that news took a long time to reach you! It was 3years ago! We were collecting for the Poppy Appeal, and the Militant had flat batteries at the ed of the day. So we had to squeeze a Ferret alongside, whilst filling the local freezer shop with fumes, and use the 'inter vehicle jump lead'. That was when the batteries were too big for the militant, they were ok when fully charged, but if they were flattened, the militant took a long time to charge them back up, so I put a pair of smaller ones one, and the problem went away.