les freathy

Nick your matador, its not the early one that was once owned by the Cadman brothers is it

Heres one from my area in the past, canterbury motors heavy recovery think you will like this one Andy

Yep a happy christmas and new year to all on the forum, gotta say its been a very interesting year since i joined earlier in 2009 cant see any reason why 2010 will not bring up some more gems have a good time all cheers Les

I here on the news they have found the sign in three pieces so i hope they can get it back where it rightfully belongs,, bunch of A----holes the lot of them

MK modified for internal security duties Northern Ireland

Last one is the old Morris Dtype based pre war at Hawkinge aerodrome in Kent

Dont know about where are the Churchills but how about this cracking shot of a Churchill on a ferry during traing in 1942

Bedford rl flat bed probably earlt 1970s when they used the signal bodies from redundant Austin K9s and placed them on the RLs and also some MKs, Richard did you get involved on any of this work

Glynn Do you want to keep the photos to preserved vehicles or to include originals from WW2 and WW2 vehicles in very early post war

Good pictures Baz, the one with the CMP utilities is rather special the bodies on these were unique to the far east theatre

Heres another MJ with container body it belonged to a TA signals unit based at Shornecliffe years ago

Another of the FH70 gun tractor

And another fitted with Atlas crane, mainly used by the RAF

Some nice colour shots of the MK with the Marshall built CB 300 container

Another one just surfaced (no pun intended)

Excellent Daz, good to hear the old girls to be restored i gather mr metcalf is going to restore her as per your first photo well done Les

Just having a major refile of the armoured items in the collection and found these buried deep and forgotton

I like the halftrack Tim looking at the top extension i wonder if its a signals conversion

Around that date 1978/9 i was working in Folkestone and the old A20 ran right behind our depot the part called Churchill ave, on this goodley day i observed convoys of bofors and the radars towed by Militants coming in from Dover Docks. One large convoy came through about lunchtime so i followed them to Shornecliffe where they were refuelling before moving on this could have been 16th regt returning from Germany to pension off the guns. Plenty of landrovers, RLs and MKs to did i have a camera did i hell one of those days that i had left it at home otherwise i would have had some excellent shots

heres a Sherman from the IWM collection

Ed i think you have the remains of one of these 180 gall water tank trailers, the tank seems to be original but i have reservations about the front draw bar section as it differs in shape to the photos of the original. One or two firms were employed during WW2 to build these including E.C.D so it is possible that draw bar is original but i have seen no photographic evedence to back it up, as you can see a lot of bits to be located for a rebuild

A Bedford OY tanker from NO1 bulk petrol company in the middle east

Was that turn over on purpose or did the gun get a bounce on

You can put me down for a book as soon as its available, going by the items you have put on the site it will be good cheers Les

I like that one Frederic thanks for posting