Youtube comments of 51WCDodge (@51WCDodge).

  1. The US Ammunition shortage continues. Meanwhile, a bearded man is seen with an armful of SMG's heading outside with a large grin on his face.
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  2. Reminds me of a remark made to me by a very respected UK Antique Dealear. 'What's new in the Antique market?' - 'A lot more than people are willing to admit'.
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  3. A lady like this is the cornerstone of any community anywhere. The memory of it, the peacemaker, the person you can go to. They are an essential part of why a community works.
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  4. Who says that old guns were crude? Remarkable enginnering.
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  5. Well honest to God, you can go check. Boeing 737 have on the outside of the wingtip navigation light panel. Instructions to open this panel are on the inside.
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  6. Well the average Marine has the speed of a racehorse, the strength of a carthorse, and the brains of a rocking horse.
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  7. Fun fact: The Isralies had an ammunitiomn factory, under the British Army Laundry in Jerusalem. It produced 9mm, so , how does one get a 9mm Brass past and suspicious Britsh goverment? You set up a lipstick factory! And import brass 'Lipstick cases' , that just happenm to be 9 mm wide.
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  8. Owning firearms in UK is considerd to be something that should be controlled like a driving licence, you have to go through various hoops , prove you are safe and responsible. I have no problem with that, I am after all in charge of something that can cause injury and death. However! I had a run in with my local police over de actived firearms, clearlyproof house marked with certificates. I had been the victim of a serious crime, the police were in my place at my invitation, I was in hospital. When the officer came, I thought to take a statement, no he was more concerned over a couple od de-ac's, which the Friearms Act clearlys states 'De-Activated firearms are not firearms'. Took six weeks to get my porperty back, as to the crime ***k all! And people wonder why we get ,.....very upset...? Oh the real functioning ones? Never mentioned.
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  9. Why do they call him One Eye? He was trying to get a good cheek weld and sight picture.
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  10. Why Sir, should a British Gentleman require a repeating shotgun? At the time he would have had a pair of London Best Guns and a peaseant by his side to reload for him. It is not 'nice' to slaughter the birds with a machine gun! Even so on some of the big shoots at that time 12 men double gunning would still bring down 500 to 1000 birds in a day.
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  11. Eh, I call female military offciers Ma'am and male Sir. Can anyone tell me how that is disrepectful? Has anybody asked the actual people serving what they want to be called?
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  12. Legend has it that Bees were used against war Elephants . A swarm would be trapped in a basket or sack and thrown at the Elephant. Modern research appears to back this up as the positioning of bee hives along feild boundaries is an effectie detterent for wild elephants.
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  13. The British also used Frequency analysis. Which station sent a message and who jumped at the other end. That allows you to surmise that Station A reports to Station C that reports to Station B. Then when Station B transmits A & C jump ie B is the lead. The reason for Meterology reports being important, is the information cannot be changed, it has to be taken from certain points at a set time to be any use. As the only source of such information was either U Boats or Long range aircraft by Enigma, and through HF/DF the Allies knew the area from which the report was made. So Allied vessels and aircraft were recording the same information, wind ,cloud , humidity and barometric pressure. So The Allies already knew what should be in the report. Then when the message reached a German station it was retransmitted to the end user, mostly the Luftwaffe, by Enigma. So you had the same info being transmitted by two stations, at roughly the same time on a regular basis, otherwise the Met info was useless. Add to that long range telegraphy was carrier wave, better known as Morse. Every Morse operator develops a rythum, know as the Fist, it is very distinctive. The British Y Service operators who did the actual . interception of the transmisions became familiar with the operator's fist and also the habits that each operator developed. The Enigma require an intial random setting of the rotas. Think of modern day passwords, how many people actually use a random password for very site? If all else failed then the British would provoke a message. A bombing raid would be carried out, or the guns at Dover would lob a few shells over the Channel. The local garrison would then be likley to report, air attack at certain hour or shells falling in an area in their routine reports.
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  14. Bear in made BAE bought out Enfeild and made a fortune creating the crap, then bought H&K and made another fortune fixing the crap.
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  15. The last V2 launched at London landed at Court Road, Orpington on the 27th March 1945. There was one casualty, a housewife in her kitchen, Ivy Millichamp. She was also the last civillian killed by enemy action in England during WW2.
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  16. Unfortunatley, when they do work,, it is no laughing matter. Poaching is deciminating species.
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  17. Ground to pilots. Quick go! He's changing belts.
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  18. The Dial sight, like artillery sights does not sight on the ground. You can't see the target . Rather it is set from a Range Pole that has been surveyed in. The Bren tripod has stops already built in to stop the gun going out of arc.
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  19. The world of equestrian, field shooting gun dogs racing, and the loyalty shown to the forces. So much has been lost with one ilustrious woman. RIP Mam
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  20. This gun has a chequered history in France. It is often seen as a symbol of the MILICE, the Vichy French equival;ent of the Gestapo , and no I'm not kidding, the MILICE were the same.
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  21. Don't fire it from a horse.! If your lucky the horse won't go over backwards with you.
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  22. I live atOrpington in the UK. Our local hospital is known as the Canada Wing, built with donations by the people of Canada as during the Great War it formed 16th Canandian Gemral Hospital, the men are not forgotten, they are remebered every day.
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  23. Ian and and Karl are planning to sell them to Elbonia. As mine detectors.
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  24. The one on the right looks like a BPH Provisonal mark, which would fit from Black Powder to Nitro.
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  25. We have devloped this gadget that will halve the weight an Infantary soldier needs to carry! General Staff: My God! Waht can we disevise to replace the lost weight?
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  26. Sounds much nicer than 'Civil War' or 'Invasion by citizens of a Forign Country'.
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  27. The Britsh P (Phenate) or PH (Phenate Hexamine) hoods were of a thicker material, over all. As blue grey colour.They were fitted with an exteranl Donald Duck flappy valve. Even when the Small Box Resperatior was introduced they were still carried for emergency use. When digging on the Western Front you often find a small circular tin about inch and half across by half inch deep with a screw top Marked Compound Anti Fogging, so knowen problem. :-)
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  28.  @alanfhall6450  To which the standard answer is 'Better tried by twelve than carried by six'.
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  29. Scopes at this time were built for an individual. Fixed focus tuned to your eye sight. The whole subject is fasciniting by itself. Early optics such as the Gallilo sight had the advantage of gathering light for dawn and dusk shots.
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  30. Isnt that the only purpose? Anything else is refinement, cost, extra material, manufactuer and increeasd final price.
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  31.  @jacobmasters438  Spare socks warm 'em all 🤣 Glad I'm not the only one who knows that.
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  32. Did I load 3 or4 ? Do ya feel lucky?
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  33. Essex Farm ADS (Advanced Dressing Station ) where Mc Crae served is on the west side of the canal that runs north from Ipere (Modern Spelling) . Alongside Essex Farm Cemetery. The town is also the site of the Menin Gate.Canadian troops often participate in the Last Post Ceremony there. Mc Crae's brother was surgeoun in charge at the 16th Ontario Military Hospital Orpington Kent. The hospital is still active. The People of Canada donated for the Maple Leaf block, which still serves the local area. There is also a CWWG cemetry at All Saints Church Orpington,and St Mary Cray Cemetery, about one and halfmiles away. One group not mentioned here , as they were not Canadian at the time, is the Newfoundland Regiment. There maginifecnt memorial is at Beaumont Hamel, on the Somme near Thiepval. For those whose intrest has ben piqued.Try the Western Front Assocoation Youtube channel.
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  34. The 100 ton guns were built at the Royal Arsenal Woolwich (Pronounced Wool-Itch) The Aresenal is on the south side of the River Thames, the Aresenal had it's own fleet of boats and tugs, with thier own Blue Naval Ensign. In addition there were two barges called Gog and Magog, after the to giants of the City of London. These guns were on the front page of The Times newspapers as the most expensive ever built. The proofing of the guns was done at Shoeburyness at the rivers mouth. In order to get there they were shipped on the barges, when a slight technical problem occured. They managed to drop the gun when loading it onto the barge! This again made the front page of the papers, It took 9 days to get it back out of the river. The two guns on HMS Thunderer, the first Royal Navy Turret ship, were also a nightmare. One was Double Charged, and blew causing 36 deaths. Following this the remaing gun was returned to Woowich for tetsing and never refitted. Reason I know this, I used to work at Woolwich and during the closure of the site did a lot of historical research for the decommisioning team. P.S the shells are not one ton. The Imperail Ton (The ONLY on ethat counted at the time) is 2240 lbs avouirdupois. The Colonials have trouble with thier Arthmatic My Lord!
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  35. Ian didn't mention another use for them. Spotting Rifles. Bolted on the top of Wombat and Mobat recoiless Anti tank guns. A cartridge matching the main projectile ballistics was supplied. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIaUbVYi4Hs
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  36. My Mother worked in Malta just after WW2. She worked for the man who had been Minister of Health at the time. Malta is extremely hot in summer so being packed down those tunnels , lit by oil lamps or candles, the oxygen supply got very short. Two main problems were depleted oxygen and heat stroke. American and British merchant ships attempted to re supply the island, which at one point in 1942 was two weeks from surrender. The Royal Navy launched Operation Pedestal to relive the Island. Including one of the mostt famous merchant ship of all time the American tanker SS Ohio.
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  37. Zorg I used to work with an Austrian Guy called Hienz Rossinger, he made cakes so saocke din alcahol you only had to sniff them. Only at his funeral did I find out, first he was Jewish, second he was the first British Army Officer into Buchenwald.
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  38. My son was born three months premature. Amongst other problems, he had to be fed. So the hospital used a 'Complete Feed Formula'. It STUNK! Honestly your eyes watered. I was told by the Doctor, it had been developed for the Royal Marines, but even they wouldn't eat it. Must have done some good though my son is now a hulking great thirty year old, and I' have two Grandaughters.
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  39. One last one. How do you confuse a Marine? Put two shovels against a wall and tell him to take his pick.
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  40. Cnsiderin the London SMOG of 1952 killed 150 odd people, and all home grown, it wasn't that an outrageous idea. Trouble is the amount of chemical it would need.
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  41. Been flying as a passenger since about 1960. A lot was 'Unaccompanied Minor', in those far off days, I was chucked on the jump seat to be out of the cabin crews way. Knew my way around a DC3 cockpit before I knew the controls of car. Was ALWAYS seat belt on! Have done every time I fly.
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  42. American design, coupled to Belgium manufactuer and Brtish refinment , Inspires a French Armourer to ....... !?
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  43. Having worked security at Gatwick in the past. Nothing new. Passengers at search making 'Jokes' . Then being bewlidered at the total sense of humour of failuer, a hard time with the Police, and often being shown off the airport and told Don't Come back, Anytime.
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  44. Looks like something out of a WB cartoon Yosemity Sam pulls trigger, ball stands still he goes backwards
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  45. Would help if British Police officers knew firearms law. The tendency is act first think later. And I have close links with the police!
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  46. No it is taught, keep radio comms clear, intiligible and concise. Do not raise the level or tone of your voice in a situation that may escalate. Or in other words 'Speack softly and carry a big stick.
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  47. The Royal Navy had no intention to change from .303 to 7.62Nato. However as my Gunnery Instructor at HMS Ganges said to us in 1972. Them at Admirallity (How he pronounced it) did'nt allow for the likes of me sending a thousand rounds a week up range for our own use.
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  48. Some of the vessels, mostly Norwegian Fishing Boats , of what became known as The Shetland Bus which ran clandestine cargo from the Shetland's to Norway during WW2 did have 'Concealed' carry Oerlikon and lewis guns.
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  49. Point of Order: It does not rain all the time in England. Only on days with a Y in them. That's a Wildfowling gun, the Ducks and Geese are on the water, it sort of goes with the shooting.
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  50.  @tighlia3375  How to get rounds on target , take carful aim. Throw gun at target,
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  51. Now to explain to our Colonial Cousins, BV is a Boiling Vessel. Tea Bags are a modern abomination where by the TEA (That is something you can drink other than Coffe , it is not poisinous. ) leafs are wedged between two bits of towel, so they don't spread out into the cup. We do not dump it into the local harbour by the way. It is not true that the British Army interupts it's battles at 4 pm every day for Afternoon Tea. Battles are fought in bettween the time it takes the kettle to boil and the TEA to brew, About 3 minutes is accepted as the correct interval. I hope this clears any Cultural Clashes. :-)
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  52. The British Military have a long history of Recycling, well before it became fashionable. Improvise Adapt and Overcome. always was always will be.
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  53. If it was British then it would be a 'British warm ' cut. Proper name for a British military Duffel coat. The British Military has always discouraged the looting and bringing home of Souveniers. Yeah right, just look at any regimental Mess table.
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  54. The Britsh version is Give a Marine a Feather and an Anvil, he'll brake the Anvil with the feather.
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  55. Maxim was a thoughtful type. He did warn his neighbours in West Norwood, a southern suburb of London, before he fired his guns on test. He had a sideline of designing fairground rides to keep the wolf from the door.
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  56. The Royal Navy was the Go Ahead service, constantly playing with things like the new fangaled infernal combustion engines, and even those damm flying contraptions. The horse and musket had been good enough for the Army General Staffs Father's and Grandfather's. Great Scott Sir! they only stopped the buying of commisions some thirty years before!
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  57.  @MentourNow  Any health & saftey can tell you that complaceny is a killer. Ages bettween 45 and 65 in UK are the dangerous years.
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  58. Woman got a bus in London, carrying a picture of Elephants. The driver, a friend, said 'Nice Picture! Is it a Shephard?' (Meaning David Shepard, famous Elephant Artist) . The woman apparently looked carefully at the picture, slowly raised her eyes and said 'Nah I fink it's an Elephant'
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  59. I have an airsoft version, it's better made in Japan than the real thing. More reliable to!
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  60. Cavalry on Malta? Walk, Trot, Charge! SPLASH!
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  61. The death rate was caused by stupidity and greed, a lot of the running of the camps was down to Contractors, out for a fast Quid. The state of the camps did cause outrage in uk including questions in Parliment. Black soldiers and tribsmen served with both sides, sometimes by choice.
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  62. Go to Wales Boyo! If you don't like the weather wait about ten minutes, it will change.
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  63. Verdun is part of the Cordon Rouge, highly restricted use for agriculture virtually no building permits issued. Estimate time to clear the area, if you can afford it, about 3 to 4 hundred years. I kid you not.
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  64. A reminder of the old saying , we will carry out the work, God and Weather Permitting.
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  65. Now he'd sue the manufacturer for pain and distress because it didn't do what it was supposed to.
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  66. Sounds like Blish was trying a Machivallian way around existing patents.
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  67. Gavin Yong  The Nazi occupiers had a good try though. Mass punishment in some form for Terrorist Acts were commonplace.
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  68. Beatty is a contriversal figure. History has shown that he was a hypocrite, his actions at Jutland , are questionable to say the least.
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  69. Read the books, and bear in mind Tolkien did serve on the Somme, though only for about six weeks, he was invialided back with Trench Fever. It will give you a whole new perspective on the story.
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  70. more fun Spot throwing stick , person retriving.
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  71.  @waxdood  One of the biggest scourses for no rradioactive metal , is the remains of the German High Seas Fleet scuppered at Scapa Flow. The Firepower Musuem, musuem of Naval Arments at Portsmouth has the collection of small arms confiscated from the fleet. Including a number of C96 's. The quality of all of them is first class. I doubt many have ever had more than few rounds through them.
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  72. We didn't have Indian subsidising us when the UK carriers were built.
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  73. Quite likley the culture including 'She's only a women, her opioin is not important'
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  74. OI wonder what the Medieval Masters would make of this? Proud that thier skills were still in use, or screaming Nay nay Varlout thou should have.....
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  75. Hey is that the Elbonian Defence Ministry? I have a great idea to damp down your rifle recoil!
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  76. Davey Jones threw them back! Probably dumped in place called Hurd's Deep of the Channel Island of Alderney. That's were most of the nasties ended up following WW2.
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  77. That was as a result of the Breacker Morant affair in the South African war. See Scapegoats of Empire , the book or Breacker Morant the film starring Edward Woodward.
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  78.  @chainsoar  A 3 litre go kart with a tupperware box on top. Boy were they fun! I used to compete aginst Princees Ann in events, she is a very nice person. Horses don't care about status.
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  79. Now you need Connan Doyle and the Fairy pictures.
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  80. Oh , no Military is exempt from the 'Good Idea'. My personal favourite as young recruit was 'The Parade Ground is covered in snow. Petty Officer! Get the recruits to hose it off with the fire hose!. Which we dually did. Then an hour or so later the CO came wandering out, and lost all his diginity. The Subbie involved was spoken to. The entire base heard it. Though there was an important Military Lesson to be learnt. The sutelest form of insubordination, is to take a stupid order and do it.
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  81. I have shot, many moons ago a .22 LR version of the Sig. It is a beautiful piece of kit. Though if I was getting into trouble, I'd like a HI Power to get me out.
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  82. And that children is why you have a Cardboard Brain - A wriiten check list- and STICK to it! Though on one occasion, an aircraft did a perfect landing, except no gear. When asked why nogear the crew replied 'It wasn't on the checklist'. Sure enough on checking, the 'Lower Gear'had been ripped off.
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  83. Does demonstrate that a gun is only a delivery system. Big customers first intrest is the ammunition.
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  84. When a US Marine approached the British and asked the soldier 'Hey Mac, whut does the RM on your shoulder mean?' His reply was 'Real Marine'
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  85. Having visited Walcheren, it is a large flat area. Visit Westkappele and you stand on the dike , looking down. A number of cassions from the Mullberry harbours were towed up to act as as fillers. Middleburg, is a choclate box. Sitting surrounded by canals, with a large hill , with windmills on the outskirts. Following the war the town was rebuilt as far as possible to the pre war design, however a lot of the archives had been lost. It is still a beautiful, and ironically peaceful palce.
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  86. A good one to follow this would be The Shetland Bus, including the chariot attack on Tirpitz. As an aside, a lot my teachers were in Jersey Channel Island's during the Occupation. They all taught me, think for yourself, speak the truth, and question everything.
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  87. Not beyond belief. The BF110 was no race horse, and the Bren had a specific drum magazine and feed for AA use. The tripod would swing up for AA use , and specfic twin mounts were available for AA use. .
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  88. It Appears the French had already worked that one out. An early chronograph that measures velocity directly was built in 1804 by Grobert, a colonel in the French Army. This used a rapidly rotating axle with two disks mounted on it about 13 feet apart. The bullet was fired parallel to the axle, and the angular displacement of the holes in the two disks, together with the rotational speed of the axle, yielded the bullet velocity.
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  89. Another version Make something Foolproof,. Nature retalieaties by breeding a better fool.
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  90. Interesting to wonder what would have happened had the German or Russian invaders captured a complete production line. Would one or both have taken the weapon on?
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  91. Originaly two magazines per rifle were to be issued. Then the Charger /stripper clip was perfected, and it was cheaper. The detachable bit does make cleaning easier and the cost of changing production for no real gain, it stayed.
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  92. Whaen a nasty man with lots of friends and very big guns says 'Why not build that for me?' The answer 'Over my dead body' is not appropriate.
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  93. A lot of those old rifles didn't die! Why waste a brick outhouse of an action? Rebarrel and you have everything from .22 Training rifles, I learnt to shoot on one, to a .410 shotgun though I have seen a 12 bore single barrel version.
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  94.  @tz8785  No just Browning DETERMINED! to make a good magazine! :-)
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  95. Ah! Included in this vidieo , an example of Fraternal Socialist Co-operation!
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  96.  @monyclair5357  Thank you both
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  97. Yes, not practical for Military use, meanwhile in Ebonia....
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  98. Do they make you sew your pockets up every time you go in there?:-)
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  99. So did the Allies. In the Battle of the Falaise Gap in 1944, modified 105 shells were fired with leaflets encouraging the Germans to surrender. Britain also used radio propaganda, using the worlds most powerful radio transmitter codenamed Aspidistra. The name came from a Gracie Fields song at the time The Biggest Aspidistra in the World.
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  100. For the first time ever I would suggest that Ian does more research before he come out with statments such as 'Haig was an idiot' and Let US forces breed. Better to kep your mouth shut and be thought an idiot, than open it and prove you are.
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  101. This is the only clip on Youtube I've ever found that describes the correct way to use a ramrod!
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  102. Other problem with SUSAT, when you have 100+ together, they have to be stored in a radiation proof container, with all nessacary markings on. At this time all Britsh Army tent guys had to be luminous, to prevent trip hazard. In a feild situation, you covered them with dirt. No one told you how mind you.
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  103. Yeah, but a lot of fun trying! Especially if others are paying for ammo.
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  104. Also had it's little part in the major French Political scandal of the time The Dreyfuss Affair. Notes on the 75 mm recoil system were part of the information Dreyfuss was supposed to have passed to the German's. Now go and get one and fire it! You know you want to!
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  105. His book Doctor for Friend and Foe. Well worth a read. Also on the humourus side. Jackspeack.
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  106. more like a gallon of petrol ( gasoline) insert gun fully submerge and light.
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  107. @Mäkirannantörmä Yet the Combined Excercies cross country. The Army came across tracks, decided they were animal and carried on. The Air Force hadn't the first clue, they were not used to being on the ground. The Marines were still arguing what sort of tracks they were, when the train hit them.
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  108.  @SeptimusAugustus  Eh, no I learnt a long time ago, in the UK. :-) Martini actions with Victorain dates re barreled were a common club gun at the time,. It has bene British tradition for a long time as a rifle comes out service to re barrel/chamber for .22 and pas son to cadets etc. I have a 1903 SMLE troop trial rifle that had that happen to it in about 1907.
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  109. What is also intrersting, at least some of the troop trail SMLE, converted to .22 in 1907, had the same modified bolt.
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  110. Thank you. Having been brought up somewehere that was Occupied by the NAZIS, you have started a change in my whole life attitude.
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  111. And that Arisaka is the rifle you look at first! 😆
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  112. Yes further thanks, power of the channel we all learn from each other.
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  113. About ten years ago , I could buy an Ex Britsh Army Land Rover Series 3, running and fit for the road for about £500. Now thanks to 'Fashion' you wouldn't get one under 6 or 7 thousand pounds.
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  114. The first use by the Metropolitian Police of a Webley Revolver was at Keston, near Bromley in Kent. A Constable deployed his firearm to shoot over the roof of the local public house in an attempt to wake the occupants, as the place was on fire.
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  115. They were issued special 'Stockings' to deal with gas attacks, no kidding.
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  116. Why plastic? Wood dosen't melt when melt when you put fly repellent on it. The larger front hand grip is nicer in the hand, especially with gloves, and bear in mind the 'Battlefeild ' was to be Northern Europe. Also plastics at that time were unproven, wood was cheap and the skill available to work it were. As I've said before, when these things were being developed the UK Economy was still on rationing and virtually bankrupt, so this was a major undertaking , with WW3 a distinct possibility.
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  117. In Fleming's book the original gun was a Berreta 418, which Bond states he has 'Carried for fifteen years'. Also a S&W Centinnal Airweight.
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  118. If you want another species surviving aginst the odds. Przewalski's Horse , and the Tarpan will fit the bill. Pronounced so I'm told She-vaw-ski
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  119. Simon. It was considered bad form to shoot a beater, you'd be tutted at by the rest and expected to pay ten bob (10 Shillings ) in compensation.
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  120. Feet against tree, then he'd recoil back.
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  121. I have never heard of this incident. An intresting paralle is the later Morocan Crisis of 1905 and 1911. Seems to set a pattern.
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  122. Funny , the most used American rifle in the Great War was an Britsh design that we sold to the US cheap. Smokeless powder was French invention, The Maxim gun had to come to England for manufactuer and the Lewis to Belgium. Browning's best designs were built in Belgium. The Swiss invented the Bofors, and Orlikeon. And Ryobi are made in China! So your comments on US manufactuer are ?
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  123. Speacking as someone of Welsh descent, be thankful you have a ocean bettween you and Scotland. They are never happier than when complaining. By the way if you go to Exmoor, the Tarr Steps clapper bridge, check the Devil isn't sunbathing before you cross.
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  124. We were playing Russian Roulette, but both fell asleep.
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  125. Using the Martello for atillery practice would have been a bit pointless. They are a very clever design, usually on the coast the outer edge is thicker forming an oval to the landward side. the design is such that the force of a hit is channeled around the structure. During 1944 In Alderney in the Channel Islands one withstood hits from HMS Rodney's 16 inch guns. The only time the Royal Navy has , delibratley, shelled UK territory.
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  126. A STEN with few bells and whistles. That pin wasn't wobbiling, it was ducking! And shock , horror! Ian has a Goone!
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  127.  @chrisstephens6673  Sir! if a Foriegner does not understand the Queen's English. The accepted protocal is to repeat the phrase, louder!
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  128.  @stopthephilosophicalzombie9017  Very much so, not only steel but any of the metals. Because thay have sat below the sea since 1919 there is no contamination. One odd fact: In 1945 following the Liberation of the Channel Island's. The biggest guns mounted were in the Mirus Battery on Guernersey . The guns were ex Russian Battleship guns 305 cm. When the steel was salvaged in about 1946, a special gas mixture had to be developed by Britsh Oxygen to cut them. Just cause it old don't mean its rubbish :-)
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  129. The Paker Hale is a good traditional rifle. However in the end , it relied on a stock from another supplier, hence what if you wanted a custom, and it had no where else to go. The AI system is almost infinitley variable , bits can be just bolted on.
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  130. By all acounts Maxim was a gentleman. Though the neighbours in West Norwod and Eltham, both in South London did get a bit peeved when he brought his work home, and tried it out in the back garden..
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  131. If the rock was to hard, cock, firs and blow the bloody thing out of the way.
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  132. Probably why S&W said' You defend the patent'.
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  133. Unless it was the inspiration for the L85A1?
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  134. And both had very succesful voyages to Antartica.
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  135. Henry the VIII was supposed to have been so fed up that he ordered his Fool to be put to death. Though in apprecation of past service he asked the Fool how he wished to die.The Fool thought for a while and replied, Old Age.
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  136.  @ggarlick46  Well, there goes 22466 gallons of water per week then. That's equivalent to an inch of water on an acre. The irrigation requirment for Lentils. And I'll bet they wern't out with buckets to do it. 😁
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  137. No it's called the Troubles, nice and sanitized.
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  138. You've dug your own hole Ian,. Get scribbiling!
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  139. Basic British system you have a rifle designation SMLE the particular version Mk 1. Then if minor adjutments , such as sights a * is added . When you run out of * and the whole thing has to undergo fudemental manufacture changes, you up the Mark. . Simple , if you have the original drawings.
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  140.  @ihcfn  I say chaps! Have you heard some Dammed American is proposing a gun that fires multiple times for a single trigger pull! Dashed unsporting !Anyway, put another peaseant on the fire and pass the Port Waht?
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  141.  @somersethuscarl2938  Squaddies consider it a matter of pride, and relives boredom:-)
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  142. One thing worse than a real bomb threat is a prank one. You spend the rest of the day wondering, what did I miss ? Worse still they breed complacency, right up to the time a real one goes bang.
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  143.  @pohakumana  Yes I used to jump from height into water. Trouble is the ground dosen't have the same tendency to give and absorb the impact over time.
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  144.  @mattrobson3603  Yes, they made Pizgauer, though I belive that ended up witha UK company, at least for British Military use, and they also made the Haflinger. That got turned around (The orignal was a rear engine) and became the Fiat Panda 4x4. they have the Steyer -Puch badge on them as well as Fiat.
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  145. The * means a minor modification , often in manufactuer. The Mk designation changes when a major redesign is carried out.
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  146. The other reason for the inlay on top of the barrel is that it may have been the fitting for a chamber pressure gauge.
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  147. Colt's London Pimlico factory was opened the same year. Cashing in on both sides of the Crimeian War?
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  148. Old Martini actions rebarreled to .22 were a mainstay of British Gun club training rifles right up to the 1980's. I learnt on one in the 1960's.
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  149. Damm Colonials coming over firing our weapons! Our politicians have made very sure no British person could.
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  150. Now this is the type and quality of content that the Royal Amouried should produce. It is a World Class Centre of Excellence in y weapons , please spead your knowledge about
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  151. My son grew up around my and my wife's friends, some were gay and lesbian. I never felt he was unsafe with them, and indeed he has grown up very tolerant. However , the when it appears that schools and other public bodies are actievly pushing views, with no context. Wrong, just wrong!
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  152. Wonder how well you'd work after a hundred odd years? This growing old ani't all it's craked up to be. :- )
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  153. The last time the Royal Navy used Cutlasses was in 1941, when crew from HMS Cossac boarded the German ship Altmark to release prisoners, besides a bayonet still works after being duncked in the briny. Close quarters in a steel ship bullets may not be the best option.
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  154.  @epluribusunum6622  I have apair of 1944 Dodge 3/4 ton WC a Wepaons Carrier and and an Ambulance. The quality of those, they have more metal in one fender than most US cars now. Mind you they were built by people who knew lives depended on them.
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  155. As the saying goes, 'Better late, than dead on time.
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  156. More like OPD, Others Pay Development. The saga of US demands from UK for technology , and instance on closing of projects and purchase of US equipment as setelment of UK War Debts, is not something to go into if you want to stay friends.
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  157. Yes, but Ian did say this pistol was almost perfected, BEFORE it was trialled! SA80 is an MOD Camel, that is a horse designed by committee
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  158. I worked at a place where we used inert landminnes as door stops. Reason: To hiss off Political vistors.
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  159. Same sort of jokes were made about Home Guard in UK. Load' aim , all together 'BANG'
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  160. Be fair , German Range finders were good. They had a very advanced optical industry.
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  161. Coal Tar emolients and such are still widespread and effective for dermatology and psorasis treatment. The smell though, does leave a bit to be desired.
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  162. Eleanor of Aquitaine is the reason why the English coat of arms has Three Lions, whilist the Arms of Normandy have only two. Blow to all the English. The top two Lions speack Jerrias, the bottom one speacks French.
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  163.  @viking1236  The Berkshire one is the most likley to have an Officer's Traing Corp. Colleges- the riff raff- at the time would be more likley at that time to encourage there students to join the Territorial Army, or may have a Cadet unit.
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  164. The Isralies imported brass lipstick tubes to manufactuer 9mm ammo . In a workshop built under a British Army contracted laundry using the noise from above to cover the machinery.
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  165. It also says a hell of a lot about the quality of the orginal weapon. How many rounds went down it before conversion?
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  166. And the 42a, I have one.
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  167.  @UCmDBecUtbSafffpMEN3iscA  Back in tha days of Common Sense in UK a friend has a collection of Webleys from .22 Rimfire up to .455, he was popular at the range as he would allow you to try them out. Kids like me grew up with the Webley, everywhere from Sherlock Holmes to Films and Balck and White TV. None of those weird Colts, or .45- No self repecting British Hero at the time would carry anything but a Webley! They really are a Britsh Icon.
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  168. A 'Neutral' Country that lent heavily towards the Third Reich reciving Steel from the British, via America to make guns to fight the Third Reich. Just shows money trumps everything!
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  169. I have a deep attachment to the C96. eevryone drolls over Lugers, but, how many toggle action pistols do you see today?
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  170. SSSSH!! For the love of * Don't let the authorities know a non killing gun can be built! Mind you as a Gallery Gun, they are probably just right.
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  171. Why is it when a US Miltary contract and Colt are mentioned in the same sentence, I think of Elbonia?
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  172.  @509Gman  OK, that I would not have thought of. I will belive the Lawyers made a fortune out of it though.
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  173. One very odd point of the Royal Irish Rifles during the Great War . D Company (Royal Militia Island of Jersey) 7th Royal Irish Rifles. Jerseymen for historical reasons could not be conscripted into the British Army. However the Island was home to the oldest organised military force in England. From 1284 after the Island's chose to remain with the Duc Of Normandy, through his later claim to the English Crown (Yes, the Channel Island's own England) there was a requirment for all able bodied men to serve in a force to prevent French incursions. On the outbreack of the Great War the RMIJ, asked for volunteers to serve oversea's. In 1915 , 300 men voluntered. It should be note dthe War Office required soem RMIJ to remain as gaurds at POW camps on the Island , and in defence in case of invasion. As 300 men were not enough to form a unit on thier own, the men were attached , for various reasons, including political to an Irish regimane, the 7th RIR. They served in the Somme and during the Spring Offensive.
