wattie

I dont get the new forum either the old site was much more user friendly. 

Huge areas roped off with very little in them ensuring others had no place to camp..Not very easy to find a space if driving around in the .mud.

In my observations in the "living History Field" some of it was not living history at all .

It was more of a convenient place to camp near the center of the site, a vehicle and a caravan with a cam net chucked over it or a couple of bivvy tents with a few bits scattered on the floor is not living history.

I have brought a couple of vehicles from Holland no problem . To save time I notified NOVA with the relevant info prior to bringing the vehicle in .

If the vehicle is registered in Holland it will need a white export plate this should be completed by the owner of the vehicle this demonstrates to the Dutch authorities that it is leaving the country. Dutch customs may want to see it .

As you are putting the vehicle on a low loader road insurance will not be an issue.

My experience was with post was vehicles not war time, but I cannot see why it has to be different .

I really hope they give the entertainment a sort out its the same old stuff every year.

The weapon sleeve comes in pairs and was used to cover a SLR/GPMG to attach to the bergan via carrying straps PEP ( personnel equipment parachutists ) this assemble was then attached to the parachute harness under the reserve chute .

It was released when the chute was deployed and lowered on 15ft of rope.

Before you order anything go on the G503.Com Forum and search the company name

Replica "Little Nel" (VAD275) appeared in the same article and issue #14. This seems to have started in the Worcestershire area and then moved to Jersey (becoming J832 and then J8797). The chassis wasn't shortened.

Bob James from Evesham built Little Nell and I am sure it ended up in Holland . It was over 30 years ago so may have had another restoration since then . We heard it had been given a certificate of authenticity by who we have no idea.

Sadly Bob passed away this year but I do know he had several photos of it.

Looking forward to the next CMV to see what it has to say .

aaaa jznin

How many Willys Nuffields were made ? Is is possible that one survived ? I thought they were just a prototype that never went into production .

The late Bob James built a replica one in the eighty's I have pictures of it somewhere . I think it was sold to the channel Islands and ended up in Holland . I recall seeing another in the Windscreen recently .

I do not think Kimmeridge was evacuated during WW2 if it was the home owners were allowed to return , it is a functioning village today , there are certainly some beach defenses still there although the sea and weather is taking its toll.

Tyneham Village certainly was evacuated and is now open to the public apart from when the MOD are firing . The church is still there and the restored school house the rest is in ruins , great place to visit.

I recently brought a vehicle back from Holland it had to be de-registered and issued with a white export plate ,to show that the vehicle was leaving the country . Vehicle was delivered to port I insured the vehicle on the VIN number with HIC no problem to drive from point of entry to home .

Then I contacted Notification of vehicle arrival (NOVA) to obtain a exempt from VAT ref number. I tried to do this on line and as with a lot of these government web sites it did not work I got to the submit page to only get a system error .

Trying to phone them was difficult I asked for a good old hand written form to fill in .This I returned and after a frustrating 5 weeks received my NOVA number.

There is 14 days ( as I recall ) to notify NOVA I would do it ASAP , I may have had a bad experience with NOVA ,I probably will be importing another vehicle soon so will be interesting to see if I have the same experience, I hope not .

I had the vehicle MOTd and filled in the V55/5 form as long as you have all the correct paperwork I had no problem with DVLA and received the registration number.

From the picture and taking the climate into consideration the tin work looks far from sound . It looks like it has a very hard life , I agree with other post better to find something here or imported from the States.

Even if the Jeep was priced at nothing I can imagine the bureaucracy and shipping costs would far out strip its worth .

I wonder what the state of the back seat is ,usually they are long gone .

We were not allowed to use berets on exercise , so wore the crap hat ,however I slashed the peak and removed the materiel in the peak so it was less likely to blow off and you could screw it up and stuff it in your pocket.

They were ok .

Bobs Funeral will take place on March 16th at 1200

St Peter, Bengeworth Church : Port Street, Evesham, Worcestershire, WR11 3NB

Afterwards at Bengeworth Club, 18 Coronation St, Evesham. WR11 3DA.

Dress olive drab or bright shirts.

What annoys me is sensationalism and miss reporting (nothing new there) .Also the the police are guilty of not being truth full of the facts , whilst I suspect some of the weapons were maybe illegal the rest were not .

