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Always tried them out round the camp before signing for them, then the damn things broke down away from camp, usually miles away.

:ambivalence:Talking of Champs, there was one on station at 22 Coy. RASC Taunton, 1956/58. Bloody thing spent more time in the REME workshops than on the road, always breaking down.

Terry, any chance of e-mailing said pages to me please.?

Hi Terry, Sorry about that, put it down to dodgy finger syndrome. Can you find out any more information for me, you can send it by e-mail if you have any.

I can remember our windows being blown out more than once. This was half way up Gravelly Hill, opposite the Mount.

My Father, Sgt. F.A.Darby served with the 8th Batt. Royal Warwick's, served at Gallipoli, when withdrawn from there went to Russia to fight on the side of the Russian Royal Family. When they were murdered and he returned to blighty, he brought back with him 2 Russian coins which I still have.

Cookie, I cannot give you any more information, I didn't know him long, just after I moved to Lincolnshire in 1975. It was only after his death that I found out from his wife about his past. As an aside to this, one of the Lancaster's that was in your squadron is now in East Kirkby Aviation...

Hi Cookie, when in Africa, did you know a Ron Madison? He was a mate of mine, no longer with us. He flew in that PR Squadron.

I remember Salford Bridge like that. Murder to cross sometimes.

I was watching some airplane models being flown, must have in the '60's, when this bloke pedalled up on his bicycle. He then proceeded to get all the parts of his plane from within various bags on his bike, then assembled quite a large plane, engine driven, all set, go. The plane did a super...

As I said, I didn't find it too excessive or hard to handle. I've fired the SLR in civvy life while with the Royal Observer Corps, good gun too.

I thought that firing the .303 was dead easy, very little kick back as far as I were concerned. Not bragging here, just as I found it.

chocks2, think about this. You did the right thing in refusing, if you had put all those mats back, there would be the proof he needed to really hammer you. Good lad.:friendly_wink::friendly_wink:

Captain51, I did my training at Blandford (RASC) with Kenny Lynch the entertainer. Then while serving with 22 Coy. RASC at Taunton Somerset, driving staff cars, I was stand by driver when we had a visit by Fieldmarshall Slim. The main driver was two months senior to me, that's why I was stand by.

I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts--Billy Cotton. Put another nickel in, -- Theresa Brewer.

Most of the songs and singers listed above I agree are music as it should be. A lot of that music was around in the 1940's, there happens to be a big revival of that type of music. I help organise 1940's evenings with live entertainment, where people come along dressed in 1940's attire and...

I've only recently joined this forum, and this thread and this may have been mentioned, but with the mix of lads that were put together from all over the UK, wasn't it amazing how we all understood each other after the first week or so, yet when we were first put together you couldn't understand...

. Most kids did that. Great fun but what a nuisance to the residents.

I'm sure as youngsters we all did things we should not have done, nothing major criminally, but small acts that we regret doing. I'll start with this one. It must have been around 1949/50 ish, I found a ration book in the street, with an address for one of the small roads behind the Salford...

Can't remember any fairs at Salford Park, but I do remember watching cycle races there, Reg Harris used to attend. Got his autograph once, but that has long since disappeared.