military vehicles in Northern Ireland

[chrisgrove]

Clive

Now you've got me. I have no certain reference about the date of those pics, but I reckon they must have been first half 1977; possibly second half 1976, but not desperately wintry that I remember. All my pics show Mk II Pigs with mirrors mounted halfway down the bonnet. And they were in Andersonstown in West Belfast.

Incidentally, there are various colour discussions here. When I first went to Belfast in Sep 70 to join the resident battalion at Palace Barracks Holywood, we had Mk I pigs which were painted in gloss deep bronze green and matt brown. Unfortunately my pics from this time are in black and white and do not show this well.

Rich

The local population were not too keen on us! However, my only personal experience was being in a Landrover hit by a brick in the Bogside a few years earlier. I can certainly tell you that if you wish to take no notice of sleeping policemen (speed humps), a pig is the thing to do it in. You simply do not notice them.

Chris