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Just to show I am not narrow minded, this is not post war & it is not a lamp guard. Sorry about the "moire" effect it doesn't look too bad on photobucket, I reduced the size down twice but it got worse & worse.

Good grief I suppose you will want something American as well! The oldest item I have is a Commissariat & Transport Corps Book of General Orders 1884 & the most foreign thing as far as distance goes is a WW2 (yes!) New Zealand VAOS which clearly demonstrates a civilised people to have adopted the Britiush Army VAOS (down with COSA!!) But maybe you are in for a surprise when you look at M.O. No.10 :wink:

I agree but the've all got them. I would have thought '2' would have been more like it!

I've got no play button. Anyway I was looking up something in an old Soldier :naughty: there I found these VWs used by the British Army in 1956. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v684/fv1620/SRArmyBMWs.jpg[/img]

The link takes me to the site, but when I click on the player screen it's just blank. I can usually plays various clips, so what sort of player do I need to play this one?.

Yes, so Richard first, John second. Sounds like the kings of England :-D It is indeed the Chieftain Driving Simulator. I remember having a play on it at Bovy a few years ago. I remember the instructor saying the dramatic response from a trainee if a spider, which is magnified many times, creeps into the front of the tv camera lens - item 3

I can see this is getting out of hand & ending up with poetry :roll:

No! But to put it on record. Richard guessed it a while back in an e-mail. But being a decent chap & good sport, has up to now managed to contain himself so that others could continue to wrestle with the object. But the fun seems to have suddenly gone out of object guessing as interest has fizzled. Everyone is now reading poetry to each other :roll: I'll leave it a day or two, then I have one more picture to post and see if anyone gets it then. So just a few more days of containment Richard :-D

Well it's a bit of a giveaway now.

Found this in FM 71-100-2 in a section on vehicle marking in Infantry Division Operations http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v684/fv1620/Img-011.jpg[/img]

The earliest pictures of the use of the V that I can recall were on Israels vehicles in the 6-Day War of 1967. In modern parlence it is a "Conter-Fracticide Marking" so that one's own forces and in particular one's allies do not attack you. I am looking at the Aid Memoire for Op Resolute (IFOR) & it lays down in this instance the requirements for an inverted V. These were to be painted in white, but to ensure identification at night the painting was not IRR but IRA (Infra-Red Absorbent) paint. As if this wasn't enough it all had to go on the roof as well as dayglo orange panels.

From time to time Friends of the Tank Museum had trips there. Some years ago I joined the Friends soley for access to these sort of trips. Because it depends on the goodwill of an individual to exploit a contact within an establishment I think it tended to be a thankless task & they don't seem to happen anymore. But the most memorable for me were two trips to AVD Ludgershall. In those days the Fuuchs NBC vehicles were the lasted acquision, of not much interest to me nor were MBTs but to see fields upon fields of Pigs, Frrets, 432s as far as the eye could see was amazing. I took a lot of photos but that was pre-digital & if it was now there would be gigabytes taken. Other memorable trips were BAEE & VD Ashchurch. The other benefit of being a Friend was free entry to the Museum. But given that the trips have ceased & one ticket buys you entry for the year seems no great advantage being a Friend sad to say.

jagshemash i am spreading my seed in fields now my wive had a good week plow, but as cliv sa a week plow is better than a week bladder. but it make cliv cross and even mor when i say i should award him the ‘cliv cross’ for being old git of the yeer. he think that is un funny for his senses of humuors. jerjy. the cliv was say nice to see you diging out dallas. he say you proud man now you have even 2 satchels to carry all your equipements, is nice i like see one day. when is warmer may bee i come over & looks at yours willys, i also like see stains in middlesex is that like we have here is halfman & halfwoman. but can be more expensive than do normal thing. i am very much a normal i like play with my table tenis & dance to music by popular signer of the peoples is gorky borchek: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLiVJPs9SWY&mode=related&search= you like? now i go back to dog market for refund i find the two i buy last week are no goood for plow, are very lazy & even not enough big meet for the table. photograjphy is not look good but is from affect of tests in fiels near us when was paart of cccpr misssile test places, this metal is radactive and now sold to china to sell you washing machine & computars that soon make the west radactive also as well. yes is true chenque

Lee, you never did get your picture. Was just ging through a 1966 RA Journal & found this: Detail not too good I had to scan it at 96dpi. Above that dpi at certain viewing magnifications the moire effect gets bad esp where it is on the mesh on the paraboloid.

Not a stupid question, although I am sure I will get some! I don't know & I am not sure quite how we made contact, whether it was on a discussion site or whether he was someone who just contacted me out of the blue. But he was trying to identify some AFV type sites. Maybe you could just contact him & see if there is an enthusiastic response to the mention of Orange William? The strange thing was there were no FV markings on it, but given guided weapons development was channelled through the Aeronautical Research Council by the Ministry of Supply its not surprising. These sights have a flipable mirror on the top which makes me think it was Orange William. The missile had to fly 6000yds in all. About 4000yds from the launch vehicle guided ONTO the Ferret with the two controllers then when it passed over head the mirror on the sight flipped over the operator still tracked the missile whilst a second operator tracked the target. So OW had to fly two sides of a triangle. The risk of OW hitting the ferret was considered to be fairly small. The launch vehicles at various stages considered were Comet, Centurion, funny sort of trailer, Ferret, Land Rover, FV426 or FV1620. In the end it was to be FV1620 but this was then adapted to be launch vehicle & control post for Malkara which was always the second runner as it was at the time only had a range of 2000yds & NIH (not invented here). I think it is shameful that the only example of OW was on display at Bovy, occupying very little space, disappeared some years ago. It was probably the rarest thing the museum had in the display & for me the most interesting exhibit. (I do find rows of MBTs so boring)

Is anybody in contact with an enthusiast who has "theoldgit" in part of the email address? I was in contact with this chap about 5 years ago concerning the guidance system for Orange William missile launcher. Since then the PC died & all the email addresses of the time went with it. But part of it stuck in my mind as being unusual. Please no funny comments, not that saying that will stop the comedians I know. My message was declined on one MV site as I suppose it sounds a bit like a lonely hearts plea. Clive looking for old git concerning Orange William does sound dodgey I know.

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Does this help a bit:

I tried to fit some civi ones to the old mil rims but ran into trouble with the cut outs on the rim fitting the lugs on the headlight being in different on the civi ones. I think I bodged it in the end. I may have been unlucky, there may be civi ones that are directly compatable but I suspect not :-(

Matt, welcome. Modern books about cars are not a great help because technologlly has moved on for better or worse. But even if you get old books like Readers Digest/AA/RAC car care books they are not very useful with some aspects of mil vehicles. There was a Haynes(?) book on Land Rovers that had a section by Philip Bashall which had some useful advice about restoration/repair. But there are two books I would thoroughly recommend, to help give a good grounding before trying to effect repairs: Driver Training (All Arms) Electrical & Mechanical Principles of Tracked & Wheeled Vehicles 1966 Army Code No.70181 The other is very similar but gives a slightly different angle & is more up to date: Royal Armoured Corps Training. The Mechanical Fundamentals of Tracked & Wheeled Vehicles 1989 D3108 The first one is more common but either can turn up at shows. It is full of good sound facts with sensible diagrams. It is also useful for checking out things that one ought to know but too embarassed to ask :wink:

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