Gave me a good laugh, but for the interested in the trivial and in the interests of accuracy and being 'picky..picky..picky' , the tank shown is a Centurion Mk.5/1 with a unique suite of Australian modifications, often called a Centurion Mk.5/1(Aust), and is armed with a 20-pdr main armament, not th...

Be careful what you wish for ...

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Mike

John,

I think you'll find it is RG, for Radway Greene, not 'PG', and the date 10-10-66 is the packing date of the box.

Mike

Hi Mark, The charger was used to load magazines away from the rifle - as you are aware, the L1A1 had a dust cover that prevented access from above the magazine while in the rifle, and the rifle receiver was not equipped with charger guides. A special magazine charger guide that sat on top of the mag...

UK manufactured rifle ammunition packed in five-round charger clips, and then into cloth bandoliers, each bandolier pocket holding two clips (10 rounds), 50 rounds total. The ammunition was packed at Radway Greene in October 1966. Agree with Mark: BDR is bandolier, CHR is charger. The yellow disc sy...

Thanks you Armortek, and thanks to Colin Stone & Ian Young, too.

Hope the RR A/Car builders enjoy it.

Mike

Tried that but pdf is not a supported file type on this forum.

Mike

There is an excellent article on the Irish use of the RR armoured car in the August 2020 issue of Windscreen magazine. I only have a pdf file of it which is a format that I don't seem to be able to post here, unfortunately. Both the author, Colin Stone, and the magazine editor, Ian Young, have given...

There are a few images in Fred Crismon's 'US Military Tracked Vehicles' along with a good explanation of the development, and why it failed. Total weight was said to be 124,000 lbs - over 55 tons, which Crismon concludes was too heavy to be practical as a mine exploder vehicle. The original concept ...

It is an extraordinary collection. There were no walkway barriers and very few outside exhibits when I visited in 1991.It was the depths of winter, and my glove froze to the hull of Maus when I touched it (which was against the far wall just beyond the Carl Gerat 60cm mortar). I think we were the se...

Hi Marcus, Thanks for those excellent images: make great references, with a range of dates, differences in markings, and different liner manufacturing methods. The 1965 dated cans are interesting with Ball from Radway Green (RG) and Tracer from Kynoch (K). Of course, the 'staged' length of rounds do...

Thanks Marcus, for posting those: some interesting variations. Is that AUSCAM cloth you have them sitting on? So M13 link, when manufactured in the UK, is Mk.1 link. Thanks, I've learned something. I've edited my original post accordingly I also note from Marcus' images that the liners have 200 roun...

Hi Phil, Not sure I'd call it a problem, just curious why you used a liner marked for US military ammunition, rather than one from British production, on a very British tank, especially given your amazing attention to detail and obviously accomplished modelling abilities. In this case, I can't detai...

Hi Phil,

Been following your build with great interest. Quality work.

Is there a reason why you chose to equip the MAG-58 commander's MG with US military ammunition, please? I may be wrong, but I thought Britain was self-sufficient in small arms ammunition manufacture?

Regards

Mike

I think I should add a little more detail ... I said that one of each crosshead type (round or square) was carried on each gun. True for Aussie guns, which allowed for flexibility in terms of mixing guns between Sections within a Troop or a Battery. The British Army in WW2 did it a little differentl...