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really nice work. I can imagine the riveting........... :sweat:

I don't know about bottom of the world story, seems a bit condescending :-D It is a big round thing so how do they get a top or bottom? The famous photo of Earth from Apollo 17 (Blue Marble) originally had the south pole at the top. They reversed it later as it confused them too much. [ATTACH]18042[/ATTACH] With this in mind then the world could be like this? [ATTACH]18039[/ATTACH] Don't mind me, welcome, G'day etc, etc........ just thought I'd wind the Northern Hemispherites up :cool2:

This is the RAF card from "Himalayan Expedition Dhaulagiri IV 1974"

A lot of this style stuff fetches better prices now than a mint stamp as when the collectors do a display the have to have a theme or story. I primaryilly collected warship postcards, so have a lot of them. Some interesting tidbits about postcards - all the early colour ones 'everywhere' were German. I believe the rights were taken away during ww1 along with asprin etc. - only the stamp and address was allowed on the back of the card. So most people wrote over the picture. - some people collect deatcards which was the notification to families of a soldiers death - tax stamps, those annoying things the government put on milk and beer bottles etc are quite sought after as typically you would tear them up to get to the contents.

I have to keep digging. The shame is when we were kids, stamp collecting we threw everything away but the stamp.... I like reading the backs of old postcards, with the stamps still on them... is history that way. I need to sit down and read them all This is another weird bit, some type of military version of a card, V Mail

And I guess this page out of another letter is a good example of censorship

Took me a month to get back to this :sweat: Sitting here looking through my junk boxes........ I found this set of letters written by a US Navy guy in New York to his family (looks like the first one after Pearl Harbour). Why I bought them, I don't know. Anyway looking through the dates I saw a few before December 7th 1941 so I tracked down the first one after which is dated December 31st, from Panama. Of note there don't seem to be any censorship at this point of the was as he mentions his ship as the USS Crescent City http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Crescent_City_(APA-21) Also where he is going etc etc. I find it interesting that the amount that was mobilised such a distance in 3 weeks. I think if now we would still be doing the hse assessment.

What I know......... and trying to recollect from years past is that it tastes awful. We used to call it luncheon meat type E I fail to have fond memories of it. Funny in a lot of the US islander states like Hawaii and Guam you can order it in restaurants as a specialty dish :confused: We had : - cheese in a can (good to explode when bored :-D) - bacon and eggs in a can - butter scotch - bung cake (fruit cake in a tin - well in 10 man kits) - wooden blocks (oops I mean survival biscuits) And talking HSE and rip tops. We used to cook our tinned munga by putting two dents in the can and then chucking it in the fire. When a dent popped out, its cooked (pressure cooker). When we got rip top cans = a couple of grunts burnt by exploding cans (lids coming off) and cuts from eating of said lid. that reminds me I have a tin of spotted dick...... must go put some dents in it

Testing the difflocks..... crawling around testing the air system when it appears to be a switch plugged in incorrectly :argh: Anyway I thought I'd show the vacuum tool as very useful if you are dealing with air lines

They are running a business but like all businesses you get good guys and the greedy nut jobs. We have one over here who has a yard full of rust heaps. mind you with the internet it is quite easy to blacklist or make known a shoddy dealer. Once you got a reliable dealer, use him and promote him to others. reliable means the bit comes on time and they can communicate. what is it with UK companies you ask for a 1/2 inch combination spanner with detailed specifications and when they eventually email back they say "call me"...... very dificult to get an answer without having to call some sod on the other side of UK. Case in point, I enquired twice about the WMIK Blindo wheels, with no response so Silverline can keep them....

G'Day and Welcome

Well never knew about this one "The Alaskan Land Train (or Overland Train) was an enormous leviathan developed by LeTourneau, a heavy-equipment maker based in Longview, Texas for the US Army in the 1950s." http://www.diseno-art.com/encyclopedia/strange_vehicles/alaskan_land_train.html Would be a 'long' restoration :rofl:

For a 40ft container it was around 2000 quid, but obviously don't need that much space. I am getting a quote at present for some stuff from the UK so I'll let you know. Typically the biggest costs are from the port to the destination ie roadfreight in the UK so if you can pick it up it save a heap. In Malaysia to get it trucked down costs about 300 ringget which is peanuts as the junkyard is 200 plus kms away. I'll go up on Friday and have a look and take a 1000 photos. Hopefully he has some other goodies in. This particuliar yard is a nice guy.

Last I looked they were fairly cheap maybe 1500 quid. I haven't discussed it with the guy for a while. Last I saw he had 4 left. The radiators are missing but most the bits can be scrounged of a Rocsta. I am due a junkyard fix so will go ask if you want.

yep it's fairly hard to get info on them. Most the running gear is similar to the Rocstas. I toyed with getting one of these a few times. The wife still wants one..... so maybe. For a daily driver: - I would have to ditch the front window - I guess find the jeep canvas and frames that fit.

For demob..... Apparently a group drove into an Army base in a de mob'd MV, loaded it up with goodies and drove out. Also some de mob'd vehicles were used in the South of Philippines by the insurgents and still had Malaysian Army markings. So they had a bit of egg on face. I seen the Pakastani vehicles are the same but used yellow crosses.

These Jeeps are KM410 derivitives with the 106 mounts they become KM414 106mm recoilless rifle carrier

Well we don't have a place for 'other countries' vehicles so I thought I'd put my collection of them up.

There is a Stonefield forum... http://stonefield.takeforum.com/2009/02/23/stonefield-in-malaya/ not very active as I think the number of Stonefields in the UK is not many. There is a guy on there trying to put the history together as there is nothing out there about them. I know of two in a Junkyards here and one on the road.

Dodgy deals......... hmmmmmm 'alledgedly' from what I been told you would be spot on. Malaysia was the only country that gave a large contract to Stonefield. A small number went to the middle east. I was reading the last lot that arrived here had no diffs but were still being paid for. The Goombas went to the Army here and the diesel ones went to the police. The diesel ones 'I think' look a lot better The diffs are extremely rare, hence I shipped some back to the UK several months back. I think they would be quite a different vehicle but the market price for the petrol ones is very low in UK. Was looking at jamming one in a container with some other stuff that was getting shipped but never happened. It's a pity as the whole saga around the Stonefield seems mired in the typical government interference in MOD affairs type deal. From this set of trials the RB44 was selected. I have a bit of a soft spot for them, in that respect.

Well we don't seem to have a thread for Stonefields so I thought I'd put some photo's up

yep, very small choice..... G Wagen rims, but 16" rims are rarer and if can get they are 6.5J Porsche/VW Toureg have the same bolt pattern but the hub centre is to small The Hutchinsons were great wider and military. I am curious what the price per Blindo rim is http://www.silverlinewheels-tyres.com/4x4/aluminiumwheels/blindowheels.htm :-\

yep keep me posted as i have pulle 3 of them apart now

Hey Mate How's it going? Small world?

The Hutchinson rims are around 1500 pounds a set of 4.... I am still annoyed that they disappeared as the Pinz PCD is difficult and they were wider rims. Anyway I am going for a sulk (and look up Silver Line).... get on with the spanner swinging, I am looking forward to your next set of photos