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Benvenuto!!!

Andrea

The battle of Solferino: Birth of the Red Cross Idea

Apologies for being late...

Andrea

I seem to remember that there was a prohibition to bomb the Battersea Power plant, too, but for tactical reasons. It was a so conspicuous landmark that the Luftwaffe could recognise London from far...

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I love the beheaded and (obviously) left handed squaddie in the back of the truck 8-)

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Commercial French name for heating kerosene.

Like Solexine for 2 stroke mix for the velosolex.

Andrea

Not for Sardinia, we don't go RHD in Italy.

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Duly forwarded....

Andrea

You cannot post a VM90 and say that you have already sold it....

This goes against the Geneva conventions to me...

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1. Afraid you'll need helium, lots of it, and it isn't exactly cheap. In the US the stock exchange quote is around 60 dollars/ one thousand cubic feet. Dunno about customer final bill for bottled helium.

2. Depends on location, if you are on an approach course for an airport forget about it... but you may ask the Civilian Aviation Authority about safe heights and location. I presume you need to notify the presence of the balloon. Contacts may be found under the thread on searchlight license.

Andrea

Did you have "issue" soap bars?

Iam asking this because once I was given a small bar of soap with the EIIR cyphers by a friend working at St Thomas Hospital to bring back home as a souvenir (when you are a public health consultant your souvenirs choice may differ from the genral consensus).

At the airport an overzealous security person wanted to break the bar soap to check for harmful content. I pointed that as a souvenir I needed it in one pice. Then he called his boss, a military looking person who smelled the bar and said something like "It smells like the real one, no need to cut it"...

Andrea

I would say that it was a "bare" collaboration....

8-)

Andrea

I thought it was a very odd name, Mod Edit

Given that my email address on some forums I belong to is "DepartmentX@mailproviderdotcom" I wouldn't raise an eyebrow in reading "Mod Edit".

Many times people are looking for informations, maybe pictures of vehicles and the only way to have full access to all the infos is joining a forum. This is the most open, think about the EMLRA one where you need to log in to see the threads.

Then, since most of the people outside there aren't momomaniacs like us 8-) they go on on other interests and happily forget to belong to this (and many others) forum.

Andrea

Welcome!

You'll see that there are some old difflockers here.

I am one of them

Andreadavide

Any picture of the original or something near the original just to fire up our sick minds?

Andrea

cancelled

hmmmmmmm....

the only proven solution (albeit temporary) for a tired engine is the good old FIAT HPX, a denser oil that holds a bit more than the usual one.

Other things claiming to "add metal" to the engine are just variants of snake oil.

Just My Humble Opinion

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Reading the manual would be like a scout hike with a cartographic GPS instead of an old Military Map and a compass, would spoil all the fun!

What I don't like is when a professional mechanic (whom I need pay for the privilege of him interfering with my pride an joy) says "I know some tricks this model, no need for the manual"... Then you discover self tapping screws instead of proper ones....

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How funny, I've tried to check my record, being an Italian Driver (and don't forget that for us 4000rpm is just tickover), and I discovered a BIG mistake. No way I am doing 37.9 in a 39 mph limit. I speed at least 70mph...

To whose authority should I address my complaint to restore my Driver's reputation?

Andrea

The Framptons website says that as long as it cannot be mistaken for a UK registration they still can make "show plates".

Wether this applies to mil regs too you better ask them.

Just had the military registration plates for my 88" made, but I had them made for an Italian registered vehicle and shipped to Italy, therefore UK registration plates making rules didn't apply...

BTW if anyone asks why I had two rear plates made it is because the front wings have been butchered to "modernise" with "bug eye" main lamps. To cover the holes I have decided to put on the offside wing the bridge plate and on the nearside one the registration plate....

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This look the almost universal layout for a hub, even the front hubs of my Ford model T look the same..

Andrea

Think that during my service we often installed a CB radio and a car stereo on the MVs...

The CB was invaluable during long journeys on the motorways to know traffic conditions from lorry drivers...

Needless to say that it was against each and every rule in the book.

Problem with Mungas is that they are a dying breed. They were a too specialised vehicle. And there are not enough around to have new part manufacturing profitable...

This is the advantage of LAndrovers and Jeeps...

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Lots of Topolino were requisitioned both in France and in Italy by the Wehrmacht.

Occasionally I drive a pre-war 500 and they are really light, fun to manoeuvre and with a mileage of nearly 20 kms per litre no wonder they were chosen as improvised recce or officer transport cars

Andrea

The funny thing was that, in the meantime, the bottling operations of Coca Cola in Germany (2nd contry after the USA in Coca Cola production) had to face a shutdown of the supply of basic ingredients.

The German manager of the bottling plant wanted to keep it in operation so they invented a sugary beverage made with whatever vegetable availalbe and wit an "orange" taste.

They called it "Fantasia", immediately shortened according to German fashion in "Fanta"....

Andrea

Yes, even more so when you consider other theatres.. More tonnage of bombs dropped on Malta in just one week than dropped in total on London during the whole of the blitz. Malta blitz went on for about 3 months I think, and has the dubious honour of being the most bombed place on earth in terms of tonnage received. Some of the so-called 'atrocity' targets in Germany got off lightly in comparison. Not that I wish it on them either.

Alas, most of the Malta bombings were made by us Italians...

Andrea