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hi. I wonder if i could have an opinion on this shot. Here is a photo from 1930's showing British Troops in Palestine. I am not sure if its Black Watch though... There are quite a few photo's like this , all showing Hackles in helmet and flashes in socks. Some also have soldiers with the bonnet Tam o Shanter so i assume they are Scots but otherwise how can it be decided which is which? Library of Congress image - LARGE MB file link http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/mpc2010004090/PP/ A close-up DesertBlooms88
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question WWI Ford Model T Ambulances
DesertBlooms88 replied to plastic constructor's topic in Pre WW2 vehicles
Thanks for the website for 32020... absolutely fascinating to see the build recreation photo's. I see that 32020 was donated from the " Groton school in Massachusetts " as it states in the text. I was hoping that i might see some original shots of it. Maybe in the archives for the American Field Service as he researched it there. Thanks for highlighting the site Just found another site that this person has for the same vehicle [h=1]Ambulance 255 Project Log[/h]http://www.ambulance255.org/project.htm DesertBlooms88 -
question WWI Ford Model T Ambulances
DesertBlooms88 replied to plastic constructor's topic in Pre WW2 vehicles
I ' think ' this is one of those extended versions... The link will open the google search viewer and you can then open the main file if you wish. http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=ford+Model+T+army&hl=en&tbo=d&biw=1024&bih=603&tbs=isz:lt,islt:xga&tbm=isch&tbnid=chjTTFSBget1PM:&imgrefurl=http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/118802/159355.html&docid=q59JIqwKzjyBiM&imgurl=http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/118802/160377.jpg&w=1498&h=1074&ei=0zDjUOucCtDY0QXt1oCACQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=338&vpy=155&dur=7633&hovh=190&hovw=265&tx=212&ty=72&sig=109059227560647757250&page=1&tbnh=123&tbnw=172&start=0&ndsp=15&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:0,i:91 -
More information on Ford Model T ambulance here http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?16211-WWI-Ford-Model-T-Ambulances
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question WWI Ford Model T Ambulances
DesertBlooms88 replied to plastic constructor's topic in Pre WW2 vehicles
Ref to the last set of photo's showing American Ambulance No 32020... I have found two photographs of this very same vehicle on the Library of Congress website from World War One. Library of Congress LARGE MB file link http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ggb2005023127/ Library of Congress LARGE MB file link http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ggb2005023124/ Incidentally there is another thread here with a Model T ambulance restoration http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?33730-Another-Ford-M1917-ambulance-build DesertBlooms88 -
A view of the inside Library of Congress image - 25MB file link http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/npc2008000752/ DesertBlooms88
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Found a restoration project here for a Ford Model T ambulance. It is on a World War One website. It has a great many photo's and some videos. I trust it is ok to show the link here from another site. http://www.ww1history.com/Model_T_Project.php DesertBlooms88
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Not quite sure how to link to threads to show similar photo's but... I have just added some nice images of a Ford Model T ambulance to a thread about a restoration project. http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?33730-Another-Ford-M1917-ambulance-build/page6 DesertBlooms88
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Here is a photo of an American ambulance headquarters in Paris showing Ford Model T outside - this photo is not as detailed as the one above unfortunately. Library of Congress image http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ggb2005023109/ DesertBlooms88
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Nice details here in this photo of a Ford Model T ambulance. Use the Library of Congress link to access the original LARGE 15MB file for downloading. Library of Congress original file http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ggb2005021821/ Close up of interior DesertBlooms88
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A couple more shots of me so called ' Ice Cold In Alex ' ambulance... though not quite. Thankyou ' Runflat ' Photo's probably relates to Italian prisoners detraining at Wady Sarar, Dec. 21, 1940 Library of Congress image http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/matpc/item/mpc2010006455/PP/ Library of Congress image http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/mpc2010006454/PP/ DesertBlooms88
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Same vehicle as above i think A Library of Congress image. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/mpc2010003681/PP/ Palestine 1936. DesertBlooms88