So what happened to transparency and honesty in the reporting of alleged crimes . The report by the police officer was loaded with inaccuracies to frighten the public and to try to discredit legal firearm and deacc owners .

When I was young I was always told to trust a policeman and in the main I still do , but this incident does not help.

I am sad to report the death of Bob James of Evesham , Bob was the driving force behind Ashdown camp and hosted Wartime in the vale . I have no details of funeral arrangements at this time

John Watt

Anyone seen this?

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cer3LGG-ajw

 

it was in the daily mail, what a load of poop. The story and detective has lost all credability by stating all guns were live and 200,000 rounds of live ammo. There's not one round of ammo shown. Lots of cases and bullets but no rounds. Also the STEN Mk3 is clearly deactivated in one photo so I would guess that the majority are also deactivated. A firearms dealer was convicted on 20 counts for supplying prohibited weapons. So 20 out of 500 makes them all live.

 

Had the Police and the Daily Mail been truthful the story would have had credability but now it's just properganda!

Yes I saw this report

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/12164797/Parish-council-chairman-had-Britains-biggest-arsenal-of-illegal-weapons.html

The officer is holding a primed to go 66mm Law rocket ( upside down) I suspect its a deac. No evidence in the pictures of live ammunition only a box of spent cases with clearly a dummy grenade for dramatic effect.

Railway sleepers in garden probably for a range , if that's the case would not Sherlock Holmes have found a lot of lead in the range and must have made a lot of noise firing that lot.

If as I suspect the majority of these weapons have been deactivated not sure what the coach loads of terrorists would have done with them .

Sadly the gent who owned these weapons is no longer with us to defend himself.

Nothing like bending the facts to get a story and deceive the public . As stated now, just propaganda

They were not divided. About a guards armoured regiment going through Normandy and Belgium. Made in 1950, lots of Shermans and many of the actors had served. A great and very authentic insight with none of the cheese seen in modern films. Highly recommended.

I saw this for the first time this week ,what a great film , there was original footage slotted in but the film sequences were superb in one scene they rolled a Sherman all sorts of soft skin vehicles as well as plenty of Sherman's.

A very underrated film .

Thanks everyone for the help and interesting info. If you have any pics could you post them please as it would be a great help.

Regards, Lewis

If you go on you tube and enter Lionheart 84 there are a series of films about the exercise gives a good idea of the scale of the exercise and equipment used and worn at that time.

We were not supposed to take cameras and take pictures for security reasons, before the days of mobile phones with cameras.

Cool, you were allowed to bring your own kit to the TA, also i thought the compass would have been a stanley prismatic compass rather than a silvia?

The prismatic compass was available from the stores but was bulky and expensive ,the silva compass was cheap and easy to use and did the job we wanted it for for.

The weapons we had were the 9mm Browning, GPMG, 9mm Stirling and the good old SLR. Also fired the Carl Gustav, 66mm Law rocket, and 81mm Morter but not very often . Also had access to M16 , Kalashnikov and Simonov Rifle.

I used to carry a tin of lighter fuel (to get the hexi going ) , curry powder and a box of fruit gums .A small torch, silva compass plastic bag to protect maps

We ditched the 58 pattern water bottles in favor of 44 pattern metal bottle and a metal cup for brews . Water tasted horrible out of a plastic bottle more so in the unlikely event of warm weather.

Used a civi waterproof as the issue ones were useless not waterproof at all. I purchased a HH fleece very expensive but I still wear it today nearly 40 years old.

Gloves were woolen never saw NI gloves in the TA . As for KFS I only carried a spoon you could spread and saw away at food and was handy to dip into someone else's mess tin .

I never used issue mess tins ,I had a WW2 US Army set more compact to stuff in bergan.

Most of us had boot extensions stitched to the top of the standard DMS boot to get rid of soggy puttees.Still got a pair somewhere.

Thanks for the up date. I hoped it deserved a better fate than the scrap man . I think the engine was still in it might have been a multi bank, it looks very complete . Is the intention to get it running again ?

Does any one know what happened to this pink Sherman

Next question what happened to this Sherman in a children's play park in Holland in the early 80's, I recall a midget submarine also on the same site, probably German. I cannot remember where this picture was taken.

What great things to play on can you imagine this in a play park today.