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This auction site is used by many who buy and sell ordnance after ebay stopped the trade.

Thats brilliant fella's thanks for that. I'm surprised that they are different in the pallet loading. Cheers.

Hi all, I have no knowledge of trucks,loaders etc. What is the difference between a Scania 114c-340 Hook Loader, and a military 'drops' vehicle, like the Scania 112H 6x2 hook loader? Ta.

Why RAMC colours? It was used to tow ammunition.

nglorious Bastards" I wasted part of my life watching this cack, and the budget must have been epic and it turns out it was a remake, of an apparently rubbish original. Yes remake of an Italian film, which is quite bad.

As far as I know, there are no surviving Porpoise left in the uk, unless another found in like condition. There is one along with the Cenaturs in th oggin off selsey bill. Having a chat with David Fletcher one day about said centaurs and porpoise, Tank Museum haven't got an example and DF hadn't seen one. I think there is a picture of one in his osprey book about the centaurs, which were towing them during D-Day.

This was on the cards a long time now. Along with the Logistics Corps Museum and Signals Museum, REME were to re-locate to St.Athan. News is that Signals has a stay of execution so far. No word on Logisics Corps.

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Just reading 'Battle Thunder', small history of R.A. On page 169, reference to buried guns which is an interesting add on to this thread; "All Britain was scoured for any kind of gun that could be fired. Among those that came to light were 6-pdr Hotchkiss guns from the tanks of 1918, and about a hundred 4" and 12 pdr pieces, said to have been found lying under a mountain of coal at a dockyard after being taken out of warships scrapped under one of the naval disarmament agreements".

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On the war relics forum, there are plenty of east europeans digging the battlefields. I emailed one group who were supposedly getting details of the burials and passing onto German authorities. What I received in reply was an archaeology report written on the back of a fag packet and told in a certain way to mind my own business.

Did any of you spot the bloke selling 'Somme' artefacts at the Overlord show? Supposedly found field walking, except for the photo's of the big holes he had dug getting artefacts out. I can always authenticate it for you, I'm an archaeologist.

Empire Heritage was a tanker with deck cargo of the shermans and halftracks. It is very deep and the divers are using tri-mix. If you bought the wreck off the prospective government not a problem. Paying for a salvage boat and divers? Do you have deep pockets. When the U-534 was raised, it cost approx £3 million in 1993. Yes slightly larger than a sherman, but the empire heritage wreck site in deep ocean. And you couldn't just attach floatation bags and ,let it rise to the surface. Because of the depth a controlled ascent with divers, crane and lifting barge. There is an easier wreck off the the Texas coast with half a dozen Valentines.

Hello there. Too cold to work int' shed, in Australia?

Yasakune Shrine is quite interesting. Not many vehicles, couple of tanks, aircraft, artillery, cannon. But it gives a potted history of Japan's military past. Day of infamy and Commodore Perry's Black Ships, Russo-Japanese War of 1905, WW1 and their Allies. Then the history gets a little fuzzy. Not a lot of mention of the Nanking, or details about WW2 except the brave Kamikaze. Yes the museum is heavily biased, but all Japanese history is. Similarly, I went to the Museum in Ma'an, Jordan. This was a major base during the Turkish occupation and heavily garrisoned during WWI. Lawrence's forces only skirted the area as too many troops. But was there anything to do with T.E. Lawrence in the museum, not a bit. I have issue about the Holocaust display at the Imperial War Museum London. The IWM is/was supposed to be a celebration and commemoration of Britain's military past. Yes, Brit soldiers liberated Concentration Camps, but the holocaust is not primarily part of Britain's history. The display is to get people in the door and its very emotive. Many artefacts had to bought in to put the display on, which also defeats the objective. Anyway, my point was don't just go because it's biased, be proud of that fact. As an American, (I think the U.S. had something to do with us in WW2), go and be proud of who you are. Damn, just fallen off my soap-box.

Your preapred to go to the Chinese museums and are aware of the propaganda. Therefore what is the problem with going to the Yasakune Museum? What military museum does not present some form of propaganda. What does the U.S.S. Arizona have on its visitor information boards? Go the Hiroshima 'Peace' Museum. Japanese school children are geared up to approach westerners, especially Americans and British and ask "Why did you drop an atom bomb on us"? When you reply because the Japanese Military Government weren't going to stop fighting etc., they look a little confused as they aren't taught that bit of history. Similarly, at Yasakune, one of the railway engines from Burma Siam railway outside the museum, nothing about who built the railway.

Just bought a load of books at auction, included was British Empire In Colour. Two pics attached of vehicles in Aden. Didn't know 432's were there

Not classed as same. What bits are you looking for. There will be loads of parts at Beltring, or a trip to Cinney may prove fruitfull.

Eddy, you don't NAS permission to retrieve these bits. They have sponsored one, so find out which that one is. Permission is receiver of wreck and/or MOD. I emailed MOD three years ago re the centaurs in the oggin, still waiting. Also spoke to MOD Archaeologist about it.

I once went to a talk by George McDonald Fraser, he of most political correctness of characters Flashman. He was saying a scene he had written for a screenplay had been cut, where, 'Native' American indians were raving mad drunk after being sold whisky by traders. Apparently, in reality, traders would build themselves small wooden stockades with small hatchs to pass out the bottles and take the trades. They needed the stockades as the indians would get wild and truly unruly to get their drink. Therefore the scensors wouldn't allow this representation of their treatment of American Indians be seen in hollywood. I would like to know how the Indian Wars are taught in the states?

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Tony, do you want me to keep my eyes open for one?:-)

Adrian, sorry didn't mean to sound like it was used at Normandy. Just adding my two pence worth regarding pixie suits. Yes, battledress used at Normandy.

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Oh, and tan ones can be picked up quite easily for £20-30.00 at auctions and sales.