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Photo copied from Phil Woollard´s thread. Note the VRN on the T-piece

Maybe a tall story, but a Battle-group night move was cancelled midway with the emergency "STOP !, STOP ! STOP ! "and we did not get permission to move again untill dawn. The Tiffy had gone back to UK on compassionate grounds and I was commanding the 432 at the time. Conditions were atrocious and th...

I can confirm that the Hitler Hof later became a protected site, and all routes up to it were sign-posted as prohibited to tracked vehicles. On one exercise , during a move in the early hours of the morning, pitch black and fog, the tanks could see where they were going due to TOGS, we could not and...

I'm sure our REME subject matter expert will have a view but usually the pull would be in a straight line. This pull at an angle was probably constrained by the area of boggy ground. I was an ECE and not a Recy Mech so not a subject matter expert on recovery, but experienced quite a few recovery ta...

Hi Dave, The BV lead looks perfect with those yellow sleeves. For others who did not crew, yes, the BV was mounted in the turret and only required a lot shorter lead. It was that length so that crews could put it out on the turret roof when in harbour positions, and then put on the commanders cupola...

In germany, the shovel was to dig a hole.
My experience in Canada was use the shovel to fill in the gopher hole that you had just squatted over.
The gophers must have hated us.
Mark

Dave,
My input was meant to be constructive and I apologise if you saw it otherwise.
How ever you do do them, I will be ordering a set, as soon as you post that they are available.

Kindest regards
Mark

And the thinner wire is too glossy. The previous wire had the perfect colour.
Mark

Hi Dave, Both look good but if you had the BV full of boiling water, you were hardly likely to open the lid due to the steam and if you suddenly hit a bump, scalding hot water flying everywhere. Best would be the top depicting the BV insert about 80% full of water and four compo cans sticking out, 6...

Go to a Fitter section and let them know your tanks laser range finder was not working and the BV was inop, BV got fixed first as we can fight a tank with out the laser. Cheers John :D My experience was that on exercise, the crews generally only reported the most critical fault. Once you had got to...

Hi Dave
Yes, the BV was for doing tea, boiling water for it, but I never knew a crew doing the tea directly in it. It heated water for tea, coffee, washing and shaving etc.
Mark

Few comments on the BV and BV lead. The BV was used for heating water. When cooking food, the food did not go directly into the BV but into a handled insert that was dropped into the BV. The BV lead wiring has the correct colour but I can only make out three strands, there should be four, pos and ne...

Stephen, These "incompetent and arrogant young gentlemen" developed into very capable officers and leaders of men. Being Cavalry they some-times initially would not listen to the advice the troop sergeants were giving them and we as REME had to set them straight and use the methods we had at our dis...

Track change was authorised by the VM Sgt condemning the tracks. He would look at the track and decide at a glance whether it had to be changed or not. He had a GO/NO-GO guage to prove serviceability but I only ever saw it used once. A young troop leader was insisting his tracks were worn out and he...

Now thinking ahead to track assembly, I have a few newbie questions which i hope the more experienced of the community would be kind enough to provide some guidance. I apologise now if these have been discussed elsewhere and I've missed it! Questions are as follows: 1. Is it worth giving the track ...