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**Dragstrip** · 15-09-2011, 17:20

Leconfield, 1989, in a Bedford MJ.

**tankie88** · 15-09-2011, 19:13

Did my H in 79 middle of winter in Catterick.L/R in 82 Paders,Germany(once round the ring road,pass).HGV 2 in 85 Paders,Germany(another ring road pass),Due to all the licence and classes swoppin in german(EU) civi strasse/brit civi strasse got HGV 1 and never even took a test.

**tankie88** · 15-09-2011, 19:19

We used to drive the big white coaches and green bedford coaches/ambulances on mess nights on our HGV's.You could then as they were not paying passengers.Used to go to sennelager and sign out a couple of coaches from Herr Mosh.

**RoofRat** · 15-09-2011, 19:24

You mean you need a license to drive............. Oops

**ordinaryforces** · 15-09-2011, 19:32

1966 around north wales in a land-over.....it doesn't get much more glamorous than that.

**Explosive_Train** · 15-09-2011, 19:37

Basic car around Elgin (90)
LGV around Monchengladbach in a Bedford MK (92)
C+E at (shithole) Leconfield (07)!

**bluntslane** · 15-09-2011, 19:54

Like Brotherton Lad, round Seffie Park in Liverpool in about 1978 (in me Dad's Austin 1800). Like the rest of the Sapper element at Church Crookham
(Driver Light for my Combat Sigs course). That would have been 1980 and some civvie driving instructor called Don or Doug McClure,
who claimed to be a former racing, driver was my instructor.

Did my BV206 Driving Instructors course at ASMT in the early 90s.

**Grey_Mafia65** · 15-09-2011, 20:49

I started lessons at 24 Fd Amb in Catterick, one of the RCT bods on his last posting was tasked to teach me. So we'd drive out to Scotch Corner, he'd take the L plates off, and then off up the A1M to see his Mum in South Shields, lunch, then back again. After a month of this, the MTO asked whether I was ready for my test. Me: "yes sir, as long as all it involves is driving forwards"...

Finally finished the lessons learning with a civvy instructor round Hameln and passed first time

**jimmys_best_mate** · 15-09-2011, 20:54

Monday morning on Blandford airfield out the back of camp to learn how to control a car. Monday afternoon and Tuesday driving the same circuit around Poole over and over again (all shared with another lad who was in the car with us). Test passed on Wednesday morning. By sheer coincidence, the test route was exactly the same as the one we'd been practising round! It's almost as if the instructors there were only paid when we passed the course.

**Grubby Bum III** · 15-09-2011, 21:05

Learnt around Templar Bks, Ashford in 1969 - took my test under a guy called Bob Roberts on a 45 degree slope in Folkestone. Anything after that was easy!