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Tank badges on sleeves, Royal Armoured Corps cap badge...

Nice surprise to get a copy of the auction catalogue with the latest Vehicules Militaires. :thumbsup: A lot of hard (and expensive to finish - read Axis) projects on offer!

Essentially, the numbers were allocated to purchase contracts. The vehicles were then sent in all directions.

I've just been reading 'Wild Roads - The story of transcontinental motoring'. One of the stories concerned an attempt in 1955 to drive from England to the far east (not counting the English Channel and the Bosphorus!); the route taking in the Stilwell Road: Peering into the darkness, the travellers could see that the country was becoming flatter around them. After sixty-seven miles, covered in twelve hours, they reached the Kachin village of Shingbwiyang, where they stopped for the night in the inspection bungalow used by officials. The expedition were delighted with their progress so far. The last moonson had been light, and there had been no landslides. Their axes and shovels had barely been used. Here they learned that two or three trucks came up every year from Myitkyina, which was promising. All around now were the wrecks of trucks, tanks, bulldozers and other expensive equipment abandoned during the war... Sorry folks, Burma again! Is it too much to expect that things will still be there?

Welcome aboard. Do have a look at out 'dukw tour' string: http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?12336

...and many of Tony Oliver's vehicles have appeared in TV and films over the years: http://www.historyonwheels.co.uk/index.php?&MMN_position=1:1

For info, we touched on the armoured Bedfords here: http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?10936

A spares vehicle going begging: http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C376271

Post 197 onwards: http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?7797-Morris-Commercial-gallery/page20

The British Library have a copy.

I assume nothing came of this: http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?13629

I don't know about survivors in the UK but there are a few overseas, albeit few and far between. Have you seen this thread? http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?31394

Sorry, a bit short notice. Tonight at 8:00 on BBC2 - The Planners: A woman defends her husband's right to build a large shed to house his beloved trucks...

The film mentioned - this one http://www.britishpathe.com/video/horseless-rha-display/query/horseless - has light dragons in them. Carden Loyds (not Lloyds) were very different.

There are some. Blink and you'll miss them though: http://www.britishpathe.com/video/invasion-scenes-27 (at 2:49) http://www.britishpathe.com/video/holland-invasion-scenes (at 5:46) http://www.britishpathe.com/video/invasion-scenes-europe-57 (at 2:04)

There's a bit of a mention on here in Dave's intro: http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?17291

Another T ambulance, this time at the National World War 1 Museum, Liberty Memorial, Kansas City http://www.theworldwar.org/s/110/new/index.aspx?sid=110&gid=1&pgid=1054 Anyone have a better picture of this one?

A bit academic, but I think in the first photo you were at Redhill just before the drag up the hill, clearly getting some speed up! Glad you liked seeing them.

Welcome onboard, Mike. You'll find some old friends here: http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?18929

DB88, nice link. I see the main file also has this link to the recreation of 32020: http://www.ford-t.fr/articles.php?lng=fr&pg=1224

Nice pics - I hope the water stayed out of the camera. Feel free to add those showing BARVs to the BARV gallery: http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?12115

This picture appeared in Motor Transport on April 3, 1943. The caption then was: BEIRUT FIRE SERVICE - This fire engine belongs to the Beirut Fire Brigade, the personnel of which is mostly British, augmented by several Basutos. These men all come from the same village in Basutoland. We also have a string on the Army Fire Service here (mainly about Bedford QLs and the north west europe campaign): http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?26171

The best (2 volume) book I know on early Italian vehicles is GLI Autoveicoli tattici e logostici del r. esercito Italiano fino al 1943 by Nicola Pignato and Filippo Cappellano. It's a bit difficult to find and, aside from being in Italian, probably won't take your knowledge of the FIAT 18 BLR much further forward. Happy hunting.

These are the threads: http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?31739 http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?31891

I see the second picture has the same fleet number, so is presumably the same vahicle, as that pictured at post #9.