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we shall have loads of piccys, chev, did you get my message ref the alvis show in aug?

highly reccomended, get your bums down to this one

same here refused to pay and offerd to go to court over it,might be different if you didnt bother to sorn it full stop

sorry to hijack the thread, john, do you know when the forms for the Wiltshire armed forces & veterans celebration will be out? our group has already pencilled the event in our books

ive had loads of problems with these clowns, 2 different sorns went back via the post, now either the post or the dvla office lost these and they attempted to fine me, after many phone calls to them i said how can you fine me , once i put the sorn in the post box then thats my end of the process complete.not my fault if gpo or you have lost paper work, if you want to take me to court then i will see you there.they backed down and all i got was a snoty letter saying that i should keep calling dvla to check the paper work has gone through

crap hats were still worn on exercise at battalion level, espically in germany as we didnt want the russkies to see what cap badges we were wearing, so that they would know what regiments were where(like they didnt know anyway:-D)

and saber sales still has mountains of 68 pattern stuff

our display might end up a bit bigger yet as i dont know what other falklands bits the alvis lads have to add, can i leave you to work out the display size, we can be very flexable with thesize, it\all works around the lynx position any way.

looks like the for runner for the s.l.r one

ive found over the past few yrs that the public are changing from the lets go and take the kids around to look at the tanks to alot of people who seem to know a fair bit about what they want to see.you always get the rivet counters who try and pick faults but we just nod and move them on telling them we used it when i was in so its on our display. we had a guy who wore kf shirts still in 1996, god knows how many yrs after they were binned

Speak for yourself. I'm ''in this'' because I have an interest in the vehicles and the history. I certainly do not do it to display to the public.

but dont you think that the public who pay good money to get into these shows to see the wagons would like to see every thing as it should be ,includeing period uniform, or is this crossing into the living history side of things?

when i go to shows either as joe public or when we display i like to see as it would of been used,ie if your driving around in a ww2 tank then wear the kit that goes with it, no ones going to think just because your wearing uniform that you must of served.dont think many people care do they?

however it is peoples own choice to wear what they want at these events, uniform just adds to the effect.

as for people just going to the events for there own benift, not saying this is any one one here but seen a few where you approach the wagon the ownwers are all sat around the wagon, drinking booze and have no interest in the public, which aint good.

ive served in the forces and to be fair i couldnt care less if some one who hasnt served wears the uniform, BUT please if you do wear it right:D

if youve spent 1000's of pounds on getting your wagon looking and running good and you take it to a show then its only right that you wear the correct gear that goes with it, my pet hate is seeing fantastic looking wagons being crewed and driven round with people wearing jeans and t shirts on. doesnt matter if youve served or not we are all in this to show or display our kit to the public which includes yourself

dont mention the name of that overpriced show, what a god awfull dump that place is:-D

sorry my scanner needs some tech adjustment,well we normally have about a ten meter deep by 30 to 40 meters frontage i think

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ref size for display, i will sit down tonight and do a rough plan of the layout, but it will be a 3 sided square layout with 2x cvrt's and a lynx(provoded by the alvis bods) a l/w ffr, and s3 109ffr, a 101 field ambulance and 9x9, 2x 12x12, another 9x9 and space for kit etc.

when are you guys going up for a site recce etc as we would like to tag along if poss? cheers darren

thats the one, ex para,sas,sbs,delta force and best mate of heno garvey:D. did i ever tell uu about the time i parachuted into rorkes drift and saved the day

you know who we are:D, wrong period of kit for you but if you need some donkey work doing im sure we can help

our lot are willing to help any way we can

this is it, once the random mine threat was realised evrything stayed on or very nr the beach heads, once the squids sused that the argie missles and fully fulled trucks and rovers didnt mix they wanted the things of there boats asap

some of the guys i talked to said there rovers went with them,most stayed on the ships untill the white flag came out, some did make it ashore but didnt go to far due to the mine threat etc

good picys, wish i could find the ones i saw, found them by accident last time

theland rovers on the falklands thing is an interesting one, 2x RM lightweight ffr's did come ashore after the beechhead and were used as re broadcast wagons, never went any further in land due to the mine threat etc.

did the marines have any before the invasion?i did find some piccys of the l/w ffr coming ashore, will try and remember where i saw them

yeh thats what jon said, cheers bud we shall pencil you in:D

24hr rat pack mmmmmm sausage and beans,corned beef hash, pears in choco sauce:D

pay blokes all in one range stew

pasta bog

hot dogs(tinned)

the list is endless, we only cook on 2 small camping stoves,with mess tins, frying pan and small dixy

will do no worries, had contact from forces 80 living history, not interested im affraid