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  174. Would make a hell of dent in any optics or ranging equipment on the vehicle. Don't have to kill it to destroy effectivness.
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  175. I agree, and yet he seems embarrased by his skills! Sir, you are an inspiration.
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  176. Carry a back up brick. Or in the case of British SOE. Two packs of Biscuits Brown AB, place two packs in sock, tie end of sock, and beat opponet to death.
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  177. On the day France won the Football world cup I was sitting outside a cafe in Amion talking to Petain's grandson. It is one of the regrets of history that Petain, who by that time was in his 80's and probably suffering Demintia was dragged back and made to take the blame for the French surrender in WW2.
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  178. German policy in occupied countries was to bend local officialdom to it's way of thinking. Especially with the deportation of Jews and arrest of undesirables. I come from Jersey , that is in the Channel Island's and was Occupied from 1940 till the very end of the war, May 9th 1945. Though the German's went of thier way to be 'Correct', when Hitler ordered the Internment of British subjects not born in the Island, local Police officers were expected to arrest the people involved. In most of the rest of Europe they didn't even bother with pretence.
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  179. That was also quality control at the factories, front sights lined up with a corkscrew.
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  180. If your horsemanship gets a compliment in Ireland, you know you are good.
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  181. Can you see out to aim, without a large hole for others to chuck stuff back in? Also optics at the time were fragile so a simple bit of tube that works under adverse conditions.
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  182. Why quietly proud? The job the Nurses did , the quiet, skilled , delicate , back breacking, often dirty support work, desrves loud praise.
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  183. Both men were realist's, they taught murder! Kill the enemy anyway you can before they kill you.
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  184. Don't worry we forgive you. :-) Just don't get tied up in the Shires debate. There are some English names most English people can't pronouce.Trottescliffe come to mind near me or Ightham . (Trossley) (Item)
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  185. I stone = 14 pounds. = 6.35 kg. Still used colloquilly to describe a person weight. So 7 stone is 98lbs (Pounds weight) or about 44.5 kgs.
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  186. Those of us at a certain age will remember being eductaed and fascinated by the TV presenter Raymond Baxter. He to fought as a Spitfire pilot at Malta.
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  187. From the book Send Another Signal by Jack Bromme. A Canadian Corvette in an Atlantic Convoy was seen to be flying the Church Pennant, A course flag and an Itergoatory flag. When signalled by the Convoy Commodore 'What signal are you flying? The reply was Oh God! Where am I?
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  188. You can never have enough ammo! It started a s a field expidient. that worked. Then became standard. The BREN pouches are bigger and more versitile.
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  189. The guns used to assinate Czar Nicolas and family inclued a C96.
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  190. I worked at aplace it was tested. We did evrything reasonable, and unreasonable to breack it. The closest that came was the Squib test. Shoot a squib deliberatley , then another behind it. The barrel was bulged about 2 thou. Barrel sent back to AI . New barrel sent out to us. About half a minute out. Query AI what's going on?, . Reply from AI , what do you expect after you bulge it. :-)
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  191. Long been a British Tradition 'Send a Gunboat'. Pity we have none left now.
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  192. A cut above the rest. The Upper Crust may relate to Medieval bread, the top being clean and free of ash, the bottom whereitwas contact with the floor of the oven burnt and bitty. So the nobels gotTrenchers from the top. Face it boys, we are on theNitty Gritty, Oats were a primary flour, Wild Oats have a black tip ,which when ground look like head lice eggs or Nits in the flour, If the stones are worn or not set correctly the face can breack up ,Grit.
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  193.  @vidard9863  I call my stuff Collections, other less enlightened individuals call it 'What the hell have you dragged in now?'
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  194. @Nitro Zeus Now the imagination runs riot about coping with recoil on a bicycle! EEEEEEEEEEEEW.
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  195. Yes they may be able to afford a wheelock, but do you really want the 'Lower Classes' to be as well armed as the Aristocracy? They may well get ideas above their station!" What would the world come to?
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  196. Northern France and Belgium still have the legacy known as the Iron Harvest. Drive along and you will see piles of shells and other ordnance on the side of the road waiting for the Ordnance disposal guys to collect them, your land, you move to a convinent pick up point. Biggest worry on any construction or arceology on the battlefields are gas shells. You will see wind flags all around site were they are digging so you know which way to run in case of any sudden funny smells.
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  197. To much time around those across the Channel- Headline: Fog in English Channel !! Europe cut off!!
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  198. Never look at your own doorstep. To us it's history to others where they live. Causes problems then and now.
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  199. When will Ian do a vid on the Goone?
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  200.  @williamt.sherman9841  Tank dos have another meaning you know. As in large metal box that flots on or is used to contain liquiid or gas. Get a life.
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  201. And toy trains!
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  202. Children stop arguing! Funny though the older you get , OLD AGE, goes futher into the future.
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  203. The 420 mm (16.5 inch) Howitzer that cause the damage was the German L/12 M Gerat 14 better known as Big Bertha. The shell was 820kg (1,807lbs) gauranted to make your eyes water. Though intially sucesful against older fortifications they were not that effective at Verdun Two ended up at the Aberdeen Proving Ground post war used to test ariel bomb casings, both were scrapped prior to WW2. A lotof the area around Verdun is Cordon Rouge, still highly dangerous due to unexploed ordnance.
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  204. Umm , that happened when the gun was being shipped from Woolwich Arsenal to proofing at Shoeburyness. They manged to drop the gun off it's barge when loading. It spent 9 days on the bottom of the River Thames. The Times newspaer , AKA The Thunderer was not imprssed, the worlds most expensive gun dropped, and said so on it's front page.
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  205.  @moosemaimer  Alternatly you used the rifle to launch the manservant at the target .
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  206. The British Army tea spoon requirment, ended up as JCB. :-)
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  207. A lot of suppliers of food and other equipment were commercial firms. The whole sorry mess was based on the likes of Rhode's greed. Known to history as The Scramble for Africa'. No European country come out of it well.
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  208. A lot of the French sectors wern't on the low ground of Flanders. The Western Front was everything from sea shore to mountain top. So there is a fair chance the gun would have been in dryish envoiroment.
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  209.  @harrychung433  Don't fight fair, you will be the only one stupid enough to do so.
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  210. Propoganda came of age in the Great War. The German's made a lot of fuss, particullaly aimed at a certain Neuteral country across the water,
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  211. A women's voice frequeincies are particullay suited to electronic communication even now. The amount of Telephone Wire you find on the Western Front is boggoling,.intially it was earth return system, easily tapped. Then came dual wire and the Fuller phone, so the girls would also have had to deal with non verbal messages. These women set a standard , that has carried on.
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  212. And the USS Buchan, was transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Cambelton, the rest is not Forgotten History.
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  213.  @monkeygraborange  To us yes.The problem is to him, he was a Hero. I've heard it described as The Jam Jar. You know the jar was full, you come back Thaw would be standing there , spooon in hand , jar empty , jam around lips and still deny he ate it. Every test you could do with him would prove he belived he hadn't eaten the jam.
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  214. We in UK have a similar dreaded phrase 'Police Guidelines', means they make it up as they go along.
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  215. I have spent a lot of time studying the Great War. so yes when somone of Ian's standing is inaccurate I get out of my pram. As for my sense of humour, my best ever comic is Dave Allen.
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  216. I want a barn like that! I'm jelous I only have two!
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  217.  @joeblack2534  What was it some US polotician said, the Britsh Smile and say thank you as they are robbing you blind? :-) Or as I was taught, smile and speack calmly, it winds the B*stard's up no end, and you are always seen as 'Reasonable' if they complain.
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  218.  @mikesharp4033  The Welsh speack Welsh to annoy the English.
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  219. But when the rat throws it back, with more force? :-)
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  220. A similar set up of disgused Norwegian Fishing boats was used during WW2 to feed agents and carry out covert attacks, most notably on Tirpitz, during WW2 . It was known coloquially as the Shetland Bus.
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  221. A very old , now deceased and missed friend, whenever there was a head bangaing problem being faced would appear and mutter' Right put the kettle on , tea and thinking time'. We did send a large teapot wreath to his funeral.
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  222. They built a high quality Traditional Rifle. Very nice, but development in the future, no. The AI system is infinitly and easily variable.
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  223. Or just Oh S8it! I've had a bad day, let's spread it around?
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  224. Someone to blame if bits go flying :-) AKA The Curator's Revenge!
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  225. If it a small change you add a *. When you run out of room to add * , you change the Mk number. How complicated can it be?
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  226. If your maerket is Obese Yanks and Footballers Wives, don't even think they have reached the limit of stupidity.
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  227. and require three days of massage to return your gentleman's accoutremants from behind your ears, to their proper place. :face-blue-wide-eyes:
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  228. Oh yeah! All Lodnon Bus Drivers are taught 'Better Late, than Dead on time'.
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  229. Browning High Powere comes into that catergory then.
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  230. Don't forget the Dragon lamp, a 12 volt car headlamp fixed into ICI drain pipe. Laugh if you like but it' one hell of a tough tool that lights up a footbal feild.
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  231. Got to give all the Gnomes of Zurich and Cuckoo Clock makers something to do. Note Black Forest Cuckoo Clocks= Good guns from there, Swiss Clock makers= Good Guns.
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  232. Phsycological warfare. You read it at the enemy till they tear their own ears off.
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  233. If it didn't have wood on it , how would you know it was rifle? Tradtional British gun making.
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  234. At the time a Clock was the height of technology, the Spring was the up and coming thing, so a Firearm that had a spring in it and didn't need a match? Every little boy would have wanted one! :-)
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  235. I thought the A Team were very generous. They opned fire , everyone but the targets got some!
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  236.  @john-paulsilke893  No the Australians had thier own procurment. The SMLE N01 Mk111* was standard rifle. The British Army lost most of them at Dunkirk , so were replaced with the new No4 as that had jsut started production prior to WW2. In the Middle and Far East the rifles were still there so they were used throughout most of WW2 by Britsh and Commonwealth forces as replacement N0 4 went to re-equpe Europe.
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  237. Lauren's wanted to arm slaves in 1782. In 1781 the Battle of Jersey (See HTG's episode) Pierson was avenged by his black servant Pompey. In 1783 an American artist John Singelto Copley painted a large picture The Death of Pierson , placing Pompey shooting in a prominent place. And you thought current political and moral views were complex?
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  238. Sten was limited by the design requirments. It was always intended that the gun be dropped to resistance groups, so must be easy to conceal, hence no pistol grip. That on a blowback is a pain, don't hold tight enough and the gun moves back at the same time as the bolt, so won't cycle. Mk5 with the pistol grip, totally reliable beast.
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  239.  @oneproudbrowncoat  Watson, have you got your artillery?
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  240.  @scotttait2197  Don't under any circumastances bring Wales into this! :-)
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  241. absloutley plasuiable! The Norse men were known to be in Constantinople at that time, and it was the end of the Silk Road from China!
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  242. Yes, the change of uniform, the formation of a Staff College and the Imperial General Staff, the doctrine of individual marksmanship. The formation of the Territorial Army in 1907, and in WW2 Churchill's use of the term Commando as he was captured by the Boers but escaped and became a hero. That launched his political carrer.
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  243. His brother was chief surgeoun at the 16th Ontario Military Hospital Orpington , Kent.Where Ilive. The people of Canada raised funds to build the Maple Leaf Block on the site , which still serves the localcommunity.
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  244. I was always taught KISS, Keep It Simple Stupid, you can't assume the user knows how to read the manual.
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  245.  @AleksandrStrizhevskiy  That is when things have a tendency to go wrong, we'll just leave it for BOOM! Theres an alarm, why fit an alarm if you're not going to react to it?
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  246. So you say I have stolen your idea to make my gun work? Well look I don't need (THAT particular) ideas of yours to make it work !
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  247. that beast is rated at 10 meters , about 30 feet. High enough.
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  248.  @thebarkingmouse  This was originally a British Idea used in the 1960's Malayan Emergency.If you found a rebel stores dump , rather than just destroy the lot, remove some stuff and doctor it. Double charge a round or two,squib others. Shave a chamber or the walls of a barrel. One leader was known to be diabetic,so weackend insulin was supplied, the idea (Nasty) was if he's dead , they get another one, if he's sick he's a a burden.
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  249. Come on, who wants to see Spot turn round and bite back?
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  250. Until the latest Didgital system renders yuour phone and files obsolete. Say two years? Your Dad's sytem would work with any bright light and a lens.
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  251. Prejudice is hatered without knowledge. If you want to hate something, and God knows, I've enough reason to hate anything Nazi understand what it is you hate. Problem is it isn't black and white. When I was a kid there were two peole who had an influence on me, one John was a tall gentle man , he was a gardner, and used to give us fruit from his garden as we went home. We all thought the world of him. It was only when he died I found out he was German and had come over as part of the Occupying forces. The other Mrs Prack was about 4 foot nothing and waspish, understament she was a nest of hornets. She tolerated me as I loved her horse, but she scared the crap out of us. She had survived the Nazi Concentrations camp, and throughout her life kept the number tattoed under her arm. So who should I have been scared of and hated?
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  252. Note to Ian, all Bren tripod catches are tight. The Tripod is a work of art in itself, also capable of AA deployment, extra bits stored inside the legs. .There was also a twin AAmount and a drum magazine feed for AA use.
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  253. I learnt to shoot full bore on a German version, that had been appropriated by the owner following the Liberation of the Island of Jersey on May 9th 1945.
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  254. You can get some very shootable Chinese copies for pennies. As you say Who cares. Does it go bang and put rounds where I want them?
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  255. I was thinking Goverment's do it all the time.. Now called Blue Sky Thinking, but hey when you do it get it right, all involved made money.
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  256. George Mc Donald Fraser's The Complete Mc Causlan. He was subeltern in the regiment. Not, all true , but hilarious and a good read. Don't forget the whistle, still issue to certain Britsh Military officers.
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  257. So ? I tried normality once, didn't like it.
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  258. On Exmoor Somerset UK, every night at 21:05, the windows would give a slight shake. Concorde going supersonic over the Bristol Channel. You could litterally set your watch by it.
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  259. One other deep joy of the gun. The British Army spent a lot of time in Belize, jungle training. A unique problem was the issue insect repellant. It melted the furniture.
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  260. Yes, but a 6 cell Maglite is such a comfort when the argument starts to get heated!
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  261. The bolt was also used on the SMLE No2 .22 rimfire training/cadet rifle of about 1002/07. These are not converted rifles, they were manufactured in .22 rimfire.
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  262. New book on the C96, definitley . Now, who has the presentation skills, knowledege and is a recognised firearm authority? Congrats Ian, youv'e talked yourself into it!
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  263. I believe the RFC when that was formed also went gooey over the Webley Self loader, much easier to handle and reload in a plane. Webley have released an 6mm BB version of the MkIV revolver built from original drawings, how about bombarding them with requests for a similar remake of the Self Loader?
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  264. They do let forigners in, the Welsh and Scots will be there! :-)
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  265. The French military would have a marked objection to putting the word British on any of thier equipment! :-)
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  266. Its a term used for small lakes , large ponds, in Scotland. Need more be said?
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  267.  @StevieB8363  To Quote the American WW2 booklet on Dealing with the British 'If you see a British woman with a medal, she ain't likley to have got it for knitting', Always liked that bit.
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  268. Problem is when you quote chapter verse and the scources, and the Senior Officers mumble 'Guidelines' and ignore you, The quote was 'WE have DECIDED to return your property' The answer I gave was somewhat more forthright The letter from the Proof house to the Police reagarding the status, was priceless. :-)
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  269. Webley are making the MkIV from original drawings, only as an air gun unfortunatley, but it is nice bit of kit to pose with.
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  270. I had a similar experience with veterans at Normandy . we were at one of the Cemetries at Ver Sur Mer, standing in silence. Two young children ran in laughing, one adult started shouting at them to be quiet. One of the veteran's yelled ';Leave them alone! These men died so chilldren could laugh. tears in the eyes typing this .
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  271. Someone got into a pickle though!
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  272. How do you get new Pilots? You train them. How do you train them? With trainers. What is industry in general short of? People expirenced and capable of training others. All industries involved with transport in any form are having the same problem. Treat people like monkies, don't be suprised if they throw...peanuts..at you.
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  273. Old technology. Its when Spot has a Mc Gyvier proggramme and builds his , see what I mean , should bt it, own power station out of junk and a Swiss Army knife.
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  274. RTFM. If you cannot RTFM or are to stupid to RTFM. Return to Claico and buy a Nerf Gun.
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  275. That's why the dog works. If you as a handler and the dog , don't make that bond, either of you may the best of the best, but it won't work.
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  276. Still a sought after tool, they work!
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  277. Fair exchange, is no robbery! :-)
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  278. Or!! It dark!.
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  279. Comrade the Hydrographics are of major importance. We need to make sure we don't go any deeper than the height of the deck above the waterline. So when the accident occurs at least we will keep our feet dry.
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  280. Stealing names from places that are Norman , and named by a Normon De' Carteret. Scottish canals ? I thought you were going to say the proposed canal across Scotland, intended to allow Royal naval access the North Sea. (German Ocean as it was known at the the time) . The advantage of that mentioned at the time was Scotland could have been cast adrift.
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  281. The British Military Establishment has always discouraged bring back Souveniers. Yeah right! Look at any Regimental Mess table. Not to mention a couple of Merc Gwagens aquired from the Falklands. Trouble was when parts were ordered to bring them into use, Mercedes refused to supply as the vehilces had 'Been Reported Stolen by the Registered Owners'. :-)
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  282. Actually I have used blank 450gm black powder charges in 25Lb gun at Woolwich for just that purpose. The windows across the river shimmered after firing. I asked the H&S Officr was she worried? Her reply was 'No that side of the river isn't my responsobilty'.
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  283. So if you want dependency in severe cold weather, use a Lee action and an Enfield barrel. 😁
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  284. Now we know the inspiration for the L85A1 at least.
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  285. A well respected TV commentator on Britsh TV during the 60's and 70' wa sRaymond Baxter. He was a Malta piolt on Spitfires. Beurling wrote a book Malta Spitfire . For Pedestal speciffically I'd recommend the book Malta Convoy by Peter Shackland and Anthony Hunter.
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  286.  @alexanderlittle9786  To the point of ordering serving Royal Naval Officers to change official documents , logs and charts to cover up your mistakes? Then when they refuse, going out of your way to blight thier carrers? Not to mention the smears on Jellcoe. Beatrty was not liked in many circles political, military or social.
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  287. Most European's try to forget collaborators. Problem is just how far do you go? In Jersey , my home, the Channel Islands being the only part of the UK the German's got to, a women called Louisa Gould was betrayed to the German's for hiding an esacped Russian slave worker ( And Slave is the word) by a pair of locals, Mrs Gould died in Ravensbrook Concentration camp. The betrayers were local people, and continued to live in the Island. The matter was that they were from what would now be called a Disfunctional Family. Even those who suffered through them acepted, though not nessacairly forgave, that they didn't realise what thier actions would bring about. There was howver one infamous woman, known for 'Horizontal Collaboration' who was deported off the Island for her own saftey.
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  288. Better rubber bound. Not so much damage when it it is thrown as far and hard as possible.
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  289. Buy Renault of Pegeout.
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  290. Yes both RFC and RNAS used the Winchester. (Royal Flying Corps, became Royal Airforce in 1918, and Royal Naval Air Service, became Fleet Air Arm)
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  291. So? People will pay a fortune for Coffe beans that have been through the a Civet cat. Adds a whole new outlook to eat S*it and die. though WHY did someone want to try it in the first place?
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  292. At Dien Bien Phu the tactics used by Giap were siege warfare tactics, ironically perfected by a Frenchman, Vauban.
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  293.  @sh4dowchas3r  Metford was black powder rifling, as I remember particullay with Ballisite the first smokless powder used by the British there was also excessive throat wear in the chamber, and pressures blew barreles. A Committe, in best Britsh style, finnised Nobel's patents, and developed CORDITE. Enfeild then developed the rifiling to match. Balliste blanks were still used for greande launching, henc the reinforced barrelas on some Great War SMLE
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  294. Give a bootneck three musket balls. Half hour later, ones lost , ones eaten, the other is pregnant.
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  295.  keith moore  Vickers guns were used in the Great War for long range interdiction. A .303 round cost about 3d, where as a 18 lb shell cost £13 , you could get 1.040 .303 fro one shell. Not to mention cost of gun. It was found far more effective, and alot cheaper to hose a trench line with a couple of Vickers than start lobbing sharapnel sheels.
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  296. Who now would actually understand the reference, even in UK? :-) (Yes, I'm just old enough)
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  297. It found you and followed you home!
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  298. Kennedy was part of Operation Aphrodite- The aim was to use war weary aircraft loaded with explosive as R/C drones. . The Mimoyecques V3 site was bombed by RAF 617 and 9 squadrons. The original patent for multi chamber artillery was granted in 18 50's to a US inventor Azel Lyman. The idea was later revived by a Canadian Gerald Bull as a 'Supergun' for Iraq Saddam Hussien under the code name Babylon. British customs sized componetes in 1990, and Bull was assinated.
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  299. There were a hell of a lot of jokes about them when introduced to Northern Ireland. A lot of protesters used to moon the troops. That soon stopped. As Mike says the idea is to bounce them onto target. Ideally... the go up and in just below waist height! Instant Pacifist!
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  300. Or to quote Hiliare Bellock (Though he was half French) in his 1899 poem The Modern Traveller A Mutiny resulted. I never shall forget the way That Blood upon this awful day Preserved us all from death. He stood upon a little mound, Cast his lethargic eyes around, And said beneath his breath : What ever happens, we have got The Maxim gun, and they have not.
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  301.  @czwarty7878  Is it a sacred enshrined place? Or where people live and want a modern lifstyle? That argument started in the great War in europe, and still isn't settled.
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  302. But what is safe to use to do this ? A grinder EEK! Couldexplode . electric shock , dust inhalation . A file? Large lump of rough metal , suppose I go berserk and hit someone with it? The abrasion risk to my poor little handi pandies? Last one out , turn of the light .
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  303. Sums up the Royal Navy :-) We have Marines to get thier boots dirty.
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  304. In the venerable grounds of Buckingham Palace in heart of London. A few years back they tried taking out Grey Squirrels, which are classed as a pest and vermin in UK with a hi power .22 air rifle. The slugs apprently bounced off.
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  305. The US Unknown Warrior also holds the Victoria Cross.
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  306. Just an odd thought a few years back THEY tried to eliminate Grey Squirrels from the gardens at Buckingham Palace, you know? The place HM the Queen hangs out in London? So as Buck Palace is surrounded by high density, high value property (An area now known as Little Russia) it was decided poision wa sa bad idea, where as blowing the little * to glory with 12 bores or 5.56 mm may cause complaints from neighbours (Tempted to say wouldn't they be used to it?) So it was decided 'High Power ' air rifles with crack marksmen would be used. Slight problem, the pellets bounced of the squirrels.
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  307. Allenstiner: A certain Itallian car maker had the Spider. So called because after a couple of years the metal moth made it look like a web!
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  308. Chief Executive, of many buisness. Why are the Monkies throwing ...peanuts ..at us?
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  309. It has brought you out of your shell, I suppose.
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  310. I don't care if you can se ethe part on the shelf! The Loggy Computer says it's not in stock! Or following a major fire at the British Army main Logistics base a few years back, indents would come back marked FOFAD -F*** Off Fire At Doddington.
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  311. What's brown ,steams and comes out of Cowes? The Isle of Wight Ferry! (I'll get my coat)
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  312. The RNAS were the major user of the Webley Self Loader,
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  313. One definite improvment on the SA80! You can garruntee a firing date.
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  314. More of a Bakerlite really. Though not in the case of mine prone to the cracking Bakerlite is .
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  315. According to the MGC manual there are 40 diffrent ways the thing can stop. Number 1 , running out of ammo.
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  316.  @ScottKenny1978  The whole history of the books and the authour Ian Fleming is an intresting subject. Fleming was a bit of Narcicist. His older brother Robert , known as Peter, Fleming had a much more intresting military carrer. He was director of the British Stay Behind Units known as the Auxilary Units.
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  317. A Canadian Corvette as part of convoy escort in the North Atlantic storm was seen to fly the following signal: A church Pennant over an Intergatory , over a Course flag. When the Convoy Commodore Queried by light 'What Signal?' The reply he recived was 'Oh God! Where am I?'
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  318.  @skepticalbadger  If you watch the training films of the time, the STEN is always held by the barrel shroud , never the magazine. Then they function. One of the design requirements of the STEN was that it had to easily concealable. The reasoning was that it would and was a cheap easy to produce Gurilla warfare weapon. Actually the production enginnering was done by a Toy Factory Triang, and a lot of production by a Sewing Machine factory , Singer.
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  319. What Ian failed to mention, the Turks had paid up front for thier warships. The British BREN sustained fire tripod has a similar system of hollow legs to mout as an AA.
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  320. New propelants, new manufacturing techniques with metal cartridge cases, so you have the clash of known technology and the up and coming, and the hybrids. The Webley was built like a brick outhouse because the .455 Man Stopper, originally a black powder cartridge is a complete ...fright.. to shoot. After learning on those, why does anyone complain about Magnum, recoil?
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  321. so he was keeping the Cornish out then? :-)
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  322. The Avro Tudor was the first British Commercial Pressurised aircraft. Fatigue due to pressurisation was not well understood at the time, "The Tudor was built like a battleship. It was noisy, I had no confidence in its engines and its systems were hopeless. The Americans were fifty years ahead of us in systems engineering. All the hydraulics, the air conditioning equipment and the recircling fans were crammed together underneath the floor without any thought. There were fuel-burning heaters that would never work; we had the floorboards up in flight again and again. Gordon Store BSAA Chief Pilot.
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  323.  @erg0centric  I am fully aware of the derivation of the word. However like many words the meanng has changed over time. So to please your Etymoloigical Pedantisim. Poaching is leading to some species being pushed to the edge of extiction.
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  324. Hey Chris, I was part of the last recruitment at HMS Ganges in 1971, We were trained on the L1A1 SLR, though our Gunnery Instructor told us the Andrew where quite happy with the No4 and didn't intend to change as there was plenty of ammunition. Except, they hadn't accounted for him and his colleagues, which would include your Dad! Throwing a thousnad rounds a month down range for thier own pleasure.
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  325.  @jackdundon2261  Well, let me tell you what a Belgian Friend of mine said shortly after the Euro was introduced. I, along with a group of friends hade been invited to a military vehicle show in Belgium. Regular occurence.So I said 'Wow ,so much easier now the Euro is here I don't have to carry French and Belgium Francs, or Dutch Guilders'. He gave me a filth look and said 'Ya, the new Reichmark'. Does that answer the question ?:-)
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  326. Issued to you just in time to take it away for an L1A1 FN.
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  327. Guys, they KNOW theey are good. No need for mass froth advertisng. Quite pride.
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  328. Congreve Rockets were manufactured at the Royal Arsenal Woolwich. The rockets were notorious for accidents during manufacture. It is said they did more damage to the town of Woolwich, than they ever did to the enemy.
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  329. Happens all the time on the Western Front. Nighthawks with unlicensed metal detectore . Steal the badges etc , take them out of context, and any chance of identifying men's remains, is lost. You have killed the man twice.
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  330. So who does spend more time on Pen Y Fan in winter? The SAS or the Mountain rescue pulling them off.
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  331. And often tyres
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  332. Yes, Ian even knows how to prounce the hard and soft Shire in English place names, making him unique amongst American's in my experience.
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  333. Sod the talk! Let's SHOOT!
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  334. There is also a cracking good 1960's film of the book . Paul Newman stared in it. Leon uris is a bit forgotten, but add to the list his Mila 18 , the Jewish Warsaw uprissing and Battlecry, based on his WW2 experience in the 6th Marines.
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  335. Probably tells you how to use the book as a weapon.
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  336. Didn't thay also have a hole with a 105mm shell plus man and hammer as firing device? Reminds me of the old Bugs Bunny cartoon.
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  337.  @aljaztravnik  The reason the school is called Spanish is that originally the horses came from Andaluthia. They were a result of Middle Eastern Warm blood horses with European Cold types. Before the Lippazaner became recognised as a breed, and I know they come in other colours than Grey. The school always have another coulour in thier displays.
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  338. With the added frisson, unlike the cup launcher, the release lever flew off as soon as the pin was pulled, This rifle-grenade-and attached shooter will destruct in 5 seconds unless trigger is pulled. In case of misfire...Oh SHHHH.......
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  339. Also costs a lot for not much work, but provides someone with a very good pension
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  340. And that never changes! :-)
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  341. There was also a Police Version in semi auto only.
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  342. Actually the German's were only to willing to take anything of anybody elses they thought they could make use of. Coming from somewhere that wa sOccupied I can back that up.
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  343.  @mr6johnclark  Oh come on! Are you implying Ian couldn't hit the barn from inside? :-)
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  344. Long range aiming point! Reach out touch target with bayonet, then fire.
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  345. Are you implying that Nottingham , that produces Stilton, would resort to inferior Wenslydale? 😵😵‍💫
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  346. I've visted the Essex Farm ADS where he was posted. Think of a slightly oversized Concrete coal shed, about fifteen feet deep , seven or eight high and about four wide. Three of them side by side dug into a bank . On once side the Yeser canal, the other is now the road.In front about another four to six feet a bank about ten feet high. Behind you what is now Essex Farm CWWG cemetery. Now add darknes cold, and enemy shells .
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  347. You remind me of a time in Normandy. I had the honour to escort some vetrans to a cemetery to pay respects to the fallen comrades. As we were there some kids ran in laughing. One of our party yelled at them to show respect. A vetran turned on him saying Stop that! let them laugh. What do you think these men died for?
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  348. Don't even think about it! The politicians can come up with enough stupidity as it. The fanatics vote for loony's at eletcions, As for the rest of us, we are just trying to survive.
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  349. Still dosen't , technically.
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  350. Johhny: I've no problem with have to be licensed to hold firearms. The regulations are really just a standardisation of what any responsible firearm user would do, security, training and conduct when handling, transporting.But in UK we are subject to some ridiculous legislation. One of the best is the VCR, Violent Crime Reduction Act. If you buy a toy gun it has to be certain specified garsish colours, and it is an offence to change colours. Unless you have an exemption, which I have. You can own a De_ac, in it's original finish no problem. The idea was to stop toy guns being used in crime. However British Law for many years has been that if in the commision of a crime you use anything with the intention of convincing some one that it is a firearm, you will be guilty of a fire arm offense. So nice, clear and simple.
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  351. Worked well on the Austen. As this was originally designed for aircraft, top mount was the obvious choice, and in dirt and muck gravity helps. Weapon serindipity, not wanted for original purpose but to good to waste so what shall we do with it? The first person to come round the corner and face it must have got a very short sharp shock.
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  352. At least we now know the inspiration for the 'Chinese Mystery'.
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  353. And who is going to admit it was painted by a Chimp with emulsion paint?
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  354.  @SeanBZA  Have you heard of Project Gutenberg? Lots of old books on line for free.
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  355. In case like that where the screw was to be permanatley fixed, my Farther always used to put a drop of glue on the thread. I have read that slivers of razor blade were tapped under sight mounts to make them tight.
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  356. At the time a complete change of about 500 years of thinking. I gun = 1 shot , reload, then after a dozen or so shots the barrel so fouled you can't load anyway. Enter smokeless , relitivley non fouling. Ye Gadzooks Sir! The common soldiery can now fire two or more shots one after another! What about the cost? Bean counting has been with us since the first person grew a bean.
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  357. She sits on the floor, her carers think it to dangerous for her to be in a chair, she might fall out. Though she'd probably have to stop half way to the floor to ask for directions.
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  358. Britsh Prisions still have 3D scale models kept inside in case of riots. The principal reason is if the model is solid and to scale, you know if you stand at corner X you can or can't see corner Y, a lot more intuitive than a paper plan.
