage ' Police Column' one. This was a blue lwb with side windows. Instead he bought a diesel Land Rover lwb Station Wagon which was a disaster as a caravan tug. Hardly had enough power to pull itself around and he was distinctly unimpressed!

Possibly but unlikely. But as LR's have a high survival rate in comparsion with other vehicles it may be still around. Identifying it would be main problem unless anyone has researched and published its history. Craig

A possibly Canadian Alvis Salamander featuring in a current TV series ' Tales from the Loop' https://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_1370805-Alvis-Salamander-Crash-Tender-1958.html

It's an interesting concept which seemed to get some use post war on tippers. see link- https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/photos/item/JLP01/08/010235

Gotta expect some rivet counting on a Military Vehicle forum 🙂, I thought the programme was great drama and don't mind a few rogue vehicles . However as this is a rogue vehicle thread- this monstrosity appeared ( briefly fortunately to right of 1st pic ) looks like it may be an early Unimog badly disguised as a CMP.

I know it is a a Matador. My original post said it could have been fitted with a TANK from a QL, AFAIK Matadors 4x4 were only supplied as Medium Artillery Tractors plus a relatively few flatbeds for the RAF. Though of course in the field many conversions took place.

Take your point on aerials , but adds to the dramatic effect 😀

AFAIK there was no such a thing as a Matador 4x4 refuelling tanker in service? Looks like a Bedford QL tank. Agree Germans used a lot of captured vehicles , especially in the free flowing desert war.

A few more 'Rogue Vehicles' on this axis airfield-

Lots of new wave music in it but should have had 'That's Entertainment ' on the soundtrack .

After watching series note that the leading vehicles in opening convoy sequence are pretty much all the 'Brit' trucks used throughout in various guises and locations. Leading vehicle is a Humber 8cwt followed by two CMP 3 tonners first with an oh so desert war early cab , second has a strange cab with sloping back windscreen which makes it very obvious in back scenes in various locations. Then there is a LRDG Chevrolet disguised with canvas cab and tilt , then another Humber 8cwt , then two Bedford MWDs , then another LRDG Chev in disguise then lots of REO 6X6s. Craig

Humber 4X4 8cwt PU

Aagh (as they say in the Victor ) Ep.5 a convoy of postwar Reos prominent in dock scenes, why not use some of the CMP s they have with German markings. Would have been very prototypical as they used so many captured vehicles. Craig

Seems to be a marmite show that has polarised opinons, it is the same with the press reviews. I liked it obviously! Craig

Each to his own. SAS Rogue Heroes was not a documentary it was a dramatisation , although from the title it sounds like one. 😊 Cannot stand Dunkirk , one of the worst two hours of my life watching it . Never been in a cinema since !Did not know whether it was in a plane or a submarine half the time ,and the noise deafened me throughout even with my old man hearing..

I am at end ep. 4 and think it is f#####g brilliant so far, bit slow too start with but soon gets into its stride. I love the music and think AC/DC great fit to jeeps and Chevs careering across the desert. The postwar REO 6x6 really did stick out as so much care has been taken with getting a large number of the correct vehicles for the period. Lots of CMPs and Brit stuff .The opening convoy sequence looked great except for the bloody REO The LRDG Chevrolet 1533's seally looked the part, I wonder where they were sourced. SAS/LRDG jeeps and kit also looked the part. The actor playing ace LRDG navigator Mike Sadler is the spitting image of the real man who only died very recently. The scenes where the LRDG trucks pick up the abortive SAS parachute mission from the desert are excellent. The swearing is perhaps a little overdone just for effect as everyone swears like a .........er trooper ! and my Northern Irish mate says Paddy Maynes character has been a little too extreme . But overall it is a hit with me. Got to remember it is entertainment and no doubt WW2 obsessives can pick loads of small wrong details out but the overall look and feel is right. Did I mention that bloody REO😊

See 2nd post in thread😊😊

It was operating in Norfolk with the experimental Kestrel Jumping Jets ( Harriers) and this is a still from the excellent 1965 Look at Life short film ' The Jumping Jets' which can be seen below. There are a bunch of other interesting RAF vehicles operating with the jets and apparently the German test pilot is WW2 Luftwaffe fighter ace Gerhard Barkhorn

Novembers Heritage Commercials magazine has a good feature on the Fordson WOT6. Craig

Suppose there will be thousands of film anomalies. Forgiveable with rare vehicles like just about anything axis and much armour. But not so much for allied soft skins in fifties/sixties/seventies films where the correct vehicles and first hand knowledge were very much still around. Craig

Never seen a Karrier Quad with BEF......yet !

Bedford QL in John Mills 1958 Dunkirk film . QL not made in 1940. Bedford OY would have been so much better as France was littered with them in 1940 . Good film otherwise. Craig.

WW2 MILITARY ARMOURED O.P. MARK III INSTRUCTION BOOK DRIVER'S MANUAL 1942 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/203736457193?hash=item2f6fa39fe9:g:mfcAAOSwewRhqi~S

Can't be too many of these about- https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/294603001144?hash=item4497b50d38:g:I4MAAOSwfQlhqi13