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43 GPW/ 44 WC51 winter driving pictures.


elvis3006

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i hear you,i was driving my WC51 cross country in deep snow. tried to climb a steep hill,almost made it when i started slipping back downhill sideways toward a tree! luckily i stopped short and decided to never try that again lol,at least not without i chains.:cool2:

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Well, some sense. After all the trucks were built to work and mine does. This picture was in Belgium at Passchendale a couple of years ago . A local guy asked me what is it? I replied proudly a Dodge Weapons carrier, he repliyed 'Yes, I can see that but what is the truck?' :-D

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nice photo,is all that kit yours ?

 

I wish! No, it was supporting the Passchendale memorial march with the 10th Essex living history group and No Man's land. Great fun to use the vehicle for what it was meant for, to support troops on the march. 60+ years old and she is still carrying evrything from VIP's to the beer and carting the rubbish away afterwards.

 

On that trip I also got to photograph her under the Menin Gate , and be the first vehicle through after one of the Last Post ceremonies.:-D She was also one of the vehicles invited to parade down the Mall in London at the culmination of the 60th Anniversary of the end of World war 2. She has been on the BBC, 90th aniversary of the first day of the Somme. Convoy escort on the 60th annivesary of the Liberation of Jersey, the only time a non military team have ever fired an official 21 gun salute for Her Majesty the Queen ( I was timekeeper) She has taken me a lot of places got me into a lot of things and made me a lot of friends. She has also been on Goldbeach on the 6th June for the 60th and 65th anniversaries.

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hi Tony sounds like you have had a lot of fun. thats the great thing about living in and around where so much history has happened. a dream of mine is to perhaps one day bring my GPW and WC51 overseas for a rally,i would love to take part at one in Normandy or Belgium.

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'Overseas' runs are great fun. You make a lot of friends and have a lot of laughs, and a few tears at Remeberance parades. On one ocasion I took The Great Great nephew of somone who had fallen on the Somme to lay a wreath at his Uncle's grave, on the 90th anniversary of his death. She was also escort to the Hearse at a friend's funeral, he had requested it shortly before he died. Good or bad the Old Lady does it.

Where ever you go you generate great intrest, which can be a pain if all you want is a quiet beer. But hey, we don't own them! We are keeping them in trust for the future and to honour those who have and still do serve!

(Off soapbox, back to bar!:-D)

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