Rlangham

Great photos. What are you taking next year Tim?

It's finally caught up with me - at approximately 1130am tomorrow i'll be commencing my abseil down the Royal Liver Building in Liverpool. To date, including gift aid, i've raised £237.31 for the RNLI, and hopefully will raise a bit more too.

Wish me luck!

Yes, no doubt my mate Nigel's GS Wagon and the Ford Model T ambulance will be there, as well as the replica truck on Ford Transit chassis from Manston Museum

Cheers, much appreciated

In May i'm abseilling down the 96 metre tall Royal Liver Building in Liverpool, to raise money for a new Lifeboat. I'm terrified of heights, and as I got my e-mail yesterday telling me what time i'm doing the abseil I wake up each morning in a cold sweat. So, sponsor me!

http://www.justgiving.com/roblangham

Definitely a photoshop job

I believe this vehicle was completed on the same day they took gullible out of the dictionary

According to this, seven have been arrested

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7975597.stm

"Protests have been lawful but 11 people have been arrested after being stopped in an armoured personnel carrier. "

Thanks Barry - it's not a military vehicle event as such, or pitching up tents for re-enactors etc, just an indoor one to celebrate the 91st Anniversary of the RAF with us re-enactors getting the chance to display with some top quality exhibits

Yes, I think most if not all of them are at the IWM - when my friend who portrays a WAAC worker stayed at the photo archives while I had an exam she found a lot of very interesting WAAC photos which are shown in this image library, including one of two WAAC's using German steel helmets as handbags!

Tim, I thought the same, but the petrol cans could of course be containing water - the Renault armoured cars (and most Renault civilian cars of the period up until the 1930's) had the radiator behind the engine which gave it a snub nosed look like a Mack Bulldog. Despite the high chances of an engine overheating anyway (the Renaults must have had a fair distance to travel once they were released to supporter the British troops), the obscured radiator must have been relatively prone to overheating i'd have thought

On the 4th and 5th April there's a living history event on at RAFM Hendon on 4th/5th April, entitled 'Happy birthday, RAF!' due to the proximity of the 91st Anniversary of the RAF's formation. Displays will be dioramas using aircraft in the museum's historic hangars and bomber command hall, from WW1 to inter-war, WW2 and post-war.

I'll be there on the only WW1 diorama with the 22 Squadron Bristol F2b Fighter. The Old Contemptibles and the Great War Society are teaming up for this event to provide a top notch Royal Flying Corps display, using, as well as the superb 'Biff', other original items including a message streamer, Lewis gun drum mag(s), and disintegrating .303 link for the forward firing Vickers

This is the official blurb from the website

"The Royal Air Force was formed on 1st April 1918. To celebrate the 91st anniversary of its foundation, we will have a series of re-enactors on-site in our main halls who will be at hand to talk about the contribution that the people they represent made to the development of the R.A.F and the defence of the U.K. Groups will include members of the Royal Flying Corps, 1930s airmen, World War II Fighter Aces, plus test pilots from the 60s and 70s. "

The superb Grahame White-Hangar, containing a top notch collection of original and reproduction First World War Aircraft will be open all day, 1000-1800 as opposed to the normal opening time of 1000-1200 due to the work going on in the Battle of Britain Hall

Fantastic collection of First World War images, many fascinating subjects and the copies come up large, unlike the tiny photos on the IWM website, from the National Library of Scotland

http://digital.nls.uk/pageturner.cfm?id=74546606

Four different galleries, just select a different photographer. I could look at these all day, and in fact, I think I will! Among them are these superb photographs of French Renault 1915 armoured cars armed with a 37mm cannon (the same body was fitted to 1915 Peugeot cars, and both were fitted with either a 37mm gun or a Hotchkiss machine gun) supporting British troops

http://digital.nls.uk/pageturner.cfm?id=74547606

http://digital.nls.uk/pageturner.cfm?id=74547610

http://digital.nls.uk/pageturner.cfm?id=74547608

This photo is reputed to have been taken within around 100 yards of the enemy. The British style petrol cans strapped to the front of the armoured car are interesting, presumably to help increase the range of the vehicle.

Got a nice pic of my Grandad and his mates in front of theirs in North Africa if that's any use

Website for the aircraft restoration group i'm involved with, based at Bruntingthorpe here in Leicestershire

http://www.beechrestorations.com

It's definitely a Panzer II

http://mailer.fsu.edu/~akirk/tanks/Slovakia/PanzerII.jpg

The eight wheeler is an Sd.Kfz 233

Not really - there weren't any circumstances in which a normal landing was impossible, it wasn't like it had to land wheels up or with one undercarriage leg down etc. It landed and then, at a very low speed, tipped up onto it's nose. There wasn't any 'crash' involved, you wouldn't describe a minor scrape between two Land Rovers at an event as a major collision

I agree with Steve, it didn't 'crash land', and describing it as that suggests a far more serious incident. Just because Essex fire and rescue described it incorrectly, does that mean we should?

Ahah! Cheers - here's a 1912 Unic which matches it perfectly

http://rides.webshots.com/photo/2721545290063296552lvXgBo

The truck photographed is a Lancia. I'd have to go for a nice Pierce Arrow with a pom-pom myself, although i'm pretty certain there's none left

Couple of shots of a photo on display at the Royal Armouries, Leeds. Interesting ambulance, a type I haven't seen before - anyone know what the manufacturer is? It's certainly not one of the usual ones seen such as Ford, Crossley, Daimler or Austin. Interestingly, looks like it says 'FANY 1' on the bonnet. Body looks like one of the crudest ones i've seen, no doubt an existing car converted

Bit self-explanatory really. Anyone know of any events where WW1 vehicles are likely/planned to turn up this year?

I can think of six survivors and one replica. Who wants to have a guess at where they all are?

 

Tim (too)

Bovington

RAF Regiment museum (the former RAF Hendon one)

India

seen a replica posted on a forum which wasn't a particularly good one, can't remember where based but pretty certain it was private

They did some which were armour plated. The effect was something along the lines of a big green shed. What they were like for to poor chaps driving them doesn't bear thinking about.

I think you mean the Boer War ones, used as road trains

http://15mmvsf.bagofmice.com/vsf/insper.html

Interesting photo Tim - some of the ASC men appear to be wearing the PH hood gas masks, used from 1915-mid 1916 but replaced with the larger Small Box Respirator in 1916, although still (officially at least) worn as back up until February 1918. Maybe they're 're-enacting' 1915!