Tony B

To add to this read the book Sniper One by Dan Mills of Y company. B*** excellent.

Deserves to be read. It is a fascinating fair look at the British Army of the Great War. Wriiten by an academic serving soldier, it is excellent.

By Sgt. Dan Mills. Dusty Warriors is the academic version, this is the squaddies tale. Riviting, must go off to read the next bit.

Remember the operational adage KISS, GPMG can be lot more useful in that enviroment than a 20mm, and you can count the score afterwards. :-D Have a read of the book Sniper One.

If you have room try a sleeve of loose sheet metal wrapped round that can flex. Ah la bean tin, as you say if it burns through dirt cheap to replace.

My 101 ambulance was out in the Gulf in 1991 with 4th Armoured. I was talking to RAMC who had been out there, I mentioned the roof panel red cross. the reply was 'No mate, always kept it covered, the RAF knew what we were, The Septics thought it was a target'.

No Jonathan, current legislation is no self loading rifle 'wrongly called automatic, correctly semi automatic, over .22LR. The Boys is a bolt action, it does not self load when the trigger is pulled. The fact it has a magazine is irrelevant. Shotguns are diffrent, if the brain serves no more than 3 shots including one in breech or it becomes Class 1.

Funny though if the information is all up to date they are not insisting on playing that computer game they call the Hazard perception and theory test. I did mine for the PCV, my instructor pointed out that if I ever got to the point where I had to manoeuvrer the way DVLA expected at the point the computer scored he would rip my head off and do unspeakable things with the remains.

Or the Lancaster?

why is the 'Neutrals' always have the best kit? the new British army sniper rifle is based on the Lapura 308 magnum round, guess where Lapura comes from?

In the middle of a takeover at work, so don't know what is going on, at least mushrooms are fed ... When a day is decided I'll just go sick.

can you add my name to the list please? As to rear view, what about cameras? Most large vehicles have to be fitted with them now, despite the fact ' a screen must not be fitted to avehicle where it is in view of the driver or distract the driver'. A double decker bus is not fit for use in service unless the driver has a method of monitoring the upper deck, all of them now use a CCTV screen. :dunno:

Thanks Hanno, I was looking for that for an hour. Just couldn't remember the name.

I knew one eletrician could make changing a light bulb last 4 hours, by the time he went through all the paperwork. :dunno:

Allowing that the MOD has changed a lot of paint formulas to comply with the various regulations. There were two finishes in camo paint. the full Matt and an 'eggshell' finish. semi matt. the Full Matt had a greater IRR factor but was difficult to de contaminate. The semi matt was easier to clean but less IRR. Just for fun once I parked my Landy in full matt and a friends in semi in the car park of a MOD establishment and viewed them at night through the very good IR security cameras. The ordinary vehicles litterally glowed, the semi matt was vauge shape. Mine was extremly difficult to find, especially when parked in shadow. The things you do on night shift. Apparently Trimite now manufactuer and will mix for private use if asked.

Keep the photos together! Remember places change all the time. These are documents that will one day be history in their own right. Future archeologist's will bless you.

Get someone else to do it? What a pity they have stopped Bob a job week. Good luck please post plenty pictures.

You could probably get it in UK on a class one, as its bolt action. Maybe even without a ticket as its obsolete ammunition. But where would you find a range with the backstop to use it. Go to Jersey the rules are simple, is the barrel rifled or isn't it?

I don't know where and when or if it still exists, but the MOD had there own finishes and packaging research unit. It was at Aquila, just outside Bromley Kent. Now a housing estate. Thats where I got the info. There were racks and racks of test pieces outside. Until I saw it I never realised how much stuff is lost through incorrect packing and storage. The chamber of horrors had pictures of entire engines ruined because they weren't packed correctly.

Not that silly. there are some of Warner Brothers Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck cartoons with a definite propaganda content. So to sum up 80+ tons of Tiger is bearing down at high speed, you will sit there aiming carefully allowing lead etc till it 300 feet away. You then fire, at this point the Recoil Reducer means that only your teeth will be rattled and your shoulder dislocated, now pick up 36lb of rifle and 2lb 7 ozs of magazine and run like hell. Yeah OK, no wonder it went obsolete very quick. Mind you it was probably one of the fore runners of the Anti material rifles. Anti tank rifles were first devised in the Great War by the German's using an up charged Mauser 7.92 cartridge as an answer to British Tanks.

Nope the answer is very easy and supplied to me by the MOD's paint expert. Easier to de-contaminate than the matt. The guy could make paint drying intresting, i once asked him what to put on a land rover Chassis, 2 cups of tea and half hour later he was still at it. He used to be in charge of painting London's bridges.

I understand the Opel will be going off display into reserve, now all we need is the location of the warehouse and a crowbar :evil:

I thought of that, have you read the Jasper Mascalin book Magic top Secret, about all the stunts he pulled with the Magic gang in North Africa, including making the Suez Canal disappear?. Joy of these is they are unofficial photos and dated on the back. most of these are 1941.

the wording on the side is Volunteer Medical and it is the US medical corp sign. i belive the vehicle was one used by the US voluntary medical corp that served in north Africa. can anyone supply more history?

Last bit in place. The local air compressor shop supplied 8mm nylon pipe, ideal as its flexible and fits the pressure bleeder. So now if I can win the lottery and get away from work should be able to accomplish everything.