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Whittingham warrior

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  1. Well, it is so poor and contrived it really has to be seen to be believed.
  2. I wish I'd watched the program on subs instead
  3. Did anyone see 'Combat Dealers' last night on Quest at 9.00pm? It was entitled 'French Resistance' I won't spoil the plot by telling you all what happened. Although as a side line, when any series is launched except say a drama where the episodes have to be in chronological order, the first programme is often consider the best to entice viewers in and to stay and watch the rest. Last night's Combat Dealers hopefully didn't follow this rule as it was absolutely pitiful piffle, a cross between 'Allo Allo and fun with fire arms. If it was a turkey it would be stuffed by now.
  4. It seems such a shame that a bullion millionaire has to stoop to such things to earn a crust.
  5. STOP what your doing! it was the stuff touted by Mr Airfix that got me on this downward slope. I thought I could stop anytime then I was introduced to that foreign pusher Mr Tamiya, I was soon mainlining 1/35 kits and the occasional 1/25 scale one. Then I was given a track link and 30 years of misery followed.
  6. Well, 'Military Muckabouts' appear to have just two tools a grinder and a MIG welder. The wooden butt had been ground out of a lump of wood, So much so you could tell that the grinder was right handed by the way he ground the tapering serrations in the rear butt face. On a real GPMG the body has various rivets to hold it together on mine they were represented by blobs of weld. The slotted muzzle had been slotted with a slitting saw disc. This meant the groves were to narrow and not even parallel. The end of the barrel was from an eccentric welded washer. The sight was rubbish and the resin cast cover was to short in both directions. The barrel was made of pipe with no turned taper. I did wonder if it had been primed underneath the matt black paint
  7. I had a 'Military Muckabouts' GPMG, it was so good I gave it away ie very poor, save your money and go somewhere else.
  8. I liked 'Fury' but then I work in an Asylum. Like all good westerns by the end of the film the 'injuns' (Germans) lay dead around the wagon train (Fury). All the money spent on the correct kit and yet it had the same lame ending.
  9. Certainly this debate on toilets seems to be as long as Tolstoy's War & Peace but with much less action.
  10. I wonder what happened to this story and its characters?
  11. In the latest edition of CMV July 2017 Issue 194, there is an interesting article on the Carden-Loyd VI tankette. Although near to the end of the piece there occurs an interesting sentence, 'About 200 British Army tankettes served in the defence of the Dyle-Namur line in Belgium in 1940.' I find this figure much to high as Carden-Loyd VI tankettes had already been withdrawn from front line service from the mid-thirties up to the beginning of the Second World War, being replaced by various carrier types. Granted there might well have been as many as 20 or so parked up in neglected corners of depots in the UK and Empire, but there was certainly none charging along the Western Front. I think the author has confused the 277 tractors produced by Vickers Carden-Loyd for the Belgian Army with these mythical 200 British Army tankettes. CMV also produced an enlightening feature September2013 (Issue 148) about a Vickers Carden-Loyd Utility Tractor that the owner believed had served with BEF. It is an article well worth reading but not for the faint hearted or those seekers of accuracy, of note is the use of the word 'believe.'
  12. What is really amazing the programme made such a thing about the man with two names winning a Military Medal but gave no indication what act of bravery he preformed.........Surely his former regiment no matter how many times it had been amalgamated would be able to provide the citation or even his local newspaper. Did not the London Gazette print such things? What ever happened to the internet or simple research? As Bruce said in the last but one episode, the MG42 fires 1,600rpm, should that not be 1,200 rpm, mi old cock sparra.
  13. What a revelation Combat Dealers was last night. Bruce et al and their trip to France to purchase some Great War trinkets. The show followed the usual format of buying cheap with the prospect of selling for 'loads of money!' The French character 'Michelle' with his outrageous Anglo-French accent had earlier found fame as a voice over for some of the French knights in the film 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail.' The new scrip writer, Ben Elton certainly added his touch to the program with Bruce's explanation of the class struggle in the Great War. Telling how the 'lower orders' ( A term used by some on here) where sent to wash in shell holes chewing on a stale bully beef sandwich, whilst the landed gentry officer class are eating well in some chateau miles away from the front dinning as if nothing had changed. But it wasn't all beer and skittles, the officer class still had to make do with French plumbing as a consequence brought along their own portable sinks.... Bruce also mentioned that back home in Blighty the governing classes were worried about revolution breaking out and so promised a 'Land fit for Heroes' and 'Homes for Heroes' which were more mere slogans and things quickly returned back to the pre-war norm of poverty. It took another war and Clement Attlee's 1945 Labour government for things to improve for the 'lower orders.' Some of those Tommie's looked like Americans.
  14. Very true, just look at the coverage of the election in the British press.
  15. " f@ckin hell suggs you've aged" don't think it went down well but then again i'm not known for my diplomacy :-D I think that was just 'One step beyond!' Strangely enough for a person involved in saving vehicles Suggs doesn't mention 'Salvage Squad' in his newish autobiography. For those unfamiliar with Salvage Squad it was like Combat Dealers except something was actually restored though not always by the Salvage Squad themselves....
  16. I've seen it at a ratio of 10 parts of water to one of molasses. After the first week scoop off the scum that has formed.
  17. Although not the film 'Where Eagles Dare' but in the British film 'The Eagle Has Landed' the clips of StuG III on railway wagons at the beginning of the film were filmed in Finland.
  18. It also appears in 'Wheels & Tracks' issue 18, page 38 sharing a page with a 'Bridge to Far' plastic Land-Rover/Sherman.
  19. Published by Profile Publications, 1973. first UK edition, paper covers, VG condition, 7 x 10, art paper, 80 pages, well illustrated with 220 B&W photos, and 2 pages of colour profiles. The book covers the early years of armoured motorized transport before moving on to the fascinating world of Carden~Loyd Tankettes. The majority of the book is naturally taken up with the tracked carrier of the Second World War fame with its numerous classes and genres. The final chapter features the 432 and the aluminium CVR(T) family of APC of which more of the latter later..... As seen on eBay for £21 Cost £10 + £2 pp IMG_20170321_0001.pdf
  20. It might encourage the dealers to lower their prices once in a while to sell off what could be unsellable in a few months time, better jam today than thin gruel tomorrow. In other words sell the problem on...
  21. The Asylum used to use such things on a much grander scale, here they were on the scale as those small wheeled skips. One of the main problems was with ceramic plates being cold these quickly drew the heat away from the tepid food.
  22. A British wartime motorcycle combination going through Withnell heading towards Blackburn, only a rider on board.
  23. A close friend of POA is the post asking 'How much is this worth?' I often think it is from someone that is so frightened about selling an article to cheap......
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