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HI on the question of the overhaul date of 1984 its possible look at post 755 about the one that came back to the museum

from GERMANY in 1988 still in service also about the same time there was a rumour that one of the concrete ballasted

TRMUs was still in service in the marchwood area

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Spoken to the previous owners - Weston Recovery of WSM. They sold it on around 8/10 years ago and as suggested above it is used to drag chicken sheds around. Apparently this is the ideal machine to drag these sheds which are on skids. After sitting in position for a while whilst the chickens are doing their `business` the sheds have become embedded......and put a force of around 40 tons on the winch while it is moved to the next position

Weston Recovery have another Pioneer sat in the flower bed at their premises.......and the boss has one at home as well!!!!

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Hopefully this is clear enough.....

 

 

384 is the workshop or contractor's number, see it follows on same line, if it was another entry it would be on line below.

 

See this plate in my photo, that column is for the MTRS No., which I recollect was the Mechanical Transport Repair Scheme.

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Ordered April 1943 so probably delivered sometime in 1944. Part of an order for 450 SV2/S recoveries.

 

There were 2 Pioneer recoveries at one of the army bases in Aldershot until the mid 90's. Remember passing them on the train. Both seemed to live outside and did move position so I assume they were still being used for something.

 

Ed

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hi, some pictures taken by my father during the 2nd world war

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he was in a reme group attached to the 99th heavy anti aircraft brigade, and travelled up through france, Belgium, Holland after landing at gold beach D-day day 3

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my father was sent out to recover the guntractor with their pioneer recovery truck while in belgium 1945

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If you are referring to this picture, its taken outside Copenhagen around the 8th of May 1945 when the first regular british troops arrived.

 

ok. I will look through his old army paperwork. I have all his movement instructions from the war as well as his paybook and training info

also have other pictures with some of the other trucks in their regiment.

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Just bring on the pictures :cool2:

 

I have got a few more than this but not on my computer yet.

I have route cards putting my father in hamburg in 1945. don't know what happened after that, but it is possible he was in Denmark sometime also

 

so where did you get the picture from?

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How about this for a spot then :D I was watching Permission Impossible: Britain's Planners last week and noticed a familiar looking vehicle when they were filming, if you look closely at 1.40 mins on this link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03x19tb/Permission_Impossible_Britains_Planners_Episode_2/ you will see what I believe is a Pioneer. They don't go on to talk about it or anything, so does anyone know where it may be?

 

Scott

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Here's another Scammell Pioneer pic " INVINCIBLE " over at Normandy this June , pictured with myself is DDay veteran Richard Jones from Shropshire who had just laid a reef at the memorial at Baron-sur-mer . The Scammell is owned by Mick Price from Wolverhampton who invited me to join him and be co driver on the trip from his home all the way to the beaches at Normandy ,and what an experience it was, having never driven a machine like the Pioneer before it was in at the deep end and what good fun it was, even at those high speeds 23/24mph, after covering several hundred miles the old girl never missed a beat! what great British engineering !! One of the highlights of the trip was being lead in a 120 vehicle convoy escorted by French police m/cycles from the port to the M.V.T campsite near Port-en-Bessin , the Scammell was certainly the star on all the parades we did..

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