Eugene

Thanks for the welcome, Rick W!

A pity i never made it to the museum, but we do still have the auction catalogue somewhere and we ended up with one of the trucks in the auction (the FWD) although it was not part of the collection.

 

for anybody who wants one, I found that the catalogues are still available.

I didn't realise that was your truck. We have met, at the War and Peace Show -I was there with Adrian (not sure if it was this year or last)

Hello mate,

 

My late Uncle - Gunner Jellicoe - also landed at Pantelleria and went on to Anzio. Your post is the first mention I've heard anyone else make of the first of those places...

 

Been trying to find the time to write a story about him and his Morris Quad for this website.

 

JC

 

it doesn't often turn up in the history books either, even though I believe it was the first taking of enemy territory by the allies.

I hope you get around to writing your late uncle's story. My father was a driver/ op., learning to drive on a Morris Quad -but taking his test in a totally unfamiliar Bedford MW- and then using Indian-pattern CMP no.13 cabbed Quads for towing 25 pounders and limbers with the 10th Indian Division.

All the best!

Hi everybody!

An introduction, I'll keep it short and sweet -just like myself!

Despite my relatively young age (I'm still the right side of forty) I'm getting to be one of the old timers down here.

I've collected militaria virtually since birth -we always had gasmasks and helmets around. My father was in the Home Guard and then the Royal Artillery, serving in India -the last days of the Raj. His brother -my uncle- was a "D-Day dodger" with the DCLI, fighting in North Africa and landing at Pantelleria and then Anzio, Italy. Following injury he was flown back to Blighty by Dakota.

Anyway, back to me. I was fortunate in that one of the early pioneers of private military vehicle ownership -Charlie Mann- had his museum down here. Most of you will have heard of him from his providing vehicles for the film industry -most notably "A Bridge Too Far". I have several pictures of myself (not for publication!), aged seven, with some of the vehicles when they returned from Holland. Film buffs can now work out how old I am!

Later, purely by chance, I was visiting Falmouth where there was a display of MVs. Until this time I didn't realise that "ordinary" people owned such things. One was an old friend of my father. At that time he had a Dodge Weapons Carrier and a Daimler Dingo, in which I was to take part in several parades. This in turn lead to me acquiring my own vehicles, the rest, as they say, is history.

So there it is, thanks for reading!

welcome to the forum, Joris wil be along soon to answer your questions, in the meantime maybe you could tell us a bit about yourself

 

 

Thanks folks for the feedback as it is important.

 

first of all, thank you and all those involved for the creation of a "Youtube for MVs" -well done!

Unfortunately, though, there is a "however"- I'm suffering a couple of glitches and wonder if others have also had these problems.

The first is that whether I use the password sent to me, or one of my own choosing, I can use it for a while but then can't log in. I have to have a new one sent to me and then I can log in again. It's not that I'm getting it wrong or the "case" that it's in. I have no problem with this, or other forums.

The other niggle is that I can sometimes add a comment to a video- and sometimes I can't. I've tried a couple of times with some videos to no avail whereas others go on straight away. The comment box disappears when I submit it, but that's all.

Aside from this I find the site very user friendly- I've added a few short videos myself with no problems. I look forward to adding some more when I have something to film and to watching the work of others.

Sorry my first post has been a bit of a moan -please keep up the good work!