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  359.  @jackdundon2261  All Empires come to an end. The UK has just got out early. Despite what some our poloticians tried. The only two economies that now count are France and Germany, France can't pay for it , Germany won't.Going to be intresting over the next few years. Keep Safe.
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  360. A Martini the other way round. Bloody strong action, suprised nobody thought about a cartridge convesion.
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  361. A lot of the guys who were actually in the battle advised on the film. Micheal Caine tells a story of the man he portrays standing next to hime in one scene. A bang went off Caine flinched, and was told 'You know, that's exactly what I did'
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  362. Wait till your the one on the wrong end of it. :-)
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  363. Yes , watching her light off at night was one of the added bonus of working at Heathrow.
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  364. I remember a friend of mine was quoted a fortune to knock down an old barn. So he bought a lot of cheap beer and scrumpy cider , then invited us all to bring a sledge hammer:-)
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  365. @Matthew Caughey A line from Terry Pratchett comes to mind 'Not so much a concealed weapon as a concealed owner'.
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  366.  @petesheppard1709  Depends wether you have a parachute or not :-)
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  367. Those are a nicley designed , nicley made, good working gun. Love to have one.
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  368.  @andreww2098  Actually, in the 1920's the British issued some ammunition in Eygypt with wood shavings at the bullet tip. The same question was asked, and assurance given that the wood pulp was sterile and would not contraven the Haig Convention on germ warfare.
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  369. They lost in the end.
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  370. The can is probably more valuable and useful than the contents.
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  371. them were the days! As an Unaccompanied Minor, it was sit on the jump seat, out of the cabin crews way. Knew a DC3 cockpit before I knew a car's controls!
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  372.  @lars7935  Well November 4th could be intresting.
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  373. It's the army! Don't expect the Goverment to lash out on the latest weapons do you?
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  374. Shows the workmanship that it still throws lead down range as it should. .
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  375. Still standard issue to many forces in UK. 😁
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  376. Your preaching to the choir mate! My son grew up around guns, he was never allowed even to point a toy gun at people. He now looks on guns as tools they are there to do a job if needed. You don't know me so I'll forgive the NAZI description. I am a Jersey man, the Island was Occuopied by the NAZI's from 1940 to 1945. Most shows have a complete ban of the Swastika being displayed. Yes there were two sides in WW2, just don't ask me to wear a WW2 Grman uniform. Though most gun crime in which firearms are used are smooth bored, litlle or no ballistic eveidence. Following the UK ban on hand guns, the ACPO investigatiion to justify it showed that a total of Three legally held handguns had been used in crime in the prior five years, and these had been stolen. But don't start me on that one, I have to watch the blood pressure.
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  377. Production would have come under 'The Ministry of Supply'
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  378. Could be nasty if you picked your nose at the wrong moment. ...
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  379. In the British case it was the propelant the blank cartridge used. The normal .303 ball ammunition used Cordite, a modified form of Nobel's Ballisite. On initial testing of smokeless nitro propellants Ballisite was found to have a very sharp pressure curve with excessive recoil, bore wear due to the heat of the burn, and was unstable with age. Britain then modified the formula to produce Cordite. Nobel sued for patent infringement, but due to the ambiguios wording of his initial patent lost. When it came to launching grenades Cordite was to soft, so back to Ballisite. The blanks were in boxes marked Blank Ballisite for Grenade launching only. The wire wrap was an intialy a Field Modification, also used was waxed cord and rawhide leather. By the By, so called Bullet trap grenades were experimented with were a normal ball cartridge was used.
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  380.  @trooperdgb9722  LOL. I did upset somone at the Bletchley Park Musuem by pointing out that Ian Fleming, who whom they make great play he was there at some point, was NOT a Royal Naval Lieutenat Commander, he was a Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve officer. At the time the substantive rank was two below what was worn, so basically he was only a Subbie. Don't particullaly want to go back there.
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  381.  @stepanmikulica  Have a dig through Project Gutenberg, a lot of good historic free books there.
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  382.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  For those of us who have worn Queen Elizebeth II uniform, and acted in her name. The feeling was &*(( The Govenor is dead! She earned true loyalty, and never betrayed it.
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  383. Quite likley, Slow fire military calibre shooting wa spart of the events, also the Modern Pentathlon has the 5 sports which a military messenger would neeed Cross country Horse, shooting pistol , fencing Cross country running and swimming. That was introduced in 1912.
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  384. Wasn't there a war over a bucket?
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  385. Wasteland: The best military gun is the one that puts the projectile where you want it, when you want it, with enough power to stop the other guy shooting at you., when you are cold tierd it's dark , raining , snowing blowing a hurricane , up the top of a hill, and you just Don't want to be there.
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  386. Actually , :-) He carried an Enfield P17 . marked with a 2 inch wide red band painted around the stock to distingush it from the P14. The Bayonet was the Remington pattern 1907 sword bayonet, these have two vertical grovesin the hilt to distingush it from the SMLE bayonet.
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  387. Quick note : Horse drawn rollers, cutters, the horses were fitted with leather overshoes so as not to leave prints in the lawn.
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  388. Well, be rude not to really.
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  389.  @rogainegaming6924  In England the reply would be either 'Bought off a man in the Pub (Bar)' or Fell off the back of a Lorry (Truck)' :-)
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  390. Along with Britians own Super Battleships HMS WArrior and HMS Black Prince, built in response to La Gloire. Warrior is in preservation at HM Dockyard Portsmouth along with other distingushed company HMS Victory and The Mary Rose. Warrior was outffited with 1836 Colt .36 revolvers (Check details for me folks!) Colt built a factory at Vauxhall in London to manufactuer them.
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  391. At the time is was the World's Most Expensive Gun, said so on the front page of The Times newspaper!
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  392. Put Explosion , the Museum of Naval Gunfire at Portsmouth on your UK list. They have the small arms taken from the High Seas fleet in 1919. Overloon Museum in The Netherlands.
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  393. Effectivley a bean bag is what a line thrower does shoot. You don't want a solid great lump of steel fired from one pitching target to another. The idea is attach to the ship not bloody sink it or kill the poor sod who has to catch it. Looks a very complicated way to do it as well. British Costain guns you just stick a dummy grenade type thing over the barrel, tie a pice of string, carefully spooled or flaked out before hand , to it and bang, dosen't have to go very far or very fast.
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  394. The hulls were cheap the guns not. So build a tank to float the guns on. It won't be going anywhere without a heavy escort
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  395. Pat G two American ships The Almeria Lykes and the Santa Elisa took part with American crews. Both were sunk. Some of the Almeria Lykes survivors were picked up by HMS Ledbury and later boarded the SS Ohio in order to to render some AA guns operable, and crewed them.
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  396. Lee system, optomised for a rimmed cartridge. Twice magazine capacity of opposition. Very fast action. Infrastructure already in place.
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  397.  @DAD_979  Youre free to leave the country.
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  398. Ry Hirdler  I agree it works. Unfortunatley my one went because of the local poloticians vote hunting, but it was a joy to shoot. In British TV shows of the 1960's The Assasin! always had an attache case which when opened had a Mauser C96, stock and barrel extension with a telescopic sight in it. this was assembled and the fatal shot fired! That's what started me wanting one! :-) l
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  399. No. Hackney is probably derived from a French term Hacquienee, roughly horse for hire. First coming into use around the 14th century. At that time the English court still tended to use French. As for the Association with London Taxis, the black variety being licsened by the London Cab and Carriage Office still being called Hackney Cabs, was first established in 1662. Amongst other things to qualify as a London Hackney Cab the vehicle must, be able to allow a 6 foot man to be seated, whilist still wearing his Top Hat, and . for centuries the cab had to have a bale of hay in the back. The term has also become associated with a horse that has a 'High Action'. When trotting the fore leg is raised so the upper part is almost horizontal.
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  400. North Africa to be Historically accurate. same scenery, same problems.
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  401.  @JrGoonior  Even the Camels have the hump !
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  402. One thing about the acton it is almost an artillery pice. A lot of surplus actions were bought and converted to shotgun and other calibres.
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  403. It answered the question-How can we throw a lot of lead at the opposition as quickly as possible with what we've got. Surley that comes under the heading of Improvised or Craft built? :-~)
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  404. There was an Amrican Campaign called Send a Gun to a Britsh Home. The last Dad's Army film- bloody awful film - but a firearms nerds dream. They had a lot of American oddities supplied, as happned.
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  405. War is all over? Yeah right!
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  406. Question Gents: Why would that be a problem in US? In Europe, you get your ass kicked and the gun sent to the Local Mark Novack.
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  407. Don't discount the Newfoundland Memorial at Beaumont Hamel. I've been priviliged to work with Archeologists on the Western Front, and to have many friends there. It is a very special place.
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  408.  @ForgottenWeapons  Small odd ball musuem, normally run by people who are dedicated- Finest Kind!
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  409. In Franc ethe flower is the Forget Me Not. Blue is the French National Colour , and the colour of the French Armies coats at the time.
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  410. Yes it's the lack of bathrooms! (Had to be said)
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  411.  @itsmarmalade  The adultery of Victorian food was infamous. The answer was the Co-Operative Society. The Co-Op is still part of Brtish life.
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  412.  @michaeldryburgh89  Very few no matter what you did them, a basic clean and the gun went bang, the round went where you wanted. A couple' Escaped 'for range use, on occasion, as a blind trial against other target guns, with 'Average ' shooters, well that was the excuse.There were fist fights over who would shoot it. :-)
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  413. In it's time, and still on many traditional English shoots now, this would have been looked on as an abomination! The tradition on driven game is you take a few birds by skill, those that go over you live to fly another day.
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  414. There was a case in Northern England where somebody decided they would dismantle a number of old luminous instruments on the kitchen table. Being a guy intrested in science, he then went to vist the local Nuclear Power Plant visitor centre. The result wa sthe alarms going haywire. Kitchen table is now sealed in lead. (Scource Terry Pratchett- see also his story of the radioactive Toilet)
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  415. You mean that they DON'T work that way? AHHHH! Wait til I show you my room temprature Fusion device.
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  416. In England, therer was a set of cards included with Typhoo Tea that included Surveyor.
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  417. Lots of Jokes about that in certain parts of UK. Have been known to render a person speechless , with tears in thier eyes.
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  418. Jeffrey Damen  That's true pretty unnerving to realise you have landed in a plane that is now technically under water!
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  419. Yes plase, Forgotten Optics as much intrest to the Nerd as what they were mounted on, after all as Ian is fond of saying 'if you can't se it, you can't hit it'.
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  420. There were umpteen Lee Enfeilds still operational, all the tooling was in place, and for ammunition . The system had proved itself in all climates with soldiers from the highly skilled to raw recruits. It don't breack very often. It went , and contnues to go bang when you want it to, the round goes where you want it to, and if it don't it is simple enough to fix.
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  421. Lance, trying to keep track of English History at this point can be some what , complicated. 😁For a good insight into the period, and exciting stories, try the C J Sansom 'Shardlake ' series.
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  422. The definite divisons of the Imperiel system do have advantages in maufacturing.
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  423. Freemen of London can still drive a flock of sheep over London Bridge. Though given how much CO2 sheep , vent, they would probably get fined for emmisssions. 😁
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  424. Yeah , down ,down, dow.....OOOH SHI>>>>>
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  425. It was used as Britsh Militray intended , up to about 1916 when the SMLE Mk1 No iii* was introduced and the cut of fwent, mainly to ease manufactuer , not change in discipline. If the nomacleture confuses you, you are in the majority. SMLE Mk1 was Rifle No1 the .22 training rifle was Rifle No2 and the P14 eneded up Rifle No3.
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  426. Ifyou ever get the chance, go the Menin Gate at Iperes, the Last Post ceremony.
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  427.  @chadington6029  Then you make a point of watching for the Bancrupty Auction:-) I went to a local antique market last year. There were a pair of Canadian WW2 artillery glasses ,which I liked the look of, price about £10, the guy wanted £40 and wouldn't drop. There were also a pair of NIL (Nottingham Instruments Limited ) marked Ross type IV naval binoculars at £20, which I bought and happily walked off. Value on those closer to £80 to £100 on a good day. I knew the history , The Expert didn't.:-)
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  428.  @peterclarke7240  As long as you can get Tea!
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  429.  @weareallbeingwatched4602  Brain addle is an optional extra. 😄
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  430.  @zloychechen5150  Most Russian kit I have come acros tends to be beautifully enginnered, where it needs to be. Like the old Lada Nivas, the body falls off , but you can't kill the engine and drive train.
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  431. The best view of Leeds, in the rear view mirror as you leave. Ian, next time go to Fort Nelson and Portsmouth.
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  432.  @hogwild5844  There is a stuff called Smart Water. Leaves a trace that lasts for months. In UK used as eveidence 100% succes rate.
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  433. Listen to the Machinery! It will tell you what is wrong. I got told that years ago, still relevant.
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  434. Marcaxe: Bit of a myth now, though I was told that they showed for many years. Most of the adults and my teachers whoinfluenced me as a child were in the Island at the time. One Bob Le Suer is now a leading expert on the period. He served in the Britsh Army and told a story that just after D Day he suprised a German and shot at him 6 times with a Webley, all 6 missed, they looked at each other and ran. Another my physiscs teacher told that when he was a kid there was a German billited in the house. The German walked in one day while he was fiddling with some stuff on the kitchen table and asked what he was doing. My teacher, can't remember his name but it was a looong time ago, told him mind his own buissness. He then got a clip around the ear from his Mother for being cheecky. When she asked what he was doing he told her making a crystal set. She nearly passed out as part of retaliations for Commando raids on the Island's, all radio sets had bene conficated and the punishment for pocccesing one was prision. A Jesuit priest at Maison St Louis had a geology collection and broke up a large rock crystal to make the sets. There is house at Havre Des Pas. in St Helier which older pople still cros sthe road to avoid. It was the base of the , Excuse my German, Gehime Feildpolitzi Secret Feild Police, the German's made great play that the Gestapo were never in the Island's. Technically true as the Island's were a Festunbg so under Military Command hence the Secret Feild Police, not the Secret State Police, or Gestapo that dealt with civillians. Though I have ben told by those unlucky enough to have contact with them the difference was technical. Someone with more knowledge of the services will correct any mistakes.
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  435. A lot of Soldiers in the Great War on both sides had similar views. Spoilt it for the General's on both sides.
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  436. These Bergman's, though it looks like a lot of Mauser C96 was applied, were the end of an era, and show the change in Military Doctrine that was coming in at the time. Ian critisies the mag removal on the early ones, but! Do you need to take the mag out that often when de rigeur was charger loading? I notice this pistol still has charger load. Also the SMG and Self Loading carbine made a pistol with stock irelevant, to bulky as a pistol, not as useful as an SMG or carbine. WW1 also brought about a lot of changes in doctrine, a slump in the world economy, lots of firearm innovation and it had been the War to End all Wars, so no major country was looking to rearm, and for the rest the market was awash with surplus. RIP Bergman.
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  437. That's because we were all due to fight the Pesky Reds in Germany and Norway, very built up areas, so you'd be close range fleeting targets. Spend your billions on that scenario. Now of course we are in Camel country with miles and miles of sweet FA with wide open vistas, so a 500 , 600 metre shot is the new normal. All of a sudden good marksmanship is important again and a full power cartridge is an operational requirement. Till you get into FIBUA when the full power , full length , shoot through walls , isn't a good idea. Guns are tools have you got the right one for the job? Roll the dice, and see what your approriate procurment will shell out for. The cheapest option, that's for sure. One International rule of Co-operation, the Comitte will screw it up.
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  438. it also won't hurt so much when you bang your head against it. I can now finally understand why MOD, is called Mine of Dung.
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  439. Jonas: Polymers don't now! At the time, especailly with servcie in India and Far Eastern countries, the British were well aquainted with the properties of various woods and the bedding of barrels and actions under climatic extremes.
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  440. Have had a bit of a hunt of around on this. Another surmise is that they were supplied with Winchester made ammunition. There is a reference to soldier's at Isinwalda calling for Eley or Kynoch, who were the munitions suppliers at the time.
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  441. Even the SLR or L1 A1 as the British called the FAL, whilst I'll sing it's praisies all day long, lovely bit of kit. At 7.62 it was on the edge of the actions capabilities. EM2 no chance, it would disintergrate or end up needing a block and tackle to lift it.
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  442. Just trying to think. British expressions from guns, weapons. The use of a Petard to blow open gates, if you get caught out by being to clever 'Hoist on your own Petard. A complete package 'Lock Stock and Barrel' Very sharp comedy can be rerffered to a s a 'Rapier Wit'. Leaping into a situation before you fully understand it, 'Going off at Half Cock' I'll try and think of some more.
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  443.  @Groovy_Bruce  Yes and no. As a recuriting aid they were considered a god idea. The Britsh Army always had a tradition of County Regiments, if you lived in an area you joined your local regiment. The trouble was when the New Army went in on the 1st July, and the resons why are a whole long argument in itself, the groups were even more localised, factorys , streets ,s o the loss was large in a small area. Lessons were learnt though . In the Great War the Royal Gurnersey Light Infantary fought as a single unit. Starting with 2,280 men, 327 were killed and 667 wounded. Jersey however, did not send enough men in a single group to form one unit so men from the Island were spread through the Royal Irish Rifles and the Hampshire regiment and other services. The result was less men lost. During WW2 men from both Islands formed a Service Regiment, they wer ealowed to transfer to fighting battalins, and keep their cap badge, but not to fight as a single unit.
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  444. British didn't do so well either. HMS Thunderer the RN's first turret ship , they double charged one, resuting burst killed 36 men.
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  445. PW, how could you make such a simple mistake? France and the rest of Europe , are of the coast of the Britsh Isles!
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  446. You would also have had gossip coming back from Aussies troops using the British version sans pistiol grip. Though that was in the design from the start. The requirement wa sfor an easily stipped conceable gun for use by resistance forces. Slip the stock and magazine it will fit in a poachers pocket.
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  447. In the case of Aberfan, it was instrumental in the passage of the Health & Safety at Work Act of 1974, throughout the UK. Specifically Section 37. The senior management and directors of company can be prosecuted. This was specificly aimed at people like Robbins
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  448. The Zimmerman telegrams, there werre two. They were being transmitted on American diplomatic channels. One of the fist British actions of the Great War was to cut the German overseas cables. The whole story of the telegrams being discoverd in Mexico, is a cover for the fact the British were reading American diplomatic traffic, and breacking all thier chypers.
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  449.  @John-ru5ud  WATU was at first considered a waste of time by the British. The Western approacehs Flag officer, forget his name, went along to see what they did, on the second floor of a warehouse in Liverpool with about two dozen people. He was invited to join a wargame, being an experienced submariner, he took the boat. He was thourgly beaten three times. On demanding to meet his opponet, he was introduced to an Eighteen year old girl. He never questioned them again.
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  450.  @ShiftyBigmac  If you can't dazzle them with diamonds. Baffle them with Bullshit.
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  451. She was lost and afraid, you took her in. hard work isn't it? But so worth it.
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  452.  @oldesertguy9616  The Nazi garrison was ordered to rest bettween 12 and 4 to save thier strength. Finally a plea was sent by the Bailliff's, the head of the The Island's Goverments, the States, through the Red Cross to London in July 1944, pleading for a relif effort for the starving civillians. Churchills reply , stil a reason he isn't that liked in the Island's. Let them starve. Futher efforts were made an eventually at Christmas 1944 the Internatiopnal Red Cross ship SS Vega docked in Guernersey and then Jersey with POW parcels from Canada , New Zealand and specila supplementary boxes from Glasgow. In addition the ship carried clothing and medical supplies. She made a total of thre etrips , the last after the armastice.
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  453.  @Simonsvids  The Island of Jersey is my home, and my teachers and most of the Adults that influenced me had been therough the Occupation. One friends Mother hated the sound of chopping wood. Her bedroom as a child had been alongside a hill called Rue De Franchief. She was woken every morning by the sound of prisoners, mostly Russians , being forced to march to various constructions sites. If they did have any sort of footwear it wa smade from bits of wood and would slap on the road. The locals only became 'Better Off' when the SSVega an International Red Cross ship finally arrived in the Island's in December 1944. I'd recommend, A Doctor's Occupation by John Lewis.
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  454. In Britsh parlance that is known a Silent Register' . It developed during the Great War, rather than Register by Fire ,which promptly announces to the Opposition Here Iam , come and get me!.
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  455. No powder is safe. Mix any fine dust with air, add flame, boom. I worked at a soft drink factory, that had bulk tanker delivery of fine sugar. First job on arrival. Earth the tanker!!! Just as you would with a fuel or gas tanker.
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  456.  @Corvious  As far as the Royal Marines are concerned there is one thing I know that beat them. My son was born three months prem and was fed on an special mix. It STUNK!!! The Doctor told me it had been tried on the RM and they had refused it. My son loved it, but he did join the Army. (And we still joke about it)
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  457. The history of Woman's rights across the whole Island Of Ireland is not a glourious one, even today.
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  458. I have an old simple Vostock bolt action, single shot, the twin of that, except for export the stock was smoothed and varnished. Don't underestimate the durability or performance of the rifle. Most Russian influence guns have a short stock by European and US standards, but then in winter you wore a lot of heavy clothing, and in summer added the butt pice. Simple but works.
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  459. Then don't try using a blow torch to melt the solder! (Bet some clown has tried it)
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  460.  @mrjockt  :-) End of lockdown first place on the list Brecon Beacons.
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  461. A lot of battlefeilds are like that.
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  462.  @Kolajer  The local Pigeons surley have enough trouble! :-)
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  463. The difffrence is there is no' Right ', to own firearms in UK. To own any legally you must hold a licence of certificate.
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  464. Actually the 1907 pattern Bayonet is based on a Japanesse design.
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  465. Huh! Show off! in England we had 2 o' clock in the morning, in black and white TV. My Mother woke me up to watch it.
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  466. The Royal Navy using Foriegn seamen, nothing new. One hypothosis for the sinking of the Mary Rose was lack of communication due to the crew speacking a number of diffrent languages.
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  467. Conservatism amongst military and shooters. Long barreled and full stocked = A Musket! Good enough in My Day etc. . Bear in mind this was the transition period from black to white powder. In artillery the 'Cannon' was only the designation for a piece with a barrel of about ten feet long. As this happens to be the optmum length for black powder artillery as far as size of shot and range goes more Cannon were built than any other type and the name became generic.
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  468. Rooster : easiest answer 'The Scramble For Africa' ie Everyone wanted a pice. No Good No Bad, just alll Greedy.
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  469. I thought the same, but was solomley assured that it was true! If you can't trust a Doctor who can you trust? :-)
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  470. And Enigma, The Poles were the first to breack it.
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  471. When a similar gun on HMS Thunderer was double charge it did. 36 men were killed.
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  472. Media making assumptions? Surley not.
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  473. In British Home Guard service the the M17 has a 2 inch wide red stripe painted around the butt. To visually dfferentiiate from the p14. Also the Remington pattern bayonet has two vertical channels on the hilt.
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  474. No one can own something BN. She belongs to those who served with her.
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  475. HMS Victory is not 'In Preservation' She is'In Commision' as Flagship First Sea Lord , She started that commison in 2012 . She has been in Commision 245 years.
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  476. Have a look at C&Rsenal vid on the Rast & Gasser. Othias mentions that ocassionaly the star on the swing out fould with residue, and the Austrians were paranoid about reliability,
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  477. Please note. Jersey cattle do not have a high yeild , they do produce a high butterfat content 4.9% and protien 3.7% . As the original home of the breed is a little rock 9 miles long by 5 wide (Gets bigger when the tide goes out) they are a very economic to feed , there isn't much room on Jersey and tradition was to tether the cows.Also at the time being a Closed Herd, no animal or semen was allowed to be imported a Jersey bred Jersey was disiase free. Onedrawback, the Cows are docile easy tomanage animals, . The bulls on the other hand have a reputation of being right little sods. They are a Dairy Breed, there have been attempts to create cross breeds for dual purpose (Milk & Beef) but have never really been succesful.
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  478. Only that 1968 was the only year in the 20th Century that a Britsh Serviceman didn't die in action.
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  479. There are some Mercedes G wagens over here that came back with various army units from the Falklands. When the current 'Owners' went to Mec for parts they were informed that the Vehicles were stolen! The Argentinaians had not paid for them.
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  480. Better still , get trained before you go near one! I don't fancy trying to work the ground controls in that case though.
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  481.  @michaeldryburgh89  Depends if your a member of the right shooting clubs. When someone turns up at the range with the odd bit of kit, 'given or loaned' and asks 'Like to try this?':-) Where I worked a favourite was to use dummy land mines as door stops to 'Upset' visting polticians.
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  482. Well that proves the Superiroty of Brtish Enginerring! The SOE Pipe gun V the OSS Cigarete gun! Though Q would probably have it firing a 40mm guided atomic bomb. Ian Fleming did make a lot a claims that HE was the originator of many plans and gadgets.
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  483. Yes, that would have been the Browning .50 I belive that was proposed to be fitted to the projected 1919 Universal Tank.
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  484. My mother had a three legged Persian, shelost a front paw through an acident. The cat caught a mouse one evening and was so proud she brought it in jumped up and dropped it on Mum's lap. Mum uttered a shrieck was out of her chair and up the stairs before the cat or I realised. Not bad as Mum was about 70 at the time. :-)
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  485.  sgfhk321  Both had very distingushed carrers as Scinetific Vessels. Micheal Palin's Book Erebus is very good.
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  486. I went on the Opening Day of the New Improved Imperial War Museum London. I wa saked by some little minion what I thought. Well I speack the truth'This cost 21 Million Quid? I could have ruined it for a third of the price'. I was then huffily told that the plan was for the Musuemn to become a Venue (Whatever the F7777 that means)
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  487. He did actually work at Enfeild at one point, so he did know how the gun wen't together.
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  488. trouble is, if you are 'One of The Boys', as soon as you start questioning 'The Wisdom' you find your self very lonley. Experts in any feild all tend to get very precious if queryed ,especially where large amounts of money are involved, and you earn through commision.
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  489. It was said at the time Gunners needed three qualities. The Stength of a Cart Horse, the Speed of a Racehorse, and the Brains of a Rocking Horse. Not much changed then.
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  490.  @KageMinowara  Yes, really taking the Pith!.
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  491.  @saltymcginger2027  With the length of that thing, you'd have to shout so the guy on the other end could actually hear you :-)
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  492. No, historically , Britian belongs to us. We were part of the Duchy of Normandy, not France, that wa sa totally diffrent country. When William our Duke took the English Crown, he and subsequent Monarchs kept the title Duke of Normandie, the oldest title. In 1284 Norman processions in Europe returned to the French Crown. The Islands were asked if they wished to stay with the Dukedom. They did and were granted the use of the Royal Cipher, and a Mace. So the three Lions of England, the top two speack Jerriais, the old Norman tounge, from the Normandy Crest of two, the third speacks French, being adapoted in to the arms of Henry Duke of Anjou and Normandy when he married Elanor of Aquitaine, as was custom at the time, whose coat of arms was single lion. Though the design has changed over the years and in Jersey they are often reffered to as Three Leopards.
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  493. Owning two 1944 Dodge 3/4 tonners and thre e Land Rovers, you have my full support on that one! :-)
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  494. As far as military equipment goes A few years back an International oil company started out with 200,000 goats. By the time an long trail of bartering was finished, they imported to an African country 15 armoured enginnering tractors. After using these on projects for three months they were 'Gifted' to the local goverment.
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  495. Angela Rayner. Starmer's No2. Yep! And anyone British will know what N02 is.
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  496. He covers history. History included groups you don't like.
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  497. Or in this case the survivors.
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  498.  @rowzielynwho202  Hey, the genresotiy of the people of Canda gave a hospital that keeps me alive. I won't forget that it came at the blood of others.
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  499. Battries don't go flat. Programming dosen't change. Compatability isn't a problem. And! very releveant , it is a Physical record. Not just a collection of electrons that can be altered with no trace.
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  500. At the same time Austria was Offended, look where that led.
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  501. Hey Boyo! You forgot Lava Bread Bach!:-)
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  502.  @Evilroco  Ohh! You are now 'The Man' that may supply the answer that has people world wide holding thier breath. No pressure then? :-)
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  503.  @legochickenguy4938  Belgium overenginnering?
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  504. Fast forward to 1968. Admiralty : Why do we want this new fangled 7.62 L1A1? We have plenty off SMLE No4 and lots of.303 ammunitiion. Though as my Gunnery Instructor told me, 'Thier Lordships didn't account for people like me sending a thousand rounds a week down range for fun. '
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  505. The movie was made by Disney, years ago. Try My Dancing White Horse's by Alois Podhajsky, he was the Director of the school at the time, so First Hand account.
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  506. One hit, opposition loose intrest in you. What more do you want? :_)
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  507.  @jean-lucperez3296  By complete chance on our Remeberance Sunday , I ended up at Bordon Manor in Bexley, which has a plaque to Maxim on it. There he built and apparently flew ,a Steam powered aircraft in 1894. It crashed on third flight and he lost intrest.
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  508. Funnily enough in UK you can own artillery that functions! Though we normally fire black powder blanks. They are owned on a 'normal' Class 1 firearm certificate for rifle barreled firearms. Though intrestingly it is the firing mechanism that is coverd by the certificate. Without that anyone can haul it about.
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  509. Thats a fair swop.
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  510. Ian you should have borrowed an L85 sling whilst you were the proper side of the pond. The best bit of kit in the system.
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  511. I've seen a picture of it somewhere. It was an odd looking thing with two S shaped barrel intertwined. I belive the idea was you threw a metal shot in one direction and a lump of softer material like clay of the same weight in the other. Just be certain your pointing the right barrel in the direction of the enemy.
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  512. They wanted to, but as my Gunnery Instructor at HMS Ganges in 1972 said 'Thier Lordships didn't account for the likes of me sending a thousand rounds a week downrange for our own use'. Though it did mean I got to play with the SLR.
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  513. Dudley Clarke , also invented various infantry units. One he named 'The Special Air Service. Jasper Maskilyne a famous British magician also served in the Middle East on deception, he developed a system called Whirlpool, a searchlight with a rotating disc which caused a flikering effect to cover the Suez Canal. The modern picture of the 25lb guns is wrong, they are Mk 2 guns, with muzzle brakes, The guns in the Western Desert were Mk1 no muzzle brakes. (I know by the way as the Mk3 green Morris Artillery tractor (Quad) in the rear left, I drove it!.
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  514. Yes, those two made the Met into a laughing stock.
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  515. Does it sling bullets that are effective where you want them when you want them? Who cares what it looks like?
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  516. I'd say MRE cakes, in a large tin, feed ten, are about the only thing that is edible, and dosen't come with a minature bottle of Tobasco Sauce.
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  517. Large chunks of the film Battle of Britian.
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  518.  @Alex-lm7cx  No self respecting Fuzzzy Wuzzy would be worried by the Pigsticker! :-)
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  519. A hammer and an adjustable spanner. What more do you need? I like that vehicle :-)
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  520. Oh forgot to add none of this applies if the manufacture calls it an 'Air weapon' that can actually fire a projectile. A lot of problems came about because slieght of hand made the sale of BB guns legal,. It became de rigieur for certain members of the muddy end of the gene pool to use them to fire at vehicle drivers. Now the same use mopeds and fire extingushers so they no doubt will soon be banned.
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  521. For the P14 contract , the Britsh paid up front for machinery and stock. Figure qouted is about $21,000,000 at the time. The production lines were later sold to US for P17 production for about $9,000,000 A quick internet check, I million dollars then = just under $3 million today
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  522. They are remebered and respected. I have visted the Somme many times, and Essex Farm. Mc Crae's brother was chief surgeon of the 16th Cnandian Genral Hospital, at Orpington Kent. Now the Canada Wing, built with donations from the People of Canada, my local hopital . A few years back the UK NHS tryied to close it and sell the land for housing. Much local uproar and a Letter from the Canadian PM saying 'Whose's hospital?' Still there still serving the local community.
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  523.  @rushthezeppelin  Yeah, pity he didn't invent something to take the ** primer out!
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  524.  @Charon-5582  My mother would throw a handful of sugar on a lazy fire, it would promptly flare up.
