Just found the list while searching for info on green vehicles, I'm 29 live
in Belfast, Northern Ireland and am in the market for a military vehicle -
I'd welcome suggestions on what to purchase, as well as shows/meets I wish
to use the vehicle on a fairly regular basis to transport stock for my
fledgling business - not day to day use exactly but more than for a simple
show piece. So the veh in question needs to be relatively practical (if
that's not a contradiction in terms!), Road legal and above all available in
the U.K. The seemingly obvious solution is a Landy of some description, but
as they're in day to day use on the streets over here in an offical
capacity, I'm a bit reticent to put a mil-spec one on the road, I want to
attract attention but not that sort of attention ! Any suggestions
greatfully recieved, some of the items I've looked at are the M1008/M1009
CUCV's, Mutts and the Simca Marmon, of which there were a few at Beltring
this year which brings me to my next little spiel.
Looking through the archives of the list, and indeed from speaking to people
at the show over the weekend there seems to be a degree of ill-feeling
towards the organisers, mainly due to the lack of toilet/washing facilities.
This year was my first time at the show so I have no knowledge of how things
have gone in the past and while it was obvious that there were problems,
particularly on the Sunday, it would seem that the fault lay with the firm
from which the portaloo type privvys were hired who should have had them
cleaned rather than with IMPS. As to there being only one shower, possibly
in the fixed toilet block, but there were others in a trailer type affair
behind the main booking in caravan. I used them myself and while the water
pressure and temperature left a little to be desired they were functional.
The lack of water was a little more serious, particularly if like myself you
manpacked your gear in and didn't have a few jerrys handy to stock up. Here
the blame would appear to lie with Kent water, Ironic as they have quite an
exhibit on the Hop Farm. In the past I've attended many motorcycle rallies
and events and I can assure anyone who though the conditions poor at
Beltring that the conditions last weekend were palatial in comparison to
what's on offer at most of those. Still, life is a learning process and
hopefully for next year's "big-one" there'll be more loos, showers and water
layed on and maintained and more people will ship in their own thus
relieving a little of the burden. Anyway, I survived, relatively unscathed
bar sunburn and ant bites and will certainly be there in 2000, hopefully on
olive painted wheels and with a trade stand that you'll all naturally want
to visit !
Nick P. Norwood
Wild Geese Trading
Belfast, Northern Ireland
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