Re: ARMORED CARS

At 6:17 PM +0000 3/18/02, Robin Paul wrote:
>
>Saladin was definitely 76mm- I can't think of any British AFV with a
90mm,
>unless it's a refit in someone else's army.

Damn that mail app crash. I thought I hadn't sent this. I decided to 
double check my sources. I had additional info composed for a mail 
message then couldn't find evidence to support my argument....I bow 
to the correct info of 76mm....

>As a child, I lived opposite Redford Barracks in Edinburgh (Scots
Greys,
>Royal Scots and many others over the years), and we were regularly
treated
>to Saladins and Saracen APCs (I can almost hear the "Wheeeeeeeeee!"
noise
>they made!). Stalwart amphib lorries were a particular favourite.

Must have been nice. Closest I've gotten to a Saladin was on top of 
the turret and at the driver's hatch at TanksAlot. I took a bunch of 
photo's. Course, I do have my own ferret Mk2/3 so its not all that 
bad. Lookind down into the Stalwart at Tanks Alot had me strongly 
fearing ever having to work on one of those beasts. The size of the 
gearbox, transfer box, PTO for the Pumpjets, controls arms for the 4 
wheel steering and all the other bits seriously scared me (most of 
the parts are really common with the Saracen/Saladins. I'll stick to 
mucking about with the sufficiently complex and intimidating 
B60/W.E.P-S.Gearbox on the ferret. This weekend saw a happy event on 
00DA61. The Fluid coupling had zero loss of fluid after 1000 miles of 
use in my hands. A non leaky fluid coupling is a really good thing 
when you can't get the REME to fix it for you.

-- 
Ryan Gill			  rmgill@mindspring.com
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