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  525. @NicoKolluri I'd milidly dissagree with that, if you aren't prepared to learn from the dog, and they 'train' you to thier responces, the team won't work.
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  526.  @Curtislow2  Never going to happen. :-) You build it we bust it.
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  527. It may be an Englsih thing. But Ian happily commenting on 'Shove .22 rounds down the Butt hole'. Took me 5 minutes to stop rolloing around the floor. 🤣🤣🤣
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  528. The Norman's were , and as far as they are concerned , still Vikings. The Term Norman translates as North Man. Originally the area was given to the North Men by King Charles III the Simple in 911, to stop them raiding. The sole area remaing with the English Crown is the Channel Islands, The oldest Royal Tiltle held is still Duc De Normandie.
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  529. French waiters do have a certain reputation. Most likely carried by the Maite D' for when the customer complains.
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  530. Some, plus Vickers K guns,ended up on the original SAS Jeeps as well. No kit available scrounge what you can, and the RAF had a load taken of the Vickers Wilderbeast. The LRDG trucks used Ground versions on there Chevorlet trucks.
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  531. Diffrence is Britsh Military has a habit of winning.
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  532. @ Rimmed rounds worked very well, and still do.
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  533. Excellent. A presenter with knowledge, who knows the diffrence bettween Shrapnel and Fragments. Empathy with his interviewies, one gentlle relevant question and allow them to tell the story. Complete lack of Ego, Oh I have to be on the camera! I will listen to this man with respect.
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  534. Well of course England would want Ethiopia! After all the depiction of our patron saint is exactaly the same.
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  535. When I were lad, in the RN in the early 1970's the EFFECTIVE range of the SLR L1A1 was always given as 200 yards. Why? Because that' the range you had a chance to A see the target B Time to aim and hit it.
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  536. Ocean's 11? Oh please Lance ! More like the Italian job!
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  537. Yes a lot of Great War fortificarions did end up being re used when the German's retreated back after D-Day. Hill 60 at Yepere is a prime example.
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  538. Probably missed with some.
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  539. And everyone was trying to get hold of Lewis guns!
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  540. There is' but it's a gas BB gun. Made to original drawings by Webley. Bit like a sports car with a moped engine.
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  541. I'd disagree! It does have the pontential to make any attacker die laughing!
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  542. With slow match stuck in his beard? Hum, be carful bending over.
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  543. Called a STEN mk 5
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  544. We have built a whole new type of weapon! And it's more danger to the locals than the enemy ' Congreve rockets and Woolwhich come to mind:-)
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  545. Fine if you have the luxcury of time and money. If neither is avilable, it works we can build a lot cheaply, go for it. Funny you should mention the Spitfire, point in case, the original Spitfires had flush riviting, time consuming and skilled work. Split dried peas were stuck on every rivet of a test aircraft, then removed, one by one, until the best compromise between flush and headed rivets was found. All to save on production time and cost.
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  546. From the sound of it no chance of Dead!
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  547. Every dog I've had has been a waif , stray or throwout. A lot of work , but the love honesty and loyalty they return to you is worth every moment. you want a dog you can trust your life to? find a rescue and work with them.
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  548. Look up Higgin's story. From assisting Rum Runners to building Revenue Cutters to cornering the market in stocks of wood for his design, then selling the design to the US Goverment. Guy had some front.
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  549. Avebury, much more intresting, plus Silbury Hill, Merlin's Mount , the wedders in the fileds, and the Ridgeway. Martinsell, The East and West Kennets Barrows, then you have the Kennet and Avon canal. Crofton Pumping station.
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  550. With Scottish Ancestery?
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  551.  @forbeshutton5487  They were to busy flying auto gyros from U boats Focke-Achgelis Fa 330.
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  552.  @howardwhite1507  True, hadn't thought to mention that.
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  553. Don't worry! You only get BS on days that have a Y in them.
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  554. I thought this was Forgotten Weapons' not the half baked physicology channel?
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  555. Rae has a very good point. The US military was not equipped for a war outside continental America. You have to A Recurut people, willing to die for somone else! Hey , I'm making a ton of money, and it 'ain't my home and family threatned (Perfectly understandable) B You then have to train these guys, C You then have to equip these guys, everything from underpants to weapons. C Your manufacturing is already at full stretch, See A. D you have to move it all across the Atlantic, whilst being shot at. E There has to be somewhere to put them when they get there, and England was already at it's wits ends, and add on and on. So 10 months? Pretty good going really.
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  556. A little bit of Good Enough for me by the Generals in charge of procurment I expect, plus cost. Though the quality of Steyers work is just drool worthy.
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  557. Just prior to WW2 the German's used Zeppilins to try elint warfare aginst British Chain Home and Chain Home low radar stations. The story goes the Britsh operators were appaled by German Navigation and had to be stricly told , No!! You may not radio to them thier actual posiitions.
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  558.  @lindseykathryn5746  Don't go there! Isn't national identity enough of a problem? One of the gentelest people i know nearly ended up knocking a manger out because on filling a form which said how do you indentify your ethnicity he put English and was told he had to change it as that catergory didn't exist. I put Jersey /Norman, that confused them enough to leave me alone.
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  559. As long as you don't foget, if the Will o the Wisp is about. Stop turn your pockets inside out , kneel and recite the Lord's Prayer! Otherwise you will never find your way home! At least on Dartmoor and Exmoor. 😁
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  560. The third world seem to do better with a length of pipe a sharpend gate bolt and rubber band.
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  561.  @matthayward7889  No No No! They were repositioned to safe storage! All the owners have to do is ask for them back and show proof of ownership! :-)
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  562. Lance Southwark is pronounced Suth -uk. 😁It was rather more famous for it's geese. Being south of the river (A whole diffrent world from them up north) it was outside the City. And in Rogers time was famous as 'A place of Entertainment'. The area was under the Diocise of Winchester . Hence winchester Geese, liccensed ladies of the night.
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  563. Gyrojet come s to mind.
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  564. Ben: That would be the scope fitted bipod mount version then?
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  565. Plus Spitfires, Fulmars and Beufighters flown in by RAF from RN carriers. There is a film The Malta Story made in 1953, .
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  566. Joel Atwater  In Liconshire England they are very proud of the Linconshire Hill! A long striaght ridge that runs across part of the county to a height of, about, Two Feet! There are even signs on the roadside in case you miss it!:-) On the Western Front though, especially around Ypres, The Salient, the two famous high spots are Hill 60 and Hill 62, height in meters. There actually embankments made for the railway. A lot of blood was spilt over those pimples.
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  567. Happy Birthday Ian. Thanks for a remarkable story. Also you may find of intrest the story of a New Zealand Woman Nancy Wake. Known to the Gestapo as The White Mouse.
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  568.  @andyf4292  He used one in a cavalary charge, he'd hurt his arm and couldn't use asabre. Creditid for saving his life. He lost the pistol on a train just before he was captured by the Boers. The film The Yoing Churchill , claimed to have found the pistol and it wa sused by Micheal york in the film. It was a 'proper' 7.63 mm
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  569. RSA Enfield, on the flat, but the River Lee, and offcut canals
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  570. Wrap arms around tree before firing, supplies firwood at the same time. Though placing your back against a tree then firing, probably very messy . Though regular bowel movment was somthing of an obbsecion with the British Raj.
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  571. Depends where you live. In the Channel Islands Britian is always the Mainland
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  572. Either the .455 or later the Webley IV in .38 calibre with a 4 inch barrel. Each force ordered it's own specification. The Royal Irish Constabulary had thier own version of the Webley with a smooth cylinder.
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  573. For Medical Check- are you actually sober enough to walk Comrade?
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  574. Another little did you know? The British Football (Soccer) team The Arsernal, started at the Woolwich Arsenal and has the British Ordnance Board coat of arms as part of thier badge. Ian, all the little sheilds wit thr ee cannon on them you saw all over the metal work.
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  575. No there for Match shooting! (I'll leave shall I?)
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  576. So why not allow your lawn to go wild? Encourage meadow plants and flowers. The insects and wildlife will like it. A lot more fascinating than just a patch of green.The Cottage Garden , fed the family. Now God help us, there shops selling varieties of artificial grass, all oil and plastic. For those about to scream TREE HUGGER! No, my background is agriculture, so I know haow to make an acre of grass pay .
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  577. Military excersise, Air Force team came across tracks, ignored them as nothing on the ground is of intrest except as a target. Army team decide they wern't worth bothering with . Marines team were arguing what they might be when the train hit them.
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  578. The old classic when the CVRT family came out . Speeding! Don't be ridculous! You can't be done for speeding in a tank! The stated top speed was about 50 mph, but, well boys will be boys!
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  579. When introduced into Northern Ireland, the opposition soon learnt 'Don't turn your back to them'. The idea is actually to aim in front and bounce them onto the target, direct hit, they are lethal.
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  580.  @benpeters5851  Probably Tack by.
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  581. Means they have less distance to run home when the Redcoats approach the line.
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  582. Under law they can be classed as pests. They are not Wild, horses are a re-introduction to the america's. They are descendant of escaped domestic animals , so classed as Feral.
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  583. But as Ian , demonstrated, what if you are not on soft soil? Stop the WAR! I need to set my rapid deployment troop support weapon, though the hernia is causing me no end of problems.
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  584. The practice was for a number of hunters to surround a flock and fire similtaniously, often bags of 300 or more.
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  585.  @legochickenguy4938  Yes , didn't he originally envisage a striker fired pistol before having a heart attack on the factory floor.
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  586. Point of Order Sir! A Privateer is NOT a Pirate ! They operate with a 'Comission'. Now I know you American's don't like that, after all my forebears in Jersey were Privateers, but you encouraged the French to set on us, on January 6th 1781, and we all know (Thanks to you) where that went. But like CSS Nashville, they were not Pirates. If any Pirates are involved it is the San Jacinto.
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  587. Was actually considered to be a lousy job, hoist on your own Petard.
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  588. Simplicty take a lot of brains to wrork out!
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  589. Vickers ended up making office furniture.
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  590. Like Hitler being recommended for a citation by a Jewish Officer. Once again irritants, such as burning feathers and poisinous wood to smoke people out , is as old as combat.
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  591. Become a re-eanctor. there are some Vickers still functioning held on Section 5 by film and theatre armoures. Though the down side is you are only allowed blanks. Kent Plod get a bit upset upset if you spray Maidstone with .303 from the top of the showground. (Would clear the M20 though!) There are a few gas conversions about, using propane /butane mix to get the bang, but they are eye wateringly expensive, also we currently have last gasp from the **E**U screwing up the de-ac market.
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  592. Thank the EU, museums in UK are now not allowed to display live weapons., unless they are of an obsolete calibre off of historic importance. I*Uf you can work it out, please tell the rest of us who have to live with the consequenses.
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  593. Not full autos. The process is if the barrel is smooth you need a Permite De Portage from the Parish Hal, is the barrel is rifled you need a States Police FAC. For those who wonder abour the term State's. Jersey has 2 Police forces, a parish based Honary force and an Island based Force operated by the States of Jerset.
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  594. Funny how an American has to make publicly available the whole sorry story of the SA 80 .
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  595. Gas was not that effective at killing people. The more insidious aspect was it wounded many. The old adge of kill one they bury one, wound one it takes at least four others to get him off the battlefield. It was also a major disruption. Trying to work in a modern respirator is bad enough, the old PH hood that was first issued, like a grey wollen sack with a mickey mouse squeaker sticking it, it's hot the eye picies slip everywhere, you loose the squeacker out of your mouth and can't breathe properly, Fucking awful thing to wear for five minutes just running about as a test.and trying to fire a rifle in one, everytime you try to get a stock weld the bastard slips up and you can't see. The later Small box respirator isn't any better.
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  596. Skin oils and sweat etc marks up the collection. Some musuems insist you handle artifacts in neoprene gloves, some white cotton, other don't give a damm. Depends on who what and where as to which policy is adopted.
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  597. Didn't the US buy Landies because the Humvee was to big to fit in the streets ?
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  598. Brillenfux: Problem is the place will be closed from about 12 noon till 3 pm for Lunch. :-) True though any French woman does have a certain elegance.
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  599. There is one, and it argued wether it is really true. Iron Cannon balls were stored with a brass ring bettween them, to sto them rusting together. this was reffered to as a 'Monkey'. Now brass and iron have different coeffients of shrinking. So if it very cold the expression isit's cold enough to 'Freeze the balls of a Brass Monkey', somtimes shortened to 'Brass Monkey weather'.
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  600. Wood cored bullet? A whole new take on Match Shooting? (I'll get my coat)
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  601. Does it go bang? Me want!!
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  602.  @thebestblainejohnson  Queue the old Joke: A Scotsman in North Amercia said 'Hey Mon Wis that?' An Amercal replied 'That Sir is a Moose!'. The Scotsman looked carfully round and replied 'If Thas a Moose , I'd hate to see a Rat escape'.
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  603. 'Any fleet Approaching -Wailing Gnashing of teeth and the cry 'Lock Up Your Daughters'! 🤣
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  604.  @allangibson8494  If it isn't bust don't fix it. I can see the point, why go to the cost and effort of retoolingwhen you have something that only has a few more years of life left? The Self Loader was obviously on it's way at the time.
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  605. There was also a baby .22 rimfire pistol, that was sweet .
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  606. At it's very simplest, when the leads in the air, you fight for your mates, they fight for you. Who the hell cares who, what where or why the call themselves.
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  607. Evrets got lost the hard way. Now we have Google maps to help us.
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  608. "2 million plus people agree! 😁
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  609. Very cool, yes. But an old English joke comes to mind 'No Madam. That is my flask'. Nice to see it is priced in Sterling in UK though.
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  610. And! Don't forget the joy of twenty minutes of squealing cassette tape ! Just as you got your hopes up. The tape slipped and , you started all over again, and again and again.
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  611.  @cryalowicki  Try here https://metro.co.uk/2018/11/07/eerie-recording-reveals-moment-the-guns-fell-silent-at-the-end-of-ww1-8114109/ The tape is a sound ranging tape from 11/11/1918. copied last year by audio enginners. Made by the Imperial War Musuem.
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  612. The Franco -Prussian war went badly for the French. Understatment of the year. You can easily argue the subsequent result was World War 1 and 2
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  613. Ian, What's with Meters? Good Lord Sir! The Dear British Empire used good old Yards! Still does. Though by 1943 America was a combatant so didn't need the US Property mark. I have a Febuary 1941 Mossberg MB42a that is US Property marked though. As for the Far East , the Boys was also used as an anti sniper weapon, hide behind a tree would you? Dosen't work.
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  614. British military since the invention of .22 have taken obsolete or shot out service rifles and converted them to .22. I've bene out today shooting a troop trial SMLE that was converted to .22 in about 1907. I learnt on a Victorian Martini action, re barrelled for .22. I also have (Bit of Trend Here ) a Mossberg MB42, built in the US for British Army use as a training rifle. That dates to around 1941.
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  615.  @peterclarke7006  Sorrry :-)
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  616.  @yzrippin  I got a 12 v one that fits on a battery from Lidl, about your equivalent of Harbour Frieight for a few pennies, clips on a car battery , not much beats it.
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  617.  @Rockwolf66  Phycology dosen't kill the enemy , acccurate fire does.
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  618. I'll bet that thing was a joy to operate in winter wearing gloves.
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  619. The National Anthemn of Jersey Channel Islands is supposed to be based on the Lowing of a Jersey Cow. At its inaugural performance at the Anuual Liberation Day parade a few years back I remarked to a friend 'If I heard a cow making a noise like that I'd shoot it'. A woman behind me snorted and stormed off in a huff. Later found out the woman wa sthe Compsoer's wife. :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGnHfIxJgnE
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  620. Large chunks of the film Battle of Britiian. Got a right bollocking for sneacking off school, along with most of my friends, to see the Mescherscmitt's and Nord aircraft landing at Jersy Airport. from Spain for the film
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  621.  Straight Razor Daddy  A lot of what you use, including Semi Conductors were resarched, invented or developed by Bell Lababoritories.
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  622. Ok so human nature never changes. Legend has it the Lions in Trafalgar Square will roaor when a Virgin passes.
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  623.  @EldarKinSlayer  Thats starting to play around the definiton of offensive weapons.For instance, I had a Police Officer take the stand that the 2 foot length of chrome 1 inch pipe, with a pice of string through the end behind the back seat of my car was an offensive weapon. A quick phone call to my vet, identified it as a Twitch, a tool used for humane restraint of horses. As I had a couple of dozen of them in my care at the time, perfectly legitamite use. It was quite funny , he'd stopped my for a dead headlight on my car. After this I invited him to look in the back of my estate car. Two chain saws, a felling axe and a couple of bush hooks .
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  624.  @alun7006  Shock and Ouch!
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  625. Does it go where you want to, when you want it, and goes bang as you want it to? Is it available? Yes please! How many have you got?
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  626.  @matthewspencer5086  A lot of commercial rifles were taken out privarley, especially for sniping. The British Military did order some dozen os so rifles in various Nitro Express and Rigby calibres for use against German sniper sheilds.
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  627. A good question that is asked on the Western Front of the Great War in France and Belgium every day. Archaeologist's record everything.Grave robbers don't. If you destry the context you destroy any chance of identifying someone, you kill them twice. Unfortunatley there is a lot of money in Artifacts, no questions asked.
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  628. I'll bet a lot swore at it :-)
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  629. Two other books you might enjoy The Shetland Bus by David J Howarth, that deals with the Shetland -Norway routes, and the attack on Tirpitz. The Battle of the Narrow Seas by Peter Scott, that deals with the RN coastal boats , MTB's MGB's and the Steam Gun Boats in the English Channel. Scott is better known for the Slimbridge Wildfowl Trust in Norfolk, and was also an artist. All the illustrations of the book are drawn or painted by him.
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  630. The Rifles sent to the Eire were bitszas, English slang for low grade crap cobbled togetehr out of what eevr wasn't worth keeping. In 1922 the Irish Free State was in the middle of a civil war. The Britsh supported Collins, but wern't sure he was going to win, so a Public show of support was needed, but! Had he lost the Brtish in Northern Ireland wouldhave been facing there own weapons.
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  631. A more practical reason for using older ships like USS Texas and the 1916 Monitor HMS Erebus as land bombardment, both of which were at Normandy, was they wern't much use for anything else. In a pure Naval role there were better equipped more reliable vessels. If an old ship beaches or get damaged, no real loss. Keeping this is mind, the crews must have been superb. Keeping an old ship going in a battle zone, fuffilling all missions asked of them,.
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  632.  @Plasticjesus504  The only way to know for sure who painted a picture ,is stand behind them as they do it.
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  633. And to this day the oldest title of the English Monarch is Duc, always Duc regardless of gender, De Normandie.
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  634.  @r4mcok  Alderney 1944. A tower occcupied by the German's got hit by a 16 inch shell from HMS Rodney- Knocked a bit of stone off. The only time the Royal Navy ever shelled part of the UK.
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  635. Don't forget the Navy! Dragging guns across the Veldt, and leading to the Royal Navy tradition of the 'Gun Running' competion. Now scrapped due the Helath & Saftey.
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  636. I think that scope has been tothe optical equivalent ofMark. Lenses wern't coated at that time so subject to mirage and distorion .Also if I remeber correctly a natural resin was used to mount the lenses which had a tendency to melt and smear. Germany had almost a monoploly on good Optical Glass at the time. I have a 1920's pair of Carl Zeiss Jena binoculars, I bought a box of stuff at an auction for £5, as it had a few intresting badges in it, plus a load of old rags. Dug through the rags to throw out.What's this? a binocular case. The whoop was heard down the street. :-)
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  637.  @MentourPilot  I know from personal experience that takes a lot of courage to speack out. But! Others will have noticed things. It is all to easy to say 'None of my buissness'. Especially in a safety critical industry, there should be a culture that you raise concern. CRM is a prime example, freedom to speack out without sanction. Then , the person who needs help can accept it, without loss of face!
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  638. Venables was in buissness till 1985. As this was being marketed to probably British Aristocracy, or some rich American Johhny come latley. I'll bet it spent time in the workshop being tarted up. Dazzle = Diamonds :-)
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  639. At the time a lot of Birmingham , jobbing guns, were built for export to the colonies etc. Individuals making one part for assembly by others. Trouble is the customers kept complaing the guns exploded and killed them, so the Proof Act and the Proof Houses were introduced. Duced bad form to kill customers y'know. Gives the country a bad name.
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  640. So the Romans, concqured Spain, then the Arabs invaded Spain, intorducing Hot Eastern bloodlines, to Spanish Cold Bloodedhorses.The Spanish then kicked the Arabs out , and went hunting for thier own Empire . Reintroducing the cross bred horses to the Americas. By the way any one else see paralles with the Roman Empire?
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  641. I used to use one that spent it's time in a leather horse holster subject to all the crap and water from fording, as you say still went reliably and safley bang when needed. The first rifle I ever bought was abolt action .22 Vostock single shot target guns, despite no 'Modern Innovations' it still shoots acuratley .
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  642. When you say Army, Navy- Does that refer to the Army & Navy store? They were the major retailers of all things military to Officers at home or abroad. Thier name would be marked as suppplier.
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  643. Unless you belong to my friend who trains gun dogs. His old Munsterlander used to sit and shake with excitment when the gun case came out.
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  644.  @matthayward7889  Not to mention our dear legislators. They'd wet them selves at the repeater. :-),
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  645.  @SeptimusAugustus  To hold firearms in UK, you have to show you are a fit and proper person. Which is fine by me, if you are in control of something that can be lethal, you should show you are sensible. Pity the same can't be said about some poloticians we have, but was ever thus.
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  646. Don't worry there still going, somewhere.
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  647. how to be awarded a VC holding a mortar in your hands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Henry_Cain
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  648. That's being higly optomistic, first time a dashboard light come on the vehicle will halve in value, you will never be able to afford the Main Dealer price to turn it off.
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  649. Unfortunatley the Voice of Reason is drowned out by Religious zealots and the sond of gunfire from Fanatics. That and the large amonuts of money the Troubles generate for both Unionists and Nationalist groups.
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  650. University Students around the world.....
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  651. The British Commonwealth countries also wanted thier share of the as well, which whilst understandable didn't help. Woodrow Wilsion also had his hand in things, having be made to look a right fool by the German's. There is also the argument that the German's wer enever made to feel militarialy defeated alowing the 'We were not defeated but stabbed in the back by poloticians' attitude to become ingrained. Just like the start the end of the Great War was one unholy screw up of gossip, ego and greed.
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  652.  @RichardCranium321  They still do in parts of Australia. As a reaction to kids being upset with anyone carrying firearms being described as 'phycopaths and killers' . A lot of the kid's live on farms and in rural areas were you need a firearm, they see their parents with them. . So if a kid wants a toy gun, the school will go through 'Training' and they have to earn a 'Licence', which can be taken waway if they act stupid. My son was rasied the same way, he was never allowed to point even a toy gun at anyone. His sons and daughters are being raised the same way.
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  653. A lot of things you now take for granted were developed at The Fort. If you have an airbag in your car, the bang was Made In Kent.
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  654. Don't give up the day job!
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  655. Unless you have to live with it. De Acs are the current target I've had my own run ins with the Police over these. They were confiscated under 'Guidelines' Despite the Brirtish law stating quite clearly A Proof House Marked Deactivated Firearm is NOT a Firearm'. Took six weeks a solicitor threat to sue and my local Member of Prliment to get back what the Staute Law considers pices of odd shaped scrap metal. You can't own a Realistic Imatiion Firearm, ie a plastic toy in genuine colours , unless you have an exemption from The Violent Crime reduction Act, which i do, however you can own De Acs, which are obviously in the corret finish, mind you THEY are working on it. Currently the law ids somewhere south of F****ing ridculous, no one knows what it is.
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  656.  @indigonile673  Try reading the book on which the film is based 'Scapegoats of Empire- You can get it free on Guttenberg. Now he'd have been considerd PTSD or Combat Stress.
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  657. Operations agianst the V3 site at Mimoyeques included a US attempt to turn B17 Bombers into RC drones , known as Operation Aphroditie. During an test in August 1944 This lead to the death of Joseph P Kennedy Jnr. The site was eventually renderd inoperable by the RAF 'Dam buster squadron' 617 with units of 9 Squadron RAF, using 10,000 pound Barnes Wallis designed Tallboy bombs.
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  658. I wonder what De Rudio thought when in 1870, Napleon 111 and Empress Eugene went into exile, to England. Specifically Chiselhurst in Kent. Thier son Louise Napoleon, was killed serving in the British Army in 1879 in a skirmish with Zulu's. Re Devils Island: probably the most famous prisoner there, was Alfred Dreyfus.
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  659. During WW2 in UK the barrage ballons were 'Walked' around there sites by attaching a rope to a belt on some unlucky 'Erk' (RAF slang for ground crew equivalent to a Private) There are a lot of stories of unexpected airborne jaunts if there was a sudden gust of wind.
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  660. Basically yes. We have the Royal Marines to get dirty, we have very little use for small arms,and better things to spend money on.
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  661.  Memories to Music  We have a very deep rich sense of humour. It's up to rest of the world to catch up with it!.
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  662. Hubble was assembled, but... It was considered to expensive to ground test the optics.
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  663. Hey in England we describe Grey Squirrels as Rats with a fluffy tail and good PR.
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  664. High Command We have a new bayonet for you! Soldier in the field 'Hows it at opening bottles and cans?
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  665.  @Litany_of_Fury  100% hindsight. Easy now. Though at the time anything that saved time and material was worth exploring. Though tool steel and skilled machine operators were in very short supply so I wonder about that milled reciver. There were also plans to mass drop cheap weapons, such as the STEN to resitance groups. What if the main manufacturing plants had been put out of action? Could a replacment be be batch produced from small enginnering works with simpler machinery?
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  666.  @bulukacarlos4751  Well worth the read.
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  667. Read George McDonald Frazer's Quartered Safe Out Here, re Burma and 49th army. In addition to being a very entertaining autobigoraphy from the writer of the Flashman series, and the MaCauslan Dirtiest Soldier in the British Army, stories. He describes using a PIAT against Japanese forces escaping down the river Irrawaddy.
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  668. He could have quoted the Classic Irish response' Who's giving these directions anyway?'
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  669. Careful! There has already been one war started over the issue of Tea. Tea built the British Empire, as 1 It got the peaseants off alcahol, so they sobered up. 2 Because you boil the water to make Tea, they stopped dying of water borne diseases. 3 Also has a genreral anti bacterial effect.
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  670. Malta always was multi ethinic. Been a Mediterranian trade and battleground since man could sail around the Med.
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  671. I agree with you, but, at least make it a clean cull, one animal one bullet, not stacking together to die of disease.
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  672.  @geraltofrivia323  I was subject to a Home Invasion a few years back, and fought two guys off with a bayonet. The Police said you may have killed him, my reply was So What? A little later the pair tried it on someone else. Who stabbed one with a screwdriver. I know where his grave is. Start the music:-)
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  673. Sorry I 'll try to clarfiy. The Shells wieghed 2000lbs In Imperial English measurment this is not 1 ton. An Imperial Ton is 2240lbs weight, so in England the weight of shell would be considered just under the Ton.
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  674.  @yazman4040  Oh Nooo! Cheryho! So common! It would be Todel Pip Old Boy! .
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  675.  @c0gnus  Or in the Irish Airforce, Paddy ! I've shot the proppelor off! Ah, that means we'll be up here eel day! As told to me by an Irish AirForce Officer :-)
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  676. The only amphibious operation in existence where the landing forces had to walk to the objective.
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  677. Hence the motto : Improvise , Adapt , and Overcome.
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  678.  @thedogfatherjt2243  I was born and brought up in Jersey Channel Island's. The treatment of the Russian POW's plus the other forced labours, is apprent everywhere yo go on the Island's coast , and inland. Thier treatment post war is less well known. . One who didn't want to return to Russia and was hunted down and kidnapped, was the Russian POW saved by Louisa Gould, the woman that the story Another Mother's Son is based on.
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  679.  @thedogfatherjt2243  There is a lot of history that's the problem. Individuals only see what directly effects them, and by the time hstory is recorded it is only 'The Big Picture'. Then you have the biasis of those recording. Add that to those who want to exploit specific things for thier own ends. Hard to keep an open mind. :-)
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  680. I'm suprised they didn't put wheels and a chain on it!
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  681. God save us from fanatics. The first thing they do is encourage the young to die for thier cause. Irish Indepence, immidiate Civil War.
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  682.  @jamesallred460  WEE I;m younger than I thought ! :-) I do rememebr it was rated 18 years at the time in UK., I was 17 and my mate 16 , but so what? We were devils in those days !
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  683. If this were made in UK the maker would be in a lot of Deep Cack if it were not submitted for re proof. A black powder action on a nitro barrel and chamber.
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  684. Yes it's called Igor!
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  685. So ? You can find places called Pratt's Bottom, The Slaughters, Upper Up. The Bowwow.Good Honest English place names Try Wales , Llanfairpwillgwyngyll
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  686. But you are also keeping a useful political pawn around to keep the opposition of balance.
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  687.  @intentionaloffside8934  You need toearn the dough! (Goingtoget worse :-) )
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  688.  @iatsd  How long have you got? Ian used just over 13 minutes, he's piqued a lot of intrest for us to go look futher. Good work!
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  689. No, not now. I had to defend my self against people breacking in, which I did with what ever I could find. No action was taken against me by the Police. However! Two English Proof house marked De-Activated firearms, which the Firearms act distinctly states Deactivated firearms are NOT firearms were confiscated under 'Guidelines' . It took several weeks and a lot of effort by myself to get back my legally held property" As to investigation of the burglary , in which I was injured Sweet F***K All! I wasn't even asked for a statement!
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  690. This is the British Reply!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSQCwaSO6cQ
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  691.  @tommy-er6hh  Yes , in coastal waters and harbour entrances German U Boats and aircraft laid 'Influence Mines' Magnetic , acioustic or a mixture of both fuses. Wooden hulled ships and aircraft with giant electro magnetic loops under the fusalage were used. A lot of fishing trawlers and drifters of the Royal Naval Patrol Servcie did the work. They also did Ocean escort as rescue ships including the infamous P17 convoy. De Gaussing wa sanothe rpreventive method . A large cable was wiped up the hull of steel ships to neauterlise the magnetic feild. Played merry hell with the compass swinging. One such Degaussing station was on the River Thames near Coalhouse Fort, just down river from Tilbury. Buildings are still there. The accoustic sweep was a large metal frame with a giant bell and clapper towed astern of the ship. Codename Foxer.
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  692. I have a 1941 Mossberg MB42a, speciffically built for British military training. Also a SMLE No2 rifle, a SMLE trials gun modified to .22 in about 1907. I leanrt to shoot on a Victorian dated Martini action that had a .22 barrel on it. British have used .22 for training for a looong time.
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  693. Major argumnent up till WW2 , do you arm aircraft to throw a few .50 or 20mm at the opposition or a lot of .30 -.303?
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  694.  @coling3957  A Falconer! Never a Hawker- they sell things door to door. He may have bene a Hobby Boy. You stood there all day with a wodden frame hung from your shoulders. All the hawks were put on it to rest. And the Hawks were much more valuable than you were! 😁
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  695.  @davidgreen40  And the Royal Swan Marker, who presides at Swan Upping.
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  696. Why apologise? You've just given us a fascinating talk on Firearms History. So what how it came about?
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  697. Not as such. To go from the SMLE to a sweet, short light self loading low recoil flat shooting cartridge, with clean burning propelant. Most Old Sweats would have thought Christmas had come early.
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  698. Thank you for your views. You are entiiled to them As I am to totally disagree.
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  699. UK isn't the easiest place to get a FAC, but not impossible. The general idea is that people who are trusted with firearms should be responsible and law abiding. It's when a politician thinks they can get a vote out of hysteria the problems start.
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  700. Yes, with the introduction of the Lewis Gun at section level in 1915/16 the Vickers were withdrawn and became a divisional responsobility under the of the Machine Gun Corps. Sustained fire was the Vickers forte. Tests when the gun was going obsolete at Royal Small Arms, School of Infantry Warminster a gun was selected and around 8,000,000 (Think that is enough 0's ) were fired continuously over a week. Maxim, demonstrated his gun at a place called Eltham Palace in South East London, using it to cut down shrubs, there are still holes in the boundary brick wall alleged to be bullet holes from these tests. If you look up Time Team Specials on Youtube they did an archeological dig at the MGC training camp,
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  701. The curve is to accept the MkVII .303 rimmed round. When converted to 7.62X51 NATO rimless the magazine was straight. The BREN was also used as a sighting gun on such things as MOBAT and WOMBAT recoils AT guns.
