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You're thinking of the Magic Bus, the one that drove out of the BMH and turned into someone else's barracks.

Originally Posted by SuperSLime

You're having a fucking giraffe, right?

You've obviously never been inside a Russki panzer then. Putting down the Cheiftain shaped rose tinted glasses for a moment the T55/62/72 etc were shocking. The only thing going for them were shere weight of numbers and the aggressive military doctrine.

Originally Posted by Stan_Da_Bout

You've obviously never been inside a Russki panzer then. Putting down the Cheiftain shaped rose tinted glasses for a moment the T55/62/72 etc were shocking. The only thing going for them were shere weight of numbers and the aggressive military doctrine.

Or a BMP ! The automatic loader would take your elbow clean off if you didn't pull up that little aluminium shield - and have you ever tried loading a SAGGER onto the rail through the small hatch behind the gun ?

Royal Navy Bedford Bus - similar, but not the same as the Army Bus - Note it has a slightly different body shape than the images previously displayed

Originally Posted by HIGHLANDER_SPY

Royal Navy Bedford Bus - similar, but not the same as the Army Bus - Note it has a slightly different body shape than the images previously displayed

Do you know the date and location and circumstances for when the RN bus was photographed? Or was the bus further up this page actually an RAF bus? Were all the busses RHD?

Originally Posted by Fox-and-horses

Do you know the date and location and circumstances for when the RN bus was photographed? Or was the bus further up this page actually an RAF bus? Were all the busses RHD?

Those are monsoon drains to the right, can I hazard a guess at 1966 posibly Singapore. It looks like the old school buses that used to pass our old Quarters, mind you ours were FARELF ones!

Originally Posted by Drifter21

I remember being attached to a cav regt and hearing a story about a NATO officer boasting about how effective and superior NATO tanks would be against against the Sov tanks, T72, 64 etc only for a German officer to say, yes i remember my forefathers thought that about the Tiger and Panther against the T34, quantity has a quaility all of its own. Possibly a duty rumour, but i think it rings true.

Also remember my uncle being LI and being told each infantryman had to kill 5 Sov's each to reach parity, Milan teams reckoning they would get 1 to 2 missiles off before they were slotted themselves.

I Div was expected to last less than 24 hours, our Div (i think it was 4 Div, Munster/Traz) was supposed to come to their rescue, but hey i had an SLR (which was nearly as big as me) with 120 rds..............and i had the LMG with it's box of mags, how i was supposed to fire both i don't know, and i also had an armoured car to command (a Ferret) if it was raining and the EME (a very decent bloke to be honest and now a Maj Gen) didn't fancy commanding it, so i am sure i would have been ok.

My first book finished on the Kindle (free download):

http://www.lightdragoons.org.uk/downloads.html:

History of 15th-19th The King's Hussars 1939-1945 (21.16mb)

There is an appendix which looks at each of the vehicles used by the regiment between those years. It includes an interesting quote:

Field Marshal Montgomery's dictum, that if the Germans had been equipped with Allied tanks von Rundstedt might have reached Antwerp from the Ardennes and, conversely, that 21 Army Group if equipped with German tanks could never have achieved its spectacular dash across Northern France

Originally Posted by cloudbuster

You're thinking of the Magic Bus, the one that drove out of the BMH and turned into someone else's barracks.

Surely you mean the 'Disappoinment' Bus?