The Military Vehicle Thread

[Richard A Thackeray]

Spotted up a driveway in Buttershaw, Bradford, 2x Ex Australian Army Perentie's, was driving so no photo's

Seen a few years ago, when I used to go to the 'Woodentops' fell-races, starting near Haworth
https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/the-military-vehicle-thread.261988/page-7#post-6232854

 

[biggs682]

Tell her it's a soft-top, all-wheel-drive sports car
(well, probably of a similar performance to a 'Sprite', as in the original 'Frogeye')

It doesn't appeal to me one little bit at all

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

@Drago

I've just found this!!
I certainly remember it when it was first broadcast
(watch the 20MPH?? 'water entry' at the end)

Ahh, Claire Barratt


View: https://youtu.be/TJWDi2cJddE?si=CPEY9PRyj_OyHNZ7

 

[stephec]

A family friend has just asked me if I wanted to buy a Munga so had to Google it as never heard of it before.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DKW_Munga

Think we will keep the Note

Are you sure that it's not spelt - minger?

 

[dicko]

We had an Austin Champ in our ‘A’ company along with a one toner truck. The Champ was very powerful it could go just as fast backwards as it could forwards it had a little lever that you pulled. It was one of my favourites to drive and every year, before the company inspection, we would give it a coat of paint using paintbrushes, it was a very well paid job, in your own time paint it green.

 

[Time Waster]

I saw a military green vehicle that looked a bit like say a fire truck. The cab kind of gently tapers in but not like the iirc Alvis trucks or airport for trucks. Just taperels in from part way up I think with roller door storage. At the back there looks like a there's nothing much the but a kind of a mechanism for towing something heavy on a recessed section of the chassis.

No photographs or any make or model known. It might not be possible to ID from the above.

 

[gbb]

i think that was yards per gallon!

In keeping with a 101 in many respects, I drove mid 70s LRs for work for about a year, bar grip tyres, 3.5 litre engines...a tank of petrol a day.
I don't know about 90mph (or even 80) but we didn't spare them, noisy noisy things at anything around 70 (and much less) with bar grips.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

We had an Austin Champ in our ‘A’ company along with a one toner truck. The Champ was very powerful it could go just as fast backwards as it could forwards it had a little lever that you pulled. It was one of my favourites to drive and every year, before the company inspection, we would give it a coat of paint using paintbrushes, it was a very well paid job, in your own time paint it green.

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There's a red one not too far away from me, or there was ;pre-Covid

 

[DRM]

I saw a military green vehicle that looked a bit like say a fire truck. The cab kind of gently tapers in but not like the iirc Alvis trucks or airport for trucks. Just taperels in from part way up I think with roller door storage. At the back there looks like a there's nothing much the but a kind of a mechanism for towing something heavy on a recessed section of the chassis.

No photographs or any make or model known. It might not be possible to ID from the above.

Something like this?

 

[gbb]

Bedford RLs used to be everywhere, a quite common sight. It's perhaps a stark reminder of how out armed forces have shrunk

 

[Jameshow]

Bedford RLs used to be everywhere, a quite common sight. It's perhaps a stark reminder of how out armed forces have shrunk

I think they are a bit dated tbh!!

Was Leyland then daf not sure what the current GP truck is?

 

[gbb]

I think they are a bit dated tbh!!

Was Leyland then daf not sure what the current GP truck is?

Oh I'm going back to the 70s for the RLs. Missed a chance to drive one in a surveying company in uses to work for. Reputedly 4mpg on road, 2.mpg off road (iirc)
I dread to think what the daily fuel bill was at that company thinking back there were...

Bedford RL converted to a control truck .
Diamond T drill rig, capable.of drilling to 100ft
A couple LRs converted to small.drill rigs for 10ft drilling
Probably 6 LRs, 3 5 ltr engined for cable carrying and general transport
A Fordson Major (iirc) tractor for towing a water bowser
One explosive carrying LR.

We just uses to fill up every single day, must have been astronomical.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Ah, the 4 tonner. I remember getting a lift back from Aberdeen to Fife in the back of one as an army cadet. Somewhere around Brechin we were all frozen solid so we dropped the tarpaulin at the back. By Dundee we were discovered fast asleep by the nice sergeants - being asphyxiated by the exhaust fumes.

 

[gbb]

Remarked in this before in another post way back....we used to watch the RL navigating fields and gates etc and when I really rough ground, the flex in the chassis HAS to be seen to be believed.
You'd be stood there watching the cab tilt in one direction and the rear going in the opposite direction. Never understood how on earth a steel chassis could flex so much ?

 

[Time Waster]

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Something like this?

A lot more modern looking. The front half was more like a fire engine but side tapering in cab and sides a bit in a flat panel then nothing but a flat but boxy bed with a slot in the middle third with some heavy duty hydraulics gadget there.

To my ignorant eyes out looks like half a fire truck that's not a normal fire truck shape and half something that could tow a challenger 2 tank if it had to.