CANADA Day in Preston Ontario

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally Posted by jeepfinger

Hi,
Happy Canada Day,
Hope that you all had a good day and that the weather was as good for you as it was in Yorkshire UK,
dAVE

The weather was great, thanks Dave... cloudy but dry and cool enough for young and old alike to avoid overheating. I have to say that I was amazed - it looked like the whole damned town was out in the streets for this! Talk about revitalising my faith in the people of this country - I've been living in Toronto too damned long now...

We had three carriers out, Stewart's T-16, Jordan's Mk.1* and Charlie Fitton's Mk.2*, and in addition one Willys MB (Jordan's) and one Ford GPW as well as two Iltis's. Unfortunately, there weren't a lot of veterans out for this, but the carriers carried a couple; all of our vehicles followed the regimental pipe band and received a tremendous reception by the public... particularly entertaining for the crowd was when Charlie shut off his carrier and had his HLI troops rig a tow chain from the T-16 within a couple of minutes - you'd almost think he broke down or something...

Anyway, situation retrieved with due honour and appreciation and we carried on to the end!

Pics will follow shortly. It was a damned good run!

Kudos to those who participated... we will attend again.