alan turner (RIP)

just after 11am gray painted AEW Sea King over Bostall Woods at less than 1000ft went as far as Erith then turned right to follow the A2 back towards London

got some drawing for 432 etc in RAWHS collection , as Woolwich did all the owners handbooks preparation.

bit more of early landie fire truck

From the neg date I believe the tank suspension unit is Challenger 1, everything else going well except the tank cupola, the final trailer and the thing on the swinging arm which does fire projectiles

This is actually a phot and should cover at least 3 topics

safariswing just asked me to post this here, the shot I haven't got is a pig towing a 25pdr, seen it somewhere in the past might have been on chris hodges site 3 different albums to look through if you can find them all

heres some early L5 views from Larkhill

The US lizard scheme was delivered overnight and under raps some time in 1985. The chap waving his arms is connected to the subject of this thread, and the first firing in the UK was from the image a cold snowy morning sometime in 1987

I think I would go along with willyslancs that it is an old lamp post there should be a set of trunnions near where the thick ring should be if it were a cannon and the decoration may make it victorian.

with nothing to judge the scale of the item, ecept the closeness of the wheels and no coupling system , is this possibly a handcar that used to be pushed around the site from building to building, or for moving shells in the foundry.

I quite like these taken at this years Goodwood Revival

Les your scale drawings were of this, not only used for the 18 pdr

Thought you might like to see this I believe that it is the first MLRS intothe uk curtesy of uncle sam and its by B33 in Woolwich. ANy idea what this blokes doing? no its not the okey cokey!! First live firing of british MLRS in the UK

I agree pic 4 is a V12 but pic 3 is a flat head straight 4. I garee the ranger equipment and the air cooled flat 4 VW is it from a FH70?

I have a large number of images that I have no knowledge of their details so I wondered if I might tap into your brain cells for some answers.it sok for Ricard Farant to take part though please give some others a chance first. No prizes but if I can get a book printed with some in it then your name will be included in the acks. Thanks to all.

yes Richard you're quite right although only 2500 show the arsenal itself, but I have managed to add some to a few entires such as Chruchill, 432,432 which also show 431 protoype Martian hippo foxes this one and trains. I havent found one for ferrets, but there is a large selection of gawd whats that I would like answers on, so I will have to start a section for that

Thanks Ted for claryfying the point I was trying to make that BMC/Rrover supplied the red arrows pilots with transport, mind you some of thier cars could have been donkeys.

Pedant Away I am not a train specialist nor any kind of expert just a retired bank official who stumbled on the most amazing collection of images that nobody knew about , and even the Society committee have no real idea of whats available to view, be differentif it was all images of them.

didn't the Red Arrows have specials allolcated to the pilots in the past?

Tony B you are making me use images I didn't think would appear on an MV site, even thought Woolwich had done all the quality assurance for armaments and vehicles for over 100 years with subsidiaries at Chertsey and Farborough (hants). The original gas Factory was to the west of the prison along the west bank of the old Royal military canal (see Broadwater on current maps), where Whitehead perfected the straight running topedo.This was also deomolished c1952 photos attd. A friend of mine Ian Bull has produced a copy of the 1932 map of the site showing all the rail lines as this was the height of the 18" gauge development.BUt without his permission I cannot show it. The first London railway ran from Spa road Bermondsey down to Abbey wood via Lewisham and even her Majesty Queen Vicoria took a train to plumstead which was reversed in to the Hole in the wall gate under Plumstead bridge and chugged through the site until she reached the T Pier to take a boat to the south of france. She had originally opened the pier in 1857 when the troops returned from the crimea and had been there to greet some. MOst of the narrow gauge was of cast steel plate type (Like scalextrix sections)and was just laid on concrete slabs.Ripped up over the yearsbut mainly when Thamesmead was started 40 years ago. a section of standard gauge remains behind B19 by the large loading doors.

fancy a few more trailer images ?

richard they are all taken within woolwich and remain in their photo sequence numbering system. There are shots taken off site when testing including 432 at chertsey and north wales, chieftains on and to ranges and all taken by the woolwich team.

I found this image amongst the RAWHS sets and a few more train images

firepower has one of each and I believe there is a short barrelled 110 at the radar museum in norfolk

Gawd is it 3 years ago that the invasion happened, I was there for it, dammed good weekend. Any chance of a repeat next year as it looks like there wont be a MV event next year, due to Mike Buckley's departure from the scene earlier this year. I actually had the museums sandy Chevvy quad and limber waiting for the guys to arrive as they had lost one of theirs suddenly, you can just see the top of it on the firing photo, and I can confirm that the 4.2" mortar was returned to its display slot. I also managed to video the news item and lent the tape to the garrison guys, Still waiting for it back. If you come down now and look to B10 ( clock and black tin roof) from accademy, the clock cupola has gone, knocked down by a crane, but due to be replaced. The black tin has been totally removed so only the original 1726 walls remain within which have now been built 2 5 story blocks of flats in battleship Gray, Bloody Awful. Museum currently looking for 60 volunteers to keep it running so if anone fairly local is interested contact jennyb@firepower.org.uk and put your name forward, perhaps then we can get a refurbishment centre for the guns and vehicles set up like duxford