sean101ryan

Now trying to change my ferry booking to get to Bunker Bash instead! Shouldn't cost me any more except in fuel.

Should be there Friday around 5 ish. Probably camp in field, will need to get vehicle in (not bringing trailer). Be handy to keep enough room for 101 Paul as well with my 9x9 and his 101 plus 12x12.

I've voted. Can't get on with electric razors, reckon they just hammer the hairs back in! Have we done a deal with Nivea mens products?

Oops, sorry about the spammy link, did'nt bother checking it before posting!

Here's Bob's home page with email address. bob@landroverpix.com AFAIK he is sensitive about copyright. He posted elswhere he would like to re-publish some of his books but no-one will pay him enough! I have all of them myself already.

I'll be bringing my Toughbook with 1:25k OS mapping and GPS.

If anyone fancies wandering across the Irish Sea, this a really nice friendly show close to Rosslare Europort. Good local pub, really nice surroundings, beach you can drive on and must be due for good weather this year! Been there for last 2 years and loved it.

I don't recall what the notes said but from 1941 all Irish Army vehicles were painted 2 tone grey, upper surfaces dark, all others light grey. That Bren does seem to half grey half green though, no idea why. After 1954 up to the 60s it was Quaker Grey 629, a BS colour which is what I suspect the L60 and half the Bren is painted in. (info from the book I mentioned before) The book also gives a recipe for a milk/ cement wash to be applied to requisitioned vehicles! Recipe is 1 1/2 parts milk to 1 part cement with either 1/4 or 1/2 part soot depending on shade.

We used to store our Rapier kit and a couple of 101s at Headcorn behind the museum. Don't recall seeing the Salamander. The half track was still there 3 years ago, as a was a stolly (which we tried and failed to start!) and a BV202. All sorts of other old stuff in the hangers amongst the aircraft, the place had a very non-commercial laid back charm about it (slowly being eroded by H&S and security needs)

This is the setting for the museum, Collins Barracks (formerly Royal Barracks), was the oldest continually occupied barracks in Europe, what you see is only about 1/3 of it.

Ok, some piccies from the Soldiers and Chiefs exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland. Very good exhibition dealing sensitively with Irish soldiers serving both home and abroad with various armies. Much is devoted to UN service. 1940/41 Ford Mk VI armoured car based on commercial chassis, bodied by Thompsons of Carlow, (earliest versions were bodied by the GSR railway workshops at Inchicore). This is what the Irish Army used in their first UN mission to the Congo in 1961!! Panhard armoured car as used in the Lebanon in 70/80s Bren carrier and Landsverk L60 tank

"exclusive agreement to distribute only through WH Smith's," This is happening with all mags from that publisher plus possibly some others.

Got mine yesterday, makes a change to recieve one on time here in Ireland!

Whatever's said, they are still MVs but a minority interest so won't swamp shows or put Richard out of work! Green stuff will always be of more interest but as long as commercial vehicle enthusiasts keep some examples or someone makes a photographic record. As said, 50s - 70s CL vehicles are rarely seen. Anyone seen a preserved runway sweeper at a show? Had an intersting example turn up at our yard in Newington a couple of years ago, sold a 101 radio table to a German military Land Rover enthusiast on a buying spree. He turned up in a LHD Sherpa ex BAOR refuse wagon stuffed to the gills with with Land Rover spares, we had trouble getting it in and we off loaded stuff more on him as well. The very vocal reversng alarm on it was bilingual! A genuine ex military vehicle of no interest to anyone, I never even thought to photograph it.

Published Sept 2002 by the author ISBN 0-9543413-0-9 152 pages, over 400 photos. Includes a whole page about paint schemes. His preamble mentions the 1983 book but doesn't state whether the new one was an expansion on it. It does appear to include just about very single vehicle the Irish Defence Forces have ever owned. Huge list of thanks that seems to cover half the DF Staff plus David Fletcher and Bart Vanderveen!

I'll be up in Collins Barracks in a couple of weeks, will get some photos.

Ex Irish Army Leyland TE2 armoured car built in 1935/36, in service until early 80s in reserve! Based on Landsverk armoured car design and fitted with Landsverk turrets. The bodies were built in the cavalry workshops. For more details see Irish Army Vehicles, Transport and Armour since 1922 by Karl Martin, an excellent book. The Irish Army took much smaller home made Ford armoured cars to the Congo in the 60s, the Cobbaton collection has one.

Be thankful your are not a european subscriber. I get 5 mags sent, they arrive via 4 different countries, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany and France and at least a week after coming out in shops, the worst is MMI, comes via France. Last months turned up 4 days before this months. The postman knows my interests thankfully, some of them are in plain wrappers! It's a considerable saving for me as Magazines are VAT rated in Ireland

I saw it as well, talk about the valuer being clueless!! Sort of thing apprentices used to be tasked with. Common practice still I think to produce high quality models. Last time I was in the stores of a major military contractor I was eyeing up some very nice tracked models, gone for scrap now I suspect along with everything else in there.

It was Tickford that built the 80" series one Land Rover station wagons

They camped next to us one year at Beltring, had a generator just to power the beer fridge! Certainly knew how to throw a Chieftain around the arena.

The simplest conversion is the 2.5 Sherpa version of the Landie 2.5N/A, injector pump misses OS engine mount, I did this to a series 3 I owned. Forget the TD. 200tdi is a popular conversion, you have to squeeze in the intercooler etc though. A few have done the 200tdi and done away with the turbo etc reducing it to a NA. Td5s have even been fitted! Another popular conversion is the Perkins TD out of a Montego, very good in SWB and cost peanuts, Dudleigh Engineering do the kits. If you want to go Jap (yeugh, personal opinion!) there are several companies that do the conversion kits. Problem with this route is that the cost of adaptors, bodged exhausts etc adds up considerably. Trawl some of the main Landie forums for a ton of advice on this. The worst conversion historically was the York 6 cyl diesel in a Rangie, a guy asking questions about one a long time ago was asked had he intended to build a high speed tractor!

Pencil me in, not sure if I'll bring 101 or use my civvy 110 and cadge rides.

Hi guys, only just caught up with this thread, sorry! I have been fairly well travelled this year (typing this from a B&B in Keswick, well north of the Watford Gap!) I'll be back to UK in 2009 to a show down south in the 101 but have to be selective and March would be too early for me. Past visits to the Bunker and the Plain invasion has given me the priviledge of meeting several members though. Advertising you are a member of HMVF at other shows would help (love that data plate slyle information sheet).

As pop says, the REME Challenger wasn't meant for recovery, there was another version for that with a sort of lifting frame in the back. There is an outrigger on the side the crane is on but I read that they were still prone to bending the chassis so the kit would be moved to another chassis. Never seen anything like that second crane, is it a civvy mod after disposal?