Military Vehicle Shite (May contain Trucks)

[scruff]

Talking to a co-worker a while back, she got her first car, an ex RAF Mini, in the 1970s. According to her the RAF used to dispose of their used cars in bulk at an auction house in Yorkshire for low prices, usually these were bought by dealers and sold on individually. So her and her friends their pooled together and her Dad went down to the auctions one day and came back the owner of 5 identical Minis in dark blue for far less than it'd have cost to actually buy 5 cars individually, each with a little fire extinguisher bolted in the passenger side footwell.

 

Does this sound legitimate? It's not too far fetched to think of the RAF using Minis as runabouts...

 

They used to have massive auctions at Ruddington, thiss is worth a read if you are interested: http://www.ruddington-history.org.uk/b2b/interviews/06-hanson.htm

 

Also put 'Ruddington auctions' into Flickr there's some ace stuff.

[drum]

Like.

 

Any Tacr1 pics?

[I_am_Diesel]

Sorry drum, no TACR1 pics available I'm afraid. The best I can do is this......

 

 

 

This is a Fire Fighting Vehicle

 

 

This isn't.....

 

[anonymous user]

Just brilliant.  I love the idea of filling in a stores requisition form and 4 weeks later a bloke in a brown store coat arrives, saying "where do you want these Sherpa vans?"

With my experience of Ministry departments, it would be more likely to be several months later and what you had actually ordered were Armoured Personnel Carriers.  (For example when paper spools for the fax machine were ordered and a pack of plastic spoons arrived instead)

[fatharris]

Talking to a co-worker a while back, she got her first car, an ex RAF Mini, in the 1970s. According to her the RAF used to dispose of their used cars in bulk at an auction house in Yorkshire for low prices, usually these were bought by dealers and sold on individually. So her and her friends their pooled together and her Dad went down to the auctions one day and came back the owner of 5 identical Minis in dark blue for far less than it'd have cost to actually buy 5 cars individually, each with a little fire extinguisher bolted in the passenger side footwell.

 

Does this sound legitimate? It's not too far fetched to think of the RAF using Minis as runabouts...

The RN certainly used Minis as runabouts down in RNAS Culdrose, floor starter ones at that.

 

My old man drove the green goddess during the fire fighter strikes around 2000, and was the only bloke to get a speeding ticket in one

 

I'll see if there are any old vehicle shots in the MT section in future.

 

 

 

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[quicksilver]

With my experience of Ministry departments, it would be more likely to be several months later and what you had actually ordered were Armoured Personnel Carriers.  (For example when paper spools for the fax machine were ordered and a pack of plastic spoons arrived instead)

Reminds me of buying a model kit of a Sherpa some years ago and the header card said it was part of the 'Modern Armoured Fighting Vehicles' series! To be quite honest only one of those four words really applies to the Sherpa. Ace thread too, I love the old military stuff and it seemed to have so much more character than the stuff they have now.

[I_am_Diesel]

Another motorcycle..........

 

 

 

 

CF2 Ambulance

 

 

 

 

Need a lift?

 

 

 

 

 

[I_am_Diesel]

Did I hear Sherpa mentioned?

 

 

 

Cherry Picker

 

[scruff]

Well I never knew they had 109" high capacity pickups let alone with cherry pickers. GR8 stuff.

[I_am_Diesel]

Bison.....

 

 

Disco Fever.....

 

 

Dodgy Dodge

 

[Split_Pin]

I would love some of these framed on my walls. Mrs would not let me though.

[I_am_Diesel]

Me too but Mrs Diesel doesn't share my love of ex-MoD vehicles. In fact she doesn't share my love of any vehicles. I think that I may have to scan a few more pages from that book.

[AlabamaShrimp]

What's this book actually for?

[I_am_Diesel]

Despite the nice pictures it also has the specifications for each vehicle, so I guess that was the useful bit. The book became obsolete in the 90's. All this information is available on line now and the diversity of vehicles has significantly reduced as the military has been drawn down over the years.

[Alusilber]

This reminds me of my brief stint in the Air Cadets, when we were transported to our local gliding airfield in an RAF Commer minibus in full NATO green/yellow stripe livery, sitting on longitudinal duckboard benches, in order to fly single circuits in open-cockpit Slingsby Cadet gliders wearing skiing goggles. Goodness, that makes me feel old now.

[dollywobbler]

Great geeky stuff.

[I_am_Diesel]

Another Land Rover

 

 

More Fuel You?

 

 

Odd Tractor...

 

[garethj]

Love the motorbikes, I nearly bought an Armstrong 500 or it might have been a 350, whichever had the front disk brake.

 

Then I made the mistake of asking an ex-squaddie what they were like and he said when he used one it got run over by a tank and it didn't ride any differently afterwards.

[I_am_Diesel]

Holy Thread resurrection! Just remembered, I'd save the best til last.

 

 

[quicksilver]

Is it just an illusion or are the panel gaps on that Montego really really terrible?

[Split_Pin]

I like how they call the Montego a '4x2' in the same fashion as they would a lorry and that there are other options in relation to this which are available.

[Vin]

Imagine having to go to a fire in that Ford A-Series. It'd all be ash by the time you got there...

[Rusty_Rocket]

Is it just an illusion or are the panel gaps on that Montego really really terrible?

 

I was thinking the same- it looks flippin awful in those pictures!

[scruff]

I've got an advert somewhere for PRB Services in Leeds circa 1993 selling a load of this chod off, I will dig it out.

[I_am_Diesel]

Photoshop was in its infancy and the driver rolled it on the way to the photo shoot. Either that or AR flogged the MoD the really shonky ones.

 

During my time in the RAF many a Montego got trashed as they were much more powerful than the 1.6 D Cavaliers that preceded them and the drivers couldn't handle the powa. The same thing happened when the Land Rover Wolf replaced the old 90's and 110's with the old Mk6b NA diesel engine.

[Eddie Honda]

Is it just an illusion or are the panel gaps on that Montego really really terrible?

Does say "Grade B"!

[cros]

I bought this ex Military TK from LA Vass at Bedford around 1990. I think it cost about £850 and was in superb condition. When I collected it there was a new battery fitted, and I used it for 2 years with no issues. It had a 4 cylinder 220 diesel that most people scoff at, but in Lincolnshire it was enough. My wife used it to drive to work at the local school on occasions when I'd nicked her Mk 1 fiesta as these were our only available vehicles. She found the Bedford fine to drive and park even though it had no power steering. I'm just off to give myself a bollocking for selling it.

 

 

Just remembered, I've still got its key fob.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[cms206]

Those Massey Ferguson MF40s were utter shit. Our last one was retired in about 2006 (I remember robbing bits of Perkins 4.236 off it for a Dodge S56 I had at the time) but Loganair at Glasgow still have two for hangar shunting.

[cort1977]

Talking to a co-worker a while back, she got her first car, an ex RAF Mini, in the 1970s. According to her the RAF used to dispose of their used cars in bulk at an auction house in Yorkshire for low prices, usually these were bought by dealers and sold on individually. So her and her friends their pooled together and her Dad went down to the auctions one day and came back the owner of 5 identical Minis in dark blue for far less than it'd have cost to actually buy 5 cars individually, each with a little fire extinguisher bolted in the passenger side footwell.

 

Does this sound legitimate? It's not too far fetched to think of the RAF using Minis as runabouts...

Sounds about right, my mum had a black mini van with a fire extinguisher in the footwell, was 'ex-MOD' apparently.