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Service Films Released By Pathe Gazette Ww2

What a load of tosh, never had anything like that when I learned to drive at Blandford, but then we were real drivers.:triumphant:
 
Austin K2 said:
What a load of tosh, never had anything like that when I learned to drive at Blandford, but then we were real drivers.:triumphant:
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I also learned to drive in the army, passed my test at the 2nd attempt in an Austin K2 ? Whilst i was learning, rumour had it that a n/s lad when told told " straight over at the roundabout" did exactly that, ploughed straight across it. Probably just an army myth but makes you smile :-} One thing that annoys me with "modern" drivers is, they ratchet the handbrake when pulling it on.
 
SMUDGER, that army myth, no, I've seen it done.
Trying to work his way out, didn't work though, just got extra jankers.
Another was told to go right at an island, and yes, yes that's just what he did, daft begger. More jankers.
 
Austin K2 said:
SMUDGER, that army myth, no, I've seen it done.
Trying to work his way out, didn't work though, just got extra jankers.
Another was told to go right at an island, and yes, yes that's just what he did, daft begger. More jankers.
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Don`t you just love those Army stories/myths. Another one was, if there`s a group, lighting up their ciggies, never accept the third light because by then the sniper will have lined up on you. I`m sure there`s plenty more.
 
Austin K2 said:
SMUDGER, that army myth, no, I've seen it done.
Trying to work his way out, didn't work though, just got extra jankers.
Another was told to go right at an island, and yes, yes that's just what he did, daft begger. More jankers.
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Near Aldergrove airport, N Ireland, there was a roundabout at Nutts Corner.
Someone drove a Pig halfway across it, (and got bogged in).
Those marks were there for a long time.
 
Once on Dartmoor, 1956, driving one of those square nosed Bedford's, tried to get the Bedford over a bridge that was two inches narrower than the Bedford, made quite a mess of the side of the lorry, and knocked a few bricks out of the wall.
Got over though.
Soon scarpered.
 
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