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  1. Ashcollection
    oh dear, you will find that happens as soon as your turn your back!
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    Just managed to rescue these pictures from a dead laptop. 12DM85 Doesn't look as shiny (well matt) in this picture as it does in the pictures at leconfield. We had a steering "Issue" getting her down the ramp round a 90deg bend for loading. all good fun!
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    haha I'm loosing the plot!! we have already spoken on this. Ive been away and out of the " old truck loop for a bit" yes i'd love a sketch of the frame. cheers Richard
  4. Ashcollection
    lovely machine, nice to see plant being restored.
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    Hi thats probably where some of the re-furb Mk7's went about 10 years ago, I think most to the rest where gifted around poorer country's in the middle east who couldn't afford MK8-B's or similar.
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    Oh dear same here! 90ft long nissen hut with 20ft side extensions + dutch barns, ex pig sheds, roofed containers etc etc haha this could become a thread of "My shed's bigger is than your shed" lets not go there ! mine are all full of "useful things too" i mentioned in another thread once that we need some sort of therapy. But even if we don't get round to restoring these little gems, because we get old and die first, they have been saved for the future, and hopefully someone else will take them on.
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    Hi I was referring to the twin boom conversations, as i had kind of half of one.
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    Be careful though or you will end up with sheds full of scrapyard rescues like I have haha
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    please correct me if i'm wrong. I think the M5 one with the twin boom gear was one of about 5 SWB cargo's converted in the late 60's, I had the remains on one from behind the Hungry horse on the A47 near Dearham, was it a Vass conversion? top and bottom picture, just mentally add, a twin boom wrecker in the gap between the cab and the rear deck and it matches the one on the M5.
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    Thought you might appreciate these in this thread, don't worry it was stripped of useful parts first and left as lawn ornament for 15 years. its been moved and pushed back into another hedge to get re-claimed by brambles for birds to nest in.
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    That Martian on the M5 is probably the last one of those conversions left, hope it gets saved and kept as it is one day.
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    Hi yes i'd very much like to have his contact, and any history info. cheers Richard
  13. Ashcollection
    also as well as the gauge and the light being different, the tire pattern the cable reels, and you can just see where the green has flaked off, gray underneath on the bumper and fuel tank.
  14. Ashcollection
    Do the clues point to this Diamond T being ex Swiss
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    serial plate for the Ward
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    Thank you very much that's very interesting information, I will have a look soon and get you the serial numbers. Richard
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    Actually we have a rough Kenworth 570 in our collection as well. Don't know how valid the markings on it are, but i believe it is on the front cover of a very old copy of windscreen.
  18. Ashcollection
    Hi on My Ward LaFrance why does it have L Pz 51, referring to the AMX-13?
  19. Ashcollection
    Another "wanted vehicle" for my collection an IDF halftrack repair vehicle with the atlas crane in the back corner. i'd love one of those.
  20. Ashcollection
    Hi Clive i will have to have a look at the weekend, heres a few pictures you may have seen before, if not enjoy.
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    yes good idea they can be a bit touchy about that! and I guess the final consensuses is that there are only 2 halftracks still fitted up as REME repair vehicles, the rest have been stripped and rebuilt with a 50 cal on top and white star on the side!
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    Hi Clive " the Oracle" my foaming pig is 10BK34 chassis number 21034. its funny to hear what some people do with vehicles! My pig will be restored with all it's foaming kit.
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    Yes correct ours is the old gate guard. We have Headcorn's Salamander as well. On the question of modified vehicles, that have probably been stripped back to original form, anybody know of any SWD Saracens or foaming pigs? we have a complete foaming pig and a Saracen missing it's turret, apart from Bovington any others left?
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    so just the REME collection one and mine left then?
  25. Ashcollection
    Hi yes i was asking the same question on another forum. this is my one, its gutted out unfortunately, apart from the one in the REME collection and my one are there any others left?
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