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  702. About 3 lbs lighter than the SMLE No4, with twice the magazine capacity, shorter easier to handle, less recoil, and better propelants so easier to clean.
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  703. Lorenz was the machine. Tunny was the British code name for any cipher sent on a Lorenz machine. German code names tended to be somewhat Wagnerian or realated to myth and legend, often giving a hint as to the project they were supposed to hide. British codewords were and are generated randomly, you don't decide, a list of words exists, you get told what the code name will be from a central source, and that word is then deleted from the list.
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  704. At the start of W W1 the British had no standard grenade. The expdient was to use tins from the issue Tickler's Plum and Apple jam packed with gun cotton anda fuse, to 'Tickle' up the Germans. In 1915 William Mills designed the Mills Bomb, going through various developments till the type 36 (Shown in the video ) was standardised. The term Bomb being used in the British Army through out WW1. Initailly the rod grenade was fired from a half cup, problem being you pulled the saftey pin, and nothing held the lever down, an exciting five seconds . The full cup No 2 launcher and 7 second fuse was introduced around late 1917 early 1918 . This held the fly off lever allowing the saftey pin to be removed and giving time to aim and fire. By 1917 British tactics for assualt favoured the 'Bomber'. Two or three men in a section carrying only Mills bombs would lead an attack with the riflemen there primarly as support and close protection. The blanks used to fire the grenades were Ballisiste, previously discarded by the British as a primary propellant in favour of Cordite. In the 1950's 60's the Energa anti tank rifle grenade was issued, range at about 10 yards. Official description of use 'At a range of 10 yards , it requires a determined man'.
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  705. At the time just prior to WW2 and before the relationship bettween the US and Canada wasn't exactly all sweetness and light. Would you want arms supplied by a potential adversary?
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  706. Blowout disk is usually just a pressed fibre. It doesn't in itself do anything apart from stop the propelant dropping out the hole. If it is to solid it holds pressure and defeats the object .
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  707. The P13/14 is a target rifle taken to war. The SMLE is a Military rifle you can take to the range. Anyway the best parts of the P13, the barrel and sights went onto the SMLE No 4 in 1939
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  708. Well Elephant guns in the Nitro Express cartridges were used by the British to defeat sniper shields, the Germans used K bullets, the projectile revered in the cartridge for anti armour and anti aircraft use, they were in Direct contravention of the Hauge rules as dum dums. Then you have unrestricted submarine warfare breeching Cruiser Rules.
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  709. History repeating itself? Ammo problems. Go on be a devil, tell us what the group was like.
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  710.  @johnkelinske1449  But at lest the Britsh got rid of the red a lot earlear. The South African wars were a wake up to the british in many ways.
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  711.  @GreetingsandSalutations4007  I can think of about 100 people off hand who I know shoot SMLE of various types.Some Living History /Re-enactment and shoot some just shoot.There are also quite a number of SMLE that were converted to .22 ,I have one of those as well, and a Winchester P14, that is a much rarer beast. The .22 Ensign is still about , and the Enforcer which was a police sniper modification in 7.62 x51 NATO the one I know was a 1950's action rebarreled, that is a nice gun to shoot.
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  712. Around my way we have Coal Markers. Stones that mark a boundary, which if you bring coal past into London, you had to pay a levy.
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  713.  @VL125  So do I, dated 1907. Using obsolete rifles converted to .22 training rifles has been a British Army habit since S&W invented the cartridge. I learnt to shoot on an 1890's dated Victorian Imperial WD marked Martini action with a .22 barrel hung on. A bit overkill really :-)
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  714. German troops did clear mines from the Channel Island's following the Liberation. They didn't have to,but the lure was extra rations and pay.
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  715. Why? There are much better things to spend the public's money on. Besides you have enough Sterlings surley? Not to mention C96
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  716. Assuming the owner was in a position to care? I've done Great War Archeology, a fantastic treasure hunt- better than any game- Then suddenly very sobering.
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  717.  @gregkerr725  Funny enoughg I grew up in Jersey in the Channel Island's, that was Occupied, and we had the same lecture , if you find anything in a bunker or on the beach etc.... So like kids everywhere, we went looking. Most of the stuff was traded, sold for a few pennies or just not worried about AHHHH! If I knew then! I learnt to shoot full bore pistol on a Geman marked GP35 . On the down side, the States (Island Goverment) decide they would seal a lot of stuff in underground tunnels, with a view to a museum. Nothing ever came of it , but some kids broke through the seal and got in , as I was told , bear in mind I was about 6 years old. Some kids had got in and lit a fire inside, they left' some younger kids got in and were suffocated. The tunnels were then cleared and sealed completly. Rumour has it in the other Island , Guernersy , there is a Renault F17 tank that was driven into a tunnel and left. Trouble is the land is church land who won't allow any excavation and the land above the guy want's stupid money for a test bore to be drilled. So who knows?
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  718.  @jackdundon2261  Yes.Though the books are so diffrent from the films. Apparently Fleming didn't want Sean Connery as Bond,' Because he is to common'
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  719.  @ScottKenny1978  And Christmas down memory lane :-) Roger Morre as Ivanhoe!
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  720. One of the oldest phrases going. We will do what we intend, God and Weather permitting'.
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  721. A number of points. At this time the main aim was to captuire an enemy ship, get it home and it and any cargo would be sold by the Prize Agents, and you got your share . Howitzer and Mortars are completly diffrent weapons systems. Case and Carcase were loaded, fuse down unlit. The deflagration and or radiant heat of the proppellant lit the fuse. Carcase was used to fire at rigging . A small hole in a sail , bearing in mind the pressure on a sail when a ship is motion can be masured in tons per square yard, leads to rips. Landridge shot was a specifie form of shot using bars of iron bundled not balls. Any thing down the barrel, was known as Junk Shot. Two of the Royal Navy's last Bomb Ketchs are very famous , they were modified speciffically because of their massive structural strenght, as Polar Exploration vessels. They were called HMS Erebus and HMS Terror.
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  722. I did wonder how some of the Lange Pistole 08 ended up in the armoury of the Musuem of Royal Navy Firpower at Portsmouth. They have a drool worthy collection of small arms from the German High Seas fleet , sized at Scapa Flow.
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  723. Could say that McClenan had a good thing. Cashing in at both ends of the process.
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  724. Try visiting Northern France and Belgium around Ypres. The Canadians are not forgotten. On 11th November 2014, I wa sprivigiliged to be in Ypres at the Menin Gate . A detachment of the Canadian military marched through the gate. Then sand Dannny Boy, the poor typing is as a result of the teras at the memory. For Normandy vist Courseulles, and walk along the open air museum on the sea wall.
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  725. Another officer who served at Verdun, was Alfred Dreyfus, the French Officer held on Devil's Island following trumped up espinage charges.
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  726. Austria's demands of Serbia come to mind. And look where that led. The Britsh Empire get acccused of Gunboat Diplomacy?
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  727. A British Private at around 1900 would have been paid about 1/- One Shilling per day, less stoppages.
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  728. Thomas: The 'Most Famous Englishman of All Time' Winston Churchill was a war correspondednt, he carried a Muaser C96, which he manage dto loose, then got captured by the Boers, escaped and made himself a hero on which he built his political carrr. The 1970's Film 'The Young Churchill' made great play that they had found the C96 and it wa sfeatured in the film.
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  729. Unfortunatley, current media and social 'influensers' crying crocodile tears over 'Stress' has attached a stigma that those who truly suffer are ethier unwilling, or if they do confess are looked down on . Would you seek help in those circumstances?
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  730. Be nice to find a Brummie that can speack English. I once sat in Birmingham Airport with a friend who asked me 'Is that guy speacking English?' I had to listen to him till he said ' Wuun' to answer Yes, but with a Birmingham accent.'
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  731. The name though spelt Ruslip is pronounced Rye -Slip. The base was a non flying base and US AF headquarters in England from 1949 till 1972. the base is near RAF Northolt, now the UK major stratigic C3 establishmnet.
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  732.  @Ideo7Z  Or the other classic , No you can't have it! Thems stores they is!
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  733. I agree, you know old vehicles , I have two seventy five year old Dodge 3/4 tonner, aren't proggrammed by a nerd in an office, YOU have to think and plan ahead. Can't be driven with a mobile phone in one hand and a beer bottle in the other.
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  734. And until recently, wer egiven a very bad time, by the Republic when they moved back.
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  735. Luca: So you belive in Democracy, as long as you get the answer you want? This will be my only comment on the subject,
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  736. Havoc: The ww1 Webley IV was in .455, by WW2 that had been reduced to .38/200. The big Webley is a wrist breacker. One of my teacher's told a story that shortly after D-Day he was crawling through a field, popped his head through a hole in the hedge and met a German. He then pointed his Webley at a range of about two feet pulled the trigger as fast as he could and missed each time. They then both looked at each other , and decided to crawl away . I'd love to believe that's true.
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  737. About 300 if I remember . A mile from me is the site of the last Civillian killed by a V2 in the Second World War. Poor women was in her kitchen preparin a meal.
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  738.  @oneproudbrowncoat  Touche Sir! :-)
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  739.  @wakelessgem1213  Canadians came up with a lot of ideas especially Artillery . I've heard it said a Canadian Sound Ranging team could isolate a battery to within 25 yards in 3 to 4 minutes. Downside was they were so effective a lot of the time the info had to be sat on till a major move was planned to stop the German's moving pices.
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  740. A lot of British didn't like American's. Over Paid Over Sexed and Over Here. People were and always will be people.
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  741. As the Irishman said when asked for directions 'Well. you know. I wouldn't start from here'.
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  742. The SAS got the Vickers K guns, because no one else wanted them. The SAS was set up as an after thought, there were at the time a number of Private Armies, LRDG and Popski to name the main two. So when Sterling was allowed to set up the SAS, that name was already part of a deception plan, it was beg borow or steal what was about. The RAF had a number of obsolete guns from things such as The Hawker Hart biplane, so they got grabbed. Though when the SAS did finally get their own transport the K gun being light and having a very high rate of fire, did work well with hit and run tactics.
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  743.  @EldarKinSlayer  Wrong, there has always been a case for self defence in Common Law, which is a misunderstood term now in its own right . The Magistrates court act 1968 states 'Any person may use such force as in reasonabe in the prevention of crime, or making a lawful arrest'. The crime you would be preventing is the assult on yourself. Note the Any Person, there is no such thing as a Citizens Arrest in England, Wales or Northern Island. EU legislatio also clarified the matter to specific defence of oneself or others.
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  744.  @alun7006  Sounds ideal for upcoming Xmas sales then. :-)
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  745.  @mrfluffytailthethird  I'm still mopping the water up! :-) It's Brtish army surplus brass, they built strong stuff in those days !
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  746. There is a memeorial to the Canadians in Passchendale. Still you can stand in the square and look over to the 'Green Feilds Beyond'.
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  747. I thought that was attributed to the Jesuits? Unsettling prospect in either case.
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  748. No that's of Junction 6 of the M20 at Maidstone, known locally as Teletubby Roundabaout.
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  749.  @Simonsvids  Von Schmettow, was a Prussian Officer caste, and he did have a sense of Honour. He was replaced by Huffmier, a rabid Nazi. The Germans also claimed that the Gestapo were never in the Island's. True to the point the Island's were a Festung, Fortress under military command, though civil adminstration was undertaken in France. There were howevr the Gehime feild politzi The Secret Feild Police, the military eqivalnet. And havin known some who had the misfortune to cros sthem, I'm assure dthere was little if any diffrence.
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  750.  @illerac84  I did know one vetran, a German , who at the age of 16 has upset his Seargent. He was volunterred for a special detachment. He told me he cried, wrote to his parents, and expected to be sent East to die. Instead he ended in Jersey.
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  751.  @walterschumann2476  The labour on the Island was undertaken by Organisation Todt. The Greenfly as the Germans were called in Jersey , the troope were tolerated, the Todt men univesally loathed.Von Schmettow put his head in the sand and stated that 'The building was not a military concern'. most of the labour was Russian POW's , but included forced French men and a few Spanish.
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  752. A target dosen't react to a hit, a person does. Fairburn was a realist, he taught don't fight fair, you will be the only one stupid enough to be doing so.
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  753. A friend of mine is Jewsih, his name, honestly is Issac Murphy.
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  754.  @Player_Review  Lot more fun than a chain saw! Though Hiram Maxim used to demonstrate his gun by trimming out saplings, in a garden in South East London! The wall behind them still exists with alll sorts of interesting holes and splashes.
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  755. Just ignore.
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  756. Sarch: I agree ! That joke deserves shooting, So How do you make A Maltese Cross? Tell him his flys are open! (I'll go amd take my tablets now Nurse)
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  757. The p14 was second line military issue, as it was in standard .303. It was also used as a sniping rifle, until the introducation of the No 4 T. The Home Guard got M17, in 30/06. These were marked with a red stripe around the butt stock , the P14 and P17 being visually identical. also look at the bayonets. There are two vertical stripes cut into the hilt. again as they are very similar to the SMLE No 1 bayonet.
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  758.  @HM2SGT  I'm spoit . I have a WC54 as well. Both have a lot of history in themselves and with me. Fortunatley I have a son and grandkids, who will be the custodians into the future. You can never 'own' vehicles like this. They belong to those who built and served with them.
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  759. As an aside: a foal that is healthy can run 1 mph for every minute after birth. so by about twenty minutes old can keep up with the herd.
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  760. There are actually two addreses. 22" Old Bond Street is in Mayfair, 67 Cornhill (Sun Court) is seperate. Both buildings still exist, they are both Graded historic buildings.
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  761.  @howardmaryon-davis666  That's what I thought, or Bond Street to sell and Cornhill the Solicitors office, company registered?
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  762. It's us British I'm afraid , again. Mr Whitehead developed the Self Proppelled Torpedo, Sir Charles Parsons invente dthe turbine enginner. Then some sneacky swine built a small fast boat with torpedos on it! The result was the need for fast firing easy to train guns to stop them.
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  763. I do hope so! The story of SS Ohio and the rest of the men US and British in Operation Pedestal is awe inspiring.
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  764. The Belgium EOD reckon they will have about another 100 year of work to clear ordnace. One disturbing little fact. Which country has the most chemical weapons? Belgium. All Great War vintage. Disposal costs millions of Euro per year.
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  765. This man is the America the World should see
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  766. AHH! The Scorpion is not a tank! It is a CVRT- Combat Recconasanise Vehicle tracked! Operators get very touchy over the point.
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  767. Don't forhet the Breacker Morant episode as well. That's why Commonwealth Trops did not have to face British Courtsmartial in the Great War See the film , the book is called Scapegoats of Empire.
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  768. The other thing that Croydon introduced. How do we cope with French and English pilots if they are in trouble? How do we know? We need a code word! So along came MAYDAY.
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  769. Odd ammo, andscrap post WW2 wasworth more than its weight in Gold. I come from Jersey in the Cahnnel Island's, German kit cut and sold for scrap post war paid of a lot of debt, and the stuff that was dumped! But then people were only to pleased to se it go.
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  770. You mean the smug collectors satisfaction of 'I've got one! You 'ain't?' Yes we all know that one :-) And were jealous!
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  771. First we were young and stupid , now we become old and foolish. I'm just wondering what happned to me in the middle :-)
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  772.  @constipatedinsincity4424  Built by people who knew lives depended on them. I am very priviliged to have them. Fortunatley my Son and grandkids love them to.
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  773. That's wher ethe name comes from Hydra= Water. London once had a whole system of HP pipes fed from a pumping station on the Thames to provide lifts to the warehouses on the docks.
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  774. Collapsed Lung: Met Police decided I couldn't have Proof House marked De-Ac's. Fortunatley the Birmingham Proof House told the local Plod exactaly where they got off.
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  775. Stefan: That's because it is! The same company designed both.
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  776. Thank you.
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  777. Nice to know there are decent intillgent people out there . Afternoon Tea is just about due.
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  778. Company- We are deploying all rescourses to deal with the situation = Phone the Lawyers! . It's stupid, right up to the time they go bang! Better thought a fool for checking, than proved a fool for not.
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  779. Very true! We in UK know what happens when media aand poloticians are hunting for an easy target, get the law abiding ones! You know where they are! Two sets of people laugh at the law, those who breack it, and those who make it.
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  780.  @scottgoodman8993  No Wrath and Wraith have diffrent definitions. Wrath is old English, probably from Saxon or Norse meanig strength. Wraith is Scottish of unkown origin meaning restless spirt.
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  781.  @81zacki  And then demanded that the Allies paid them! After making an intial fortune in both wars selling to all sides.
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  782. Be nice to your enemies. It winds the Ba*tard's up no end. Standard Britsh Operating Procedure.
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  783.  @davidrenton  Invent time machine . Go back to 1171. Button hole King Henry, 'Listen mate , a bit of advice? This really ain't a good idea! :-)
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  784.  @MrNeilSherman  The Curragh incident nof 1914 would be a good pice to follow in this context.For those that don'tknow the short answer is Britsh Army officers in Ireland, nearly mutinied when it was suggested they act aginst Uniounist factions.
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  785. Another worth watching and available on Youtube, is Oh waht a lovley war. Amongst other things it has what I think is the best short version of why the Great War started.
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  786. Looks like the eqivalent of the Royal Navie's Humgrumit, or possibly the Flogol toggle? ( Those of a certain age in the UK will know exactaly what I mean)
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  787. There is an argument that a slow rate of fire bouncing over a bigger beaten zone is better than one shrt fast burst over a small area. The opposition would be coming at you spread across a long line, though bunching of advancing troops is a constant problem reffered to post attack .
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  788. See your point, but all armies were concerned with use of ammo, and relaibility so a slow rate of fire spread over an area would have advantages. Problem one on the Western Front was get anything you need where you need it when you need it. The two biggest logistic headaches for the British Army were ammunition and animal fodder. In 1915 the shotrage of Artillery Sheels actually brought down the Britsh Goverment.
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  789.  @rnedlo9909  Never to be forgotten, or can be repeated enough.
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  790. The theme music Puffing Billy, was written by Edward White, in hponour of a steam loco at Shanklin on the Isle of Wight. It was used for as the theme for a BBC Home Service Children's Favourites radio show on a Saturday morning for years, and yes, that show started me on Classical Music 😁 PS Gerorge, it also spelt your way., so which is correct? Who cares?
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  791. One problem with Vetrans, and it is ment kindly. There is a tendency for the 'Everyone Knows' It's human nature, I was advised by a very respected historian when your interviewing vetrans, if you get the chance look at the bookshelf. If there are a lot of 'Histories' on it, be aware that might colour thier thinking.
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  792. Aussie: On third reading I got that! GROOOOOAN!
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  793. Not the only time he behaviour was 'questionable'. Later in 1865 he was aboard a boat train that crashed at Staplehurst , in Kent on the 9th of June. There were many illustraations of Dickens as a Ministring Angel , and Hero of the accident , selflessly tending the casualties. He was not however called upon to give evidence at the inquest. If he had been , he'd have had to reveal publicly, that he was on the train , returning from Paris with his mistress Ellen Terna and her mother.
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  794. Haig was not an idiot. Llyod George was glory hunting. Haig onjected most strongly that the Somme Offensive should be delayed due to lack of experience by new British units. Llyod Gerorge over ruled him. A point to make is that the British were always subservient to the French, another British political descion as it was French territory. Also Von Falkenhiem, never wanted to win at Verdun, the idea was keep the French feeding in men and hope that the German troops will kill more French troops before they are killed. If he had taken Verdun, the battle would have stopped. The original Somme offensive was supposed to be in conjunction with the French, which beacuse of the mutiny could not happen. It wa salso essential that the German's never discovere dthe parlous stste of the French forces. The only way that could be seen to make this happen wa sto distract the German's. Hence the Somme Offensive of 1916. Despite Haig and Rawlings continuous objections the politicians insisted that the battle continue. Following the slaughter Llyod Gerorge promptly put the spin on it. Bear also in mind the Allies had no idea that the US would join the war, So don't start sneering when you haven't the knowledge.
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  795. Colts brought a display to the Great Exhibition in Londons Crystal Palace in 1851. That sparked the intrest in England . In 1854 he opened a factory at Pimilico in London, in 1855 he had machinery installed manufactured by Pratt & Whitney. A lot of English gunmakers challanged Colt's Patents in court, which caused grief and delay. Intially the Admiralty (Royal Navy/ Royal Marines ) purcahsed 4,000 guns. These were liberally supplied to two ships, HMS Warrior andHMS Black Prince, the Royal Navy's answer to those Damm French building the first Ocean going Ironclad La Gloire. HMS Warrior is in preservation at Portsmouth, and (Mostly ) replicas of the Colt pistol are on display on two carousels on the main gun deck, as they were in service. I was told by the Curator of the ship that when she was being restored rusted pistols were found in all sorts of odd places. The Army also purchsed some 5,000 pistols , but the guns were not adopted, so on completion of the contracts the machinery was shipped back to the US. http://www.hmswarrior.org/
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  796. Rockets red Glare. The inhabitants of Woolwhich South London, home of the Arsenal where they were made, had good reason to worry about that! The town was hit by them on a number of occasions :-)
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  797. Single shot bolt action! Don't push your luck. :-)
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  798. Forgotten? No, very much remebered and sought after. Note Parker Hale supplied sights for the Mossberg MB 42a .22 training rifle, supplied as Lease Lend, and in service till 1990's with cadet units. sights cost more than the gun.
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  799.  @njones420  Have you read Strata? A sort of pre Dsicworld, where a lot of such ideas started.
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  800. There is the story of one Minesweeper Captain who yelled at his crew 'If you don't hit it next time, we will lower the whaler, fix bayonets and charge!'
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  801.  @trooperdgb9722  I suppose our equivalent would be The British Power Boat Company and Camper & Nicolson, they desingned a number of small craft
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  802. Where does the Elephant sleep? Any where it wants!
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  803. Bees also appear on British Sanitary wear. It was the logo on Napoleon. So during the Napolieonic wars, sanitary wear with a Bee emblem was introduced and you were invitide to take 'Apis' on Napoleon.
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  804. Ian, you say , rightly that to the Anglophone community, the history didn't directly affect them. But to be brutal, for those who had suffred under German Occupation , and those of us of the immdiate post war generation. Who cares? German's are dying our people arent. I also notice Florian corrects himself from Russ.... To Red Army, funnily enough I was corrected at my home place that was Occuppied by the German's, that I must now say 'Foriegn Ocuupying Powers'. To those who sufferd as a result, the distinction is pointless. Now hopefully this attitude will die out with my generation as the world has changed, but be careful of never wanting to offend anyone, or getting on a high horse and hiding the deatil, as it dosen't suit you.
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  805. Bulldust the Public with Survial Advice to keep them fat, dumb and happy. Why is that sounding familiar all of a sudden?
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  806. A number of E baots got a nasty shock when these were mounted on the Royal Navy's Steam Gun Boats. The Germans mounted them on AA barges called F Lighters along with 88mm guns, gave a number of MTB's and Allied Aircraft a nasty suprise when used for Channel Convoy defence.
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  807. One of my fondest memories is watching the local Mayor of a Normandy villiage calling a Gendarme and his officer everything from Breackfast to sunset becuse the guy wouldn't allow a friend of mine to drive his Jeep onto the Goldbeach, during a commeration. Mind you call a Normand , French, you'll carry your teeth home in a bag.
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  808.  @ForgottenWeapons  The old P14 was 2nd line issue. What intriguies me is Brtain make its own .30/06 or was it imported?
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  809.  @scarface9617  I've worked proffesionally with horses and dogs all my life, You never become hardened to loosing a friend.
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  810. Always carry a candle in your range bag! :-)
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  811.  @AsbestosMuffins  I'm sure that it will at some stage get to the point Continued on next barrel. I know that the info is needed But I'm waiting to find the Firearm that's marked Kilroy was Here :-) As long as it shoots safe and you enjoy it.
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  812. Croydon Control tower is now a museum. The other contribution Croydon made to Aviation? They came up with a specific voice radio code. MAYDAY!!
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  813. Apparently they didn't . Fans were tried but with constant bombing the limestone fragmented to dust which caused more problems when it was blown in, plus trying to maintain equipment when under seige. . Mines do have a High and Low vent plus a series of doors opened and closed to promote draught but that depends on relative height and atmospheric pressure. . Also Malta can get very hot, that plus people in packed badly vetilated ares, heat stroke and oxygen deprivation were major problems.
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  814.  @jodc2760  Thanks for clarification! It's the age you know. So many pices so little brain left.
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  815. As made famous in Man From U.N.C.L.E. as the T.H.U.RU.S.h. gun. By the way, your a better presenter.
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  816. Lawrence Bnyon For the Fallen Verse 4 AKA the Credo.
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  817. Remeber: Your right to free speech, ends when I'm offended!
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  818.  @stamfordly6463  Remember The Man From U.N.C.L.E. ? The guns had tofire 'Stun' rounds in the early series.Trouble was cast forgot to say it.
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  819. Plus- Ever seen a second hand E Reader shop? What would be the fun if you couldn't pop into the odd charity shop and just browse the books?
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  820. That is a a very practical pice of equipment.I'd love to own one.
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  821. Thus starting an entire history of Aer Lingus jokes.
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  822. Scotsman! Speed of a racehorse , strength of carthorse, brains of a rocking horse!
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  823.  @welshskies  You lucky *7^^ I am on the South East edge of Lodon, lights all the way across. Don't get to the Land Of My Father's and Mother actually, often enough.
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  824. I belive the tolerance for machining at the time in England, the Standard Tolerance was 1 thou per inch. So Collier was working to accepted tolerances. The diffrence is machinery allowed those tolearnces to be reproduced ad infinitum, if you had skilled operators. What strikes me , is the lack of parts. Every pice is required and does a job, true enginnering nothing wasted.
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  825.  @highpath4776  No. The Monarch of the United kingdom also holds a much older title The Duc (Always male) Of Normandy. By that title the Monarch is considered head of state in the Channel Island's. In 1204 when the Noram Dukedom gave up the terriotory on the mainland of Europe. The Island's were given a choice become French , or remain loyal to the Duc. We chose to remain loyal.
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  826.  @carlomarini4255  Iam perfectly sane! My voices keep reassuring me of that.
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  827. Yes , head should be as far as possible from both ends!
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  828. Auxilay Power Unit. It is just that. You need the electrical power produced from at least one engine to keep all systems live. There is also the ability to use one running engine to bleed start the others, much quicker and more reliable.
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  829. There should also be included the Warsaw Getto. Leon Uris 'book Mila 18 is worth a read.
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  830. Been nicer still if he'd bother to follow the saftey rules on the machine in the first place.
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  831. Why is Ian wearing a mask? One: To Hide the Embarresment, Two: to capture the tears. Three to muffle the expletives. Though you do have crowing rights over Karl and the S333 Thunderstruck, you can actually hit a target at more than four feet.
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  832. Oh how times change! A lot of English people talk about the US in that manner now. 🤣
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  833.  @jasonwolf6899  Ah we can confuse ourselves though. Two places near me Trottescliffe - Prounounced Trosley and Ightham -pronounced Item. :-)
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  834. Rusia: We are going to form a military pact to support each other against the Enemy ! Anyone objecting will be invaded.
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  835. Following the total cock up of the first attack-Prinzip went and sulked in a cafe with coffee and cake. Then the Chauffer took a wrong turning in front of the cafe. You really couldn't make it all up.
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  836.  @patrickvosloo8217  Yes those people died of greed on behalf of certain Britsh Contractors. However, what you forget to menbtion is the uproar caused in England amonst the ordinary people when this became known. Though the fact that Boers were white European was a major influence in this. Be carfeul throwing stones.
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  837.  @outspokengenius  If they don't run or go bang, then you have an odd shaped pice of scrap metal. An artifact is, if it dosen't perform its function, then what is the point?
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  838. Three ball bearings come to mind. The Brtish version is the feather and anvil. The Royal Marines were isuued with feathers and anvils. Three days later all the anvils had been brocken with the Fearthers.
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  839.  @gerry343  Don't even start on Castle and Scone. If your 'English' you'd know exactaly what I mean.
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  840.  @leeenfield3404  To give MOD thier due, the are also quietly supportive of Men in Sheds.It's cheap R&D.
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  841.  @Harryherbet  That is something that is misunderstood. Why did attacking troops carry so much? Beacuse it was neded. You need the obvious, water , food , ammunition, but also the kit to Reverse a caputured trench, wire for communications , sand bags to build up the Paridos, tools to put the fire step so you can shoot over the back of the trench. Until you try it, even as a re-eanctment you never realise what you need.
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  842. Typing not my strongpoint, then neither ifs football. :-)
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  843. So you want to shoot the tree out from under the critters? Isn't that cheating. Mind you in UK the Grey Squirrel is considered a rat with a furry tale and good PR.
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  844.  @tehgreatvak  Hardly suprising then the Russians Changed Sides, and went Smith & Wesson then,.
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  845.  @CoolGobyFish  Far easier and mechanically simpler than having lever steer to each track.
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  846.  @CoolGobyFish  Yes but if you have to work levers, there is more chance of throwing a track. Think of a one wheeled half track, which is what it is, the position of the front wheel dictates the amount of braking force going to the back tracks, but rather than a skid type steer you get a forward montion curve. It puts a lot less strain of the drive train and is easier to train the driver.
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  847.  @Vberar  Yes.
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  848. All for show he really is suffering for his art. Which is why I would gallanty volunteer to take his place.
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  849. Quiet! Why ruin an unexpectedly good day?
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  850. Probabaly from the Army & Navy Stores. They were a shop and mail order for everything an Officer and Gentleman would need on campaign or forign service, from guns to furniture to grocerries.
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  851. An English authour of 1930'/40 wrote a number of supernatural adventure stories best known probably The Devil Rides Out. A number of Hammer films were made of the books starring Christopher Lee.
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  852. 'Can be fired from the shoulder'; says Ian, as slo mo shows shock wave moving thorugh every muscle in his body.
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  853. There were two Zimmerman telegrams. Initially the British made up a story that the telegrams were intercepted in a Mexico telegraph ofice. In reality the telegrams had been sent along US Diplomatic traffic routes, Britian's first action in the Great War had been to cut German transatlantic telegraph cables, in a code the US couldn't read with- Wilson's express permission. The British did not want to admit they were reading US diplomatic traffic. When first released to the US press the news was treated with sceptisism, then Zimmerman publicly confirmed the contents. The German's had been strocking Wilson, who was starting to suffer from illness, and had handed control to his wife, that he would be the Great Saviour by bring peace to the world. After the full details of the Zimmerman incident were made known to those in power Wilson became a laughing stock. So a lot of the reason for his pushing for a declaration of war was pique. Plus the understanding that the British would make all the details public across the world if he didn't.
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  854. Far better than Leeds. Over Three thousand Exhibits! is Leeds boast- What they dont tell you is some 2,500 are the bayonets on the wall up the central staircase. Where as Portsmouth! After Fort Nelson, if you still have the energy, The Dockyard , HMS Victory , Warrior, the Mary Roase and Explosion- The musuem of naval firpower , with a collection of small arms from the High Seas fleet! Go do a story on that place.
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  855. There is a microcosim of Hitler's attitude to the British. The Occupation of the Channel Island's. Initially at least the German's were magnanimous in vivtory , the population, was allowed prayers for the health of the Royal Family in Church, troops were told to conduct themselves with decorum, personal property was to be respected. However the velvet was very thin. Any percived slight or reisestance was towards the German's was treated with extreme measures.
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  856.  @sandybarnes887  Don't worry , we have them in England as well.
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  857.  @Darwinion  What about the 'Green House' effect and all the pollution and enviromental destruction of getting the ores etc needed to make all these electric cars?
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  858. Actually the Bren is capable of phenomenal accuracy. It was SOP to wave it about bit on auto.
