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  1. ekawrecker
    Do you mean the FVRDE/RARDE/MVEE? As I understand it, they had both of the Amazons (LOO/YPL) and their trailers for moving new or modified tracked vehicles, guns, etc from Chobham/ Chertsey to various ranges and other places without having to rely on other Army regiments.
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    Here's the link;
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    Correct Mike, it's a CR100 Amazon. The one pictured at Withams is now being restored back to the correct blue colour by a chap in Kent.
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    These are a couple of pictures I took of one of the Contractors waiting to be auctioned off in January 1991 at an army depot in the south of Sydney.
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    Are you sure Mike??? I know you are a knowledgeable chap, but I think you'll find a certain Alfred Hans Rzeppa, an engineer working for Henry Ford invented it in 1926, with a slight revision in 1936 (2 years before Universal Power Drives started trading in 1938)
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    Nice collection!

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    According to my 1971 edition of 'The Observers Book of Commercial Vehicles',(foreword by Piet Olyslager), Unipower was a company; "Unipower Limited" of Aintree Road, Perivale, Middx This was also the case in the 1974 edition, and by the 1978 edition, AC Cars Ltd of Thames Ditton were the owners. Whilst I accept they were originally 'Universal Power Drives', by the seventies and the time of the vehicle I posted the picture of they were trading as Unipower.
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    This photo (of a photo, hence the quality), shows a Martian being suspend towed by a Unipower Invader. I think Unipower was one of the manufacturers vying for the contract that eventually went to the Bedford TM 4x4. Can anybody confirm this to be the case?
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    ..........association!

     

    Hi John, are you going to Withams tender at all?

    I was going to have a look on saturday, it would be nice to put a face to the name if you're there.

     

    Best regards, Jonathan

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    Watts of Lydney operated this rather fine example which I last saw in the late '80s. Anyone know where it is now?
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    Who remembers when Diamond T's were used on motorway contra-flow recoveries? M40 between J6 and J7 in the late '80s
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    Do you think that it might have just been bodied by Crossley? When Crossley was part of ACV, they ended up building just bodies as the chassis for their buses were just 'badge engineered' AEC's.
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    I found these interesting pictures whilst 'mooching' on the internet today! http://www.fototruck.com/galleryDetail.asp?intCategoryID=3
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    Yes Mike, that's him, although he was trying to sell it on a 'well known internet auction site beginning with e' about a year ago, so I'm not sure if he still has it.
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    The chassis/cab that Coombe Valley didn't use is the one Dave Devereaux of Bedford has converted to a tipper/HIAB version.
  16. ekawrecker
    Bit of deja vu going on here Mike?:yay: (Post #286)
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    I'm near Heathrow, but I was in Devon with the Scammell towing other stuff about and it wasn't far as you said.
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    I towed the one at Winkleigh to Preston Issac's Cobbaton Combat Collection about 3 years ago.
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    Well Done 6 X 6, What a transformation, it looks great. A Proper Job!
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    Happy New Year everyone. Searching through some of my old pictures I found this shot taken in the early eighties at a TA depot at Prestatyn, North Wales of 54BH04, a FV12003 Mk2 Antar ballast tractor? Apologies for the quality-it was a very misty day if I remember rightly.
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    Happy welding John, nice to see some pictures of it.
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    .....and AEC Mammoth Major back axles.
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    Very good 6 X 6, thanks for that, something for everyone there!:coffee:
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    Just remembered where I saw the picture! It's on Neil Fraser's excellent CCMV site. Heres the link; http://ccmv.fotopic.net/p54921540.html
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    This is the ex Boscombe Down long wheelbase Big Ben/Antar? seen in another photo on the back of a yellow low-loader trailer. Whilst at Boscombe Down it was re-engined with an AEC AV760 engine. It's never been owned by Chris Miller.
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