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The place is littered with them!

(Just incase that doesn't post)

http://www.travelblog.org/Photos/30143

I'm putting my ten bob on it being Northern France, by the looks of the buildings.

Good snap of an A7V next in line to it.

And wtf is this thing?

:nut:

http://www.com-central.net/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=13548

Looks cracking!

I like the way "Private Eye" have entered into the spirit of it!

Funny, I can see it

Here's the url for it

http://1.2.3.13/bmi/1.2.3.9/bmi/mailer.fsu.edu/~akirk/tanks/GreatBritain/GB-Armored-PoweredQuadracycle-June1899.jpg

I would imagine a very unpeasant experience to be on the receiving end. The RA squaddy in charge of it said they had been kept pretty busy in Afghanistan..

Grid square removal device" I believe it's known as.

Here's a spy photo of the latest MoD development!

If you can go from this

To this

Then nothing's impossible given the will, time & money.

This is the starting point for the (ex?) Flick Collection's Panther G

If anyone knows where it is now & has photos, that wouldbe of great interest!

I remember seeing this back in the late 60's, on one of our family forced-marches in Derbyshire. Is it near a Roman Road? I'm sure we walked along that before heading off across the moors. I've got a bit of it somewhere, IIRC, an anodised blue ribbed tube, with four outlets on it.

I believe that 2 of the 3 Stugs pictured, are now in the possession of Kevin Wheatcroft.

Is that to keep the water out?

I can't see much Axis kit continuing in production, as Europe would've been awash with surplus Allied kit!

Certainly a number of Sdkfz250/251 chassis were used as agricultural tractors, as were their unarmoured versions, plus the other similar half-tracked vehicles, eg the FAMO displayed in the Musee Aout '44 in Falaise.

From

To

Here's a Kettenkrad coversion.

Made by Babiole, a French vinyard tractor manufacturer. The drive is reversed.

Some 550 Kettenkrad were manufactured post war, up until 1948.

German rail guage and ours are identical, hence the Tiger having transport tracks as shown in the one preserved in Saumur.

Compared to the similar late-production model at Vimoutiers.

The tracks were changed and the outer set of road wheels and the track guards removed prior to loading on the special rail cars. The road wheels can be seen stacked behind the tanks in this photo.

The combat tracks being stored doubled-up, under the tanks.

The tank was nearly 2ft wider with its combat tracks fitted.

Width with combat tracks3.72m (12.2 ft)Width with transport tracks 3.14m (10.3 ft)

Seconded.

Not you then?

:-D

Post away!

I'm not far from Lawton & it's field system and even closer to Skinnand, one of the "Plague Villages", Abandonned during the middle ages and never recolonised. (Note to self, get off fat ass, get bike out & go & see the place!)

There is also the cut down Sherman in the Crawford collection which was used for ploughing and is still frequently demonstrated at shows .

Ta-da!

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It's the BergPanther that's now in the Musee de Blindes at Saumur.

Featured in "After the Battle"

Here's a couple of Cromwells that had received the same treatment, in Czechoslovakia.

http://www.tankysmrzovka.webgarden.cz/archiv-bez-ladu-a-skladu-ale-je/cromwelly-v-lomu.html

Dressing up as Germans!:nut:

http://www.detektorweb.cz/index.4me?s=show&i=28843&mm=1&vd=1

Plus, Russians & British.

Great Kettenkrad, mind you!

Blimey! Restore that lot if you can!

Are those photos of Comets recent?

Binning the Harriers doesn't sound too clever to me, or was it just a way of making sure that the carriers weren't of much use and so could be got rid of?

Sending the Tornados on their way would have been better, since it looks like dangling bombs over the Typhoon will be happening. Perhaps that would be too upsetting to our European partners?

The cost control of the procurement proceedure looks to be non-existant, the Nimrod following it's AWACs version into the bin, after £billions being spent again.

Have to go begging to the Yanks for a few second hand Rivet Joints (Ooops, I see that's old news! http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2010/03/22/339763/uk-approves-rivet-joint-purchase.html) (I was wondering what that "KC135" without its flying boom was, when it trundled over me last week, heading towards Waddington - buit it didn't look like it had the necessary lumps & bumps to be sig int)

Junking a lot of Challengers and the heavy artillery makes sense, should have been done years ago, ditto pulling our forces out of Germany.

I wonder if all this "excess stock" will be melted down or sold to some deserving African dictator?

The second Failsafe was in effect a sensitive trembler switch, which would have detonated the bomb if the bomb was still attached to an aircraft when it was shot down and crashed. The trouble is any violent shaking, hitting a tree, chimney pot, or power line, might have been a survivable event had this failsafe not been fitted, but it was so sensitive, any such incident would have detonated the bomb and killed the crew. It had to be disarmed shortly before the run into the dam, because the shock of hitting the water would have triggered it, destroying the bomb on the first bounce.

Now, since one of the bombs was lost when F/O Rice's Lancaster flew too low and touched the sea, this may be a distinct possibility. The Upkeep carried by AJ-K (P/O Byers), didn't explode until 4 weeks after the Lancaster was shot down into the sea off Texel, so another failure of the self-destruct mechanisms?

The German version, codenamed "Kurt", never got further than a few prototypes, which were proving to be as dangerous to the carrier aircraft as any potential target!

One theory why Flt Lt Barlow's bomb didn't explode, was that it was never released from the aircraft and thus the triggers weren't armed.

ajmac's post about being told of a Lloyd Carrier in a barn and the thread about the body of an Sdkfz 251 being found in a Czech quarry, got me thinking.

What's your "dream find", that "OMG!/Feck Me!" moment, having been told that someone down the road's got something interesting in their barn etc, you go down and there, lurking amongst those bits of old crap that every farmer has, is a............?

nice cromwell turret

eddy

It's a Cavalier, if that makes any difference?