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That's my dad.
Thats a great shot of the drivers weapon mount too, Korg.
This is possibly the clearest one I have of the mount we used, but unfortunately doesn't show the base mounted section. You can make out the clamp on the tub and also the actual weapon coupling.
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Some units used a different weapon mount that incorporated an ammo feed box as intermittent feed jams were possible with the "swinging belt" situation.
Others (insert RAAF here) used much more sophisticated pieces of equipment fashioned from Iriquois chopper door mounts.
Regards
Glen
The CES tells us that the PRC10 was the standard radio in the gun buggies. but we also know that the PRC10 was replaced by the 25/77 sets whilst Australian forces were still in Vietnam (American War).
As we know the gun buggies remained in service for a significant period after Vietnam. I have just been sent an image of a strap device to suspend the 25/77 set in the passengers footwell. Has anyone else seen this device in a gun buggy?
i am sure 8/9RAR still had one in the early 90's, i seem to remember being at a fire power demonstration in SWBTA where they fired the 106. the talk amounst us armourers was that nobody picked up that the operators UD'dQuote:
Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies
kinda wish i was more interested at the time and taken some photos instead of working out how much we could fleece the grunts for goffas
110-786 88 1959 - Series 2 6005B Truck, Utility, 1/4 Ton, GS, Fitted For Rifle 106mm 151915535 143901434 - NSW. VUSD. 'Fitted For Rifle'.Quote:
Originally Posted by korg20000bc
Archive Photo, Vietnam with Gordon Boyd, father of AULRO Korg20000bc, 1rar. 17.06.69 -
just for ID!! (great photo Korg!)
Has anyone noticed the position of the sling swivels, every M60 I handled had the rear sling swivel mounted on top of the butt and the front sling swivel mounted diagonally on the LHS of the fore grip. Interesting.....
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Originally Posted by zulu Delta 534
Mrs HH will be happy to know (and Digger likewise disappointed) that Emmett is off the trailer and has moved to the back yard. He's not into the garage yet as with all the rain lately the soil over the storm water absorption trench is very soft and the last thing I want is to be bogged in the back yard. So further movement's will be restricted to after a good week without rain. :)
Have identified that Emmett is missing the covers over both of the fuel tanks so will be on the look-out for some of those to modify to suit the under-seat filler. Unfortunately the RHS tank has been replaced with a standard SIIa Army tank, so am on the look-out for either a series 1 tank or preferably a gun-buggy tank. Am reluctant to modify the army tank as there are too few of them around, so may end up getting a regular SIIa tank and fitting an 80" S1 filler I have from a very rusty tank.
I was re-reading this info and there is something wrong with the dates. Dad was over there in 1965 but the above info reads 17.06.69 which, from memory, was the 2nd tour that 1RAR did. And he was out of the Army by then.Quote:
Originally Posted by digger
the last date (17-6-69) is the date the army disposed of the vehicle by auction or by writing off etc, so would be correct - that info is taken direct from the 2A ARN info on the REMLR indexes.Quote:
Originally Posted by korg20000bc
so do not panic :) --looks like after your father left the landy didn't want to dangle its dunlops over vietnam any longer so came home too!!
Looking at the REMLR Gunbuggy ARN page Census 6005B there are quite a few where it mentions "Original chassis was..." (112-256; 112-722; 112-723;112-724; 112-726; ?110-849). We know that a large number of Army Inters that returned from Vietnam got mismatched ARN/chassis number when they came out of the rebuild line.
Might we assume the same of these mismatched gun-buggies, or was it something like the chassis breaking under the weight and shock effects of the 106mm? (One of the other GB in currently under restoration in Sydney had a broken chassis.)