The War and Peace Revival 2013 - formerly known as "Beltring"

[RichardT10829]

Shaun, are you going with a living history theme next year, or business as usual ?

Anyone any ideas of a good haulage firm and approximate cost to freight a carrier from Newcastle upon Tyne to W&P ?

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

Got home from "Beltring at Sea" last night, missed some of the people I wanted to meet, but unexpectedly ran into others. It was great fun! More later...

Right then, finally time to sit down and post more on here. This year was the first time I took my boys, aged 12 and 10 to W&P. We had a great time, they were amazed more by the weaponry (both real and air-soft) available for sale at the stalls than the vehicles. The vehicles we have in Holland too, the weaponry very, very much less so.

For me the combination of spending most of the day with them, plus the new layout of the site, meant I really had a hard time to find all the people I wanted to meet. Sadly I missed Richard, Tony, Eddy, Shaun, Stefano, etc., but I did meet Maurice, Nigel and his desert bunch including Andrew, James, Peter, Marc, Dirk & Stefan and then some. And by pure coincidence I ran into the son of the former owner of my F15A - that's typical for W&P.


Some photos:

1. Pair of CMP 15-cwts, from the Donckers Stable
2. Ford F30
3. Chev C8A HUP
4. Chev C15A Cab 12
5. Ford FGT, en route back home to Belgium

[Hanno Spoelstra]

More:

1. Canadian Ford staff Car
2. CMP dashes for sale
3. Morris-Commercial C8/AT Gun Tractor w/17pdr AT Gun
4. Bedford MW project scooped up nearby, made running at the show and brought back to Holland

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Being a good father, I begged my friends for taking my boys for a ride in their vehicles.

Nigel and James: you are true gentlemen for taking Stijn & Floris on board and for sparkling their enthusiasm. Thank you very much!
Needless to say they now want me to buy both a Carrier and an Otter...

And oh, Nigel, Stijn wants to dig in at your camp next time.

[Nigel Watson]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

Being a good father, I begged my friends for taking my boys for a ride in their vehicles.

Nigel and James: you are true gentlemen for taking Stijn & Floris on board and for sparkling their enthusiasm. Thank you very much!
Needless to say they now want me to buy both a Carrier and an Otter...

And oh, Nigel, Stijn wants to dig in at your camp next time.

It was a pleasure and great to see you again Hanno. Glad your boys enjoyed their trip and tell Stijn we need him to dig in with us, uniform provided!
Nigel

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Nigel Watson

It was a pleasure and great to see you again Hanno. Glad your boys enjoyed their trip and tell Stijn we need him to dig in with us, uniform provided!

Nigel, great, I will conduct the necessary training and furnish him with a British entrenching tool. I think I still have the one we bought for Geoff at Beltring when he boasted he would dig in and sleep in a trench...

Hanno

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Lastly, a selection from James' fine stable of Canadian military vehicles, incl. some videos (shot with my phone so they are not of "SEGWebb quality"):

• Fox: http://youtu.be/UJiFtrUeJoo
• Otter: http://youtu.be/ArFJHNy5dzM / http://youtu.be/SSlH9QTqjsg
• C15TA + 20-cwt trailer: http://youtu.be/aGYF-0AWWWE
• During the CMP line up in the arena: http://youtu.be/JQTpITOiEGI

Well done James, I am looking forward to seeing how the second Otter will turn out!

Hanno

[Alex van de Wetering]

Tony, Kevin, Hanno, thanks for posting some pics of the event and good to hear you had a great time.

Anyone know more about the Ford Staff car? It's right hand drive, so wonder if anyone knows more about it. Lovely car!

Alex

[Ganmain Tony]

That was one car I meant to ask a bit about Alex and didnt get back to it. Sorry about that...

Great pictures Hanno - very sorry I didnt get to meet you face to face. I was determined to get around everyone, but it just didnt pan out that way, I think Mark Van Alderen was there as well but I didnt get to meet him either.

Some other photo's, Blitz Semi, trailer is french built, replica of Albert Balls Nieuport, a very neat little Valentine tank with amphibious landing canvas.

[Ganmain Tony]

Tried not to leave any stone unturned at this event as I do not know if I'll ever get back.

This is also for the blokes on the forum who may never get to War and Peace.

M8 Greyhound with 'crew', the stalls and Russian Jeep, your's truly with the closest shot we could get of the Panther.

The Panther was one used by the French after the war then used as a Range target. Rescued by the Rex the guy who runs War and Peace but it is not a runner. I would think the cost of getting it to go would be prohibitive..

[Ganmain Tony]

Was great to meet you Nigel, thoroughly enjoyed your conversation.

The living history display you lads did was very impressive and a credit to you.

Could have easily been passing you a note as a dispatch rider from headquarters in Alexandria.

Your carrier is a beauty by the way if I didn't say so on the day...

[Ganmain Tony]

I suppose I shouldnt have been surprised at the amount of German equipment that was at W&P - but I was.

Anyway, there were a couple of impressive displays of German equipment as well

Perhaps someone could identify the individual pieces in this set of photo's so everyone (including me) knows what they are...

From my limited knowledge - anti aircraft gun.... 20mm?
75mm Pak L/48 anti tank, same gun as on the Mark IV? Perhaps?
Half Track (either German or Czech),
Opel Blitz Truck (Dont know the truck on the left),
Panther and Kubelwagon (possibly replica)

[Nigel Watson]

Originally Posted by Ganmain Tony

Was great to meet you Nigel, thoroughly enjoyed your conversation.

The living history display you lads did was very impressive and a credit to you.

Could have easily been passing you a note as a dispatch rider from headquarters in Alexandria.

Your carrier is a beauty by the way if I didn't say so on the day...

Good to meet you too Tony, and thanks for the chat break from my duties! Really enjoying my carrier at the moment, and W&P was great, loved the dust for obvious reasons!
Will be down next year.