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Roland Somewhere I have pictures & measurements of the first aid box mounting bracket. Can you see any old weld marks on the door where it once was? AFAIK there were no formal mountings for weapons in the Mk 1. I'm not into weapons so have no idea what sort of things were carried by crew, sorry.

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Depends what you want. Vehicles or dioramas & that sort of thing or research. Dioramas seem to be crowd pullers & all that. But for the most part I find them a hindrance to seeing a vehicle properly or even getting close to it. As far as research goes generally the smaller the museum the better the help.

Ah yes it is familiar. Those strange windscreens & the fire extinguisher put in the wrong place. He has copied the parts book & fallen into the trap of mounting the fire extinguisher on the driver's door. The parts book is wrong! They incorrectly used a picture from a Hornet that has the extinguisher there together with a Pouch, drivers, general purpose whereas the Pig had only had an AFV first aid kit there & the fire extinguisher was mounted behind the passenger next to the machete.

A contribution from one of our horses. But its probably illegal to send it through the post.

Even if they left them in the original RUC grey that would have been better. Or maybe they just got bored & needed some artistic outlet!

The usual problem of defining age of a pig. In 1954 there were no pigs. This vehicle went into service as a FV1601 GS Truck on 26/4/54. It would have become a ROF Woolich made pig in 1958-60. Rather unusual colour scheme, although that can be changed easily. Looks fairly complete. I notice that it has the 4WD lever engaged, buyer would need to check it is capable of being driven on rear axle ie with 4WD lever in up position & horizontal. Interesting history this was struck off to RARDE Fort Halstead 16/11/77. There were a couple of pigs there registered as 00 WB 25 & 00 WB 37 but I always thought they were FV1612.

What was its ERM? I suppose most pics one sees are basically of your mates & sometimes stood in front of a vehicle, then the real bonus is is they don't stand in front of the number plate! I've got pics of two of my vehicles in service. One at FVRDE & one in the Bogside.

Well it's Friday night in'it. I know you like to celebrate a bit.

Yup well done. This was WW1, horses seemed to fair better with gas than humans. Horse gas casualties were 0.1%.

Hello, any pictures of the vehicles when you were in service? Always nice to see in service vehicles as a benchmark as to what was done.

Yes very good. Care to say what sort of animal? (Richard where were you? Making your Ovaltine I suppose!)

OK RF what's this then?

No quite but a noble shot at it. It is in fact none other than a Disinfector, Portable, Field, No.3 1945 India MO No.84 coming up, so stand by:cool2:

Yes well done Richard I think that's close enough to say you've got it right. But: What is its nomenclature? When was it in use? Where was it used?

Very warm

Well the other 16 people who viewed this weren't brave enough to give an opinion. So I have admire you for having ago, getting warm,

Oh alright then, an easy one. What, where & when? Take it away Richard!

Note the side support to keep the frame firmly fixed, rather than relying on a spring each end clipped to the top of each visor. Not only is the frame shorter but there is no flare at the side. It is more closely fitted around the visor & allows the edges to be clamped firmly.

Adam could be either. Some people make the mistake of painting their Pigs in NATO Green. That colour only came into use in late 1980. Initially it largely depended whether the Pig was still in service or whether it was one of the 200 that had been recovered & from where they had been recovered. So as late as 1972 there were still Mk 1s with disruptive green (OD) & black. No doubt if they were paint bombed there would be repainted. But there was not enough time for painting for the sake of it. The result of Op Marble concluded that bringing these recovered Pigs into service took twice as long as anticipated. Mechanicals would have had priority over the niceties of a new paint job. The most extraordinary coloured pig was on a clip in "The Rock & Roll Years" TV series. They played pop music of the year coupled with news clips. This was early 70s & the Pig was a reddish-brown with disruptive DBG, awful! This strange colour scheme was repeated in 1971-ish (for a while) on Triton 1 & 2. These 2 ex-RUC water cannon were originally grey. Quite why the 17/21 Lancers who operated them thought brown & green was appropriate to urban conflict I don't know.

Come on Tony don't be shy. Tell them just how many Lightweights you actually have:-D

Just wondered, should they really be wearing the arm bands on the left arm? Given the orientation of the stamp on the lower left of the picture?

The DMC shows that materiel was destined for Tavern

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