schliesser92

The three green/cam ones are ex-Belgian Army, the red one a fire tender used by the Bundeswehr and civil-defence elements of the German fire services.

The Nips have finally admitted to a partial core melt-down, with radiation at acceptable levels. Am I wrong in thinking that the ONLY acceptable radiation level is summat like ZERO point ZILCH (to about 50 decimal places)! WE'RE DOOMED !!

I'm starting to wish that I hadn't handed my noddy suit back in!

we're doomed !

I was really referring to the 'drive-by media" getting in the way. It seems to be a mainly US thingy that seems to have caught on elsewhere. Just look at car chases on the Californian motorways - there are usually more news-copters there than police cars!

The Nips are having problems with a nuke power station - coolant and power outages in THREE reactors! China Syndrome pedicted. WE'RE DOOMED!

We've got the Yanks to blame for that! The public's right to know seems to exceed the public's need to help! The choppers that the news crew use are small beasties anyway, so could only be used for liaison duties, although in most cases they just seem to get in the way of the choppers bringing in personnel/supplies. It could also be argued that public awareness of the situation helps the aid agencies when they get the begging bowls out. I'm also with you on the last - are they stupid and suicidal, or am I also a "grumpy old man" ?

I used to get the impression that most South American armies were living museums. Now that some are updating at a great rate of knots, it will probably mean that the MV market will get somewhat saturated. Unless the US MDAP has a scrapping clause.

Three LI sergeants is quite a bit of common sense and negotiating! And an "interview" without a cup of tea and biscuits (preferrably chocolate-digestive) would probably be construed these days as a breach of the station masters human rights!

number 1- Lorraine tractor (used as SdKfz135)

A Turkish neighbour of mine confirmed that it is illegal to own ex-military equipment in Turkey. Mainly to do with the Kurdish problem. (He's in the legal department of the Turkish Consulate in Frankfurt) The only exception are re-enactment groups, which, in Turkey, are confined to the Ottoman period, mainly with Mehtar bands and Jannisserie groups. I don't think that the Turkish government are worried about swords, spears and bows yet!

remember - cats do not have owners, they have servants....

the worst case of attempted suicide I've ever heard of..

we just used to paint the filler caps, I think that the recognised colours are RED (petrol) , YELLOW (diesel) and GREY (Kerosine)

As far as I can make out, a number were aquired for the Algerian conflict whilst the Panhard AML-245 was being developed. How many, and which marks, doesn't seem to be recorded.

Tony some Volvo Bv202s were in use. After hostilities ended, we ended up using Argie kit.

I think that the shelter was made by Glas, since then taken over by BMW. It has the same styling as a workshop vehicle built by them.

variant 3.10 is the version with the AN/GRC3-8. The BGS radio vehicle in the photo (BG 30-543) has a non-standard body, probably transferred from another vehicle, ie a Hanomag AL28.

NOT a German Unimog shelter, it could be something transferred from another chassis, and not necessarily a Mog.

I also didn't doubt you, after all, CVR(T)s are distinctive. It's whether they were ex-British in that scrappies, or from another source (Philippines/indonesia perhaps).

The first pic looks like an International, the following two are different, Could we be dealing with the "UPS delivery van" syndrome here? They use (their own design) identical bodies on various chassis, and it's hard to define what's underneath.

They could have course not been British CVR(T)s, as several countries in the area used them, and it was a scrapyard. We pulled out in 1997, and the chances that the industrious Chinese hadn't recycled ex-British vehicles by now is rare.

There wasn't an armoured recce squadron in Hong Kong until 1967, when , due to the Chicoms acting up (Red Guard etc), B Sqn The Life Guards was detached from Singapore to Sek Kong, being co-located with 18RA and HQ 48 Bde. They became part of 48 (Gurkha Infantry) brigade. Then the equipment was Saladin and Ferret. I suppose that the requirement remained. The Chinese had then on the Hong Kong border a pair of ancient BA-64 armoured cars. The PLA was then mainly a Light Infantry force. There was a prepositioned equipment set for a "heavy metal" squadron in Wanchai (?), mainly Centurion.

It's an International-Harvester D-15 metro. At least one ambulance version is preserved in the Czech Republic

All I remember about VPK kits was that fitting antannae was a nightmare! The dust from drilling holes in Makrolon is nasty stuff, so wearing a face mask is essential. I fitted the radios into the AFS fire tenders in Girdwood Park, but didn't do Landies.