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I confirm that I enjoyed this day. It was very nice to meet you mates.

 

Here are some more photos.

 

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Just to let you know I'm in London. I have found a pub with a free Wi-Fi access to connect my laptop on. I can't be very often on the Internet.

 

I already went to visit the Imperial War Museum. It was beautiful! I thank you all of you for your kindness.

 

Hope I'll be able to meet some of you.

 

Regards

 

Yves

most countries produced a 105mm field gun (notwithstanding how they described the gun, e.g by wieght of the round or calibre in inches, etc). The notable exception was the Swiss Army (whose main weapon now appears to be a knife ;o) which developed a 104mm gun.

In the same way, most countries uses now the 5,56mm NATO ammunition for their assault rifles. But Switzerland uses 5,6mm (0,04mm that make the difference). Swiss assault rifles have been made in order they can fire the 5,56 mm as well, but US M16 or french FAMAS cannot fire the swiss 5,6 mm. And with his former assault rifles, Switzerland did use 7,5 mm that is still in use for machine-guns. Switzerland has many weapon manufacturers and a great history in making weapons. Swiss army ever used Swiss made weapons as main individual weapons, however they used american and german equipment as well, like Browning machine-guns or Heckler & Koch sub machine-guns.

 

7,62 mm NATO standard is still largely used with the AK47 assault rifle around the world.

 

Swiss army knife is the main weapon against bred and cheese only. :-D

A friend has two TM 9-801. One dated 24.04.1944, the other one dated 1942. I'll ask him to compare the values.

i see your point its a good question , perhaps with the shorter chassis on the 352 that the extra weight is made from the second spare tire and heavier duel spare tire carrier?

Yes, perhaps. But you'll note that the TM doesn't make any difference between the open and closed cab either. :dunno: I think they weren't very accurate about this point in the manual.

I see...

 

Don't you find strange that 352 and 353 does have exactly the same weight? :dunno:

I think I will buy an Oyster card and put a zones 1+2 permanent pass on it. Then I'll charge a few pounds on the Oyster for the trips I'll make outside these two zones.

Your best bet then is get a monthly all zone travel card, that will give unlimted use of tube buses dockland light railway and the nrew overground service plus rail tarins in TFL area. See http://www.tfl.gov.uk/

Let us know when you are in the Smoke and we can arrange things.

 

Thanks Tony.

 

I'll arrive next Friday. I don't know if I will pick the all zone travel card. I think I'll mostly need the two or three inner zones. And when going into the other ones, I'll can pay the additional fees.

Thank you for your answer.

 

Do you take that from an original dataplate or what source?

Don't forget to soak up some of London's heritage, a day ticket on any of the open top bus tours allows you to hop on, hop off, all day. Great for getting the feel of where you would like to go when time and money permit.

 

And weather too. :whistle:

 

Thank you General Mayhem for these tips. I'll take a look.

 

Thank you Nick for the invitation, I'll contact you some day.

Thanks Tony.

 

I'll be in the City of London, the business area in the center. I won't have any car. I'll travel using the Tube and train.

:wave:

 

 

That was before I drew the big white stars.

Hi all.

 

A friend of mine is restoring his open cab 352, with winch. I has bought a reproduction late model dataplate and he's wondering what numbers he should engrave on it. He is missing the "vehicle wt. unloaded" and "max gross wt" values.

 

Does anyone own a CCKW 352 with an open cab and a winch that still have it's original dataplate to get these values on it?

 

I would be interessted in pictures of your plate, if possible.

 

Thanks

Yes, Imperial War Museum will definitely be in good place on my visits list. Thanks

Hi all.

 

I'm going to stay three months in London for work. I'll arrive next week, and I'm wondering if you guy could tell me what things would be interesting for me to visit. I'm a collector of American WW2 vehicles and WW2 American militaria. I'm owning a GMC CCKW and a Dodge WC 63. I'm interested in everything related to military vehicles, militaria stuff and war history. I would be pleased visiting historical sites and museums about life in England during world war two.

 

Thank you in advance for the advices you'll provide me.

 

Regards

 

Yves

Great!!!

 

I'm looking forward to eat somedays one of your donuts!

 

Nice job Mick & Cara!

Wow! You have set up a special lady wiper motor for Cara? Pink! :oops:

Mick, do you have this book?

I love your gloves hanger! :lol:

PS. I know I have asked before, but you are more than welcome to make and sell me one 8) :wink:

 

I'll take one too! :wink:

The color picture seems a modern one... no? Very good quality!

Hi Karoshi,

 

who own this truck "Atlanta" and where is it?

I'm living too far to help you physically, but I'm with you in mind! Go on Mick! It's a realy good job you're doing here!

Very nice job!!