Tony B

Welcome along mate.

Those Gendarmes were mounted on matching Selle Francais bay horses. Evryone who knows horses was drooling wanting to ride one on the beach. :-D

Magnetic lettering?

There are some good 'Glass' block sealears now. They cope with things that would have been a write off a few years back.

Nice to meet you! I was the one marshaling at Ver Sur Mer.

Does actually! helps identify the hot and cool parts of an oven, also for tracing which house radiators are not working properly, and checks the fridge and deep freeze. Extremly useful.:angel:

And you walked away from it! Did the Scammel then straighten the road sign?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/GM550-Non-Contact-IR-Infrared-Digital-Thermometer/dp/B007Q87J3U/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1402491293&sr=8-1&keywords=infra+red+thermometer

It's the age mate. Downhill from now on.

Freezer sprays. Great on disimilar metals.

Got one off Amazon, very useful bit of kit.

24 hours kip comes to mind!

Yeah! Maybe there should be a special plaque. We survied Brittanay Ferries? Apparently the enginners on one baot went on strike, that screwed up all the sailings. 3/4 of an hour to get out of Portsmouth. :-X

Must have been sweating cobs! Did it have a oilskin for the nights?

Ladies & Gentelmen. It is Harry's birthday ! His Grandparents were in Normandy as a treat for Harry they were phtographing his Camping wagon with all diffrent vehicles. So from Katy and me Happy Birthday! And make sure you get the parents to buy you a Dodge not a Jeep!

We had some great Vetrans, including a guy called Tony and his daughter. Tony turned to me and said 'I wish you'd stop calling me Sir. I was only a 2nd Leuitenat RNVR'. I replied that the Sir was a genuine mark of respect for him. He also ant one point said he should really stop talking, to which he was told very firmly 'You keep talking we keep listening.

Contact Walter P Chrysler musuem. They may well have the build records. There very good on the WW2 stuff.

Went to a wife swapping party. Came home with an 8 ton jack, far more useful.

Thank Heaven for that! I wondered if I'd been hitting the local Calvados to hard!

Lincon Battries. Supplied 6 volt for my Dodge, can build battrey to order very knowledgable and decent price.

French polotics reared thier ugly heads. One of our guys wanted to take a Jeep onto the beach and was stopped by the Gendarmes. The local population saw what was happening and fetched the Mayor. He tore the Gendarme of a strip telling him the beach was part of the villiage and therefore HIS beach and no upstart shipped up from the south was going to tell people who could and couldn't go on the beach. At this point Gendarme did sensible thing and shoved it up his chain of command, so up turns Gendarme officer. Mayor and Officer have a high speed conversation, with locals chuking in thier Euros worth. Jeep driver mean time is just wanting to be somnewhere else. Problem certain drivers of an unmetioned nationalatiy have been indulging in thier national sport of winding up Gendamierie. The result was Jeep was allowed onto beach with strict instructions to drive carfully and be aware of pedestrians (!):angel: All round the villiage was heard comments such as 'Upstarts coming in from Marsailles. They should keep thier city ways to themselves'. We also had trouble with some of the local itenerants trying to breack into vehicles. One got a hell of shock when he opned Katy's door and found me half awake in the back , waving a folding entrenching tool. The local Police attitude? If they are stupid enough to try it on a bunch of guys armed with various tools, just try not to disturb the neighbourhood when you deal with them.

Just got in myself at 01:30 this morning after strike on Brittany ferries, casualty list, one squeacky fan belt, solved on arrival at site, and the paint worn off the running boards where people have been sitting on them to have pictures taken. Lots of stories some good, some bad , most hilarious!

Old news! :yawn: Apparently it did fly once. Landing was described as 'rather hard'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_A-40

Nice. Any history?

Welcome in Martin.