Maverick

Sounds like Horndean is the winner so far, they are abvously doing something right to keep public and MV owners happy for all these years. So it seams its not just the cost of entry to the show its what's there and how MV owners are recieved. May be its because Horndean has been going longer that people support it even in the mud. anymore coments on either show?

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Excellent, thats the one.

Many thanks

Has anyone got the contact details for a company in france who call themselves something like doge, gmc ,jeep parts ???

There must be more members that visited the two shows other than CT, come on guys lets hear what you have got to say.

CT When you said that TT won on the vehicle front did you mean because of the number of vehicles there or the fact that they had more exotic toys at the show?

Hi guys,

After bumping into CT and Pat at Trucks and Troops we started to talk about Horndean and Trucks and troops and which show is better.

So here is my two questions

If i were a member of the public which show is better for me to visit, value for money, what to see and do etc

If I was a Vehicle Owner which show would be best for me to take my pride and joy to?

Please no politics, just your honest answers.

Thanks

Sorry to reply late, yes thats the one i saw on the A12, poor thing

Hi Guys,

Passed a very tired looking Sherman hull on a low loader yesterday (Wednsday), it was heading north up the A12 approx 12 miles short of Ipswich. Anyone know about it?

Hi CW, do you know about the navy boat being lived in at shoreham harbour just down the road from the higgins boat?

No vandalism or anything like that, looks good, I'm still working out how to get it on my works lorry and home without anybody seeing me

Hi Guys

Just confirming the landing craft is still on the roundabout, went past it today

regards

Hi Guys,

I'm NO expert on photography or Ferrets but is it me or is there something funny about the front cover photo of the ferret? Theres just something about it, looks like the background has been added in or something, if you look at the 30cal , bren, wing mirror and front chain they all look a bit funny around the edges, a bit like they have been stuck on. The actual ferret dosent seam to sit or look right either. Ive looked at all the other photos in the mag and they look fine? Maybe Snapper can help out with this one?

Thanks guys, I will pass on the web links and information. Sorry i dont know anything about the person they are tracing, I will find out and let you know what they find.

Many thanks

Stuart

Morning Gents,

A friend of mine is trying to trace members of his family who served during WW1, he has the names and service numbers of them so is there a website or someone he can contact to gain the information he is looking for?

Can anyone help?

Right off to Remembrance Parade now

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Yes the neighbours did get a shock when it first turned up, but they are used to it now, a lot of the older villagers love it.

As far as I know a gun on a tank is called the main Gun and a Howitzer is from the Artillery family and is pulled behind another vehicle so what is it you friends is looking for? This is my M1 A1 155mm howitzer Dated 1943.

If you mean M715s Rolling Thunder have 3 in their group (http://www.rolling-thunder.org.uk)

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Below is some pictures, the first shows the type of gun as my friend has, this has no donkey engine and the travel lock for the barrel is verticle. From this picture I hope someone can confirm what type of sight set up we should have on it. Its a 1944 Canadian built bofors

The other pictures show the two other items we need, one is the shell rack and the other is a handle assembly.

Hope someone can help, like I say even if its a loan so we can get copies made?

Many thanks

The sights and a handle (will post a picture tomorrow of the handle) these are the main two things but also really any tools, canvas items etc etc. Basically anything that would add to a display.

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Hi,

Any help would be appreicated

Many thanks

Hi Guys,

A friend of mine has a Canadian built 40mm bofors and we are looking to restore it over the winter, its 95% complete but we are looking for a few parts to finish it. So my question is do any members know of anybody in the UK who has a bofors or parts that may be able to help with ether selling the parts on loaning them to us so we can have copies made?

Many thanks

Here is another relic, this time lying around in the Sussex countryside (sorry if you have seen it before)

http://www.findonvillage.com/0566_the_last_tank.htm

after reading the first page then click on More on the tank on our downland at the bottom of the page

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Can anyone post a full report on this years show and compare it to previous Oddysey's? As i didn't go this year

Thanks

Hi Mike try

01986893327

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Just want to say Thank you to Markheliops, Mark and TooTallMike for your help with lifting on and off my 5 1/2 ton of scrap from the back of the lorry. Also good to catch up with Lord Burley and Catweazel, He actually looked like he was behaving for a change.

Another good weekend

Regards

Hi there,

Give Trevor a ring on this number, its the show hot line but ask to speak to trevor heron only, He runs the military section and owns a green toy as well, theres never been a problem before with military so i dont know who you spoke to and I'm sure trev wont be impressed by it either.

Phone No is 02082951510

Regards

Since going to the show from the start I have noticed less and less groups and vehicle owners going, all seam to have something to moan about, organiser seam less interested in helping groups out with anything they might need, want to charge us for pyro and blanks to put on a battle in the arena for their paying public to watch. Obviously us all taking days of work some unpaid, fuel bill for vehicles food, cost of kit etc wasn't enough for them. Don't get me wrong we don't ever expect to be payed for a event but not add roughly another £100 to the cost of the weekend per member for their benefit. On top of the that the weapons we hired were useless and they were told this and they decided to blame us for not knowing how to use them but when I pointed out we used another firearms supplier for other shows and his weapons worked perfect they went silent very quick. That's just some of the problems. I go to alot of shows and I've never heard so many re-enactors or vehicle owners moan about one show so much.