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Those were the days
Using the Google News search you can find all sorts of interesting things from our newspapers. For example this gem from 1957.
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Or this for example from January 1952
With it's oddly spelled caption:
What can you find?
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Or for fans of the Strickland Bren-Tractor
This from the Melbourne Age 17 December 1947:
These converted carriers are still found on farms from time to time.
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From July 1955
Comes this ad for blitzes from Vic Drew:
There were many other ads for blitzes on the same page, mostly around 425 pounds price.
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A wild bunch from Australia.....
HI Keith
Nice picture of the guys hanging on for dear life going down a little gulley..... ...... I would to..... as I suspect it was a runaway UC with NO driver.....!!! Boob
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Carrier 4979
in the earlier post was in a batch of LP2As built by S.A.R. in 1943.
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I was also wondering about the driver in the gully shot. Perhaps he saw it coming and bailed out? Ron
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Probably used parts..........although not unknown for governments to dispose of parts for current equipment, because they have demanded too much
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Look more closely
If you look at the gully shot the commander has a second hat just next to his right shoulder. The driver is either being thrown around or ducking.
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Rear View Mirror
G'day Everyone,
the rear view mirror on carrier 4979 is rectangular. I believe original equipment on LP Carriers was round, and that Universal Carriers were fitted with the rectangular types. Is this so? Jared |
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The driver is ducking for cover. The Melbourne Univerity Regiment is a University based unit and by 1957 the Ferret had arrived along with the Champ and othere Rolls Royce "B"engined vehicles. These were fitted with the rectangular mirror and I guess that the Bren Gun Carrier has a
retro-fittted one from the store. Rick.
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Well spotted Kent. I see it all now.Ron
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Hold on their Sergeant!
Any one spot the wrong "there" I thought that was a modern thing?
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"as they rode their machine", looks OK to me. So what am I missing, Lynn?
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Quote:
The rectangular convex mirrors fitted to Ferrets and Champs actually date back to prewar, from memory called the "1924 Pattern" or similar and were common place on practically every British wartime vehicle. Last used on Ferrets in British Army up until late 1970's.
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Rick
The paper was published with the wrong "their". It should have read; "Hold on "there" Sergeant". and the proof reader should have picked it up, whereas now, there are no proof readers. They use a spell check on a computer, which doesn't pick up the difference.
......And now I see Keith pointed it out, at the start.
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