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roverdriver
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Location: 100 miles from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Yesterday, my wife and I were fortunate to be able to join other members of the Rover Car Club on a visit to the Melbourne-based museum of the School of Signals.
The museum has exhibits covering military communications from WW1 pigeon posts to modern electronics.
There were a couple of interesting motor vehicles--
But photographed especially for Rick, a Dodge-
Here is the engine room-
And here, the cockpit-
The other vehicle was a Chevrolet C.M.P. Communications Truck.
Here is its cockpit-
But best of all, it is still fully fitted out inside-
For anyone interested in major technological breakthroughs, --and with very long memories, something that reminded me of my youthful investigations into the mysteries of wireless. A crystal holder and cat's whisker, but a much more sophisticated one than that which I used!
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lowdrag
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Location: Le Mans
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| Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 8:03 am Post subject: |
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| Ah, crystal sets! Under the covers at night in the dormitory, headphones on, listening to whatever we could pick up. Followed years later by the Dansette (?) radio with 9V batteries that lasted not a long time, sitting on a Sunday afternoon listening to "Meet the Huggets". |
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Churchill Johnson
Joined: 11 Jan 2011
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Location: Rayleigh Essex
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| Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 10:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Went there a few years ago well worth a visit, |
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Rick
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RotaryBri
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The first photograph shows a BSA B40 motorcycle as supplied to the British Army.
The other motorcycle in the second photograph is a Harley Davidson WLA model.
That Dodge is in very nice order. No wonder Rick likes it.
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Aar0sc
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Location: Surrey
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I was at a Army Training camp today; one of my tasks was to be the I/C of the Signals Team... the radios we had were ancient! Add that to our '58 pattern webbing (yes; other platoons tease us!!!) and we could be from an old war movie!
Similar to this... 
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roverdriver
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All that is old is not unusable!
When planning an extended trip in 1965, a serving friend acquired some (currently used) one man 24 hour ration packs from his QM store, and presented them to me to take along.
We found the contents very handy, even the tinned butter which was packaged in 1942. Has anyone else enjoyed 23 year old butter?
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alan 869
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Location: Linköping Sweden
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| roverdriver wrote: | All that is old is not unusable!
When planning an extended trip in 1965, a serving friend acquired some (currently used) one man 24 hour ration packs from his QM store, and presented them to me to take along.
We found the contents very handy, even the tinned butter which was packaged in 1942. Has anyone else enjoyed 23 year old butter?
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Whilst digging in on Salisbury Plain in 1971, My spade hit something hard. I´d decided to dig a little to the side of the -normal-postitions in the area even though I knew that the going would be hard (most of the postitions had been used before - dug - filled in - dug again). The object turned out to be a WOD tim or medium sized box. On opening it I found 12 large cans of hambergers in sauce. Stamped 1944. We scoffed the lot - mumms  -
I lived with the 58 pat webbing for 6 years. It worked quite well. Went to many places with it and it survived umpteen jumps. Only draw back was that it could hold about 3 times it´s own weight in water when wet 
But we got used to it. I´ve got all my old kit together again after nearly 40 years. Still think the 58 pat is okay. We had a patrols belt and a -Bergan- Still got my Bergan which has done a number of jumps and survived. Thing was that it was robust and wore well. Don´t know what the new stuff is like but seems a lot lighter....  |
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Aar0sc
Joined: 12 Apr 2011
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Jumps eh?
Not an ex-Para are you? Our SSI is; but he's got new (ish) webbing; from the Falklands.
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alan 869
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2 Para. 68-74. Not sure when the 58 pat was replaced, probably before 82. A lot of my mates were there. What´s his name. Which outfit was he in? Maybe we know the same people
Let them tease you, so what. It´s not the kit you´ve got but what you do with it |
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P3steve
Joined: 24 Nov 2007
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Location: Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
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Any of you guys know a chap by the name of Steve Mallit He's a friend of mine and am sure he was in the para's in the Falklands if you know him I can pass on your regards. ps sorry to go off thread
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alan 869
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| The name says nothing to me.... but I wasn´t there Ask him which years he was in and which regiment/arm. People say things, not all of it true sometimes. If he was there (alot were posted there after the conflict) and Para Reg, then some of my mate will surely know him |
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Aar0sc
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WO2 Steven Gerrard. Dunno what regiment he was in; but he's quite a character and one of the reasons we have so much kit (though it's not the newest) is down to him and his contacts.
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alan 869
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| I knew a Steve Gerrard. Little thick set stocky bloke. Used to have a tash. If it is the same then give him my regards. I was Coy clerk in D Coy. |
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Aar0sc
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This chap
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