Tanks for the Memories
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Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
THINK, circa 1999
Sweet FA
✪ Three rounds Lord, in my .44 ✪
Sirena
Don't monkey with the buzzsaw
Down memory lane: that white tank?
I worked in an office overlooking Brixton High Road and, when that tank came thundering by, at the best part of 30mph, the whole building would shake.
I worked in an office overlooking Brixton High Road and, when that tank came thundering by, at the best part of 30mph, the whole building would shake.
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
Can have a ruling on whether we're being very specific about the definition of 'tanks' - are we restricted to the pure version, the Main Battle Tank, or are we open to a much larger genre of 'big, heavy shit with tracks'? that includes recovery vehicles, self-propelled guns, armoured infantry carriers and the like?
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
I like the modeller who recreated the ‘Pink Tank’ (an old Czechoslovak T34) from 1 Mandela Way in diorama form:
Armorama :: Pink Tank
Armorama :: Pink Tank
Septimus Rufiji
🍺 🥴 🤮
For some reason - I can't quite put my finger on it - I don't think this one is real.
I designed that tank when I was 9 WHERE'S MY FUCKING MONEY, VICKERS
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
My dad used to build tanks. It's possibly what killed him (the materials that were used - his doc said it's likely what caused his cancer, and indeed it's the same cancer that killed my granddad, who worked with him -- my mum's dad, not my dad's dad).
I got to ferret around inside a tank on an open day one year. Felt like Maggie, I did.
He worked at Chilwell Depot. It was a shell factory before it built tanks. Apparently every other shell that was fired during WWI was made there.
I got to ferret around inside a tank on an open day one year. Felt like Maggie, I did.
He worked at Chilwell Depot. It was a shell factory before it built tanks. Apparently every other shell that was fired during WWI was made there.
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
Ooohhh, I went to Bovington last year ...
camera was being a bit arsey and I didn't have much luck with it, got a few shots.
btm - Tank Museum, Bovington
some big toys there !
A few years ago I got to drive a Ferret - around a busy campsite ! and, no, I didn't cause mayhem, but it was great fun. The following afternoon I was in the "turret" of a Warrior, managed to traverse it and almost got the sergeant with the barrel ...
camera was being a bit arsey and I didn't have much luck with it, got a few shots.
btm - Tank Museum, Bovington
some big toys there !
A few years ago I got to drive a Ferret - around a busy campsite ! and, no, I didn't cause mayhem, but it was great fun. The following afternoon I was in the "turret" of a Warrior, managed to traverse it and almost got the sergeant with the barrel ...
not-bono-ever
meh
there are about 20 of these in Kiev these days
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
Just found this question in Parliament about the closure of the workshops at Chilwell REME Workshop, Chilwell (Hansard, 23 February 1987) - this will be when my dad was made redundant. I guess I thought it was later than that, but obviously not. He went on to work for Royal Ordnance in Nottingham, but didn't like it, and moved on to ZF Gears. He liked it there, and he got to go to West Germany for them during the 1990 World Cup and was in a bar there for the semi between England and W Germany
Thankfully he wasn't much of a football fan so no tears (or blood) were spilled that night 
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
My experience with tanks is limited to a very brief ride in a Saudi M60. It seemed like a very noisy, hot and claustrophobic way to go to war.
