militant-nick

Will do, cheers

Hope to see those Scammells in the metal one day. Often see the Trojan 8870s built & operated by ALE up my way, very impressive.

http://www.ale-heavylift.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/14_24.10.14-Trojan-Trucks-Press-Release.pdf

http://www.ale-heavylift.com/news/ale-unveil-first-trojan-truck/

Nice to see it running again, good luck.

So was I - unfortunately the cab is still in bits. Hoping to get her to W&P though.

shame, nice to have seen Mili's together though my attendance hangs on solving a fresh air leak, as ever.

Hoping to get the Militant to this one next month 👍🏻

In my opinion Classic Military Vehicle (CMV) Magazine has taken a worrying turn for the worse ! Last month my M3 Scout Car was featured. The freelance journalist came (nice guy) and took the photos and some notes and passed them to the editor who produced the article. The Freelancer and I discussed heading the feature ‘Somewhere in Somerset’ but without telling me anything the Editor published it as ‘Scouting for Boys’ !!! The inference that I bought the vehicle to go ‘Scouting for Boys’ was not lost on a number of people who more than mentioned it to me, this included my wife who happens to be the Headteacher of a couple of Primary Schools who was shocked to say the least.

 

In addition to this the article contains both typo’s and incorrect information that frankly just smacks of lazy journalism. I emailed my concerns to the freelancer, he was also shocked and passed it to the Editor who was on holiday so it was passed onto the MD of Key Publications who emailed back saying he would come back to me. That was a month ago and nothing since just silence, other than I’m aware that the Editor has had a go at the Freelancer stating he didn’t see the issue, its normal to go for a headline, why did he complain (not realising it was my complaint), he was out of order and stating it was normal to take a title from a book written in 1906 (I had to Google it) and use such a phrase in modern times.

 

So no apology, no feedback, nothing just a contemptuous silence from both the Editor and Key Publishing. So please take this as a word of caution if you want to have your vehicle in this magazine don’t make the same mistake I did, get a signed agreement to say that you want to see the article first and have full editorial rights and a veto, if you don’t then anything could happen and it seems the new Editor won’t even respond to concerns or have the courtesy to reply. What makes it worse is he put the Freelance Journalist’s name on the article so he ‘takes the blame’. I even had to buy my own copy, needless to say it’s the last one I will ever buy.

shocking and totally bizarre, I stopped buying this publication a while back. The mind boggles at other titles they'd pick for the vehicles we own!

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We were instructed to remove the Dixon-bate Bradley auto jaws from our works vans after a major uk civils company had one 'spring' open on the motorway and send trailer & mini digger on their solo way. Indespension usually stock a good range of components, we use both sizes of their ball & pin hitch now when fitting to 3500kgs & 7500+kgs tow vehicles.

Thanks John, will do.

I couldn't see how to delete the attached smaller images if anyone is able to do so where the larger images have been posted?

My sister in law visited here last week, I've used MOLDIV app on my iPhone to give the images some clarity as the originals were quite dark-also taken on an iPhone.

I've tried to group the images together by relevance as they were sent to me in a jumble, no copyright on these.

Lovely motor that Zetros

An additional thought, it would perhaps be useful to hear how other vehicle focused clubs and organisations approach the issue of public liability so that a comparison can be made regarding value for money and extent and degree of cover.

 

One body that comes to mind are the vintage traction engine fraternity, is it the the NTC that most belong to? they have not dissimilar issues to MV's with big heavy kit and in their particular case added to slips trips and falls the added danger of burns and potential explosions, how do they cover their members and at what cost I wonder ?

 

Pete

http://www.ntet.co.uk/insuranceservices/

MVT's proposed personal public liability insurance explained. Your questions answered by Tim Hawkes:-

 

http://www.mvt.org.uk/insurance

 

Hopefully this will give us all answers. I can't comment on the videos yet, as I have only just registered and I'm now waiting to be approved.

Took me a while to navigate to it!

Gearbox back, hopefully back in over the next few weeks.

Cracking progress, we swear by Tigerseal in our workshop for body repairs etc

M939 & telehandler dockside at the USS Iowa museum in Los Angeles- well worth a visit.

SX F2 88 Bedford spotted by a friend on Sunday in Ipswich

Not posted for some time as progress slowed over Christmas & New Year - gearbox is almost rebuilt - awaiting a coat of NATO green before sending back to workshop. Hopefully have it back together mid April with no dramas.