fv1609 Posted October 7, 2005 Share Posted October 7, 2005 Nice to have a UK based MV site for people who use & play with them. Most sites on MV & AFVs seem to be for modellers (bless them) & an obsession with German AFVs in particular. May I draw the group to these links: http://www.shorland.info/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/shorland/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HUMBER-FV1600/ Thanks ' alt='>'> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shane taylor Posted October 7, 2005 Share Posted October 7, 2005 Hi Clive welcome aboard mate and as Jamie says, 'make yourself at home......but keep your feet of the sofa' :shock: ST Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karoshi Posted October 7, 2005 Share Posted October 7, 2005 Shane, say Hi and pass the massage along to fv1620, as he's at the end of the sofa, mind he doesn't take up too much space with that Humber Hornet and Malkara. Shane be carefull as he keeps PIGS as well! Karoshi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Farrant Posted October 7, 2005 Share Posted October 7, 2005 Hi Clive, Welcome to a friendly face. How is the condenser testing business? regards, Kewelde Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest matt Posted October 7, 2005 Share Posted October 7, 2005 Hi Clive,good to have you on here! HMVF is really starting to cover a broad range of MV owners,from WW1 trucks,to WW2 US,British,Canadian and German vehicles,through to post war hardware. Thanks again to Jack for making this happen 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted October 7, 2005 Author Share Posted October 7, 2005 Yes hello everyone. Condenser testing fetish is still going strong, I managed to test a number at Beltring for several people 90% failure rate! Including some that had just been bought on a stall. The other fetish is British army technical documents the collection is over 100ft high now, the oldest one I found was at Beltring dated 1884. I've been trying to post pics of my vehicles here, but fortunately only tried one & that failed. I have some pics on photobucket, I copied the URL then pasted on here having clicked the image button. What should I be doing? The FAQ advice on posting images was vague for someone who doesn't know what they are doing. On another site on a similar set up I couldn't post but the URL link was clickable in my message & in a few seconds people could go over to it, but here the thing doesn't want to do it. Yes I am really grateful for a UK basesd forum, the MVT forum seems not to have any postings for 2 years, once they changed the format I could never get in, perhaps others had the same problem? Seems an opportunity missed there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Farrant Posted October 7, 2005 Share Posted October 7, 2005 the oldest one I found was at Beltring dated 1884. the MVT forum seems not to have any postings for 2 years, once they changed the format I could never get in, perhaps others had the same problem? Seems an opportunity missed there. Hi Clive, Guess that publication must have been one of the early EMERs covering Boedecias Chariot? Yes, The MVT forum, it did work ok on the original format, although not many using it, but the latest one defies anyone to get into it. regards, Kewelde your RR "B" series helpline (you know who I am now?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted October 7, 2005 Share Posted October 7, 2005 Good to have you here Clive and as Matt says, HMVF really does have a wonderful spectrum of MV owners and thank you for adding a few more! As Shane says, make yourself at home but make sure you put the cat out! Cheers. Jack. PS. here is a tutorial of how to post images http://www.hmvf.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=98 any problems then please do get back to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karoshi Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 Jack said: As Shane says, make yourself at home but make sure you put the cat out! Cheers. Jack. OK so WHO set fire to the cat! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted October 8, 2005 Author Share Posted October 8, 2005 Kewelde? OK, go on then who are you really? Jack. Right here goes. My mistake was pasting the URL not the image tag If that came out, this is the oldest pig in the world! Many pig owners say their pig was made in 1953 or so. But that only refers to the date the chassis was made, production pigs (FV1611 & FV1612) started in 1958. My baby here was made in 1956, it was one of 20 prototypes being a FV1609. It was later made into a hard roof in 1960 for police duties. In 1962-63 it was painted grey, so thats what I painted it last year. But at shows it seemed to confuse people or trigger mirth (or anger curiosly). It went back to the army in 1970. So it's in its 1963-69 colour scheme, which makes life easier for everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted October 8, 2005 Author Share Posted October 8, 2005 Right here's the rest of them. This is what the army did to 2996OI in 1973 made it into a Mk 2. I had to take all that stuff off, it's 6 years & still not finished. There are about 60 diffrences between 2996OI & a standard Mk 1 pig. My other pig, note where this one is parked. I believe the only driveable one in the world, well there were only 24 production vehicles. It fires Malkara, but it is not widely known that it was originally conceived to fire Orange William. Yes my Avtar is an Orange William. This GS probably beyond it now! My day to day vehicle. Shorland Mk 1 Serial No. 9 . 1965. This is the mother of all the Land Rover based APCs, prototype for Shorts SB301. Janes states first protype was made 1973. This was made in Belfast in 1968. BTW It is for sale. This was 2996OI last year which seemed to confuse some people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karoshi Posted October 9, 2005 Share Posted October 9, 2005 Nice fleet Clive. Nice pics too. Thanks. Karoshi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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