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  859. May 2023 Reports of chinese flagged ships looting the wrecks.
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  860. The IWM? Oh, you mean the Venue, that is for hire to as many Expensive CorparteJollies aspossible Public Excluded.
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  861.  @matthayward7889  Bend over in the wrong place your eyes would water!
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  862. In England for many years, the corpse of muderer's were given to the antomists for disection. Also , missed a point here, Pirates! They were hung in chains to deter others.
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  863. The Satanic tic tac: I'm a Crapaud, we haven't forgiven you yet for disturbing the Lieutents Govenor's breackfast. Let alone the Death of Pierson!
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  864. Your'e definitly spending to much time in lockdown! :-)
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  865. 11/11/2018 There was a Candian Military contigent at Orpington War Memorail and the Canadian Corner CWWG cemetry at Orpington to remember the 100th Anniversary of the Armisitice.
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  866. Yeah, him and Othais did the same to me with the P14!😏
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  867.  @Pcm979  Three dry days and a drought is declared! For those old enough to remeber . Goverment advice 'Share a bath' WAYHAY! Come on Darling the Goverment says we have to! (Iwas about 18 at the time:-) )
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  868. Goes to show the gun is only a delivery system, no matter how good it is, if the ammo don't work nothing.
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  869. He wouldn't be able to get a licence to buy a razor.
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  870. Have you driven in France? Can get very exciting, hence alll the trafic calming measures, or as the French consider them, targets to vercome.
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  871. Thanks Peter! That explain the rest of the battalions worth of men trailing behind the light mortatr crew! :-)
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  872.  @normandecaesen286  :-)
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  873.  @johanrunfeldt7174  As the purpose of the Fool, was supposed to be the one who pointed out to the Nobles thier stupidity. If you wern't quick witted,you didn't last long.
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  874. Makes you wonder what sort of Gentleman, would tick off that many husbands at one time. Though I suppose it would compensate for his hands shacking.
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  875. Style at the time?
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  876. More like a two wheeled cart for the power supplies.
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  877.  @wilsonj4705  OH BUGGER! the battries on the cassete recorder are flat! Stop the War!! For those of a more youthful cast, 20 minutes with a casssete squealing in your ear, 21 minutes to load the programme and at 21 less thirty seconds the cat jogs the player. Start again. These computers will never catch on.
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  878. There is a saying in England, 'The only person who entered the Houses of Parliment, with a honest intention to improve thing was Guy Fawkes'.
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  879. Probably a cheap Birmingham 'Trade gun' produced by the hundreds of thousands for trade. The result was so many of poor quality they blew up in the users face. This led to the 1868 Proof of Firearms Act, Any firearm in the UK post 1868, wether sold, traded , given, imported or manufactured must be submitted to either the Birmingham or London Proof houses for individual trail and marking. If such marks are not present it is an offence to dispose of the weapon to another person in any way.
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  880. I am lucky enough to know Goldbeach and Ver Sur Mer. I have friends there. I can assure all that none who fought and died to free France are forgotten. Few now survive, but over the years I have hasd the Honour and Privilige to escort various of D-Day vetrans in France. They Will NEVER be forgotten. I recomend Storm From The Sea by Peter Young. One of the first 'Commandos'
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  881. Just basically a flying junk pile. At least that was the opinion of the airlines chief pilot Gordon stone.
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  882.  @harbl99  The term was Comptroller of Ordnance, it was still a British Military rank up to the re orginisation in the early '90's.
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  883. @Goettschwan Lets be brutally honset in Europe and UK, owning any firearm gets you labled as a phycopathic' minority hating facist, not fit to be in society. Even if you are in a minority group!
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  884.  @armholeeio  No they are not. The ammunition may be considered obsolete, so a firearm chambered in that calibre may be exempt and under some circumstances you may be able to licence a firearm as historic, but for that you will still need a Section 1 FAC.
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  885. As someone who now instructs on Mobile Elevated Work Platforms (MEWP) , AKA that cherry picker. They are very safe and the most widley used way of working at height. IF you are properly trained. There are warnings all over the machines about power lines
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  886. Or any milk at all!
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  887. minutemanqvs Yes the old bolt action SMLE is still leagl in UK, you can't have a self loader above.22. Though there are still a number of old Martiniactions of with 1860's dates that have had .22 barrels fitted. They were a popular .22 range or gun club rifle, I learnt to shoot on one.
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  888. Spot then procceded to walk to enginners present. Lift one leg, and leacked hyradulic fluid.
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  889. Essentially we did up to the '90's . After all the sniper version (OOPS! Can't think of designation, embarrasing) kept going. The Ensign based on Lee's action is still the service single shot target rifle.22 competion rifle.
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  890. Soldier's definition :If I hit the bastard will he stop trying to kill me?
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  891. No Vulfs right. A right load of balls.
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  892. Couldn't happen with an L85, hard enough to make them go bang when you wanted it to.
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  893. yeah, some muppet decided to close Enfield., and moved the Pattern Room to the a** end of nowhere.
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  894. The idea goes back in the days when Britian was mostly fighting Colonial wars, Line up in ranks, present' , FIRE. Do you know the B***ds changed tactics! They refused to line up and charge the Thin Red Line. Blame the Damm Boers, most ungentalmanly sit off at long range, in cover and fire. So much re think, enter SMLE no1 , but as usual certain parts of the Military Mind has Dinasour qaulities. So in addition to the Volley sights, there was also the magazine cutoff, to prevent the exeburant use of ammunition, to be kept closed unless ordered by an officer. Both were finally put to rest with the WW1 SMLE No1 Mk III.
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  895. I belive they did,. I've seen one in a box that was more of a childs toy display on the front.
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  896. The Motto of British Forces, Improvise, Adapt and Overcome. Pass the Gaffer tape to keep the mag in and fire full auto so it dosen't get a chance to jam. Also pissed of the DI's , a whole new drill for parade had to be devised. First requirment, DON'T slap the butt, it may fall off!!
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  897. The whole development is a prime example of the old saw' A camel is defined as : A horse designed by military comittee.
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  898. The 'Original' Enfeild P14 was in .303. The rifle was adapted to 30.06
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  899. Try Explosion the Musuem of Naval Firepower in Portsmouth. Thye have a collection of Small Arms including trophies from the German Grand Fleet, and it's just down the road from the Mary Rose, now there is an collection of genuine Forgotten Weapons.
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  900. Takeinto account proppelant as well. WW1 and WW2 standard British propellant was Cordite, looks like brown spaghetti, just vary length and width of strand for application. The .280 used a powder proppelant, that was a high tech leap in itself.
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  901. Don't put your tonuge bettwen your teeth, that was also a training command. :-)
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  902. Don't belive ll you see in computer games, it is a brute to lug about and firing burst from the hip, you'd be lucky to remain standing.
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  903. Wonder if it could also be the origin of 'Spinning your wheels' when nothing happens. Of course that could just be 'A flash in the pan'.
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  904. In English there is an expression if something is not quite the quality it seems or a wonderful plan is going wrong. 'The Gilt is coming of the Gingerbread'. British gun makers referred to the gilt finish on gun decoration as Gingerbread.
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  905. Long and short of it, Ariminuius won. 3 legions were destroyed, and that caused unrest at home in Rome.
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  906. Funnily enough the first name for the tank organisation was Heavy Section Machine Gun Corp.
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  907. Hans Solo's blaster is a massacred Mauser C96, the Storm troopers are Sterling SMG and MG 34
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  908. The old joke if a Squaddie isn't bitching , your in real grief.
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  909.  @ronfullerton3162  Something to add to the conversation when the buggers turn up on the doorstep
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  910. Troop trials at that time must have heavy on Adrenalin.
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  911. Don't you DARE miss Fort Neleson! If you think Royal Amoury Leeds is imprsssiv e, I don't, Fort Nelson will blow you mind, and there is even a Forgotten Weapon The Mallet Mortar. Not to mention all the dlightful smalla rms on HMS Warrior and Bang the Naval Gun fire musuem has small arms collection from the German High Seas Fleet.
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  912. They wouldn't have spocken if they didn't want to. I have the greataest respect for them, and the presenter for his empathy and respect towards them .
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  913. God Almighty! Using bare hands on a winch cable! And these are supposed to be %^&*ing experts!
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  914. The P14/ 17 bayonet also has two vertical grooves on either side so you have a large tactil obvious diffrence from the SMLE bayonet.
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  915. No there was a specific Greener Humane killer issued to the RAVC for that, besides at the range for a humane killer you don't need sights.
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  916. More likley S-anderson, should also have inspector and acceptance marks, the broad arrow and an X which shows the bend test side. 1907 then one or two numbers .month of manufactuer with a space and two futher numbers year of manufactuer.
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  917. Was always pronuced as one word. Back in the darkness of my youth it was much craved . The smallest silver coin in UK. Tradition was you put one in the Christmas Pud.
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  918.  @Simon_Nonymous  You forgot to add, trusting the weather forcast! :-)
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  919. Recently had an online disscusion with a German historian, he argued, very convincingly that the opinon I held , that Falkenheim was intending to bleed France dry, was wrong. He intended that it would be the war winner, just changed his tune when it went pear shaped, and stated the 'I want to bleed them dry ' story. I was convinced enough that I want to check it more.
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  920. A general thank you to THG, and those that comment. Nice to have intellegent interactions over the internet with people.
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  921.  @gregkerr725  Had it's moments. Though Jersey the biggest Island is 9 miles by 5 miles. Most of the fortifications are still there, as it is to expensive and difficult to actually remove them. On the north coast of the Island a lot of artillery was just dumped over the cliffs. Some have been recovered but you can still see breech mecanism and some barrels.
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  922. WB: You forgot the seven year old kid that always seems to know how to put the &*(( things together. The Swedes have far to many long dark nights to come up with nightmares for the rest of us :-)
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  923. Ian, you know that if you use a tin opener, you don't have to clean stuff of the walls so much?
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  924.  @stephenking4794  Or as Churchill said when the Sates of the Island appealed for help for the civillian population 'Let 'em satrve'. Fortunatley the International Red Cross Ship SS Vega arrived in Decmber 1944 with supplies for civillians.
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  925. The picture of Ian stalking thorugh the jungle , parting a bush and breathleesly describing 'And here we have the rare and wonderful mating habitts of the .... Is a picture that will now haunt me for the next few days!
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  926.  @afrog2666  The White Hunter from Jumanji has just popped into my mind!
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  927. Start reading up on the Austro Prussian war. The Franco Prussian War, The Agadair crisis, the South African (Boer) wars, then you start to get an idea of why the Great War came to pass. I would also add there is more to the area than the Great War, so there is a lot to learn and enjoy.
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  928.  @TooUnrested  Yep. Till they built the houses you could find the remains of the buildings , including the old Royal Naval Air Service station. So much history and none remembered.
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  929.  @SimuLord  Kent is a 'County', The Garden of England. County Town, Maidstone. The whole pronounciation of shire , wether it is said alone , or attached to a place? Life is to short:-)
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  930. It's cheap it's solid and goes bang. What more do you want? I wonder if the serial number question might have to do with some of the production 'Wandering Off' to those not enamoured of the Third Reich.
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  931.  @martenikaeltheroy3621  You can thank De Cartret for that .We Crapauds do get about. His family home St Quen's Manaor wa sthe site of the execution by firing squad of a French 188 year old named Francois Scornet. He and some others had escaped fromFrance in a small boat and thought they had landed in England. Actually it was Guernersey. He was sent to Jersey tried by a German court and excecuted.
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  932. Well hop to it then!
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  933. Her Daughter 'The Bulga ' is operated by Airbus Industries. John Conroy did something that is now considered normal, because everyone told him, he couldn't.
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  934. When all is said and done. The thing went bang, and people died.
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  935.  David Single  I'm am really frustrated at the moment. I have friends who live in Wales(UK) as part of the route I go through Hay On Wye, World famous for second hand books. Perfect place for me to take a breack. :-)
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  936. Goes to show, size isn't everything.
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  937.  @remcodenouden5019  Not with what the American's were charging us.
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  938. Yes and no, it is capable of highly accurate fire on auto , but so was the Vickers. The answer was in the case of the Bren, if you want area suppresion , don't hold it so tight. In the case of the Vickers you will see the gunner tap the handles left and right.
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  939. That I suppose is the trouble of living on a prime stratigic spot. Everyone want's it! A few years back there was a lot of concern when Russia started to excert influence on the Island. Doubt it will ever change.
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  940. You can't hide behind an e reader. Difficult to flick bettween pages, the battries go flat, if you fall asleep and drop them they breack. Printed books every time. And!!!! Have you ever seen a second hand E reader shop!
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  941.  @thepoliticalgunnut8018  Lucky you! We got the L85A1. Some haven't stopped crying still.
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  942.  @stevenwalter3311  Thanks, I'd never heard of them.A lot Black sailors served in the Royal Navy , ghastly thought but fighting together leads to strong friendships regardless of colour.
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  943. And the British answer, from the early Home Gaurd manual was Parashot. Take a standard 12 bore SSG cartridge, open top and drip hot candle wax over the shot. The original German Paratroops dropped only with a pistol and knife, long weapons were dropped seperatley in a container. So if you see a Nun, on a parachute, and they are wearing boots! That is a German Paratropper, shoot them! (There was an Urban Legend at the time of Germans dressed as Nuns parachuting down) https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/77/a4435977.shtml
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  944.  @sirmeowthelibrarycat  It was extremes , on a good day you could be wounded on the Western Front at 8 am and be back in a UK base hospital by 6 pm. The Royal Army Medical Corp have the majority of VC and Bar holders. There was a very organised evacuation system, One odd fact: In The Commonwealth forces the Stretcher Beares were often the Regimental bandsman, not RAMC personnel so had arm bands marked SB. The German's however the stretcher beares had Red Cross arm bands. According to the Usage Of War, the Red Cross was only dispalyed by Medical Personnel. There was also Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corp, who were posted to feild and base hospitals in France along with the FANY First Aid Nursing Yeomanary.
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  945. In 1974 a PPK carried by Princess Anne's bodygaurd jammed during a kidnap attempt. The guns were immidiatley questioned. Some parts ofUKmilitary still have some.
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  946. Jersey Tourism, you have a number of delightful towers you can stay in, Martello and German. We used to camp in one called Kemp tower at St Quen's Bay with the St John's Ambulance. That's now for tourists. If you look on Google Earth there is also a tower in the middle of the bay on a rocky outcrop. The German's crashed a JU88 into that one.
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  947. Mega I think you mean about £115 . 20 Shillings = £1 So it would the Webley have been £1 15/- Though that would have been around a month's wages for your Grandad.
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  948. Would make you very unpoular, belive me.
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  949.  @PobortzaPl  Thers never enough!
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  950.  @sonickiller360  Hah hah, nought changes.
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  951.  @Cohac  Four legs good! Two legs Bad! Still a lot of political relevance in it now.
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  952.  @rapter229  Ah the joys of International Relations, you can't even say 'Look lets sit down over a drink and talk'. :-)
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  953. Well if you can't dazzle with Diamonds, Baffle with Bullsh*y.
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  954. !Hey Ian said Cambridge - Shuure not Cambridge Shire Though you could hear him fighting. Well Done! Does the rfile still shoot? It would be a , lets say mistake , rather than crime, to take all the beats and dents out. Being 104 years old and having gone through two world wars, your'e intitiled to be a bit weather beaten. Point of order though : WW2 Middle East, Far East, in fact anywhere other than Europe 1944, though they were there as well, the standard Commenweallth rifle was Mkiii* with 1907 pattern bayonet.
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  955.  @FairlyUnknown  Probably more fun, from a long distance, to see it not work.
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  956. Note on Congreve Rockets. Developed at the Royal Arsenal Woolwich, The rockets attempted to burn the town down on several occasions (Albeit non intentional). As a result manufacturing moved to a less populated area.
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  957.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  The Chief Pilot of BSAA Gordon Store , thought the aircraft was a heap of junk, and said so ! also being the first pressurised British Commercial aircraft, at a time when fatigue was little understood, losses are not unexpected.
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  958.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  Bear in mind the mindset of the Government , and A V Roe. , a particular British trait (And as I am one I know) defend the undefendable, R101, and Comet. are but two. Boeing currently come to mind.
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  959.  @MrEwoud342  🤣 Well you can't really say 'The hump with the windmills on' can you ? Used to stop there overnight on Sundays waiting for the Vissingen Dartford ferry. Loved the market in the square
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  960. Yes Tolkien was on the Western Front, but only for about seven weeks when he was invalided out with trench fever. Sam Gamgeee is refffered to in Tolkien's letters as being based on the Private soldiers and batmen he knew. Read up a bit of history of the Great war, then read Lord of the Rings again. You'll get a whole new insight. The only date and time mentioned , can recall exactaly at the monment, in the House farthest East, refers to the time Tolkien found out he wa sto be repatriated and the House is the base hospital he was in. Thjere are a number of odd d etails in the book that don't make sense, till you know about Tolkien's service, for instance why does Sam 'Want to see the Elephant'. What the hell does that have to do with anything else in the story? I could go on for hours so I'll do you a favour and stop.
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  961. For a users perspective I'd recommend Sniper One by Dan Mills.
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  962. I've decided that I shall have a two thirds vegtarian diet. My next meal will be Steack and two diffrent vegatbles.
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  963.  @rogueriderhood1862  I know, I have both a SMLE No2 and a P14 both with the bayonets. Now l have Rifle no 2 and 3 got get No1 to make the set.
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  964.  @rogueriderhood1862  LOL. The SMLE was derided when it first came into service. I shoot historic , but as I'm limited to the amount I can have I decided Great War. Though i have a 1941 Mossberg MB42a .22. Funny how poeple think British WW2 = No4, when the Middle and Far east uysed the No1 all through. My answer is the P14 was a target rifle taken to war, the No1 was a war rifle you can take to the range.
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  965. Each gun came with a canvas toolcase, that had provison for one spare barrel. Talking to veterans, if a gun was beyond repair, or they could aquire them, barrels were always grabbed, just in case. Doctrine was change barrel after every 400 rounds ,continuous fire. In practice it was rare for this to happen. Barrel life in the 10,000 range, but again in practise if you lost a bit of accuracy no big deal.
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  966.  @EDSKaR  :-) LOL.Ihave heard tales of BRENS being used in a sniper type roll One such is of a water tower in France that the German's used as an observation point . A BREN was sighted on the laddder going up. Any time some one tried to go up it, they were given a quick burst to make them think again.
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  967. Unfortunatley grave robbing is very active in the area and France. Digs being raided at night with metal detectors, which incidentally require a licence there,. If you find remains and the site is raided, badges and other acoutrments taken and sold for a few Euro's, you destroy any chance however remote of identifiying the casualty. You have killed the man twice. As the Greeks said 'A man is not dead whilst his name is known'.
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  968. Another British tradiation then.
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  969.  @Rockwolf66  What scares me is the thought that anyone might concivable think, 'If I point a gun at someone and shoot it, it's only to scare them'. I was taught, if you point a gun at anything be prepared to hit it, and only it. If you point a gun at anything that is alive, be prepared to kill it'.
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  970.  @wierdalien1  Bettween him, and Woolwich Arsenal dropping all sorts of nasties , South London must have been an exciting place to live.
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  971. and then just to screw up a nice commercial undertaking, religion got involved.
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  972. Jus like that?! :-)
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  973.  @JohnnyPaton  I drive a Diesel Sprinter bus, that does over a thousand miles a week. 207,000 as of this week.
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  974.  @JohnnyPaton  And yet Old Cars are the Scourge of the Cities Lungs! . Hold on!! I rebuild Land Rovers for a hobby. Both my Discoveries one a V8, on LPG is 1999 and a 2005 TD5 have been put back on the road using parts from other vehicles, those vehicles have also supplied parts to keep othrs on the road. So the minimum amount goes for scrap, saving the Co2 and other costs of recycling. I have saved the enviromental costs of building at least two new vehicles. And I'm told I'm not Green?
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  975. Shipments from US to UK virtually double in cost with shipping and taxes.
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  976.  @ericgrace9995  One of Britains problems was The Subsidy Scheme.Prior to vehicles the British Army had hired horses, mainly from the Railways, for excercises. When motor vehicles came in a subsidy was set for basic specs , If I remember originally about £120, a fair sum for any buyer who, in time of National Emergency would turn the vehicle over to the army. Of course every manufacturer jumped on the band wagon, as did the buyers, so a dozen or more diffrent Subsidy lorrys were built. Each to difffrent specification, each requiring it 's own spares, and each unique to the manufactuer. The US had one set of specs , any plant could build to those specs and many parts were interchangable. Back at the 60th anniversary of D-Day , I was in France as part of a major living history event at Goldbeach Ver Sur Mer. A friend was having trouble with his Morris C8 truck. We couldn't sort the thing out. Two old French guys , real scruffy old peaseants came around to look, with them was a guy about my age. He asked what we doing I explained, he told the old guys then said can my father and uncle have a look. Dave the owner of the truck said Why not. Off came the jackets thses two old guys were under the bonnet muttering away and fiddling then one popped out stuck his thumb out and said OK . The truck started and ran perfectly. Turned out these old guys actually started and owned the biggest haulage firm in the area. The begining had been after D-Day they had dragged in a dozen so wrecked trucks and got three or four working, then approached the Allies offering to transport civillian supplies about. The Army, only to pleased to get that responsobility of thier chest agreed and supplied them fuel etc. They knew the old trucks intimatley. The young guy said he hadn't seen them so happy in years. They were well rewarded with the standard british tea and biscuits and we all heard a lot of good stories. :-)
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  977. So buy a Yeti, save a lot of money, and get a better vehicle. . Reliable, easy to work on , and performs on and off road.
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  978.  @Pridegriffin  I sang in the School Choir (Many, many , many years ago). My Mother, inspired so she said, joined the local Women's Institute choir. Came home after first rehersal in High Dudgeon. Later turned out the Choirmistress had said 'Yes, maybe ... it would be better if you just.. open and shut your mouth in time to the music?'
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  979. Churchill carried the C96 in South Africa. He was involve din a cavalary charge, and wrote afterwards he had hurt his wrist so used the pistol rather than a sabre, which he claimed saved his life. The 1972 Film The Young Churchill made great play that they had found the actual pistol and it was used in the film. A lot is made of the charge and Churchill losing the pistol on a train, a long lingering shot of it going off on it's wagon into the distance.
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  980.  @insertname1667  Soak the cup in a solution of Baking Soda. In London the water is so hard you can eat it, and I drink tea black, so that's the only way I can get cups and flasks clean of the tannin residue.
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  981. Ddepends on how many mines you dredge up . To qoute an unkown minesweeper Captain when his riflemen couldn't hit a floating mine 'Just lower the whaler fix bayonets , and charge the bloody thing!'
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  982. I'd say that describes Guiniea Fowl. Pug ugly, but fantastic watch animals.
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  983.  @billd.iniowa2263  Daft thing, the spelling in Welsh is phonetic,actually makes more sense than English. :-)
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  984. Actually when I first saw it I thought of model guns Airfix used to make in UK.
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  985. Proffesor Eric Laithwaite invented the Linear Motor in the 1960's. He even mentioned using it as a gun. There are his original films explaing how it all works on You Tube. Worth a look.
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  986. Took me long enough to find mine :-) And they are pricey in UK. Good thing is! You can hang the 1907 16inch bayonet on to it! So if I don't like the group I can fix bayonet and charge the target.
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  987. Send for Mark?
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  988.  @FamousEccles  LMAO. Yes I thought that after , a harmonica rifle!
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  989.  @leeenfield3404  OK guys ! The plan! We meet up , raid RIA, make some ammo , meet on the range and sort this out . :-)
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  990. I went to IWM musuem when it reopned after a £21,000,000 refit. The musuem was ripped off! I could have ruined it just as effectivley for far less. Try the Wallace Collection, the firearms are to drool over. https://www.wallacecollection.org/ The rest of the place will fascinate as well.
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  991. Your'e just keeping it safe for him then? He'll get it ...eventually. :-)
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  992. The No4 is your best bet. They were made up to the 1960's, so are relitivley new. Have aperture sights , the No1 sights take a lot of getting used to and though I love mine, my P14 apeture sight is the easiest to use. If and I say if you can find one. The Enfeild Enforcer, which is No4 action chambered and barrleed for 7.62 X51 Nato and designed as a Police Sniper rifle , is the best affordable one. Not the cahce of a No4 T , but the bulletts come out the barrel , and go exactaly where you want them.
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  993. You go do it then. My advice before you satart using MEWPS get trained. You will then learn how wrong you are,
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  994. Also Home Demolition.
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  995. Cheap to shoot? At 600 rounds per minute. What is your idea of cheap?
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  996. That right of self defence does exist in UK, though it is worded diffrent. The right to defend yourself using Such Force as is Reasonable, not as many will say minimum, in the Prevention of Crime. Recently a , can't think of words that would be allowed here, and co-as before- broke into a pensioners home. Said creature ended up dead. Pensioner was not charged but said creature followers mounted a hate campaingn, Police action against them *** all! The disposal of creature caused disruptions for hours took up most of the Met Police officers for a day and cost a fortune. All problems came from so called Mourners. Is it any suprise the moderate people of Uk ars sick to the heart of the current situation?
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  997. May I suggest you try to find a BBC Radio series called The Navy Lark? Some of the best comidieans in UK during the 1960's. Jon Pertwee, Leslie Philllips , Ronnie barker Sterpehen Murry, and the lovley Heather Jason. These were originally on the BBC Home service
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  998. Yes.
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  999. Scapegoats of Empire, I'd recommend both the film and the book, that can be got free on Gutenberg Press.
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  1000. French FT17 was main one used, then some British Mk4 and 5 . There was a Universal proposal for 1919 which looks like a Mk5 with aturret added. The FT17 was a two man Tankette. There were also the Fench Schnider and St Chamound, heavy tanks, but neither were succesful. Don't know if the Americans used any of those. In WW2 the Germans used a lot of FT17 turrets on bunkers, the chassis being used as SP and tractor units.
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  1001. It does make grin when you see footage of young fit modern troops with all the Gucci kit, pinned down because some scruffy old git with a battered SMLE is taking long range deliberate shots at them.
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  1002. Ahh some time around Armegedon there will still be a SMLE out there somewhere:-)
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  1003. The Hot new thing!Smokless powder! (Groan!) There is something about a Lee action that is always distinctive.
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  1004. 100% hindsight! No one knew, probably even the German's that the end of the war was so close. The German's just fell off the edge of the catastrophe curve.
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  1005. Ian putting his Spin on revolvers.
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  1006. Why use Shortwave radio? Because it is secure. just that it is broadcasting is code. Very difficult to jam, and can be picked up on very simple equipment.
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  1007.  @ThatADHDKid  Work at height is defined as any distance from which a fall could cause personal injury. Fall off a table it hurt.
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  1008.  @Rosiebeatle  Mr Kipling,and his Excedimgly Good Cakes?
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  1009.  @Cloudman572  My 2 1944 Dodges a WC51 and WC 54 are why I was there. I'm from Jersey in the Channel Island's which was Occupied from 1940 till May 9th 1945. Parents , teachers and adults who influenced me, a lot had lived through it Including one lady who was an Auschwitz survivour, and another who as teenager had been one of the Occupiying forces. The gentelest man you could ever meet. The lady we were all petrified off:-) There is a memeoriaal to Russian POW's who died building the Island's defences. On the Northern most of the archepiligo Alderney was Camp Sylte, a Nazi Concentration camp. on Britsh Soil.
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  1010.  @LordElpme  True. the best description of Warrior and her sister Black Prince is that they were the Stratigic Detterent of thier time. She is a worth a visit. especially as the Mary Rose , HMS Victory and all the other musuems are close by/
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  1011. Critisise the crew for landing a bit overweight? Everybody walked away and the airplane can be used afterwards. Dosen't that constitute a perfect landing?
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  1012. The Royal Navy has a marked aversion to getting it's boots dirty. That's why we have the Royal Marines, uncouth yobbos. The RN issues rifles to keep them under control when they have been out on a Saturday night:-) Seriously though, what use is a rifle against a ship? The RN still taught Cutlass drill , though as secondary in the 1970's. A firearm in the steel box of a ship has very limited use. Some branches,mainly signallers and medics who do go ashore with Marines are given intensive small arms training, the rest get just basic training , even shore establishments normally have armed MOD Police (MODPlod) on the gate.
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  1013.  @Quincy_Morris  Well a Bosnian shot an Austrian.
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  1014. You'd be under gunned:-)
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  1015. This setup was a favorite of 1960's British TV Action shows used in a black attache case by the Evil Villan.
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  1016.  @Plasticjesus504  Oh I agree, but when a select group of experts can decide on a whim if a painting is worth millions or pennies, a lot of people are going to go out of thier way to keep them happy. . The trouble is one small flaw exposed and the whole edifice comes crashing down.
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  1017.  @kevinsullivan3448  The same everywhere someone wants, someone will try and scam them.
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  1018. Don't worry, there still be laughed at.
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  1019.  @dogsnads5634  The Luger was parroted as the best ever still is sometimes,. But how many toggle lock pistols of that type do you see now? Yes a .276 was proposed, but what would have testing results been? How can a cartridge that served 60 = years world wide be a failure?
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  1020. That is definitley the Irish part coming out :-)
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  1021.  @johnbull1986  Air rifles of more than 12 lb'foot power or air pistols of more than 6lb/foot are considered Section 1 .
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  1022.  @itatane  I got another couple of facts for the Pub Quiz circuit! Knowledge just keeps spreading :-)
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  1023.  @stardawg9964  Don't go down to the woods today! :-)
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  1024. I was thinking something similar , Now To teech thy howndes to retrive.
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  1025.  @accidentaltourist7101  You should add Ipere and the Essex Farm ADS to your bucket list.
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  1026. And the CIOS, Channel Island Occupation Society.
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  1027.  @Sandwich13455  That makes sense with the definition of the word.
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  1028.  @bigjuicypotato1482  Or for the classic Irish reply 'You want to know the history? Well I wouldn't start from here'.
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  1029. For some reason man has always wanted to picture war. Yes, before photography there was only painting, but even after that, the camera still does not have the perception of the human eys and brain.
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  1030. They wer efor a Slow Fire competion that was, and still is popular in Britian. 5 shots in 5 minutes free hand at 50 yards.
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  1031. They won in the end. The fort wa spart of a defence in depth, it fell and one other, the rest didn't.
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  1032. Fine motto, but WHY, Mayonaise of Chips? (French Fries to our Amercian friends)
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  1033. I was born and brought up in Jersey- The Island was Occupied by the NAZIs. The people who influenced me as a child had endured the Occupation, I feel it always gives me a diffrent perception to other British people on this period. Intresting to hear the onion of an informed person, from another background on British Folklore of the war. Brings up food for thought.
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  1034.  @williamjeffersonclinton69  No oooh, normally took targets breath away! Eyes would often cross though.
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  1035. Airminuis took advantage of his enemies, pjuedice and stupidity, that is brilliant.
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  1036. Now now the Scot's are not prejuduced. They hate everyone.
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  1037.  @filanfyretracker  I was working at London Heathrow. You NEVER cross the front or rear of an aircraft with engines running. One airliine had hired some tempoary staff, who should never have been airside anyway. One woman was asked to take something to an enginnering crew, so she walked out, across the front of an engine test bay. The story goes the Enginner in charge saw her, just as something brown and round came off her and flew into the engine. He promptly passed out. Woman needed a new wig. :-)
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  1038. Why not try the old muzzle loader and candle against body armour? After all it will go through an inch of oak.
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  1039. Well, Poilu is 'The Hairy One' :-)
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  1040. First shot accuarcy. You definitley do not want to fire a second.
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  1041. EU = Tryanny fortunatley the Uk has had the sense to be first into the lifeboats.
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  1042. Yet!
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  1043. The fate of HMS Dasher was also kept secret. Especially as there is a teniuos link to The Man Who Never Was.
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  1044. And now everyone is trying to re invent the wheel. Once again Polotics are interferring.
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  1045. The British Broad Arrow is not a proofmark.It is a British Military equipment mark. It appears on everything. If an item is 'SoldOut' a second arrow may be struck to form an X though looksmore like an * .
