Ice Cold in Alex

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Richard Farrant

What I should have added, is if you run the film on a video, there is a point where the front hub is in full screen view and if you stop it, you will see it looks unmistakably like a Ford CMP.....quite different to a K9 hub.

CMP axle gets my vote, too

http://img517.imageshack.us/i/cap017im8.jpg/

[Richard Farrant]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

CMP axle gets my vote, too

http://img517.imageshack.us/i/cap017im8.jpg/

Thanks Hanno,

I found some stills from the film on a website, one shows the banjo front axle, definitely like a Chev, although hub caps appear as Ford. There is another shot where the propshafts and transfer box outline is visible, neither the axle nor the transfer box are anything like an Austin K9, so that puts the lid on that story!

[Richard Coutts-Smith]

Is Dementia setting in? Or do you like telling the same stories over and over!!! I vote for the first one, Did I say that I vote for the first one.

http://www.mapleleafup.org/forums/sh...ght=alexandria

Rich.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Richard Coutts-Smith

Is Dementia setting in?

It is great making new friends everyday, isn't it?!?

[warren brown]

G'day everyone - as a comparative newcomer to this site I'm a bit blowed away that this hasn't been resolved before. Over the years, I've read in several articles (please don't ask me where at this point because I have a glass of 'Run 'o the Mill' Chardonnay in hand) that the Austin ambulance had CMP running gear. The other day I was at the barber who had a copy of Ralph or Zoo magazine (for those in Canada these are sort of disreputable Australian publications that in the Yukon might have the title of something like the 'Ottawa Beaver Magazine' if you know what I mean) with an article about motoring faux pas in movies - citing Ice Cold in Alex using a Land Rover ambulance throughout the film when Land Rovers turned up years after the war etc...As we know a Series One Land Rover is spotted outside the pub but wouldn't you not bother to move the thing after months filming in the Libyan desert? It is indeed a great film - there is another called 'Sea of Sand' with Michael Craig and Richard Attenborough about the LRDG. It's a cracker...

[Richard Coutts-Smith]

Ok, so before the dementia sets in with all the Movie Bloopers, we have covered that as well:

http://www.mapleleafup.org/forums/sh...movie+mistakes

http://www.mapleleafup.org/forums/sh...light=bloopers

Time to hand out the meds?
Rich

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

The film/movie is on British satellite TV as I type. The 4x4 system was clearly visible, and when they ascend the slope, the front axle was definitely Chevy-looking from the front! That is, banjo type.

OTT but was Carslberg beer available in in Egypt or anywhere else for that matter during the war? Outside Europe that is.