LarryH57

17 Sqn was in the Far East & Japan in 1945-46, so I wonder if your BSA was used by the unit at this time. Incidentally your when I first saw your photo I thought it was some kind of tattoo on some guys beer gut!

The springs on a Series 3 Land Rover are handed; the idea being to compensate for the weight of the driver. So have you put each set on the wrong side?

Actually most people in my street think that my MV runs on special fuel rather than unleaded, which helps people leave it alone. Perhaps you could stop your Jerrycan being nicked, when its on your vehicle, by marking it up with a tag to say 'Combat Gas' or 'low octane MV use only' which would make some opportunist theft think twice.

I have just been reading in 'Windscreen' about a military vehicle auction that occured last August at the Grampian MV tattoo. While I am pleased that the vehicles have gone to new homes I am shocked that someone could own so many vehicles and yet leave them out in the open for so long! One vehicle listed as an 'aero screen Morris PU' in the magazine is a Morris CS8 4x2 Air Compressor and as it has the 51st Highland Div sign showing on the front mudguard, it may well be the same CS8 I read of some years ago in an early copy of Classic Miliatry Vehicle that had been used by a Scottish builder up to the 1980s and that it had been with the Royal Engineers of the 51st Highland Div at El Alamain and that the then current owner had been in contact with one of the veterans who drove it at the time. Let's hope the current owner restores it to its former glory as if I am correct, it really is a HISTORIC military vehicle.

Sorry to say I preferred the green colour to the original HMVF! Blue & grey makes me ill! I need my fix of green on a daily basis!