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  1046. The oldest war ship 'In Commision' is the HMS Victory, She is still Flagship CinC Portsmouth. USS Constitution is the oldest warship afloat, still in Commison MISTAKE !! Since 2012 She is now Flagship of tThe Frist Sea Lord!
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  1047.  @johnm3907  And you wonder why hunters get a bad name in places? Especially Americans in Scotland. not to mention American Dentists in Africa. Some of us do think there has to be a good reason why you squezze a trigger on any living thing.
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  1048. Pity they didn't do the same dust testing thing to the L85A1.
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  1049. Works in the food industry as well, most people automatically add salt, so why use in manufacturing? Know as Auto Condimenting.
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  1050.  @sejembalm  From a practical point of view, going into a fight with all that weight of loose metal banging around? Me smell propoganda.
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  1051.  @ItsWasted_  Unless you wer ethe one on fire! :-)
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  1052. Beaten up useless kit supplied . Sounds like the British Treasury SOP. The WD Arrow mark is not the proof mark. The only ones who can leaglly proof in Uk are the London and Birmingham proof houses. They have thier own marks which would be on Pressure bearing parts, so the barrel and each chamber of the cylinder.
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  1053.  @mrfixit9538  Well, he's doing it wrong! 😆
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  1054. I agree, it is the Big Ships posing for pictures, the little ones were just to busy.
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  1055.  @tylerm8143  Where does the Sphinx sleep? At that size, wherever it damm well wants !
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  1056.  @Taistelukalkkuna  Is there a point to this? (Oh there getting worse:-) )
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  1057. As my 'Mechanical Mentour said to me 'Listen to the machinery! It will tell you what is wrong'. In this case, sounds like something is in pain. Perhaps it should be put down?😁
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  1058. Eric: Becaus ethe Boers were just as much land grabbing assholes as the British, worse in fact. Also Zulu wern't the only tribe in the area.
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  1059. Pity there were a number of factual errors, very serious factual errors.
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  1060.  @SportbikerNZ  No can't be ased.
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  1061.  @SnoopReddogg  Yeah could be described as that, We intend to create an Empire, and your going to part of it'. Umm! No!. Much the same happned in 1872 when Bismark said to Southern States of Germany, 'You are going to be part of Greater Germany'. When asked 'You and whose army?' he significantlty looked out the window..... The rest we all know :_)
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  1062. The Webley BB MkVII has a reprint of Small Arms Training Volume 1 Pamphlet No 11 Pistol (.455 inch) Dated 1937. The grip is taught one handed, arm and wrist straight, both eyes open. Right foot advanced' weight on forward foot. Raise pistol to mark and fire .
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  1063.  @JohnRodriguesPhotographer  Like losing a best friend.
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  1064. Hum, OK, just keep taking the tablets. Nursy will be along to tuck you in shortly. :-)
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  1065. Um, check under the bed tonight?
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  1066. Jena was the home of a Zeiss factory that was taken by the Russians following WW2. Carl Zeiss in West Germany marketd under thier name , so the Russians products are labled Carl Zeiss Jena. Bloody good optics they are to, and sold for about a 1/3 of the price of Carl Zeiss.
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  1067.  @billbolton  No, it is a pain in the ass, every one is an 'Expert' and quotes Blackadder! It is a work of comic fiction! I've been lucky enough, and priviliged to dig the ground. Intresting exciting and bloody sobering, all at the same time.
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  1068.  @trooperdgb9722  Its the Swedish Blockade runners that have always been an intrest to me. A high speed ocean going wooden merchant man.
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  1069. It was always drummed into me when I learnt radio procedures, from the age of about 12, NEVER use Affirmative or Negative, if you can you say YES,YES! if you can't say No, No! Poor signal all you may catch is the ..ive..
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  1070. Try Leon Uris , Mila 18. fiction but a fantastic story of the Warsaw Uprising.
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  1071. James Clavell's Asian Triology , starting with Shogun, then Taipan and Gajin, are good read in the fiction genre, and have a good historic base in the period.
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  1072. A little story: In Jersey channel Island's for many years tomatoes were grown out side. The feilds were lined with wodden crosses. A line of string was run across the bars of the crosses and the tomatoes grown up them. The story is a Tourist was heard to remark 'Jersey must be very unhealthy! Look at all the graveyards about' . Apocryphal? Oh I hope not! 🤣
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  1073. Ironically that's why Belgium was carved out off the Flander's countryside.
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  1074.  @michaelpielorz9283  There are plenty of scources, including the World Famous' Everyone Knows'. Reffered to in Britain as The Man in the Pub. The fun of histiory, and current affairs, sorting out the greys from the posted Black & White.
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  1075. Wars are fought in all enviroments. Bear in mind the Frecnh had interests in North Africa and the Far east, Vietnam at the time. The Great War could just have easily started in 1907 with the Morrocan Crisis and agin in 1911, with Germany trying to muscle in on French overseas territories.
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  1076.  @terrywarner8657  You can still get carbide lamps in UK, and I've seen a few on the range.
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  1077.  @misterthegeoff9767  I used to do Horse Welfare on the marshes. There were still parts of the old RNAS buildings , overgrown with brambles. A lot of history in a marshy old bit of ground.
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  1078.  @dlevoy  But! Don't get stuck on ticking off cemteries and memorials!. Do research into any thing your intrested before going. There are some odd out of the way places that have fascinating stories. The local food and drink is good as well. If you have family problems, go to Belgium, drop wife and kids off in choclate shops, I garuntee you will have a free day :-)
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  1079. No he used the fact that the gaurds were full of fear and mindless bullshit. Afraid to make a decision of there own, Just like a lot of social media.
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  1080. The mine hunters, you no longer just sweep , you go looking for them. Are mostly GRP now, but a lot of wood is still used in fitting as non magnetic.
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  1081. Looking at the axle arrangment, bouncy axles not good news when firing so does the second lever lock the supension? The German's in WW2 did do elaborate. I know of a ten meter tall reinforced concrete tower, built half into a granite outcrop with a large heavily armoured cupola on top. Weapons mount 1 x MG34/42. I should add records show no other apparent use for the structure.
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  1082.  @AsbestosMuffins  Oh I agree life was to short:-)
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  1083.  @BoisegangGaming  Like the British nomaclature system then? :-) a lot o fpeople don't realise so it may help clarify.
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  1084. Interesting fact: US Military Vehicles were shipped with small almost bald tyres. Then fitted with full size NDC (Non Directional Combat ) tyres in Europe. A lot of second line vehicles used smaller tyres than standard.
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  1085. Non Non. Calvados! After dilution though the Un Rein.
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  1086.  @ingvarhallstrom2306  But like any Diplomat, you are there legally, what you get up to on the other hand... Also both Soviet and Allied forces were in a nominally Forign Country, The German Democratic Republic,who had thier own axe to grind.
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  1087.  @jexzero639  Right except the damper is as much use as a Choclate teapot with steel rope.
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  1088.  @ianmacfarlane1241  OOH! Some Italian stylist will be have hysterics!
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  1089. The Term Cenotaph, drived from the Greek Kenotaphion , means Empty Tomb.
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  1090. Surley all the ammunition is developed first? The gun is after all just a delivery system. The .38/200 continued in Britsh Military/ Police use well into the 1960's.
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  1091. First you modify what you got. It cost a lot to throw away eevrything and start again. Simplicity is the most difficult thing to achive.
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  1092. Originally developed in SA because sanctions meant no one would sell to them. AH! Polotics.
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  1093. P. S. Thanks for being a great scource of material for that Old English Favourite: The Pub Quiz! :-)
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  1094. Ah the troop Sergeant. Dosen't matter what sex thye are, thier all complete and uter ....................😁
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  1095. Considering it was up against the Browning Hi Power, already in full production and combat proven? Somone must have been on some bad mushrooms.
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  1096. I live in UK , so thankfully the National Health Service. I don't pay directly, the stuff keeps me alive.
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  1097. I have an immaculate Winchester P14, the ones the British kept. On the stock is a brass plate marked CIA . Calm down ! Central Inspectorate of Ammunition. Obviously , aquired, for target use. The RE is the Remington mark. Due to rapid production the P14 was not interchangeable between manufactures.
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  1098. The paint is actually a very complex formula. I once asked the Man Of The MOD in charge of all 'Surface coverings and protections' what should I use to paint a Land Rover chassis? The answer took at least half and hour. He was also a skilled moddeler. He used to make up all sorts of commerial model kits to try out his paints on.
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  1099. In the Great War Blimps were also used for anti submarine patrols. On the Wardershare Estate near Dover there is a narrow valley , with a pit dug in the bottom, known as Airship. The Blimps were brought in to the valley and the gondolas fitted into the pit.
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  1100. Ahh! Thank You Ian. You have just explained why my rather odd .22 SMLE is why it is. That long Lee Metford bolt.
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  1101. Those old Martini's are still refusing to die. I've seen them with .22 barrels, I learnt to shoot on one, cost me £5! Also quite a number were conveted to .410 shotgun. The calibre is close enough to .303 that you can bore out the rifiling, and still stay in proof. They were popular with farm workers as the Grey Squirrel, any time you Yanks want to come and take them back, have a bounty on them so the avaerage labouroe could get meat for the table, a cash bounty and the cartridge replaced. Also Pigions on grain crops, during WW2 you could get cartridges if you could show they were for pest control, and the meat wasn't rationed.
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  1102. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHe4tMN6IeE
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  1103. Night train: Bofors plus 88 mm guns on barges called F lighters in the English Channel and Bay of Biscay of fthe Channel Islands gave a pretty good account of themselves. Allies treated them with a lot of respect.
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  1104.  @chrisneedham5803  Or Buy! now I'm sure you want to sell that thing to me. Gun? What Gun? Oh the Maxim outside, that's nothing. Excuses used by a number of well known British museums over here. Not to mention a lot of Regimental Silver.
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  1105. Don't forget the Mule. The world's largest breeder of Mules is the Indian Army.
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  1106.  @tsperry6744  Kammerladder, bodering on an artillery pice.
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  1107. Somewhat suprisingly the Allies wanted as much kit as possible built in West Germany, unemployed people are a liability. So if you can get a local firm, you didn't say who the designers were, to produce the kit, and use salvaged parts, you save money and help rebuild the local economy. Volkswagen is the best known result.
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  1108. A tendency to blow open.Whilst angled towards the groin.Thank you , Next Please!
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  1109. These were guns designed to be used in a genuine war situtaion in quite an extreme climate. As Ian said they worked, in a situation where if it didn't work the results would be fatal. Just out produced by the big guys.
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  1110. Typical of Germany at the time, same as Russia during the Cold War , sell guns to anyone who will cause your enemies trouble. What Ian didn't say is the British Army Officer Corp, from Staff level down were divided on the Home Rule bill, with many prepared to resign or mutiny if they were ordered to move against the UVF. The Germans got good value for the weapons.
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  1111. half the problem at LGW is the airlaine staff blaiming thier tardiness on 'Security'. Been there , did it.
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  1112.  @welshskies  Well the area is part of the European Dark Skies Initative. I go up the Gospel pass (In A Discovery) for fun to see the stars. :-)
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  1113.  @welshskies  And just over the mountain, the Pits! My family are from Abertillery and Tredegar. :-)
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  1114. One whale saysto the other 'Bloody hell! What does it take to get these guys of our backs? :-)
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  1115. Lady sees a boy wearing a pirate hat . 'Oh' she exclaims 'Where are your Buccaneer's?' The boy replies, 'Under me bucking hat'!
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  1116.  @donbarr9487  I agree a computer can only do what someone else , a long way away , a long time ago, thought might happen, told it to do.
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  1117. Why publish films of such bloody awful quality? The Royal Amouries is supposed to be a world class musuem, collection.
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  1118. The dogs are the best chance of finding people. To give the dogs the best chance they should go in first before the area is contanimated by other traces. Going in like a bull in a china shop puts both recuers and survivors at increased risk. One of the hardest things to drum into First Responders is stop and think first!
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  1119.  @rudymatheson1415  There is no 'Hunting Licence' as such for a firearm in UK. It may be a 'Valid Reason' to be granted a Class 1 Firearms certificate. You may get a Historic Firearm variation, though doubtful in current climate, but you wouldn't be able to hold ammunition or shoot it.
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  1120. Did I hear a distant scream of 'MUTTLEEEY! ? :-)
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  1121. Headlines = Votes, as in the case of the UK at the moment a lot of point scoring from certain poloticans, knowing full well they will never have to take the responsobility of thier actions.
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  1122. When first designed, the Enemy didnt soar like angels over your postion, so dust going up was the problem. When seen from above. The trace od burn from a machine gun or artillery stands out like a sore thumb. Wet foliage or canvas was the supposed to be placed unde rthe muzzle of fixed guns to hide the burn marks from the air.
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  1123. There are vauge stories of a Canadian Regiment finding one of the rail mounts. Thoughts are, maybe 5 mounts and three, maybe four barrels built.
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  1124. I want mine back! Don' twant a Luger, bloody UK poloticians.Mine is 7. 63
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  1125. Winston Churchill famously used a C96 during the Boer War, lost it and was captured. When the film The Young Winston was made in 1972. They made a great play that the his gun had been found in South Africa and was purchased for the film.
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  1126.  @johnfisk811  He also claimed that if he'dused Army kit, he would be dead :-)
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  1127. The answer to the dust and muzzle burn! Which works with artillery emplacments as well, is to place wet canvas below the muzzle. Yes it was a problem, especially when the nasty Hun was buzzing about overhead in aereoplanes. The Camofleurs made fake muzzle blast effects to place in front of dummy positions.
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  1128.  @loddude5706  As they wern't and cost at the time about £2000 each and took about 75o,000 bricks each, nearly bankrupting the UK, they became known as Palmerston's Follies after the Prime Minister who orderd them, so you see why we ended up withe L85A1.?
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  1129. Can't have been popular with the neighbours in West Norwood though
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  1130.  @worldtraveler930  Don'teevn give a lot of Curators the hint of the idea! . Like the Curator off Tilbury Fort a few years back who came up with the idea 'It is to warlike'.
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  1131. James: The Krupp 420mm Big Bertha and some 320mm Skoda howitzers were speciffically designed and built to take out fortifications. On one Belgium fort, can't remeber off hand which one, a single shell hit the magazine, result was spectacular to say the least.
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  1132. I belive that , if similar to the Royal Navy , you are a, very, advanced paramedic. Makes you wonder though how many Doctors could cope with a major trauma in those conditions?
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  1133. The .45 version looks more the less for the peaseant to breack version rather than the sophisticated European bells and whistles. Though in practice how often was the magazine well stripper clip actually used?
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  1134. And for once, legal over here!
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  1135. ​ @leeenfield3404  UOR in Main means OhS**t!We need it now , the poloticians are on our backs! Find something that works. By the time it works down to about Regiment level it becomes , Improvise Adapt and Overcome.Lower still, the poor sods in themud that have the task, it's what can we beg , borrow or steal to get the job done? :-)
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  1136. Food for thought there . thanks for publishing.
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  1137.  @walkingcontradiction223  No problem! The golden rule , dont'r fight fair , you will be the only one stupid enough to do so, and keep hurting them till they can't hurt you. Keep Safe and carry on :-)
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  1138. S2it bricks and build a wall :-)
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  1139.  @smartereveryday  You have only done half of the system, now do the Rope and Hitches. The physics of a knot or hitch are so deep you can drown.
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  1140.  @mikecheeseman97  Favouritisn in the military could be looked at, quite correctly is Todays Friend is tommorows Enemy. The Japannese being an obvious one Allies in WW1, Enemy in WW2. So better to have as much control as possible over your defence. After all even now 'Friends' don't share everything.
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  1141. At the time following Unilateral Decloration of Independence (UDI) the people of Rohodesia had the whole of the African continent against them, and the West , because of a political snit, dumped them. So anything that could be produced in the back yard that threw rounds down range was a nesscity for survival.
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  1142.  @victosaure5930  Thank you kindly! Hope we both learn something . 😁
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  1143. I've donated my body, when I'm finished with it! For research, hum.. I'd have no objection to going out with a large bang. :-)
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  1144.  @babaganoush6106  I belive that Areldite, two part glue was one of the developments for Mosquito production. My Farther, who was a master carpenter always swore by (and sometimes at) Cascamite made from boiled bones.
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  1145.  @yazman4040  After banging that thing off? All your likley to find is the shoes :-)
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  1146. I have a copy of Sound Ranging Tape. It is dated 11am 11/11/1918 . Before 11am it is constant noise at 11am total straight lines, except after a mimute or so, three shots supposedly from a US Soldier. Typical, got to have the last word. :-)
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  1147. Where are you planning to go?
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  1148. Try the /Western Front Asscoation Youtube channel.
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  1149. And as your avaerage wage at the time was about 17 shillings per week, you got much better value! It's a neat bit of kit, I'd settle for a copy.
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  1150.  @donaldmather2773  The Islands are to small and to far , not to mention the seas are West the Atlantic till you rech America, East the Race of Alderney , 7 knots on the log, speed over the ground , backwards. There were of no practical military value, which is why the British Goverment declered them open, thought that has its own contraversey. There was also Operation Ariel, the second Dunkirk, sent from the Islands to St Malo.
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  1151.  @fasthracing  The size and Geogarphy of the Island's, it was consdiered the risk to teh civillian population was to great. There was a plan though Operation Ramikin.
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  1152. It was common practice not to load any magazine to full capacity to aid feeding. a lot of manuals, feild reports and correspondence at the time refer to the practice. Even in WW2 it was common to leave a few rounds of the Bren magazine. One reason cited is that it rellives pressure on the magzine spring when the weapon may need to remain charged for days on end in foul conditions.
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  1153.  @hansmueller3029  Ay Lad! or Lass! There ain't nougfht better than a large hot MUG of Rosie on the start of a winters morning! Course you wrap your fingers around the mug, it warms them up! That and a bacon sandwich is what cold clear winter mornings are for! :-)
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  1154. The classic ones being an Elephant- A mouse designed by comittee. A Camel - The horse designed by comittee. Or in the case of the Demise of a very well known and previously loved British 4x4 vehicle , the inclusion of a footballer's wife.
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  1155. Even the Crabs wern't that stupid! Though in 1941 there was virtually a begging bowl going round the US for anything that would throw lead. Send a Gun to Britsh Home was the pitch, also compasses binoculars anythinguseful. A lot of stuff went over and was used for the Home Gaurd and Auxilary Forces. Winchester 70's were particullary prized and suppresed for use as assination weapons by Auxilary Forces if Britian had ben invaded.
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  1156. Do remeber that the Death Penalty was a legal sentence at the time. A number of those exceuted by firing squad were excecuted for crimes that would have attracted the death penalty in civillian courts.
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  1157.  @therideneverends1697  Yes they did. The excuse used was 'Disposal of .303 ammunition no longer in date for service. ' :-)
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  1158.  @zoiders  Orders at the time of the Great War state Lewis Gunners should be 'Well built men of stout heart and intillegence'. It wasn't actually decleared Obsolete till about 1946.
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  1159.  @richardvernon317  One up to him then :-) He must have a good man to know.
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  1160.  @thedogfatherjt2243  Odd fact. During the Naplionic war when French prisoners where kept on hulks at Woolwich London. The prisoners were used for work on the Woolwich Aresnal. This led to riots and complaints from the towns people, that the prisoners were depriving them of paid work.
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  1161.  @tamaliaalisjahbana9354  There was the problem, The Soviet Goverment wanted labour, and didn't care where it came from. Bare in mind, Russia , followed by the Soviet Unioun, has never been a Democracy as those in 'The West' think of one. It is questionable if it is now. It took a fair amonut of Proganda by the Allies to make Russia acceptable to thier populations ,and both sides were never really happy with the arrangement. I was told, by a reputable scource, a story about his Grandfather. He was German, a Communist , who fought for Russia.He and his group were part of a tank formation. In 1945, the crew were near Berlin. They saw the way the wind was blowing nad decided that it would not be a good idea to stay. So the changed to German uniforms, got acros sthe front lines and surrendered toi the Allies. After that apprently the ended up in a POW camp,with German's who had fought on theEastern Front. that must have led to some fun conversations.
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  1162. 40 in total wer etransffered to the Royal Navy. USS Buchanan, later HMS Cambelton is the most famous. However two played a part in Operation Tiger, the disaster at Slapton sands jsut prior to D-Day.
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  1163. I volunteer my 1944 Dodge WC51 Weapon Carrier ! Please!!! Pretty please! She will tow a 25 lb gun and limber! And to acompany the film, what else but.... Tchicosky The 1812 Oveture! :-)
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  1164.  @ronaldbharvey  We have never been part of England, England is part of us.
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  1165. With an unkown amount of electricity about would have been bloody spectacular.
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  1166.  @Steve_I  In UK the Classic military world is divided into two camps, those of us who own Dodges, and the rest who wish they did:-)
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  1167. They were used in the Great War for that as well. As part of the Dover Patrol.
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  1168.  Ronald McReynolds  well it has mademe rethink at least.
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  1169.  @basiltozer9078  Sounds like a certain leader from acros sthe pond. Though as a good introduction to the British Empire, I would suggest the Flashman series by George McDonald Fraser.
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  1170. Having worked on ex Soviet equipment, don't understimate Russian enginnering.Yes it's crude to look at, but where it needs to be it is well engineered and peaseant proof. Most of it can be fixed with a large hammer and a few spanners.
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  1171.  @orbyfan  Was always spocken as letters , the same with BEA, on whose aircraft I flew many times.
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  1172. We need to test the quality of the fuel at regular intervals Comrade! You see , we proved it would still burn!
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  1173. The Corn Poppy is a weed. It grows on brocken disturbed land. It was about the only thing that could grow.
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  1174.  @lewistaylor7242  Yes went to Leeds, from London. Won't go again. Fort Nelson however, the people threre know which end the projectile comes out, and talk to you. IWM in London is now a Corperate Venue, the public get in the way, same with the Maritime Musuem Greenwich. Probably the best display of Arms and Armour in London, and a whole lot more goddies, The Wallace Collection.
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  1175.  @matthayward7889  Or Breathless in Belfast?
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  1176.  @gohawks3571  Yes it's a lot of fun to find all these weird places and signs. :-)
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  1177. Brian: That's why Belgium was formed. Hey guys let's stop war by declaring Europes best battlefield Neuteral?' As for forts, another name for the area was Vaubin's Playground, and of course 'The Cockpit of Europe'. Great country by the way, I love the place.
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  1178. In this case, he should study more , before making comments.
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  1179.  @crominion6045  Thanks I was wondering about that.
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  1180. The German Army also respected most Great War CWWG cemetries. Though some extriors show the pock marks of battle.
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  1181. Pleae note: The Norman's do not specak french. The language is now known as Jerriais. As For the American's simplifying spelling, well as a Native English speaker, I rest my case.
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  1182. With a print book , you supply the voice and looks of a carachter. With audio , your stuck with the voice of he reader for all carachters.
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  1183.  @Seelenschmiede  Try that in the Britsh Army for 'Acountable Stores' , which sights like that would be, and you would find your self in a whole world of evil smelling sorrow.
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  1184.  @joshbottomley5327  No it is a seperate building located between Orpington and Green Street Green. Managerialy it is part of the King's College Hospital NHS Foundation trust along with Beckenham Beacon and PRU.
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  1185.  @alexhayden2303  Thanks for that, I'll read it. Scapegots of Empire can be free on the Gutenberg Project.
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  1186. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQoAw_ZiLPo
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  1187. I was thinking ofnotorious UK matters Lilly Langtary and Christin Keiller and Mandy Rice Davis. Who best remebered for answering a Barrister in The Old Bailey when told that all her allegataions were denied , she said 'He would say that wouldn't he?'
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  1188. Forgotten Weapons  The imminent arrival of US troops forced Germany into a last ditch offensive. General rule at the time was those who took the offensive came off worst. Germany nearly succeded in 1918, though the actual capitulation caught everyone, including a lot of the German forces by suprise. They just fell of fthe edge. As you have pointed out there was a lot of planning for the 1919 offensive. It became a war of atrition, The Triple Alliance (Minus Italy of course) could not outbreed the Entente powers. Last man standing would have won.. The sudden presence of fresh US bodies and the thought of millions more, with all the logistics they provided was the final trigger for a desperate act, which nearly succeded. . We are working with 100% hindsight, and current attitudes. Social norms were a lot diffrent then, and no one knew the war would end in November 1918. No one thing ended the war.
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  1189. Slide opening actually :-)
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  1190.  @chadington6029  But if someone is willing to pay the price? The trick is knowing more than the other person,and thier attitude towards me.
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  1191.  @UncleSam13  Why unethical? He's in buissness, he asked a price some one paid it.
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  1192.  @txgunguy2766  As l.ong as both sides are happy, there you go , he got what he wanted, you got you wanted. Its when someone knowingly uses thier knowledge to bambozzle someone else that its wrong.
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  1193. two bricks
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  1194. Ian, I'm afraid you underestimate the feelings towards firearams of the people of Europe, having had war on thier land in living memory and subject to terrorism on a scale the US has never known .And just how self serving the poloticians are when it comes to a chance to look good and grab easy votes.
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  1195. Just that added bit of style, to distingush Superb work from mediocre.
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  1196.  @johnellis6462  I'm wondering about the three hundred and three calibre Browning? Talk about 'flying Artillery. As for the Mosquito being underated. What cereal packet do the clowns get thier info off?
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  1197. Somebody would still manage to crank it backwards, then complain all over Social Media it dosen't work. THEY bulit a foolproof system, mankind introduced an improved fool!
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  1198.  @brianmilem4002  No, she is Head of the Commonwealth.
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  1199.  @dariorazum6121  The Flowers Class sometimes called the Gladioli class afte rthe lead ship. A lot built in Canada.They heavily influenced the 1950' 60's and in Sea Cadet use 1970's class of Ton Minesweepers in the RN.
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  1200. Im memorium of those who died in the battle. It was as a direct result of this battle that the British were forced to launch the Somme offensive, and we all know the result of that.
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  1201. You forgot one step along 'Lovley Boy, Lovley boy'! that plus arms out at shoulder height hold rifle acros shands , and death if you drop it!
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  1202. Yeomanry were County volunteer regiments, often Cavalary or mounted infantary. They did not have to serve overseas but could volunteer to do so, in which case they wore a brass badge on the left breast with a crown above the words Imperial Volunteer.
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  1203. I was brought up somewhere that was Occupied by the Nazzi's .yes this short vidieo has had a profound effect.
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  1204. Does make you wonder, Ian says a mortar is adorable, and 211 of us go Ahh! and agree. Well I tried normal once, just couldn't get on with it.
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  1205.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  Pity more such matters aren't settled by diplomacy. Keep Well.
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  1206. remeebr the Rainbow. Richard- Of -York -Gave - Battle -In - Vain. The colours in order.
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  1207.  Ivan Karamazov  Famous for hypocrasisy? I take exception to that. Just like modern coperation's Rhodes chanced his arm, trying to embroil the Britsh Goverment in a war. Considering the world's present political makeup and the influence of large coperations, not a lot has cahnged. I can think of one Leader of the Free World, who would feel right at home in this period.
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  1208.  @ggale2721  To remove the civillian population from an area so they could not give support to insurgents was not a new idea at the time, nor has it gone out of use.
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  1209. Yes, with a feed adaptor plate. The intended use was in dual mount Light AA. There was also a vehicle mounted light AA set up for the Morris and Bedford 15cwt .The standard tripod had extra tubes stored in the legs so could be mounted in a single light AA role, though you mostly see this with box feed.
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  1210. Mitch Hill: No anywhere SOUTH of the Thames is the place to be. Crossing the river gives me a nosebleed, if you can actaully get across it anywhere East of about Reading.
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  1211. Not a lot changes. If Hitler had treated the local Russian population with respect, where might that have ended?
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  1212. Zorg: Like the survivors of any Occupation a lot was not talked about, or only to those close. Bear in mind the majority of American's and British people have no living memory of Occupation by a Forign power.
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  1213. A lot had been learned by the time of the No4, the floating barrel had been developed on Indian made guns to cope with thier conditions, the P14 had finally cracked the Mid mounted sights were good enough for Grandad mentality as you say metalurgy , ammunition development, Though weight isn't always a disadvantage. The rifle has well dsitributed weight so it feels right in the hand, presents easily and is steady when fired.
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  1214.  @jic1  Notice also the screw ends to the supports. These are known as Silent Pickets. Wirirng was done at night, if you have to bang the support in Noise attracts attention = Death. These Silent pickets can be screwed into the ground with a pole through the top hole and make little or no noise. Roman military ditches often have brocken pottery in the bottom, two fold , cuts the feet and makes a noise when it cracks again. Same with the tin stars and also tins filled with stones attached to the wire, you try to cut it makes noise, instant retribution.
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  1215. Police dogs are trained that way. All working dogs , when the speacilist kit comes out, Hey , time for fun! When it stops being fun, the dog stops working.
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  1216. JCB is a family company. The British Military love JCB if there is a problem you can phone someone who will talk to you, if they don't know thier cousin who also works for JCB will know.
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  1217. He , the Unkown Warrior and the body of the nurse Edith Cavell, were transported in the same rail wagon. Now in preservation and known as the Cavell Wagon.
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  1218. I agree the Death of Land Rover.
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  1219. There is a similar layout of the Battle of Waterloo in the British Army Musuem at Chelsea. It was made to put on public display, who would pay to see it, actually bankrupted the guy who built it.
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  1220. I have a Mossberg MB42a Some 30, 000 of those were shipped to UK between 1939/41.
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  1221. The uniform of the British Army at the time was based on Golfing clothing, the short wide shouldered tunic allowed free movement of arms even whilst wearing webbing, of a Top Secret design, though never enough could be made so later Utility webbing reverted to leather. The Brodie helmet would not stop high velocity fragments, you'd need something weighing about ten pounds for that , but would stop low velocity fragments and flying clods of earth, which were just as nasty. The goatskin jerkin was an emergency measure, and not well liked, try an old Hippy coat on a wet muddy site. The leather jerkin is a beautiful piece of kit, blanket lined, hard wearing waterproof and very warm. I use a WW2 dated one in winter and a modern web backed one for working on vehicles and in woods all the time.
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  1222.  @unclestoma4699  Oh yes. Before digging any hole in the area check the wind direction. No kiddng you put a wind marker. Especially if you are using a machine. On one occasion, so I'm told , a farmer got permisisn to blow up some concrete . The Blasters came in, set a small charge and set it off. About half a hectare went up as the concrete had been left over an old ammo dump. Another story is of the bloke who took a shell as a souvenir. When he got home to England his Wife got quite upset demanding to know if it was safe. Of course he hadn't a clue. So she told him to take it back. Which he did only to get stopped for speeding in Kent. The Police asked him 'What's in the back?' The subsequent clousre caused total cahos for hours.
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  1223. !6 1/2 Remingtom 1907 Sword pattern bayonet. Manufactured for Britain as well. The two vertical grooves are to distinguish it from the Enfield bayonet that fits the SMLE. MERDE! Mon V Ian ,ne devrais -tu pas en Francais?
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  1224. Not really war is very expensive a British No7 .303 round , as every British Soldier was told cost the goverment 3d (That's the old Penny Sterling 240 d= £1 Sterling ) so a cheap mass produced easily available .22 training rifle was a must. Also there was the British Auxilary Units- Stay behind Home Guard units who in case of invasion would have worked behind German Lines, life expectancy, 10 days to 2 weeks. They were issued with moderated .22 possibly some Mossberg's and definitly Winchester's supplied by the American Send a Gun to a British Home scheme. These were intended as assination weapons.
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  1225. Is for one factory. Bear in mind in 1940 UK was in deep dodo. Most equipment was lost at Dunkirk. The SMLE production was changing to No 4, with that production needed to replace immdiate losses but a lot of new bodies had to be trained, what was needed was cheap, easily avilable in a large batches, and had to have a cheap easily available ammunition, and .22 was in commercial production requiring little brass lead and powder, again all needed elsewhere, that could be shot on improvised ranges without the chance of taking out half the remaining population. The Mossberg filled the bill. If you notice British and Commonwealth films of WW2 outside Europe, most if not all the rifles are SMLE No 1 mk 111* Obvious tell tale they mount the old 1907 pattern sword bayonet. The No 4 was not officially adopted till 1939 and Commonwealth arsenals were still producing No1 Mk 111.
