Meteor mark 4B

At Okehampton Camp in Devon.

Sept 10/11. 1000-1600 both days. MVT Vehicle displays and traders. Road runs on Dartmoor. Camping and cookhouse. Also NAAFI.

Exhibitors phone 01837 657210

Free entry and parking for the public, meet the soldiers, climbing walls and laser rifle, weapons displays, military models and dioramas.

Sorted. Someone in Radstock, near Bath Somerset. a very expensive cam belt!!

Where is the best retail outlet for Rotax engine bits, please?

I was lucky enough to get a look around the REME museum at Bordon some years ago, what a brilliant collection. It will be sad if its all split up.

Yep, that's the way I understand it, issued black, but painted DBG (liberally, so they wouldn't open), when in service.

Blade vane sight I think they were called, and I think they were black. I'll check up with the turret people on our old comrades forum.

In a book called Rude Mechanicals, about British tank design and manufacture prior to WW2, it was written that a particular small tank was trialled. It was rubbished by those involved. The result? 250 were ordered. Says it all really. However, we have moved on a bit since those days.

Oops, 06 ZR 89!

Nice pics! 89BA82 was an ARV in earlier days judging by the fixings on the glacier plate, one for the rarely used crane jib, and the square section for the pushing block. It could have been used a a "wedge" ie a turretless driver training vehicle. 00SP37 was also an ARV/wedge or both could have been tugs used on gunnery ranges.

It may be of interest that about 10 years ago I finished a Centurion register, and located, (I didn't see all of them!), just over 100 Centurions at various locations in the UK. Some were runners, some definitely were not! Three were at Manby as I recall, the two above and 04ZR 89. Information suggests all three came from DERA Shoeburyness Gunnery trials unit, now long gone, which suggests they were all tugs.

Well, remind your Dad of the good old days mending the Cummins engines on the Foden trucks on Western Ex!

CornishMade, I recall one person involved with the Wheal Martyn Peerless was the Cummins fitter who worked with Western Ex. Was this your Grandad or Dad? Also, I think the late Ron Bullock made the wooden wheels.

Last call. Aden vehicles were green, Sharjah vehicles were sand coloured. But there seems to be a lot of variation!

Someone has suggested, wait for it, some greens and some yellows! That'll be either DBG or Olive drab, and Desert sand, or stone I guess. There doesn't seem to be any particular colour scheme. Vehicles I've see are all in green, and generally very dusty.

Two replies to my question, from guys who were there.

1. Same colours as in BAOR, ie Olive drab or DBG

2. Sand colour. When the Kuwait crisis blew up, black splodges were added.

I'm sure I'll get more replies yet.

Can find out about Aden colours. Watch this space. The pics I have show no camouflage at all.

Word is in these here parts is that the Martian has been very much cannibalised for bits.

Aaargh, not the Dettol ads, it's a wonder we all survived this long!

The Leyland Martian has been there for YEARS, no one has taken it on yet! Drove past it again recently on a road run.

Yes, very good news indeed, thanks to all concerned. Presumably P6 came before the W series of early Chieftains which had tin covering over the glacier plate to conceal it from prying eyes. (?)

Presumably you can't get MT80 now!!

Somewhere on this forum is a picure of a WW2 Fordson bomb trailer tractor, sold in Cornwall last year. It was on solid tyres, painted RAF blue with an RAF roundel on the tank. I haven't been able to find the message containing the pics. I'll see if I have on on disc somewhere.

Obviously the guy who wrote the newspaper letter was jumping the gun a bit.....

Further news from a vehicle tester.

I don't think it will effect vehicles of a certain age as it is impossible to make them comform to regs which are for modern vehicles like smoke meters etc Brake rollers can not cope with older vehicles and the regs would have to go before parliament to change them and that would mean years of consultations which would cost money and thats a no no anyway.

Me again. I've heard from an MOT vehicle examiner this business has been put off. In his opinion it will result in a lot of unroadworthy vehicles especially if the vehicle does a high annual milieage.

Having looked around the Direct Gov site, I can't find anything about this. Anyone else seen or heard anything?