robin craig Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 A few years ago I was sent pictures of some CVRTs in a scrap yard in Hong Kong. Sadly the pictures have evaporated and my contact has moved on so the link is lost. Just thought I would put it out there and let others know. R Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlienFTM Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 A few years ago I was sent pictures of some CVRTs in a scrap yard in Hong Kong. Sadly the pictures have evaporated and my contact has moved on so the link is lost. Just thought I would put it out there and let others know. R They'll be rare pictures indeed. In 1976, after an 18-month tour of Omagh, B Sqn 15/19H were down on the Arms Plot to do Hong Kong Recce Sqn. Sadly the tour got pulled because it was decided that there was no longer a requirement for a Recce Sqn in Hong Kong and 1RTR, our predecessors, were the last regiment to provide a Hong Kong Recce Sqn. We had to make do with six months as UNFICYP Force Reserve Sqn instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robin craig Posted February 24, 2011 Author Share Posted February 24, 2011 Knowing how small Hong Kong is, and knowing the person that took them the pictures, they were 100% genuine. The person concerned came back from living there 3 years ago and the pictures were maybe at the most 2 years before that. I am now on another Google satelite hunt. R Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schliesser92 Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 There wasn't an armoured recce squadron in Hong Kong until 1967, when , due to the Chicoms acting up (Red Guard etc), B Sqn The Life Guards was detached from Singapore to Sek Kong, being co-located with 18RA and HQ 48 Bde. They became part of 48 (Gurkha Infantry) brigade. Then the equipment was Saladin and Ferret. I suppose that the requirement remained. The Chinese had then on the Hong Kong border a pair of ancient BA-64 armoured cars. The PLA was then mainly a Light Infantry force. There was a prepositioned equipment set for a "heavy metal" squadron in Wanchai (?), mainly Centurion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robin craig Posted February 24, 2011 Author Share Posted February 24, 2011 Just so we are clear, for those who dont remember my "who is this guy" thread I have a memory for the most part like a steel trap and know my Brit MVs. They were CVRTs and it was Hong Kong and was within the last 5-7 years. Im not going to be swayed by anyone, I know what I saw and I will find them! R Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schliesser92 Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 They could have course not been British CVR(T)s, as several countries in the area used them, and it was a scrapyard. We pulled out in 1997, and the chances that the industrious Chinese hadn't recycled ex-British vehicles by now is rare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timbo Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 Robin Can you remember if they were turreted or variants...? I'm tempted to agree with Schliesser92, may not have been Brit ones...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robin craig Posted February 24, 2011 Author Share Posted February 24, 2011 Okay, you two nay sayers are making me more determined than ever before. Im going to prove you guys wrong but it may take time. . . . R Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlienFTM Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Okay, you two nay sayers are making me more determined than ever before. Im going to prove you guys wrong but it may take time. . . . R I hope you aren't accusing me of saying there were no CVR(T)s in Hong Kong? All I said was that in 1976 the independent Recce Sqn pulled out. Doesn't mean it didn't go back in later or that there was another source of the CVR(T)s you saw. Maybe for instance the resident Inf Bn Recce Troops had them, and that's what happened to the 1 RTR jobbies when they left, because the powers that be felt it was one less unit to administer by handing recce back to the other local units in Hong Kong. My post was merely a gripe that I missed the chance to do Hong Kong. I have learned from bitter experience that if there is a chance I am wrong, I usually am. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robin craig Posted February 25, 2011 Author Share Posted February 25, 2011 Oh Alien Relax a bit mate. Im just saying that Im more determined now to get to the bottom of this more than ever before! No worries mate R Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schliesser92 Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 I also didn't doubt you, after all, CVR(T)s are distinctive. It's whether they were ex-British in that scrappies, or from another source (Philippines/indonesia perhaps). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlienFTM Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 Oh Alien Relax a bit mate. Im just saying that Im more determined now to get to the bottom of this more than ever before! No worries mate R Just checking. As you say, no worries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpinst Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 I live in Hong Kong and bought some of these vehicles. The armor cannot be exported or sold....its kind of in limbo. http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150194995185034.444434.610465033&type=1&l=7098f8bfa5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robin craig Posted October 23, 2011 Author Share Posted October 23, 2011 (edited) Well, Once again I am proven correct after the passage of time! Thank you so much for validating what I posted, I knew I was not a complete loony tune! Dean-Paul could you please send me your email by private message please? Robin Edited October 23, 2011 by robin craig Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fesm_ndt Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 I live in Hong Kong and bought some of these vehicles. The armor cannot be exported or sold....its kind of in limbo. http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150194995185034.444434.610465033&type=1&l=7098f8bfa5 Nice piccies...... I love Land Rover Lightweights. Looks like I need to get to Hong Kong more often The junkyards here have some weird stuff also http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.114607166773.117640.614321773&type=1&l=0a8f336694 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Farrant Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 No CVR(T)'s visible in the pics, only armour is FV432, Saracen and Ferret, are or where there any, given that armour cannot be exported from HK ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robin craig Posted October 23, 2011 Author Share Posted October 23, 2011 Patience Richard my son! I think I know what happened but am waiting for buddy to contact me off line. R Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Farrant Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 I think I know what happened R don't tell me .........they turned them in to Coke cans Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter4456 Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 I don't know if this helps but the 16th / 5th Lancers history, 'The Scarlet Lancers', has a photo of a Centurion in Hong Kong in 1964 and what looks like a Squadron of CVR (T) Scorpions parading through Kowloon, Hong Kong, in 1973 /4 (the only reg number visible being 02 FD 57 - is it still around?). Can we find out the reg number of the Ferret in the Hong Kong 'collection'? Were 432s really ever based there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toolman Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 Can we find out the reg number of the Ferret in the Hong Kong 'collection'? Were 432s really ever based there? Peter, You took the words right out of my mouth :-) Looks like there are a few ferrets there, Mk 2's and Mk 1/2's Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andym Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 The 432 appears to be a Mk. 1 judging by its early number and lack of rear exhaust pipe. If it was in service there, it was a long time ago! Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpinst Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 There is a Scorpion here somewhere. i think he has another lot. I have rescued as much as i could and I was helped by the fact that most cannot be road registered (yet). I plan to lobby for a Historical Vehicle category in the near future. i think it is possible. In the meantime, we use mechanics plates when we take them on the road. The Rovers are all legal, except for the fire truck, the 110 ambulance and the 101 ambulance. The second link somebody posted is clearly in Malaysia. As far as serial numbers for ferrets, I think I could get three if I knew where to find them. One ferret is on display at the museum of coastal defense here in Hong Kong and I think there are two in the salvage yard. Please provide some insight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robin craig Posted March 4, 2012 Author Share Posted March 4, 2012 Ah Ha! Look what I found on this page. . . . http://www.movcon.org.uk/History/Photographs/PDb/Pic%20Web%20Pages/PP%200887.htm R Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timbo Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Very good Robin...! Trust you are now feeling pleased with yourself... Whers is 02FD46 now i wonder? Not on Chris' list of Sabres... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robin craig Posted March 5, 2012 Author Share Posted March 5, 2012 Tim, Yes indeed I do feel good about it all, the other gent who popped up on this thread had already confirmed ther existence but I do like to prove a pint at times! Where it is now I don't know. I was spending some time online over the weekend and gleaned the fact that Jordan has slowly been acquiring CVRTs and some of them came from the ex Belgian vehicles, someone made more than a tenner on them me thinks;), nice little earner as Arthur would have said! I would love to see a ful list of all CVRT variants made and their ARNs as I have pictures of a whack of them archived from various places. R Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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