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    Interesting images there. Any idea why some of the SWBs (eg at 51 secs) have sloping front mudguards?


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    Quote Originally Posted by 1984V8110 View Post
    Interesting images there. Any idea why some of the SWBs (eg at 51 secs) have sloping front mudguards?
    Being a gun-buggy it could probably be to deflect any incoming fire? Just a guess

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    I thought it was to deflect pressure waves from the gun buggy’s own gun,
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    Quote Originally Posted by 1984V8110 View Post
    Interesting images there. Any idea why some of the SWBs (eg at 51 secs) have sloping front mudguards?
    Quote Originally Posted by p38arover View Post
    I thought it was to deflect pressure waves from the gun buggy’s own gun,
    Cut back to generally stop the guards melting when the 106 is fired
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    Quote Originally Posted by 1984V8110 View Post
    Interesting images there. Any idea why some of the SWBs (eg at 51 secs) have sloping front mudguards?
    In my RAEME time ( 72 to 76 ) I never saw one like that, so I would guess it was an 'in theatre' mod. Could be wrong. never went to Vietnam.
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    In my RAEME time ( 72 to 76 ) I never saw one like that, so I would guess it was an 'in theatre' mod. Could be wrong. never went to Vietnam.
    They were modified with thicker floors etc, a few have survived. I even saw one on a Melbourne Street once- pretty scary with the barrel pointed your way..

    This one was in Bandiana Army Museum a few years ago.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DeeJay View Post

    This one was in Bandiana Army Museum a few years ago.
    I was at Bandiana in '73. Should make a pilgrimage.. I believe they might have a LARC-V there?
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    All the gunbuggies I have seen had this mod. Probably not to stop the actual mudguard from melting, but to stop the sidelights and blinkers from melting.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JDNSW View Post
    All the gunbuggies I have seen had this mod. Probably not to stop the actual mudguard from melting, but to stop the sidelights and blinkers from melting.
    I guess that puts paid to my "in theatre" theory. Nobody over there would have given a toss about sidelights and blinkers.
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