Armoured Cars, Tanks, Other Vehicles... & Pith Helmets.

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  1. Dave55

    Dave55 Atlanta, USA

    Winston Churchill
    P-51
    and Laurel and Hardy

    The best of both worlds :)
     
  2. Bodston

    Bodston Little Willy

    Watch the birdie.jpg No vehicles but a camera and a periscope.. Whoor
     
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  3. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    You dirty old man.
    A 3A Kodak, I feel.
     
  4. Rich Payne

    Rich Payne Rivet Counter Patron 1940 Obsessive

    I hope that there was a sufficient supply of expendable O/Rs ready to operate the shutter release.

    "Here we go, Atkins. I'll frame the shot and then you go over the top...the M.C. will be for me, of course !"
     
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  5. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    Imagine my sanguinity...

    While visiting the parents, and rooting through a fair heap of unseen photographs of actual service, Zeppelins over camp, possibly even some shots of Signals work on the Mechanised Force exercises... Some pictures of my own grandfather wearing Pith Helmet with vehicles at hand.
    The man was something of a legend within the family, and is still raising a smile 22 years after his death.

    Maybe Albions. Haven't checked as still oddly hypnotised.
    (Rear notes added by him, possibly much later. Not sure.)

    1931:
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    Vehicle-row-1-front.jpg

    1932:
    Standing dead centre. With camel:

    Pith-1-Rear.jpg

    Pith1-front.jpg
     
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  6. Rich Payne

    Rich Payne Rivet Counter Patron 1940 Obsessive

    I've complimented you on your flimsies elsewhere, young man ! My suspicion for the wireless-bodied 'cars' is late 1920s Guy 3-tonners but I can't find any photos to confirm.
     
  7. Waddell

    Waddell Well-Known Member

    Interesting photographs. I think the little car on the left in the first photograph may be an Austin 7 wireless car.
     
  8. Dave55

    Dave55 Atlanta, USA

    On Facebook today:

    Photographed in his repurposed Rolls Royce Phaeton, Field Marshal Viscount Edmund Allen, ranking general of the British Empire's Egyptian Expeditionary Force in Damascus during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign against the Ottoman Empire in the conquest of Palestine, 1915-1918, from the British Ministry of Information First World War Collection of photographs by George Westmoreland, October 1918.

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  9. Chris C

    Chris C Canadian

    Interesting spare wheel or tyre, there.
     
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  10. Vintage Wargaming

    Vintage Wargaming Well-Known Member

    Maybe expecting snow...
     
  11. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    On just one side of the road...
     
  12. Dave55

    Dave55 Atlanta, USA

    Looking around at Rolls' on the web, that looks like a Silver Ghost and not a Phantom or 'Phaeton'
     
  13. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    Isn't Phaeton a body style?
    Quite possible to have a Phaeton Ghost.
     
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  14. Dave55

    Dave55 Atlanta, USA

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    Tony56 Member Patron

  16. redtop

    redtop Well-Known Member

    Comparison of Steel helmet over Pith Bottom right



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  17. SDP

    SDP Incurable Cometoholic

    I know there is a Sartorial Elegance thread on the Forum but is there a 'Silly Shorts, long Socks and Shoes' thread?
     
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  18. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    I think all of those fine garments come firmly under the British army officer sartorial thread:
    The sartorial elegance of the British officer on campaign

    Ron stands up for the ORs:
    The sartorial elegance of British Other Ranks on campaign

    Silly indeed.
    Those socks & shorts built empires! & fascists were ground beneath the natty brogue & desert boot!
    Harumph.
    Etc.
     
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  19. TTH

    TTH Senior Member

    Who's this "Edmund Allen" fellow? He sounds important.

    I have been in Beersheba and seen a statue there to a Field Marshal Sir Edmund Allenby. Maybe he knew who Edmund Allen was.
     
  20. Rich Payne

    Rich Payne Rivet Counter Patron 1940 Obsessive

    We should, first and foremost, make ourselves aware of the difference between 'socks' (such are puppets made of), and 'hose tops' :)
     
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