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NEW CONTENT * NEW FEATURES * NEW LOOK
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Issue
189
Ride
of the
Reivers
One of the military vehicle
world’s best kept secrets,
an off-road driving weekend
in Northumberland
£4.50
February 2017
Don Rs Remembered
Military Matchless Motorcycles
Back in the USSR
Patriot Park, Kubinka
World War One
Road Traffic Accidents
Happy New Year from
All of us at AJP!
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February 2017
Frontlines
Welcome
to the first new-look issue of
Classic Military Vehicle magazine. As
we go into 2017, we have added some
new regular sections; book reviews,
archive centrespreads and museum
of the month. What’s more we have
repackaged others such as the regular
Military Vehicle Market and Echoes of
War features and wrapped the whole lot
in a redesigned magazine.
All
Change
The team behind this is a mixture of
existing and new contributors along with
a couple of new faces in the office team
in the shape of Editorial Assistant, Vicky
Turner and a new Editor, me.
I have been a military vehicle enthusiast
for 40+ years, right back to when I had
a bedroom window sill full of Airfix 1:76
scale AEC Matadors and used to read
Bart Vanderveen’s famous Jeep book in
the school library.
What I have done in the past isn’t
important, far more important is looking
forward; while there are numerous
changes in this issue there are plenty
more to come which we hope will
Editor:
John Carroll
john.carroll@keypublishing.com
Editorial Assistant:
Vicky Turner
Chief Designer:
Steve Donovan
Design:
Dave Robinson, Tracey Croft, Andy ‘O’
Contributors:
Duncan Glen, Steve Wilson,
Jim Kinnear, Scott Smith, Nigel Hay,
Garry Stuart, Tim Gosling
Advertising Manager:
Michelle Toner
Tel: +44 (0)1780 755131
michelle.toner@keypublishing.com
Advertising Production:
Kay Townsin
kay.townsin@keypublishing.com
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Group Editor:
Nigel Price
Production Manager:
Janet Watkins
Group Marketing Manager:
Martin Steele
Marketing Manager:
Shaun Binnington
Managing Director & Publisher:
Adrian Cox
Commercial Director:
Ann Saundry
Executive Chairman:
Richard Cox
Andy Bloxham’s Hotchkiss M201 Jeep navigates a rough ford in the River Breamish during The Ride of the Reivers
‘while there are
numerous changes
in this issue there
are plenty more
to come’
enhance the magazine and your
enjoyment of it. As this issue goes to
press, dates for 2017 events are being
announced and, like you, we’re looking
forward to getting out and about in
connection with green machines.
EDITOR
JOHN CARROLL
john.carroll@keypublishing.com
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John Carroll
Editor John is longstanding military
vehicle enthusiast who has owned
a variety of green machines from a
Scammell Explorer to a Harley 45
via Jeeps and Land Rovers
Vicky Turner
Editorial Assistant Vicky is crucial
to the organisation of the new CMV
team and the production of the
magazine. She’s also the owner of
a classic 1960s Land Rover
Michelle Toner
Ad Sales Executive Michelle is the
person to contact with regard to
advertising in CMV. She’s happy
to discuss companies’ specific
advertising needs
Steve Donovan
Chief Designer Steve has worked
with Designer Dave Robinson
in redesigning the magazine to
produce CMV’s fresh, new look
for 2017
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The Fighting Matchless
From Fields to War
Fitting Tribute
Doing It Right
Ford Woody
It Ain’t Half Hot Mum
Patriot Park
Post-war French Armour
Ride of the Reivers
wordsSteve
Wilson
picturesGarry
Stuart, John Tinley
Military motorcycles from the famous Plumstead, London
factory
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The makeshift Soviet KhT-16 Armoured Tractor and its
role in World War Two
38
The Fighting
Matchless
In World War Two, the G3/L with its
revolutionary use of telescopic front forks was
“the Spitfire of WD motorcycles.”
But its predecessor had been a fine machine too
Armed and dangerous - John Tinley’s son Joe (Right) carries slung 303 over military leather jerkin and para’s Dennison smock [while friend Michael keeps the chill out with a tanker’s suit]
joined by Norton Big Four s v 600 outfit, brought back from Egypt with rare, un-rotted sidecar and its mudguard
Military vehicles at the annual Operation Market Garden
commemoration in Arnhem, Holland
J
ohn Tinley is the man to see about all
things relating to the Matchless motorcy-
cles of World War and by extension, the
full range of British two and three-wheelers and
related equipment from that conflict.
