ashley

If that was when the PLUTO show at Lepe was on, I saw it. It got stuck on the groin when coming up the beach too :cool2:

OOOOHHH sounds very painfull :shake:, sure it wasn`t one of the groyne`s normally found on beaches.

Ashley

Hi Gary,

try and make contact with a jeep / MV owner locally who will recomend a vintage vehicle friendly garage near to you. I still have the manual operated wipers ehich usually raises concernes at most MOT stations.

There are many anomalies to the test i.e i never let them test the hand brake on a roling road :nono: it is not designed for it, the place i use has a floor mounted gadget they place in the jeep (cant remember what it is called) to test the efficiency of the braking system you drive a short distance and gently apply the brakes to get the required reading.

Ashley

returning from the plains we saw got glimpses of the convoy stretching out in both directions and also saw 2 of the rarest signs together as mentioned in the "observers" spotters book of british roadsigns!

The second sign must re-late to someone we all know :cool2: :-D :rofl:

Ashley

How about boyish good looks and humour for a start?:cool2:

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:dear oh dear Jack :-D but you havn`t one of these

Ashley

As i remember..........carrot cake......coconut cake?.........fruit cake......chicken pie :cool2: baked by himself

Ashley

People of the plains.

 

 

 

And can we nail a date for next year so that we, at Beckett Towers can be there :-D

MMMMMMM long queue eh lads and lasses, Jack what can you bring to the Plains 2009 meeting to inspire us to let back into the fold :cool2::cool2: ??????

on behalf of all of those who were present :-D

Nice one Tony :-D

lucky you never caught christina with the wind in her hair my life would have been impossible

Ashley

Living in Tidworth at the time electricity ceased at 10 PM but i am sure it started late in 1973 as i can remember christmas with no power after 10 PM the complete garrison was blacked out litrally.

Ashley

Tony may i please also have a copy.

Thanks again to all involved.

Ashley

he didn't run out of fuel did he?

I expect he is trying to fill out his fuel log..after writing out IOU` s for fuel. :cool2::-D:-D

Ashley

Welsh Worriers demand a dope test!:cool2::rofl::rofl::rofl:

Why do you think you have a chance of winning it :-D :rofl:

Ashley

From the champs team

nah when we saw him he had a black jacket on with what looked like a chicken on the back of it

 

May be but was it smiling :-D

Ashley

I belive in France the MOT (or equivilent) is bi-annual.

Ashley

Hi all,

i really dont know what to say first, but what a fantastic time, many thanks to the SPTA team for all of thier hard work and we all know that working with so many agencies on the plains can be pretty fustrating at the best of times.

To Dave (Gordon Ramsey) Ives fantastic effort in the cookery dept. really appreciated.

Good to meet old friends and new, thanks to my fellow team mates for putting at least one Dorset member in the wining skittle team (eat your heart out Beckett :-D ) to Phil and Chris for thier generous rides in thier champs through out the weekend for myself and the family (+dog) also to Kevin and family for the daughters stolly ride.

Did n`t fare to well in the quiz :-( but at least we laughed had fun through out the week end.

Once again Rambo excelled in the cake dept and now expanding out into the chicken pie market :cool2:

To all who attended thanks for making it a great weekend from me and the family.

P.s. has any one got any tinted lenses for H.K. Daves googles :rofl:

PPS Chris nice clean vehicle in the photo....is it yours?

Ashley

I will let Jack tell you about that himself. He certainly had a good time, although was a little bemused that when we went through every town the people waved and cheered at us, and just waved empty jerrycans at Jack. Its a Wiltshire thing i suppose. .

 

Tim (too)

I have actualy seen evidence of this.......i am sure photos / film evidence will follow soon

(got ta keep the suspense going...........)

Ashley

sorry guys did not make it this time :-( see you at the next one.

Ashley

Fort Henry, Studland Bay. Right hand side of the emplacement in front of the door leading down to the ammunition storage area I think...

Yep,

thats it managed a few hours up there the other sunday with camera when time permits will post a few pictures.

Ashley

When was the high point for accuracy and depth of information ? Most 1970s books seem pretty thin on hard facts now. I suspect that it's part of growing old. When we start with a new interest, we buy everything and believe it all and then at some point we realise that we know more than many of the authors. They have deadlines and budgets and we can spend years focussed on just one machine.

The trouble with some authours is that they are just collectors of information and not nessacerily having knowledge on the subject matter. This was definately true of military books of the late sixties and early seventies, untill specialist knowlwdge was begining to be spread and become readily available

Ashley

david ives x1 109 landrover

Chris godward x 1 Champ

Sean Ryan x1 101GS and reload trailer

Neil x3 OT-90

Paul Connor x2 109 ffr landrover

R Cubed x 4 CCKW352 and car.

Ashley +jeep

+2 with car and caravan

Ashley

Here`s a section of camoflauged bunker, thiough camoed on the inside !more to follow in another posting, bet Jack knows where it is

Ashley

Hi ,

should be there hopefully. If you guys have any jeep bits feel free to PM me.

Ashley

Hi R Cubed,

there is a thread with pictures of the campsite, there should be enough room for all.

Ashley

This one looks like Tom Osborne`s from Romsey way

Ashley

Lost in the crash

The chap with the `tash has afairly distinct arm badge which should narrow it down, i would of thought pre 1900 and can any firearms guys i.d. the rifle??

Ashley

Please delete ....double post

Ashley