N.O.S. Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 Was this the first vehicle-mounted wire cutter I wonder? Looks a bit more stylish than the jeep version! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 Not into pedestrain friendly then! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FWDTEXAS Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 Cannot see the picture, Toni's reply is pasted over it. This happenes quit often that pictures are blocked by replys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
griff66 Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 all ok for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
private mw Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 ok here too ..:laugh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 Hit refresh button, it moves the pictures back down Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hezekiah Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 Cannot see the picture, Toni's reply is pasted over it. This happenes quit often that pictures are blocked by replys I have the same problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
15cwt Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 Where these issued to first wave troops in attacks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.O.S. Posted February 11, 2010 Author Share Posted February 11, 2010 Where these issued to first wave troops in attacks? :rofl::rofl::rofl:Pretty good for a first post - looking forward to the next 1,000....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snapper Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 Where these issued to first wave troops in attacks? No, the use of cars and armoured cars was a bit topsy turvy. This sort of wire cutter also shows up on cigarette cards from the time - they certainly wouldn't have been used in any "first wave" scenario as far as I know - but there would have been periods from 1914 in particular when odd cars were rumbling around getting into mischief. MB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.O.S. Posted February 11, 2010 Author Share Posted February 11, 2010 (edited) :rofl::rofl::rofl:Pretty good for a first post - looking forward to the next 1,000....... I thought that was meant tongue-in-cheek (as in one of these cars going 'over the top' into the wire and mud above the trenches). If not, I do apologise :-) (Looking at it that way it was very funny though) :-D (edit: Well actually not funny at all if you think of the horrors that awaited them as they went over the top. No - my mistake :embarrassed:) This was an advert from one of a large batch of the 'Great War Magazine' which I recently picked up. Some very graphic photographs and sketches of the front line, and some interesting reports of actions as they took place, rather than written many years in retrospect. Edited February 11, 2010 by N.O.S. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snapper Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 No mate - it was dead funny. I just didn't want to scare the poor lad any further.. :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.O.S. Posted February 11, 2010 Author Share Posted February 11, 2010 Snap - that humble pie tasted quite good with loads of custard poured over it........it did taste mainly of custard though :blush: It does beg one question though - why were wire cutters needed? I've always thought of the Great War as a face-off between entrenched armies, with the barbed wire in No Man's Land where only men and tanks could operate. You wouldn't expect a car like this to get anywhere near this terrain. So it must imply the threat of sabotage teams operating well behind enemy lines, laying single strand wire traps for unwary motorised 'brass'. Which surprises me a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bodge Deep Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 Back from an age when even an anti decapitation rail was stylish... there's class for you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snapper Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 Sort of thing we had on our cars on the mean streets of Hackney back in the seventies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 what makes you think it wouldn't be of use now? :cool2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
15cwt Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 (edited) It was tounge in cheek. Three buddies and I did The Somme and Flanders last spring. After seeing that, it's the old expression, if you don't laugh you will cry. Staggers the imagination that it lasted four years! My great uncle was railway troops, one freinds grand father was engineers and the other two brothers uncle was infantry and died of wounds from the Second Battle of Cambri, us Canadians called it Crossing the Canal-du- Nord. We reckoned all our relatives must have been there in that area at the same time. Edited February 11, 2010 by 15cwt spelling correction Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snapper Posted February 12, 2010 Share Posted February 12, 2010 That would be true. Big effort by Lord Strathcona's Horse, among others, from the Canadians at Cambrai. Glad you enjoyed the trip. It has to be done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rlangham Posted February 12, 2010 Share Posted February 12, 2010 Not strictly on thread, but I was recently reading one account of a Tank commander at the Battle of Cambrai, witnessing a bizarre look of horror on the faces of wounded Germans in front of the Tank - not looking at the Tank in fear that it would crush them, but behind it - when the commander looked behind, instead of simply crushing barbed wire and leaving it behind, it had gathered up behind it and was being towed by it, like a huge cocoon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War truck Posted February 14, 2010 Share Posted February 14, 2010 That must have been terrifying. Crushed or being ripped to shreds. hang on i think i will run away instead. The start of the war was very fluid around Antwerp and the idea of riding cars into battle was quite possible and rather "romantic" in some people. That idea didnt last long though. Tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Runflat Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 To continue this thread, here's a cutting from The Motor, 22nd September, 1914. The imagination can be a dangerous thing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Runflat Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 Who can positively identify this car? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charawacky Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 Hi Looks like a locomobile? Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike_H Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 (edited) A couple of photos attached showing the Austro-Hungarian army's version, these cars were with a medical unit on the eastern front - somewhere in Galicia. The vehicle in the lower pic is a Graf und Stift Edited October 19, 2010 by Mike_H addl info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Runflat Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 Some neat photos there Mike. Here's a German postcard showing another. (The car in the foreground is an Opel.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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