A de-commissioned Bren gun plus Lee-Enfield
.303 rifles duly appeared for the benefit of
the camera, along with appropriate uniforms,
helmets etc. And John, a fit and friendly
54-year-old, whose day job is managing many
of the country’s most successful commercial
buildings and whose other recreations include
stunt flying, then revealed an Aladdin’s cave of
wartime bikes.
These ranged from the Norton 600cc Big Four
outfit , which, said John, once had 11 or 12 peo-
ple riding on it one evening in Normandy and
was retrieved from Egypt, so that its original
tinware had remained in good condition; to a lit-
tle James 125 Villiers-engined ML. “It’s probably
the only original James ML survivor of the 6th
Airborne operation on D-Day,” said John.
It had been part of the 53rd Worcester Regi-
ment unit of light Royal Artillery supporting the
6th, so may have arrived by glider, or due to the
lack of glider capacity, been with the regiment’s
two battalions which had come ashore on
D-Day. It had been found in a barn south of
Caen. “At the 70th anniversary 2014 memo-
rial service at Breville near Pegasus Bridge, I
chatted to an airborne survivor who had come
out of the back of a glider on an ML. He’d hated
it – never got used to mixing the petrol and oil
– and had left it in a barn,” said John.
John likes WD machines with known history,
and has a loose network of people in France
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wordsTim
Gosling
picturesarchive
MAIN IMAGE:
Order 15 specifically bans the carrying of
civilian passengers In the cab of the front Daimler can
be seen three small children, probably their first ever
ride in a vehicle
INSET:
The front cover of the booklet Drivers Orders
which was issued to all drivers in France
The World War One Driving Manual for British ASC drivers.
It didn’t always go according to plan
50
A Ford C11 ADF made in Canada in 1941 and restored in
England over a long period
56
62
DoingitRight
British drivers of the Army Service Corps were given a driving manual
as they arrived in France during the First World War.
Tim Gosling
highlights some of the information it contained
44
I
Testing light six-wheeler lorries in India during the 1930s
n 1914 the British Army had been desperate
for skilled drivers, taking on many bus or
commercial vehicle drivers whose level of
fitness would otherwise not be considered good
enough for front line work.
Unfortunately, this also resulted in some recruits
who had been rejected from the infantry, exag-
gerating their abilities or experience at driving in
order to get in to the war. One reported example
(with there no doubt being many similar ones)
concerned a new recruit who having no driving ex-
perience whatsoever convinced his recruiter that
he could drive and then promptly wrote off a car.
In order to prevent this from happening recruit-
ers had to ask new recruits who claimed to
have some level of driving experience several
rudimentary questions to gauge their skill level.
Those who were not imme-
diately passed off as a driver
would take an eight-week
training course at one of the
army driver training schools
before being posted to join a
Mechanical Transport (MT)
Company.
The size of the MT Com-
pany would vary depend-
ing on what task it was
assigned to but would
usually vary between
40 and 70 lorries. Once
in France the company
would be assigned a
depot, usually an old
industrial building, farm,
or if nothing was available
they would occupy huts or
tents in a field.
The quality of their depot
could vary considerably and
one of the least pleasant
surely had to be that as
as-
signed to 43rd Auxiliary (pet
(pet-
rol) Company in Boulogne
which was described as a
“fish yard” with the personnel
sleeping in the cellars (hope
(hope-
fully after the fish had been
removed). From these depots
the lorries would be assigned
daily tasks either singular
singular-
45
Visiting the expansive Cold War-era armoured vehicle
theme park in Kubinka, Russia
68
70
A glimpse at the widely exported AMX-13 tank
This history of a long-running military vehicle event in
Northumberland
14
News
Military Vehicle Market
On the Shelf
Collectable Books
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28
Calendar
Event Report
Museum of the Month
Echoes of War
A round-up of news about military vehicles old and new
and the new, monthly CMV pub recommendation
2017 is going to be a busy year for military vehicle enthusiasts
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22
23
What’s selling where and when and for how much
Mudmaster 2016 - the British Army Motoring Association’s
annual off-road driving event
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New regular content; four new book reviews
A new regular slot; Tacla Taid at Newborough on Anglesey
Collectable books - old and new - reviewed
Looking into military vehicles through an archive photograph
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Classic Military Vehicle
Issue189
February 2017
Contents
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