Tag Picture Quiz

[Jon Heptonstall]

Oooh no Lee.
good guess but completely wrong.

 

[Lee W]

Matilda same as before

Lee

 

[Jon Heptonstall]

No. Wrong era.
the paint scheme might be a bit misleading as most of these were plain olive drab.
Jon.

 

[Lee W]

Centurion Suez Crisis

Lee

 

[Jon Heptonstall]

Warmer...

 

[Lee W]

Vehicle or location?

Lee

 

[Jon Heptonstall]

Vehicle.

 

[Lee W]

Charioteer?

Lee

 

[Jon Heptonstall]

Not Charioteer and not in British service.

 

[Tim Marlow]

Puma in Israeli service?

 

[Jakko]

It’s a Centurion’s left front mudguard. I suspect the thing to be a boot scraper, but I’m not sure as I’ve never seen it before on one.

 

[Lee W]

Mk IV

Lee

 

[Jon Heptonstall]

It's an Australian Centurion 5/1 which saw service in Vietnam.
Major mods include deletion of the bazooka plates,addition of a 100 gallon rear fuel tank, extra armour plate on the glacis etc.
Amongst the smaller field mods was the additon of boot scrapers,made from lengths of star picket,welded to fenders or elsewhere. The Aussies did their soldiering to the south-east of Saigon- very muddy!
Lee gets a highly commended for perseverance but best of show goes to Jakko.......again.
Jon.

 

[Lee W]

So I wasn't wrong then when I said centurion, just not enough detail

Lee

 

[Jakko]

Amongst the smaller field mods was the additon of boot scrapers,made from lengths of star picket,welded to fenders or elsewhere.

I had only heard of those being put on the plates over the exhaust mufflers, spaced far enough apart that a ration tin fit between them so that a meal could be cooked easily after a day’s operations.

Lee gets a highly commended for perseverance but best of show goes to Jakko.......again.

What can I say? AFVs are one of the few subjects I have in-depth knowledge of … Which is why I’ll now go and try to find a non-AFV picture to post. I may be some time

 

[Jakko]

Where is this?

 

[Lee W]

Looks like a scene from Stargate! Lol

Lee

 

[Jon Heptonstall]

Are those dry-suits hanging up? Bottom right.

 

[Tim Marlow]

That’s the famous cancelled series Firefly....and that’s on the ship Serenity

 

[Lee W]

ROV recovery well in an oil rig?

Lee