Re: [MV] Intro, request & Beltring debacle

NIGEL HAY (Nigelhay@tanksrus.freeserve.co.uk)
Fri, 30 Jul 1999 20:29:31 +0100

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From: Nick Norwood <nick@nemisis.dnet.co.uk>
To: <mil-veh@skylee.com>
Sent: Friday, July 30, 1999 7:39 PM
Subject: [MV] Intro, request & Beltring debacle

> Hi All,
>
> 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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