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Hi Cosrec , was nice to meet you the other night and put a face to a name, you make a lovely cuppa as well :cheesy:

defo military inside of the cab has the basics and remnants of rifles clips behind seat

I was looking around this beasty the other week and couldnt find a mlitary reg anywhere, looks like the body was a later edition , looked on the TM doors for a military reg couldnt find one

Wasnt most German trenches concreted

From experience, as a newbie MJ operator, the first one we received Ro Ro via Halifax on the east cost of Canada was locked in 4wd when i got it out of the port.

 

As I was not aware of the vaguaries of the system I was battling against myself to get it into 2wd.

 

Being away from home base it was easier to get a mechanic to drop the front shaft and drive as is the whole way home, it takes 2 solid long days of driving by the way!

 

We have used the truck on a regular basis ever since and never a problem.

 

Obviously, we have since learned the tricks to the switching between two and four wheel drive.

 

R

 

 

Do you mean you bounce it out of 4wd

Heard this old lady today that low it seemed to only just clear pylon wires nearly shook windows out as passed directly over head circled round gained height and went back flying towards york Sounded fantastic

Dont know were it came from or going to but very low dont think any thing on at Elvington

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Heard this before i saw it yesterday very low near messingham, had a different treat a few weeks ago at the yorkshire safari park, looked up to see thee vulcan bomber doing take offs and landings at the old finingleybase, now donny airport

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Just bought some stuff from auction, in amongst was this pic of British Army Beetle.

On reverse says, " Mike & ? with the Volkswagon. 75 Bty, May '54".

 

Just as a matter of interest 75Bty was part of 48 regiment from APR 1947-Feb 1959

Did you mean these?

 

 

Thats the one Paul thanks, thanks for the other photos chaps, we use to pick them up from Dortmund the old petrol ones if you was lucky you got a diesel one . Dont see any about at all nowadays

The white bedford coaches we had in germany, in the event of war they was converted to ambulances

Cant seem to find any pictures of these bedford AD Coaches not even on Google images any one got any pictures.

My mistake.any one care to move this thread to British vehicles

Just wondering the other day with ex Royal Artillery equipment in private hands how many Battery's or even regiment's could be reformed ( paper exercise) Ive seen about 4x fh70's about , one tracked rapier, abbotts, 25 pdrs , etc

That nuclear explosion at the end was called George, the largest at 49.5 kilotons. I wa surpies to see the cnd car between vehicles ,bet there was a lot of chatter between vehicles

These vehicles are normally guarded by the royal marines ,as they carry nuclear warheads and other hardware ,someone will be here soon to give you a definate answer

1990 when this happened loggy driver

We nicknamed them lannys probably a army thing , never heard of them being called landie before :cheesy: Alien FTM this was in 1990

Salisbury Plain?

 

R

Tidworth bowl i think plenty of lime on the hills to slide on

This is what happens when a leyland daf drops meets a landrover head on whilst driving on convoy lights both the landrover occupants lived but had there legs broken. The UN lanny had just been bulled up and had its PRE inspection that morning, we got a call that one of the O.P post had boiled over near ambush ally not for from the box factory B32 so we went out to help at 0200 hrs to recover them back to main base , when we got there all we could find (or they found us ) was wild dogs all around us hence the name ambush ally ,we got the humanitarion officer out to shoot a few to scare them off , they had rabies. So where was this lanny, when we did find it about 100 metres away it had rolled into a mine field, so this is where all that training had come into hand ,all the lads was sat on top of the lanny hiding from the dogs , we tossed a rope ,then they dragged a winch line and fixed it to the lanny , by then the engineers had arrived with metal detectors, and we dragged them out , we had a lucky night ,the mines the dogs and the turkish soldiers watching us like hawks and nobody got shot, bitten or blown up :-D

As i use to be a D.M.I whilst serving got to take out a lot of chaps in varoius vehicles, heres the drops getting some of the lads some confidence cross country driving

Never put a hot brew on a metal service , always protect your eyes, because you cant work without them

Hi good job on your lanny , seeing the elephant gun ( slr) on the racking brought back some memories , Please dont take offense couldnt help noticing the way you have secured your lanny ,ive always secured my vehicles by the wheels to the trailer as the body will bounce when the trailer bounces ,the wheels dont , this may cause shaving of the straps

One of the first pieces of arty i saw as a junior leader at bramcote , and towed by the impressive foden limber very inspiring stuff , i do believe( once upon a time) you could fire the blank rounds on a shotgun licence.Good job in saving this fh70 have you seen the one at the cafe on the a17 00TG03

Doing a good job there keep up the good work

50 Missile were in Celle, I got posted there on the Royal Sigs rear link but dodged it at the last minute

 

50 missile regt was never posted to celle they was permanantly stationed in Menden, due to the nuclear missiles

What Mob were you with there in Hemer? I was REME Attached to 1 WFR & later 2 LI. The Irish Rangers were next door for years. the later the RRF I belive.

Mike

 

I was in 50 missile regt RA Menden , we was driver training in 432's and decided to have a cup of char at the sally army