madrat Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 (edited) With the kind permission of Chris Dunham and Jim McDougall I have collected a number of images of the Leyland Martian Artillery Tractor (FV1103) whilst in service with 42nd Regiment RA with 68 (Quebec) 94 (New Zealand) and 49 (Inkerman) battery's. You can visit Chris's and Jim's websites at the following links: http://www.42regt.com/ http://community.webshots.com/user/jimmcdougall On with the pictures, taken in the late 50's and 60's at locations including Pembroke Dock and Lippstadt. Enjoy! Edited February 28, 2012 by madrat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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marvinthemartian Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 They are smashing pics, good to see so many all in one place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madrat Posted February 28, 2012 Author Share Posted February 28, 2012 They are smashing pics, good to see so many all in one place. Cheers, went through about 3000 images to find these ones! Is your truck in there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyFowler Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 Well done Duncan ! Excellent photos ! Are you gonna organise a Martian landing of all surviving Martians at War and Peace soon before all the petrol runs out ! :red::-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madrat Posted February 28, 2012 Author Share Posted February 28, 2012 Well done Duncan ! Excellent photos ! Are you gonna organise a Martian landing of all surviving Martians at War and Peace soon before all the petrol runs out ! :red::-D I think doing that would definitely cause the petrol to run out! :cool2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marvinthemartian Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 No, mine not in there, one very close, 44BM72. Mine was in service with 103 Rgt RA TA at St Helens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Daymond Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 very nice! Don't suppose you came across any Militant gun tractor pictures? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madrat Posted February 29, 2012 Author Share Posted February 29, 2012 very nice! Don't suppose you came across any Militant gun tractor pictures? There were a couple however I was only saving the Leyland ones, if you have a few hours to spare go through the pictures in the "webshots" link at the top of this page, there were also images of Bedfords in Libya. Cheers, Duncan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joris Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Fantastic pictures!!! :tup:: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zero-Five-Two Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Nice pictures, "in service" shots are always interesting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madrat Posted February 29, 2012 Author Share Posted February 29, 2012 Thanks guys, always good to get some feedback! I can do another of these galleries if someone would tell me what these Bedfords are please? :help: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyFowler Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Bedford RL in my humble opinion Dunc ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Daymond Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 I had a trawl through the pictures, aargh my eyes after staring at all those small images They are good though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RecyMech Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 Ah, yes....the good ole RL Bedford.....another legend. Shades of 'Ice Cold In Alex' in that second picture eh :cool2: H Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craftsmanx Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 very nice! Don't suppose you came across any Militant gun tractor pictures? In my time with the regiment we never had Militant gun tractors only ammo trucks , the tractors that the Leylands replaced were Matadors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Crosbie Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 The Tibesti Expedition looks like a re-run of "Ice Cold in Alex"! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craftsmanx Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 The Tibesti Expedition looks like a re-run of "Ice Cold in Alex"! I was on that expedition along with another REME VM , George Rodgers Temple . The regiment was stationed in Cyprus at the time and tagged this onto the end of an exercise in Libya. The one incident that sticks in my mind is the transfer box falling of a Bedford Rl because the mounting bolts sheared , this was before the strengthening modification was carried out, we ended up using cylinder head bolts of a scrapped American car in Sabba , when we left Cyprus 18 months later the box had still not been modified and still had the same bolts in it. I also did another smaller trip later from Tobruk to Giarabub when we really did master the use of sand channels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Crosbie Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 It seems to have been an interesting place to visit. While Googling looking for any other pictures of this expedition I found details of another that Cambridge University did in 1957. I suppose this is all a no-go area now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craftsmanx Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 It seems to have been an interesting place to visit. While Googling looking for any other pictures of this expedition I found details of another that Cambridge University did in 1957. I suppose this is all a no-go area now. You'll find some excellent photos of the regiment on http://www.42regt.com including lots of them when they had 25pdrs in Plymouth , Cyprus and Libya. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisgrove Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 You may well be right, but all the pictures of Martian gun tractors that I could find were while they were equipped with 5.5s. Towing a 25 pounder with a Martian would definitely be overkill; 25 pounders were towed by Quads or Bedford RLs. Incidentally the picture of the Priest in the 'Guns used by the regiment' section is a Sexton. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craftsmanx Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 (edited) You may well be right, but all the pictures of Martian gun tractors that I could find were while they were equipped with 5.5s. Towing a 25 pounder with a Martian would definitely be overkill; 25 pounders were towed by Quads or Bedford RLs. Incidentally the picture of the Priest in the 'Guns used by the regiment' section is a Sexton. Chris We're at cross purposes here. With 25pdrs we had Bedford RL gun tractor sand and then got 5.5s on returning to the UK and had Matadors followed by Martians gun tractors.. I then moved to 5 Regt RA LAD and we had 1 ton Land Rovers towing 105mm light guns. Edited February 8, 2016 by Craftsmanx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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