Thread: Employment Opportunities

Last night, I followed the link to "Employment Opportunities" at around 2200hrs at 0300hrs I finished reading every bit of it!!!!!!!

BBC. Digger, I say this with feeling, although not a member of the profession of arms, I do know a real leader when I see one and your it! Hell and back, Cobba! You are near the same age as me and if I had witnessed just 1% of your life I'd be a happy man.

How true...it all comes down to Family!

Also, this is THE best thread I have EVER read on the net...BAR NONE!

Originally Posted by jonesy61

Last night, I followed the link to "Employment Opportunities" at around 2200hrs at 0300hrs I finished reading every bit of it!!!!!!!

BBC. Digger, I say this with feeling, although not a member of the profession of arms, I do know a real leader when I see one and your it! Hell and back, Cobba! You are near the same age as me and if I had witnessed just 1% of your life I'd be a happy man.

How true...it all comes down to Family!

Also, this is THE best thread I have EVER read on the net...BAR NONE!

Jonesy61,

Thanks so much mate. I hope you ended up getting some sleep!

I wish you and yours all the best for the New Year. Keep safe and find your happiness in whatever you do.

Cheers,

BBC

Been on some leave. Just now back in Kampala, Uganda, after spending most of the day travelling from Maputo, in Mozambique.

Have so much to tell and so many photos to upload.

One thing I noted with my wife was as to how many Landy's we were seeing on a daily basis in Maputo. So, I thought I'd measure it. I took a drive and was out and around about town, from the richest, to the poorest and I took photos of all Landys I could. Besides these, there were also others speeding past etc, that I could not snap.

Many of them, especially the Defender/Counties are with aid organizations but, what was interesting to me, was the number of Series vehicles around in the poor parts of town. Real work vehicles, doing real work, in conditions and doing things that are a bit difficult to imagine at times.

These photos were all taken between 1000-1130h on last Friday, a normal day in town ( ...while my missus was getting her hair done!):






This is the only Land Rover "Dealership" I've seen in Maputo but, it only had these two vehicles in their yard:









These blokes were doing an engine change out...right beside the road:







I related to them, in Portuguese, how I had a 1967 Series 2A...I don't think they knew Landies had been around that long...and longer.













Getting back into the 'monied' side of town:



and yes...that is a rat near the RH rear wheel....it is Africa!









There were three at this intersection, if you look closely:





This bloke was really checking me out as I photographed his vehicle:









In addition to these, I would have seen more than 6 others driving in traffic.

How many Landies do you see in a 1.5 hr drive around town?

Enough grounds for starting up a Mozambican LRO's?

Originally Posted by BBC

This is the only Land Rover "Dealership" I've seen in Maputo but, it only had these two vehicles in their yard:

I bet they are still overpriced

Great pics BBC - do you know what the "80" on the back of the 90 is for? (Or is that a specially short 90?)

I can't think of a better way to kill an hour or so !!

Originally Posted by Sleepy

I bet they are still overpriced

Great pics BBC - do you know what the "80" on the back of the 90 is for? (Or is that a specially short 90?)

Sleepy,

Note the "80" is also on the back of a number of the Series 3's as well.

It is a registration requirement because, they have been registered as trucks and the "80" sticker is some sort of 'speed limit' attempt. Mind you though, some of the Series would be definitely unsafe exceeding 80km/h.

Africa is certainly the land of Landrover. Although Australia was statistically the largest importer of the series landrovers, Africa would definately have to be the continent to claim the largest numbers by a long shot.

In Africa you see very few Landcruisers in comarrisson and the older model Land Rovers are still running strong while maintained under the conditions depicted in these terrific photos.

I owned a series 3 stationwagon in during my short stay in Namibia and was so pleasantly surprised to feel hear and smell the same characteristics as those of the Land Rovers I grew up with. The only real difference was the smell of the anti-sniffing additive in the African fuel.

It was in my first drive of my African Land Rover that I found this grave in Pretoria, SA occupied by the bodies of Harry Morant and Peter Handcock.

Africa is a treasure trove of Land Rover antiquities!!

Thanks again for posting the pic's BBC. Those two in the dealer's yard look in need of some detailing

Are there any of the Puma's getting around much or is it still really the Td5 that is the most recent Defender model?