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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. More information on Ford Model T ambulance here http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?16211-WWI-Ford-Model-T-Ambulances
  5. 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
  6. A view of the inside Library of Congress image - 25MB file link http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/npc2008000752/ DesertBlooms88
  7. 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
  8. Lovely detailed photo this To see the LARGE MB file use the Library of Congress link http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ggb2005021716/ Close up DesertBlooms88
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. Same vehicle as above i think A Library of Congress image. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/mpc2010003681/PP/ Palestine 1936. DesertBlooms88
  14. 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
  15. Thankyou for your reply. Its like a whole new picture with some many details being highlighted. With regards to the date i am afraid i can only state 1930's. Incidentally here are another two photo's which i believe are associated with the first image. DesertBlooms88
  16. " Happy Xmas " - A Christmas Day scene with the Royal Tank Corps at Khaisora Camp, North West Frontier in what is now Pakistan - 1930's Such a fantastic image this.... packed with interest. Happy Christmas DesertBlooms88
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. One colour photo on the Imperial War Museum website showing a British grenade discharger cup http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/30021404
  24. 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 .
  25. 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
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