knockers. ahh yes i remember them. as 236sqn 156rgt rct, ferry to germany, pick up one from the "pool", praying not to get a left hand drive one!
seem to remember lionheart.....whatever happened to porno pete?-- any of you guys out there?

Never ever saw a LHD model. Was Lionheart in 1980 - if so I was at Leuth Staging Area, just inside the Dutch/German Border.

Originally Posted by Pith_Dorf

Never ever saw a LHD model. Was Lionheart in 1980 - if so I was at Leuth Staging Area, just inside the Dutch/German Border.

Cor blimey. Pith, so was I.

You wern't one of those to**ers walking up and down the lines of trucks waking the crews up and telling them to get their heads down? - As if we needed telling!

Originally Posted by Fatbadge

http://www.aecmilitant.co.uk/

seemingly the wreckers had a habit of doing this:

Isn't that a Leyland Martian wrecker (or limber) behind?, though it might be a Hippo. Either way the whole train was replaced by Fodens and some of them are for sale at Witham specialist vehicles. There was Mk 3 Mili wrecker on ebay 3 weeks ago as well.

When I went to the careers office the nice man from the Royal Pioneer Corp looked a little taken abck when I said i "want to drive big trucks and blow things up!" in reply to "Why do want to join the British Army?" But it was trucks like this I wanted to drive. It was all DROPS and TMs even Dafs by the time I got there. I liked the 1 Tonne Rover so much I bought one (& still got it - Mrs FB loves me NOT)

There's an RB44 at Disposals in Bruggen. No takers? I am surprised

Fatblerk - it is a Leyland Martian - another wonderful lorry

Originally Posted by LARD

Originally Posted by Pith_Dorf

Never ever saw a LHD model. Was Lionheart in 1980 - if so I was at Leuth Staging Area, just inside the Dutch/German Border.

Cor blimey. Pith, so was I.

You wern't one of those to**ers walking up and down the lines of trucks waking the crews up and telling them to get their heads down? - As if we needed telling!

No - that was a unit responsibility. We organised the fuel and the tea!

You guys need to get yourselves to the "Town & Country Show" at the National Agriculture Centre, Stonleigh, Warwickshire. It's held every August Bank Holiday Weekend and there are hods of old military vehicles from the present back to WW1 including examples such as shown in the earlier pictures.

Just a thought - taxi for Mr G please!

Originally Posted by Fatbadge

http://www.aecmilitant.co.uk/

seemingly the wreckers had a habit of doing this:

has anyone else got visions of snapped halfshafts after doing this!!

we used to do some of our Diesel training on knocker engines in the REME. one of the trade tests was to change the FIP. i think the term "knocker" was from how the engine sounded wasn't it?!

In my old Regt hgv Drivers learnt/took test in a knocker before moving up to the relative luxury of a Stalwart,we would then lord it over the drivers stuck at driving knockers.

Originally Posted by Sir Rowley Birkin QC

One for the drivers & suppliers, rather than ATs (mostly)

Knockers. No, not large lovely pendulous breasts, but knockers as in AEC Militant Mk 1 10 tonners. Does anyone remember these? I was telling someone that we still had these 40 year old trucks with no power steering and the engine in the cab when I got to my 1st working unit (1988 - before I was an AT, so some might say my only working unit). The fcuker didn't believe me.

Sir Rowley,

You must have been in the same place as me in 1988 then. Although while you were ensonced in Colburn I was part of your superior sister squadron up the road in Gaza. I remember the Knockers in the Mushroom Squadron. The sqn would spend most of the year getting them fit for the regimental exercise and would then leave a trail of them broken down the A1 between Catterick and SPTA. I remember one particularly short Dvr who had to stand up to get enough leverage on the steering wheel to get it round a corner.

Ahhhh, them was the days!