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    AUSTIN GIPSY

    in British Vehicles

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    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!

    RAF Series 1 Land-Rovers

    in British Vehicles

    Posted · Edited by XS650

    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

    SAS Rogue Heroes Rogue Vehicle.

    in MV Chatter

    Posted · Edited by XS650

    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.

     

     

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    SAS Rogue Heroes Rogue Vehicle.

    in MV Chatter

    Posted · Edited by XS650

    21 hours ago, mtskull said:

    Here’s a comparison of the vehicle in question with a QL and a Matador.
    Matador 4x4 tankers evidently do exist (see photo a few posts previously); whether or not they are period correct probably wasn’t much of a consideration to the producers, as evidenced by some of their other choices.

     

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    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.

     

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    SAS Rogue Heroes Rogue Vehicle.

    in MV Chatter

    Posted · Edited by XS650

    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

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    SAS Rogue Heroes Rogue Vehicle.

    in MV Chatter

    Posted · Edited by XS650

    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

     

    SAS Rogue Heroes Rogue Vehicle.

    in MV Chatter

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    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..

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    SAS Rogue Heroes Rogue Vehicle.

    in MV Chatter

    Posted · Edited by XS650

    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😊

     

     

     

    War Film...vehicle fails...

    in MV Chatter

    Posted

    On 12/30/2021 at 9:57 AM, Rootes75 said:

    Just watching the original Dunkirk film, one of the first scenes in France shows a couple of trucks being attacked and set ablaze.

    One is a small Fordson but the other is a Bedford QL, obviously not actually introduced at that time.

    See 2nd post in thread😊😊

    RAF Land Rover tilt colour?

    in British Vehicles

    Posted · Edited by XS650
    clarity

    On 11/4/2021 at 8:05 PM, B series said:

    Here is a nice example of a RAF military spec with a blue hood. Note this vehicle is fitted with both Warner and NATO trailer connectors, so that might date production or DIS.

    Not sure what this vehicle is doing, but the communication equipment looks commercial rather than military. Is V/38 related to the V bomber force?

     

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    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

     

     

     

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    War Film...vehicle fails...

    in MV Chatter

    Posted · Edited by XS650

    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

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