Austin
Champ and friends
More pics
of the lovable 50's workhorse
Adapt
and Survive
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'Hello
big boy!! Click on the pic for a bigger version where available...'

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More 40's and 50's
classic heavy metal.
More itinerant
hardware for the military vehicle watcher. Some cold war stuff to
remind us all of lying in bed and reading the 'Eagle', 'Victor'
or even 'Parade' by torchlight whilst listening to the distant rumble
of passing jets and wondering if the balloon had finally gone up
and if hiding under the bed could really protect us from all those
soviet megatons.
Thankfully, the government
was on the ball as ever and we had 'Protect and Survive' to tell
us what to do in the event of the final countdown...
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Green Goddess - Not only a diet
expert in a shiny leotard but one of the icons of the cold war.
The legendary Bedford
4x4 auxilliary fire engine was a mainstay of the UK's civil defence program
throughout the 50's and 60's. Although unsophisticated compared to modern
appliances, they were simple to maintain, did a reasonable job of pumping
water where it was needed and like the strategic
steam reserve provided a useful asset for use in a national emergency.
They were regularly wheeled out during the seventies when local government
employees took strike action and the firemen were replaced by squaddies. |

Green Goddess
Fire Engine
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The awesome
green godess - yours for two grand with a mere 800 miles on the
clock. They just aren't sexy though!
Ahh...the
three day week, the firemen's strike. Who'd do their job? - most
people in the UK it seems, judging by the number of applicants
every time a job comes up.
Still putting
out fires in Africa. See the Green
Goddess still working.
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Tovarich...
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Back
a few years to when the russkies were on our side and the international
conspiracy to pollute our precious bodily fluids was just a paranoid
delusion..
Ivan
here is having a fun time reliving the great patriotic war. Urrah
Stalino!! - long live the glorious communist party of the USSR.
And
let's hear it for the comrades of GAZ production unit 43 at Omsk
who have selflessly slept at their machines enabling exceeded production
targets for 28 consecutive weeks.
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The Russians
- Don't forget the Russians...
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No
problem crossing the Volga in this little beauty. As with the TU4,
the russki version of the B29, imitation is the sincerest form of
flattery. |
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