Got any photos?

When a vehicle got to a certain age the RAF sort of turned a blind eye to what we did to them. The landy in post #1 was way past its scrap date and after I painted her the guys in MT put the IRR date (seen nearside rear in white) to make it look offical (!) We used to drive round the bomb dump in her to pick up our explosives and ammo until, an armourer spotted she was petrol, not diesel!
They had a fit and banned her immediately.

The fuel tanks were under the front seats.

The fire by the way was caused by the rubber fuel pipe into the carb perishing.

Baz

An early model ‘110’ this time, back at RAF St Mawgan around the 1994 era. Again over the years spent thousands of hours on the airfield in her.

Another series III, this time a nightmare.

RAF Stanley late 1982.

Here I looked after 3 series IIIs as part of the Air Traffic fleet but this one stands out as a real dog. Although it had BCU written on the side, we only used it as a crew bus, too-ing and fro-ing between the airfield and the harbour on shift change. It had a very nasty habit of front wheel wobble after clipping a pothole. The number of damaged thumbs were high as the steering wheel shimmeyed violently, also the vehicle would only travel in a straight line once the wobble started. This was fine if you was intending to travel in a straight line, however, on more than one occasion she would drift off-road and this was not good with the proximity of some heavily sown mine-fields. The only way to avert disaster was to slam the brakes on.

Hopefully scrapped!

A (slim) me!

This was an early painting of the Nimrod fire showing the Landrover underneath

I must have been the last to read it.(!)

It was funny, however, there was a hint of ‘sock puppetry’

Kept me entertained for ten minutes:D

Baz

Before I send Key Publishing a snot-a-gram, is anybody else in Canada missing July and August’s issues? 😡

Perhaps your postman is recently into aviation…………..;)

…….no, I meant receiving.:rolleyes:

That’s one boat that seriously needs a torpedo.