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In 2020 i see that INS Viraat will possibly be up for retirement.... now there's a real ship with real history. I can feel a MEGA MILLIONS Euro Lottery win coming on..... Wikimedia Commons photograph... click here to see photo in original context http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Navy_070907-N-8591H-194_F-A-18F_Super_Hornet_Strike_Fighter_Squadron_102,_F-A-18E_Super_Hornet_Strike_Fighter_Squadron_27,_Indian_Navy_Sea_Harriers,_Indian_Air_Force_Jaguars_over_INS_Viraat_(R_22),_Malabar_07-2.jpg By U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jarod Hodge [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons This is an image from the Imperial War Museum Collection. THE FALKLANDS CONFLICT, APRIL - JUNE 1982<a href="http://www.iwm.org.uk/corporate/privacy-copyright'>http://www.iwm.org.uk/corporate/privacy-copyright'>http://www.iwm.org.uk/corporate/privacy-copyright" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">© Crown copyright. IWM (FKD 450)</a> This is an image from the Imperial War Museum Collection. THE FALKLANDS CONFLICT, APRIL - JUNE 1982<a href="http://www.iwm.org.uk/corporate/privacy-copyright" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">© Crown copyright. IWM (FKD 684)</a> ROYAL NAVY AVIATION IN THE 60 s with HMS Hermes (R12) featuring Sea Vixens and Scimitars ... GREAT footage!!!! DesertBlooms88
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A really great & unique photo here of HMS Ark Royal R07 i think... Three Centuries of British Sea Power HMS Victory (Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar; HMS Warrior (Britain's first iron-hulled battleship); and HMS Ark Royal and HMS Illustious (twentieth century aircraft carriers), in harbour at Portsmouth. Here are three galleries of images, over 50 photo's, for HMS Ark Royal R07. Gallery No1 Gallery No2 Gallery No3 Lastly here is a very large aerial photo of Portsmouth with two carriers shown http://www.webbaviation.co.uk/portsmouth/Portsmouth.jpg Happy Christmas DesertBlooms88
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Just for interest, stumbled on this in the Library of Congress. Witt Will truck photo ' Grove Lime & Coal Co ' - circa between 1910 and 1920 It is a very clear and detailed image when downloaded and here is the link for the LARGE 35 MB TIFF file. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/npc2008011242/ DesertBlooms88
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TANK OF THE WEEK: Peerless Armoured Car
DesertBlooms88 replied to The Tank Museum's topic in The Tank Museum: News & Events
This ' looks like ' a Peerless Armoured Car but the description with it states " Armoured auto, German made, captured from the Bolshiviki by Czecho-Slovaks in Siberia " Library of Congress image LARGE MB file link http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/npc2008001082/ DesertBlooms88 -
Yes, i guess that means its not a Peerless vehicle. Library of Congress file http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/mpc2005000676/PP/ New Close-up DesertBlooms88
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Here is another shot of a British Army Peerless truck in Palestine outside a British hospital in Jerusalem circa 1918 Library of Congress image http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/mpc2005000761/PP/ Close-up This is another vehicle at the same location but not sure what it is. 1918 Library of Congress image again http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/mpc2005000676/PP/ DesertBlooms88
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Nostalgic film clip from British Pathe News A 1957 visit to HMS Ark Royal R09 & HMS Victory at Portsmouth - nice colour film clip. http://www.britishpathe.com/video/day-out-with-the-navy-aka-boys-and-navy-record-a
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I see what you mean. I just hit the website link and aswell as this image if you enter a search for welbike they have two others. Both images show a welbike being assembled from some kind case and they have the other tanks fitted. looks like they are demonstrating the bikes use in the field as it were straight from transport box. Airborne soldiers retrieve folding motorcycles or 'Welbikes' from equipment containers, Bulford, 9 June 1943. http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205199047 Paratroopers retrieve a Welbike (lightweight folding motorcycle) from an equipment container on the drop-zone, during a large-scale airborne forces exercise, 22 April 1944. http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205201711 .
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What a great little motorbike. Here is a photo you may not have seen before. Just out of interest. This is an image from the Imperial War Museum Collection. THE BRITISH ARMY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM 1939-45<a href="http://www.iwm.org.uk/corporate/privacy-copyright" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">© IWM (H 23383)</a> Original photo link here - <a href="http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205198631#" rel="nofollow">www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205198631#</a> Welbike - folding 2-stroke motorcycle - as used by 1st Airborne Division, 29 August 1942. DesertBlooms88