RE: FW: [G_Company_141st] Update on the French MV Situation

From: Jay Travis (dagobert@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Mon Mar 27 2006 - 22:43:31 PST


Perhaps they could convience the authorities that those posts in the back
of their Jeeps are not machine gun mounts, but instead are poles to fly
little white flags off of? Then all they'd have to do is agree to only
keep armor that has its gearshift locked in reverse, and they'd be just
fine.

> [Original Message]
> From: <timothy.smith1@att.net>
> To: Military Vehicles Mailing List <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Date: 3/27/2006 11:43:16 PM
> Subject: [MV] FW: [G_Company_141st] Update on the French MV Situation
>
>
> Subject: [G_Company_141st] Update on the French MV Situation
> Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 03:54:55 +0000
>
> > Dear Roger
> >
> > Issues with the MV in France are in the process of being resolved, at
least
> > for non armored vehicles. The FFVE, French Federation of Historical
Vehicles (MV
> > and civilian, ie 20 000 members) got a lot of media attention and the
government
> > assured us that vehicles without armor or weapon support equipment
would be
> > treated as civilian vehicles. But for armored vehicles as well as
vehicles
> > equipped with arm support (ie jeep with machine gun mount) would
required fire
> > arm permit which in France is almost impossible to get. There are going
to be a
> > lot of Medic/Photographer/Radio jeeps in Normandy next June …
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Jerome
> >
>
>
>
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