LarryH57

If it was up to me I'd not put the German Living History guys just behind the bank that surrounds the arena, as its no good for photos with too much human clutter in the back ground. This area they should use for Trade Stands so that when the 'Warmington-on-Sea under 5's school band' or similar have their turn in the area, I can go and look round the stalls for some extra kit and be back in a moment when something interesting is occurring! Incidentally I'd also like the German Living History pitch (wherever they end up) to be a bit more accessible to the public! Plus don't look so miserable!

If only we could arrange a UK version of Overloon / Miltracks!

Oh I know the Soviets got thousands of Dodges but the body on the one in the photo must have been custom made, as its not like any US versions I have seen. Could in fact be a German body on a captured Dodge, as the cab looks quite 'erzatz' and if re-captured by the Soviet Army they may have thought it much more comforatable compared to the standard Dodge Weapons Carrier?

I came across this on the web; scroll down about half way to a photo taken the centre of a town in Dresden 1945 and note the dodge on the left looking more like a post war verson. There are quite a few vehicles to identify and the Zis-3 guns look as if two are being towed together! Quite an interesting photo; if a modeller set it out as it is I'd imagin that someone would say it's posed! http://wio.ru/galgrnd/zis3-2ru.htm

I had an Austin Montego once; it started to rust immediately I got it home and the doors started to show serious corrosion after 4 years whereas my previous Morris Ital didn't when it was 10 years old!

Thunder Box was a term used by the British Army & RAF in WW2 so perhaps the Aussies took the idea or name home afterwards

Well Richard if you are right and its just US Olive drab with dark camo that's even more way out. But I'm still not convinced seeing as it has a grey black or dark brown roof which looks to me as if it was to be standard mikey mouse till someone thought otherwise. And were Jeeps in NW Europe painted with dark stripes like this vehicle? I have seen them with such in Italy but not inNW Europe.

I hope they get rid of the fun fair too!

Out of interest are there new owners of WPR; so not the guy who bought it off Rex anymore?

The booking in page for WPR looks a bit more promising in that it says the site is open from Wednesday, rather than don't come if you cannot be there all the time. Lets hope this is the case https://tickets.warandpeacerevival.com/ticket/5

Thanks to mcspool, the thread on Polish GMCs in American Vehicles section of HMVF has just provided an interesting photo of a GMC in RN service. In reading the website for this it says the vehicle was photographed circa May 1944 in which case the camo scheme is a bit out of date for a vehicle to be used in NW Europe; can anyone suggest the camo colours? Perhaps Les will have an idea. From what I see it looks like the RN have adopted a dark roof (either grey black or dark brown ) and instead of doing micky mouse camo top and bottom, they have gone for stripes. As for the cab it doesn't conform to standard micky mouse, which might suggest the body was built elsewhere in a basic SCC.2 brown and had the dark roof provided and then this has been mated to a GMC cab that got painted in a SCC.2 brown; the stripes were then added by a rating to the cab and the body without reference to anything RN Orders. I thought it useful to show the front and rear views; http://cloudobservers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/0724_0011low.jpg http://cloudobservers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/0724_0032low.jpg http://cloudobservers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/RN-Met-Van6low.jpg More info on this site; http://cloudobservers.co.uk/memories/ashore/rn-mmu/

Excellent find off the web, especially as I'm interested in RN vehicles. Inview of this I have created a separate thread so as not to take over this one!

The arena at Beltring, is perhaps a touch smaller than Folkestone but has the added advantage of a viewing bank for the public, and isn't part of a one way system! It was a bit overgrowd in August 2016 as in this photo but should soon be churned up to look like it always did!

It’s true that everyone liked the more civilised restaurants and cafes at Folkestone but all I can suggest is that there is a business opportunity for someone to invest in Beltring and provide the same. A few Nissen hut type 'NAAFI' establishments in Beltring site placed where they used to have the fun fair would do very nicely. As for Folkestone racecourse the site itself was IMHO not well suited to an MV show as it was too far to walk to the far end for the public to see. Also in the old days of Beltring I liked to see the tracked vehicles doing a run around the boundary in the evening! I suppose we will still have to pay £35 per vehicle Lastly does anyone know if a certain group from North London will be invited?

One thing; Surely they can drop the Revival part of the name to save us asll a bit of time saying WPR

Plus even for the Atlantic Conveyor 600 Land Rovers is quite a load. I wonder if there are any statistics from the world of shipping to say the maximum number of Land Rovers carried on one ship is...???

The photo you posted is sick http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/attachment.php?attachmentid=122788&d=1485426907 to a Lwt Land Rover owner like me! I'm upset every time I look

Was Duxford MV Show proposed for around the same date in June that it used to be?

Welcome to the forum; any chance of posting a photo of your Standard Tilly on here?

I'm not actually sure the PIAT and Panzerschrek fired live rounds, as the explosions appeared after there was a cut in the film, so you never saw the projectile actually enter the target.

Ian, I'm glad you are getting better; sometimes the cure for a bad back is to be distracted by something interesting to you and ignore the other matter.

Are there any show stopping vehicles that get in to the all new W&PR for nothing, for their 'wow' factor and are collected prior to the show and brought back to the MV owners home after the event? Was that ever an option with Rex?

Back in 2005 the Howe Bros thought that there might be a military use for such a fast tracked vehicle, but times have moved on. Hitler might have loved to have a Panzer go that fast for his Blitzkrieg in 1939 but no matter how fast Ripsaw is, it's still vulnerable to an aircraft, a drone or a missle so its never going to be used even as a remote 'downed pilot' rescue or re-supply vehicle as suggested back then, as helicopters can do that and be off and away faster than anything on the ground. If there was any serious use then I'm sure the US Military would have found one in the 12 years since.

I watched Combat Dealers on Tuesday 10th Jan 2017, and there was a bit on the PIAT and in some archive film it showed two British soldiers on a range firing at an early 'Ausf C or D' type short barrelled Stug. I wonder if that was the one that has now been restored and on show in Yorks and Kent last summer?

Alan, your wife must be some how related to mine as she has exactly the same view of my collection of kit, also describing my Lwt as an unpaying guest, and like yours she says never again to the thought of sleeping in my 9x9! As for my category it is usually 7 but I did manage to be 2 last summer at the now defunct Military World Show, Beltring. Sadly I broke a shock absorber going over a rock hard rut in the arena but it was worth it. As for W&P there isn't much opporunity to be Category 2 during the show, unless you have a unique vehicle or are part of the battle re-enactment.