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  1226. Try a condom over the exhaust pipe.
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  1227. It was a lovey piece of kit. But as it was originally designed for .280, at 7.62 X 51 the design was at it's limits. What it did do was answer the Squadies basic questions, Will it work when I'm up a mountain at midnight freezing cold soacking wet and scared shi*less? Will I be able to hit who I want? And when I hit the other guy will he stop trying to kill me?
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  1228. Poor old STEN. It wern't that bad. One problem was it had to do a number of things. It had to be cheap, it had to use the least amount of material, and it had to be concelable, as from the start it was envisaged that many would be supplied to Resitansce Forces. A toy company called Triang were responsible for the production design of the STEN, and Singer, best known for sewing machines were a major supplier, as were the Rootes Car Group. There were also copy designs built home made by the Danish Resistance and the Isreali Hagana. The story of the how they got the brass for cartridges is epic in itself. One problem with now pistol grip is that if you aren't holding the gun hard enough into your body as it recoils you let the whole gun move back. As it is a blowback the reciver can go back faster than the bolt so the spring dosen't fully compress, failure to feed and light strike.
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  1229. Edward VII 1901 1910-
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  1230. Gave? Try checking your history. The papers are in the Libiray of Congress, one of the US war aims was to split the British Empire, especially India. The US charged top dollar for everything to the Britan, whilst taking a lot of goods and paying nothing.
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  1231. As Ian said at over 300m can you even see a target? Let alone have time to engage. The Effective Range of the L1 A1 was always quoted at 200 yards.
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  1232. Originally based at the Royal Armerments Establishment Enfeild Lock. The Pattern Room was concived as a
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  1233. Damm fingers! collection for research and testing of any weapons that the British Forces might come across. It was also used to train personnel in the use of captured weapons.
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  1234. Give Ian a chance , at least he is prouncing Shu now not SHY-ER on the end of English Countys.
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  1235. In British weapons aquisition the tactics involved include have tea mug. stands made with a cartoon of your point of view distributed. If you can't dazzle with diamonds , baffle with Bulsh*it.
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  1236. Thanks for heads up. I do miss my C96.
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  1237. Also .22 is a lot cheaper than .303 or 30.06 which was needed for frontline use anyway. The other thing is .22 can be shot just about anywhere, so in the case of Home Guard and Cadet units, hang a heavy blanket or two at the back of the village hall, especially with .22 short. Though .22 Winchester and probably some Mossberg's were issued with moderators to Auxilary Units, of the Home Guard. These would have formed Stay Behind units in case of Invasion and would have carried out sabotage and assasination, for a couple of weeks till discovered, then probably would have had a short nasty life expetancy.
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  1238. One word Committe.
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  1239. Ian, did you know Huffington Post have a 'Gun Quiz' in which you feature. So does this gun.
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  1240. A Survivor. The SAS used Vickers K, as the RAF in Eygpt had retired them into store and as the SAS was a unit being built from scratch, though the name did exist as part of a deception plan, they had to use what they could get. In the early days the SAS did not have their own transport but relied on the Long Range Desert Group, the LRDG who use mostly Chevorlet trucks, these did mount Lewis guns. Most people see the magazine and say AR! A Lewis gun!. Yes, it make me wince to.
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  1241. That type is known as a Bullet trap Rifle Grenade. The British did experiment with them, one major problem was maximum range was inside blast radius of a 36 Mills Grenade. The 36 grenade is known as an offensive grenade, it slings lots of sharp fragments about, the case is designed to split into 36 parts. The German Stick Grenade is a Defensive type, it relys on blast rather fragments, so if you get to lose you maybe deaf for bit but not shreeded.
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  1242.  @Kit_Bear  Not if it is Pyrodex. You need a local authority Magazine aquire and pocess licence for Black Powder, and the relevant FAC or Shotgun certificate for the firearm.
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  1243. Came close though. The conflict bettween Germany and France really kicked off in the 1870 Franco-Prussian war. WW1 was really round two. There had been events, especially in North Africa of all places , that could have started a major French German conflict in 1907 and 1911. Also for most of the later 19th early 20th Century the Dreyfuss Affair had been a shadow over the French Military. Following the battle of Verdun in 1916, the French were at breacking point.
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  1244. What was primitive? They had an organised life, could feed themselves, house themselves and build what tools were needed. 30 years ago I didn't need a mobile phone , it has some uses, but don't go into despair if I forget it. Does that make me Primitive?
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  1245. Main problem is every time you fire a jet of hot gas id forced through a tiny hole at high pressure. Erosion of the gas port, especially that close to the full chamber pressure must have been a factor why the pistol was not adopted.
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  1246. Be nice to take a look at the Swiss reports on trials. We could sit here arguing for days. :-}
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  1247. The idea of bullpup is to get as long a barrel as possible in the shortest package to gain ballistic advantage.
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  1248. At that time, who really knew? Probably a let's try and see. Maybe it was thought the muzzle flash would be reduced. Shame the test results no longer exist, the thought process behind Why? can be as intresting as the result.
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  1249. Short answer yes. If you were lucky it would dislocate your shoulder, you could well then be charged with 'Self Inflicted Injury' and possibly shot at dawn. Training at the time made a very definite point that the rifle butt had to placed on a firm base and held with a strong grip ensuring that that there was a clear trajectory for the grenade to travel to its target, bouncing off the parapet or other obstacle was definitly contra indicated. Also the tactic of aiming slightly high was taught so that the grenade would air burst . The blank cartridge used much more powerful Ballisite rather than standard Cordite, and if not held firmly into the shoulder Cordite cartiridges bite enough as it is.
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  1250. Charger loading was the Gucci kit at the time. and from a practical action point of view, charger does have advantages. Also the magazine cut off, there was still the idea rounds would be single loaded and only on order from an officer would the cut out be opened. Practical advantages, less metal and easier to manufacture a charger than a box, They are quicker to load than a box, and much easier when lying down! Allows single rounds to be used., from a carrying point of view you can load more chargers, 5 round per clip into a lot less space than box mags, If you are stripping SA (Small Arms) ammunition from a casualty it's much easier to spread around a section, and you don't get the embarrasing situation of finding on reload that your antics have damaged the magazine lips. It also allows easy examination of the clip for contamination.
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  1251. That's because the Army, what ever it other drawbacks, don't sink :-) Navies get things wrong and a few hundred years later the Archeologists are pulling you up and display you in the Mary Rose Musuem at Portsmouth. Fanatstic place to go if you've an interest in any form of ships by the way.
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  1252. If reading history always ask 'What has the writer to gain from this?' Then! Fight the real battle with your own prejudices.
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  1253. Funny how the Neutral countries produce some of the best weapons. I suppose you have a large market? :-)
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  1254.  @michael9738918  There are still a lot about , still shooting, and yes they are fun. Though the rear sight takes a lot of getting used to if you learn on Modern rifles.
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  1255. The French are stiull sulking because the International community wouldn't make them the centre of the world in 1884. Chose Greenwich instead.
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  1256.  @isaacharkton6169  There are more about than you think, of all types , and a fair number of P14
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  1257. Would also depend very much on age, and the enviroment you were in. As you grow older you loose the high frequiencies. Also there is no Point sound, making it difficult to gauge where fire is coming from.
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  1258.  @allanliversidge9827  The Malta story.
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  1259. They were shipped on barges. The Woolwhich Arseanl had it's own fleet of tugs and launches, plus two barges called Gog and Magog, the two giants of the City of London. They did have problems though. When loading one of the guns onto a barge at the Arsenal, the most expensive guns ever built! They dropped the bloody thing in the river. Took nine days to get it out.
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  1260. Alderney was turned into one great -Concentration Camp. It was also the only part of the UK deliberatly bombarded by the Royal Navy. HMS Rodney. The bomb damage, is the German air raid on St Helier , Jersey 28th June 1940. Get obvious facts correct.
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  1261. The British used Costal Gunnery crews re roled , they were known as Gunfantry. They to had a similar short lived, but to me and mine essential task the liberatation of the Brtish Channel Islands. The unit Force 135 was only in existence for 7 weeks. Britsh Miltary definition of Aquired- Stolen ,Borrowed , Captured or Collected by devious means.
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  1262.  @carlcarlton764  Good film.
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  1263.  @malahammer  History seems to lean towards Revolution always being led by the those who really have nothing to loose. The Peaseants are to busy trying to earn a living. She knew that the social system operating at the time she was in no real danger from the British.
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  1264. Whilist I can understand the drool factor , you are paying a lot of money for a part copy of something that wasm't that good in the first place.
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  1265.  @randomnobodovsky3692  I run two Dodge 3/4 ton trucks both 1944, a WC51 weapons carrier and a WC54 Ambulance, when people say they are Jeeps my standard reply is Jeeps posed for pictures, the Dodges were to busy working. :-)
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  1266. Browning himself had set the example.
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  1267. The Whitworth Standard threads pre date 'both' guns.
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  1268. Mosquito born disease were considered a problem in the Woolwich Area of South London till 1970. As a result many tons of DDT were sprayed over the years
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  1269. During the Great War in Britain , the bacon was reffered to as Fat Bacon , white fat with a thin red streack oif meat. As the bacon looked like the single white arm stripe of rank worn by Lance Corprals -(PFC?) that's what it was called.
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  1270. Cost the Webley /Watson at 10/- 10shillings ,or half a Pound Sterling (20shillings ) The Prideaux at 4/6 less than a quarter. Average Weekly wage 17/- , 17 Shillings at the time It was the Army & Navy Stores, they were in addition to physical shop, a mail order for the Empire. Personal, I'd go Prideaux, that is a neat bit of kit.
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  1271. Excellent slo mo filming. You can see every detail of the bolt locking into battery and extracting.
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  1272.  @hddun  Collosus- Search for the name Tom Flowers. An ordinary working class guy, not one of the Elite. Then look up UK war debts to the US, and don't belive all you hear from IBM
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  1273. What would you say if it had been left In The White? :-)
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  1274. Try the Western Front Assocoation Youtube channel.
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  1275.  @ritawilliams8686  It's which ever trial catches the public imagination at that moment. The UK Justice system jumps very heavily on pre trial reporting by the media. Not Censorship, The oath of a Jury Member is 'To well and truly try the matter ,on the evidence presented'. So it is an attempt to limit outside biais.
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  1276. Proabaly the most famous British depection of the Bren gun. At the end , though it is cut on this clip, the actor BobMonkhouse confess he worked 'In the factory that made them'. Which he did. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QIO_G9gs0A
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  1277.  @jackdundon2261  What a Welshman? Shock Horror! The only reason Ian Fleming gotany sort of job at the Admiralty was he could organise a good party.
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  1278.  @johnfrancis2215  Robin Hood,has a partin my childhood. 1st September 1962, the first proggramme brodcast on the 405 line VHF transmitter, black and white, at Fremont Point by Channel Televeison Jersey. :-)
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  1279.  @stuartmcpherson1921  Wondefully sited , next door to a stinking canal. But hey! Easy acess over the top to the cemetery. A place to give you the shivvers.
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  1280.  @pjschmid2251  If it comforts you,so are most French and Englishmen. :-)
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  1281.  @clothar23  One of the reasons that all the British and Commonwealth casualties were buried where they fell, and the reason for the Commonwealth War Graves Commision.
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  1282. back to the good old Enginnering conudrum 'Perfection is the enemy of good enough.
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  1283. By the Mc Key D's There was also Vicker's test airfeild on the marshes where the Bridge Community and science park are,
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  1284.  @madisntit6547  Ford on the River Cray, I live at St Mary Cray. Sounds like something out of Miss Marple :-) POity the area chooses not to remeber this part of its past though. Considering it was the test area for Alcock and Browns Vickers Vimy.
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  1285. It has been said , and I'd find it difficult to argue, that a Warship is always the cutting edge of technology. |Think of the skill set needed for every item on board , its boggoling.
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  1286.  @RoseteMonik  Absolutley correct ! Why fry for a muppet?
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  1287. Sink the Spanish Galleon? Are you out of your mind, where the profit in that? Clobber the crew, put a Prize crew on sail it home, and we're in the Money! More British sailors at Trafalgar were crying over the loss of prize money when the captured ships sank in a storm following the battle than over the death of Nelson.
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  1288. Unfortunatley any Private Muppet can hire one.
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  1289. Doubt there would be much discount on that quality of work. More likley an upmarket polished idea of the concept.
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  1290. I can assure you that the cemetries and memeorials are revered by those who live there.
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  1291. Dee was actually a very acomplished diplomat and espinage agent. A lot of his letters and converstaions with angels are actually very sophisticated chipers passing political and ccommercial information essential to the monarchy .
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  1292.  @michaelgahler4729  thanks for the details. Now where can I get one?
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  1293.  @michaelgahler4729  Yeah they only lasted about 6 months or so, there was one on display at NAM Chelsea, but that has gone now, where Idon't know. One Range Rover that has German Links survived , I owned it for a while but couldn't afford a full restore, don't know where that is now. It came through work and a person with links to Hereford.
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  1294. Did you get told of the WW2 history of the places? Stratigic ground is the same in any war.
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  1295.  @mortimersnerd8044  The area around Ostende and down the canal to Iperes was heavily defended in WW2. The pill boxes on hill 60 show damage from WW2. The whole area has been sen as stratigic since prehistory. The reason Belgium came into existence as a Neauterl State was an atempt to neurtralise the 'Cockpit of Europe. The Forts were not a new idea. Ypres was fortified in the 12th 13 centuries, then by the Spanish. The current walls are by Vauban started 1678. The area also being known as Vauban's playground from the towns he fortified. The history of Flanders didn't start and finish with the Great War. At Ostende the Atlantik Wall musuem has Great and Second World War structures. This cotinues down the line of the Somme River, Great and Second World War intermixed.
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  1296.  @wendychavez5348  Now that sounds intresting. Going to look for it. I'm missing second hand bookshops. Browsealong , and just get intrigued by a title.
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  1297. 'The West' is inclinded to think of Democracy , Russia China and most of the Midlde East have never been Democracies. Just a diffrent set of thugs in charge. At least we can get rid of our thugs eventually.
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  1298. IO hope he gets charged with Reckless endagermanet of life and jit with replacment bill, It's in the contract if he even bothere dto read it . Obviously took no notice of the warning lables on the machine.
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  1299. See the film Walt Disneys' Flight of the White horses.
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  1300. And went into WW2. The No4 was only introduced in 1939. So for all the Near and Far East and Asia the standard was Mk3
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  1301.  @heffatheanimal2200  Oh so true
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  1302.  @jannepeltonen2036  Thank you. The work is underappreciated, and looked upon by passengers, and unfortunatley at times airports and airlines and a useless buracracy. Point of intrest thoug: Those involved don't usually leave a big flag marked threat about. So the abritryness is nessacary to make sure everyone gets the same treatment. the rest is Security ar epaid to be suspicious. Problem is with Security, nothing happens, your a waste of space, difficult to prove nothing happened, because it wasn't going to, or 'THEY' decided security on the ball , go somewhere else. When it goes wrong of course, you're always to blame.
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  1303.  @NicolaW72  I'd replyed , positivly, to Janne. The answer appears to have been removed.
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  1304. You signed the contract, you misused it , you pay for it!
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  1305. It's Berdan primer, invented by Hiram Berdan, an American, used a lot in Europe. The other type is Boxer primed named after Edward Boxer, British, used a lot in US. Go figure! Steel cases have the obvious problem of corrosion in the feild, hence the lacquer, and (someones going to jump on me for this) is not as Ductile, if I remeber right, as brass, it dosent expand and contract as well to allow sealing when firing and extraction afterwards
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  1306.  @christopherreed4723  Or maybe being polite? I could think of few names for it.
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  1307.  @keithallardice6139  I've only heard it in the Highlands?
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  1308. Though if you have communications problems, surley a lot easier to have a couple of mortars a few yards away and yele at them, or they can see the traget and troops moving, than that thing dragging along somewhere behind? Also ,who's lugging the ammo about?
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  1309. True mate. Though the two pounder is a fun little gun to shoot. As for pulling them about the Royal Navy , and the yo yo's from the Fleet Air Arm used to indulge in the sport of gun running, hulking a 13/18 pounder and limber up and down slopes and across chasms on ropes for fun, against the clock! It was always said that to be a team member you needed three things The strength and endurance of a Cart horse, The speed and agility of a Racehorse, and the brains of a &*^^^ Rocking Horse. Then Health and Saftey got in the way :-(
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  1310. When doing any sort of digging in the area of the Western Front -1 Put up wind markers, 2 If when digging, or shortly afterwards, you get any , irritation of the eyes , shortness of breath , tingiling of the skin or a funny smell, get the hell up wind and ring for help. No joke, yes the stuff is still there and still lethal.
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  1311.  @sirmeowthelibrarycat  That's the problem! I got started on the Great War by a certain AR. Don't know wether to thank him or curse him :-) I'm from the Channel Island's so grew up around the results of the WW2 Occupation and the people who taught and influenced me ,a lot experinced it first hand.
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  1312. Lloyd Gerorge had better spin doctors. Not to mention a bloody great Welsh chip on his shoulder, and my family is Welsh so I know what they thought of the English at the time. Haig on the other hand despite his high rank had come up through Trade, What an Oik! Still Lloyd Gerorge despite his best efforts couldn't oust Haig so made life as difficult as possible for him, then traduced him, relying on Haig's Hounour that a soldier never publicly questions his commanders.
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  1313. In theory, you pulled a release handle that allowed the gun to slip down rails at the back of the mount to present vertically in front of you. Though good luck trying it.
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  1314. When we had a navy, not just large bulk carriers with the top cut flat.
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  1315. What an excellent presentation by a person with knowledge and presence. Not a note in sight, very proffesional work. Other presenters on the channel shoukld take lessons.
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  1316. Pieere: They though about it, built the P14 then stuck with the SMLE. As I have both my choice of battle rifle is definitly the SMLE.
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  1317.  @omartorres5688  On those Grounds I would rate the Martini as the most robust action ever, bigger the calibre bigger the block. , link, clll trigger and bang.
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  1318. SVN: All I know is when you shoot the B*****d's it is not pleasant. It's a big heavy brute to start with, then try snap shooting with it. That is part of the reason the British changed down to .38/200 no good with one shot kill if you can't hit the target in the first place. I would point out the obvious, with a rifle you have two hands and can lean into it. British Doctrine at the time was classic target. Right leg leading turn half to face target, pistol held at arms length left hand tuicked behind back resting on belt,
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  1319. In other words, very bad design. We know it can happen, but we don't care. So why not have a small solar panel ?
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  1320.  @shawnr771  Wouldn't suprise me. I work on the edge of London and the company I work for use Google maps. Some swear by them, I swear at them, constantly. :-)
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  1321. I have a similar one of Czech radio equipment. There must be a series of such books. Now to try and find out more!.
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  1322. Bear in mind that they would have to operate in every climate under the sun, and if carried on animals, from mules through camels to Elephants, banging about and animal sweat and othe rby products, also at sea, mounted on rowbaots for landing parties. . Brass was probably considered the most durable.
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  1323.  @sonickiller360  Hum, one little mentioned problem with a bull pup, if your curled up tight and your webbing moves iit's a bastard to change magazines. I'd go front mag every time
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  1324. The sights are horrible I'm afarid. Great little rifle though you can play soldier inside.
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  1325. Cows after Island's . Although the animals were shipped in vessels known as Alderney Packets, so you will in older litrature hear both breeds called Alderney Cattle.
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  1326. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Tibenham
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  1327. There were vesrsions of these sights around the early 1900's. Cost varied from cheap ones at about 1/6- One shilling and sixpence- or a days pay for a soldier in 1914. The expensive ones like these were about a weeks pay for a soldier.
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  1328. Somwhere in there, is a Britsh Pathe news film of te 1950's. The original idea of proofing ws from the 19th century when a lot of cheap guns were being built and exported to empire and colonies. Killing customers with poor quality was dampening the market, hence Proofing was introduced.
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  1329. Yeah! My Boss has imported two to the UK. One started life as 1939 Bedford QL loory. All the drivers were self employed then a few years back the Arriva company took over lock stock and barrel. Total cahos.
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  1330. The Metfords were already in second line service.
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  1331. Thhe type you are reffering to is the Flower Class, hence the 'Rose ' in the name of the ship in the film. They are sometimes refffered to the Gladioli clas safter the name ship of the class.
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  1332.  @robinwells8879  Pleasure , try The Shetland Bus by Davaid J Howarth and the Battle of the Narrow Seas by Peter Scott. One of the joys of THG, you get to talk with other intresting people.
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  1333. With current US situation, sponshorship is unlikley to be repeated, as there won't be any available.
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  1334. This year will be the Centenary of the Poppy used as a symbol of Rememberance.In France and Belgium the Blue Forget Me Not is the symbol. Bluebeing the French National Colour. You will often find clumps of both planted together . There are also a lot of Maple trees in the area of Ipere (The modern Spelling)
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  1335. Ian: Also Woolwich Arseanl itself is now open to the public and home of the Royal Artillery Firepower Musuem. The rest is under Belmarsh Prision Britian's Top Security Prision.
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  1336.  @jameshealy4594  OOOKay! Now be respectful (And start the day in fits of laughter)
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  1337.  @SnakebitSTI  Or just common sense?:-)
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  1338. THE EU invited a lot of countries in Eastern Europe to join, and recognised various things such as De activation = a stick in the barrel, then opened up the borders, and wonder why there are so many illegal firearms entering the EU. What is really sad is that tis has now led to Forgotten Weapons, we we all enjoy as an intresting and educational forum for us, and a chance to talk with people who share that intrest and knowledge being dragged in. At least the quality of discussion here is knowledable and good mannered.
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  1339. Being cynical and perverse, I'd say with all the Emissions Regulations coming through, The EU is having a good try at banning trucks.
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  1340. Jorg: Any gun like any car has the potential to be dangerous. It is the person holding it that decides. I am not against licencing per se, just about being law abiding and therefore a target for political stupiity. Of Course I'm going to comply, it is what I recognise as Act or Custom Looked Upon as Binding by the Majority, that's what law abiding means. But I object to me being a target when the problem is those who not abide by the law. There is a syaing 'Two sets of people laugh t the law, those who breack it and those who make it'.
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  1341. You'll find that in any country during and post Ww2. At Liberation a lot of people claimed that they were Resistance Heroes. whilst other spread tales of criminality to justfy why they never joined. The current US poloitical situation comes to mind, lots of talking heads and posturing by both sides. 99.9 % of people in Occupied countries just wanted to survive and feed themselves and families. Morality dosen't fill the belly.
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  1342. Yes, they were used for sniping , often private guns. British did the same including big Nitro Expres and Rigby rifles to defeat snipe sheilds.
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  1343.  @davidknight2220  Not till the end. Someone muct have stopped laughing long enough to put them right.
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  1344. Note: Themost VC and Bar holders have been Royal Army Medical Corp.
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  1345. For wartime production, when time is short and machine tools and tool steel are in short supply, not to mention the skill of the machinist. If it works you go with it. A Britsh example is the Bedford 28 hp engine. They are known on originals to be weack in bettween no 5 and 6 cylinder on the crankshaft. The machine used to grind them was worn out, but was the only one available and reputedly it was never turned off. But when you consider the lifetime of the vehicle was estimated at 6 months, so what? Seventy five years on theres time to get beter ones built and restored.
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  1346. then why do most refer to themsleves as some other ethnicity before describing themselves as American?
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  1347. You should have added that She is the only Royal Naval Ship to shell the United Kingdom as an act of war. hen She shelled Alderney in 1944.
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  1348. Why does her reaction remind me of Chernobyl?
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  1349.  @ukp42  As a certain Gunsmith says' You might like sausages , but don't want to see how there made'. There is a current very heated argument in Uk about Vegan foods being described as Burgers or Sausages. My local butcher, also a farmer, does Wild Boar and Venison versions, he can't keep up with demand.
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  1350.  @ukp42  Ahh! Listen to the Farming Proggrames, oh ah. :-) Because it is the meat producers, you know those who ruin the planet with carbon? It's not mainstream news.
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  1351. When blowing the wall in. just isn't enough!
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  1352.  @neues3691  So ? The whole of Christianity is based on a Human Sacrifice. Morally you shouldbe an Athiest.
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  1353. Christianity is based on a Human Sacrifice.
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  1354.  @AshleyPomeroy  Hadn't thought of that/.
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  1355. Actually, the Island's own England The oldest title the British Monarch holds is Duc De Normandie, as the Island's were and are the oldest pice of land the Monarchy holds. We were the ones that won the Battle of hastings.
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  1356.  @briannicholas2757  I said the wrong thing. You pointed out why I was wrong, we have had a short , distant disscusion and guess what? We feel the same way. Both of us could of got the hump and walked away. Ireland is still a battleground, everyone want's a say and will nail others to thier mast. Fanatics are dangerous, regardless of whose side thier on. Keep safe and well.
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  1357. Yes can get awkward sorting them out.
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  1358. First Officer did his job as well. If in doubt ask, and clarify, not only do both sides sing from the sheet, the captain may have got distracted , disorintated and needed a reminder. No disrespct, no malice.
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  1359. I agree what's the point of a high rate of fire if all you do is puncture clouds and dirt? I always thought the idea was hit a target not worry it a bit.
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  1360.  @bubba200874426  When the ammunition is you want it you carry it. You learn every shot counts. Hitting air isn't any use. The best way to suppres those shooting at you is to ensure that are unable to shoot back in any circumstances so aim. That's what was kicked into me, maybe your experiemce was diffrent diffrent, if so, then that's how it is.
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  1361. There were Nazi sympathisers in most if not all Allied territories.
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  1362.  @Doobie3010  Some yes.
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  1363.  @Doobie3010  Germany following the Great War was in ruins. The cunumdrum was, The Nazis took a disorgansied , demoralised country, and built up a working cohesive society, when many of the Great Powers were in Depprsion. Devil is in the deatil, but given the greater World attitudes at the time, America for instance was the leading proponet of Eugenics, and resented loosing the title to Germany, Britian still distrusting France and Russia, if Hitler had stopped in 1938/9 at the Sudetenland, things would be a lot diffrent. WE , at least in this period are working from 100% hindsight, and social and moral attitudes that developed because of it.
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  1364. For a prototype design, it WORKS!!! now a bit of tweacking. What can be done next?
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  1365. Jesresy law is simple if the barrel is rifled? even if it is air gun you need a States Police certificate, AKA Section 1, If the barrel is smooth you need a Parish Hall Permit D'Portage. Then if you have the cash you can have a collection that Ian would go faint over. I know one person has a gun for every day of the year, an that dosen't include his artillery pices, or the Quad.50, or the Abbot . Unfortunatleuy even our home grown politicians are statring to get the English Diseas, about time we reminded Weastmister we own them, not the other way around. Aide Moi, Mon Roi!
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  1366.  @logoseven3365  My local cats would get very worried then! :-)
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  1367. Charming? Yes, possibly , compared to muck heap.
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  1368. The Times of London in the 1890's complained that if traffic in London wasn't dealt with , by the 1950's it would be 12 foot deep in horse dung. Puts air quality in its palce. Britan by drone, must be ten years old now. You can get most of it free.
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  1369. Some say 'Size dosen't matter'. What do they know?
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  1370. Any buissness has the right to refuse thier service to someone.
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  1371. A lot of the old Martini actions went on to be rebarrelled in .22. it was that type I learnt on. Unfortunatley, never had the chance to shoot the 'Full Strength' original cartridges. You still find old WD marked Martini actions, dating back to the Victorian age barelled in all calibres and shotgun. They are built like a brick outhouse.
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  1372. Actually there is no reason a good condition Martini wouldn't make a reasonable medium range sniper rifle. The Truks at Gallipoli were respected as deadly snipers.
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  1373. Well no one can say that American Polticians are not traditionalists . Only now they have Twitter!
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  1374.  @Matt_The_Hugenot  Well of Course! After all the Army & Navy Stores would have had 'Clients'. The rest just had customers.
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  1375.  @gwtpictgwtpict4214  Forgotten Swetties.Mojo's Fruit slices . Sugar mice. You know makes me wonder how wesurvived childhood. :-)
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  1376. Old Chinnoks never die, the usable bits are in other machines. Cost and avaiablity of parts, never waste any.
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  1377.  @BobSmith-dk8nw  A few years back for one of HM's anniversary there was a pardae of WW2 vehicles at Buckinham Palace. A friend of mine had a Canadian Dodge APT (Air Portable Trcuk) Looks like mine suprficially but many detail diffrences. He was invited to display the vehicles. HM came out and went stright to the APT, and spent about ten minutes talkin to him. Afterwards Princess Anne came up to him and told him as her Mother had walked out a flunkey had pointed out the Austin K2 amnulance. Her reply was 'Horrible things, I want to see the APT'. She knew exactaly what it was. His ego took about two years to deflate.
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  1378.  @ericgrace9995  BUT! and this is the funny thing, in the 1930's US military was amongst the least motorised forces. It was this realisation that led to the US Quartermaster service issuing out a number of requirments 1/4 Ton, 1/2 ton, no 3/4 ton you notice, 2 1/2 ton and specialist vehicles. Anothe requirment wa sto use as far a spossible commercial parts already in production. The Jeep the 1/2 Ton Dodge and the Duce and a half were the rsult. As far a sMy 3/4 tonners go, Dodge after testing decided they could do better. So as a private venture the develoed the WC range, using up to 80% of the earlier VC range. When they had done this they approached the USQM toreopen the specs. The 3/4 ton wa ssuch an improvement they did. The result is my two treasures. Not only that but a comprhensive traing and logistic train were put in place to support the vehicles. It worked the WC range are tough reliable, suprisngly user friendly, or probably better described as forgiving, and a joy to drive and show :-)
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  1379. Sorry about typing, early morning here , getting a bit worn.
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  1380.  @ericgrace9995  Yeah well the M6 Tank Destroyer. A 37mm hanging on the back of a 3/4 ton Dodge truck. I won't hear a word against the vehicle, but they do have limitations. The 37 mm gun was about much use against Panzer 3 and above as throwing a brick at it. The half track mounted 75mm (M3?) as seen in Kelly Heroes, was a very high mount and the vehcile was very thin armour, though better than the M6. Given all the limitaions the US were on a very steep learning curve, and they learnt quickly.
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  1381. why should selective fire on the STEN be surprise ? Think what it was for, a Resistance Force, it must be simple and concelable. Ammunition is in short supply. You use single shot as normal. Full Auto is the Oh shite ! mode.
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  1382. There was also a .22 revolver, I used to borrow and shoot one of those at any oppertunity.
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  1383. Been there done that. First result call from fire arms officer 'Your FAC is under review'. Complete bullshit accusation laughed out,so no problem. I've had close links with Police all my life, even I am am starting to get dissilusioned.
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  1384.  @ChrisHodgsonCorben-Dallas  Apparently, it was! Though I do get a bit precious when I hear the K Gun described as a Lewis gun. Sterling did make the point that a bucketing Jeep was similar to an aircraft , and for some of the old biplanes, a similar speed, short time on target. His tactics would now fit the description Shockand Awe. Get in, a lot of lead on targets in the least possible time and get out to fight another day.
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  1385.  @HM2SGT  I don't yet know if its been forgotten. :-)
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  1386. London gets a tree from Norway as a thank you for support in WW2. I wonder if Halifax/Boston was the original catalyst for it?
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  1387.  @thomasjmeade  And you always live on the wrong side of the street. When you need rain its sunny , when you need dry , its wet.
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  1388.  @Sableagle  Actualy I do have an FAC. And having suffuerd what the U( calls a home invasion a few years back, in that case I can assure you the two perpetrataors got anything and everything up to folding camp bed rammed at them (they later tried it at another part of London, and one ended up dead) I follow the old adge, Better tried by 12 than carried by 6.
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  1389. The area around the French Belgium border, The Cockpit of Europe is also known as Vaubain's Plyground, most of the large towns are in side Star forts, try Google Earth for Ipres and Middleburgh.
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  1390.  @willwallacetree  Intrestingly, when the wreck of China tea clipper was salvaged recently, the Tea, the expensive cargo was packed in with porcelain. This apparently was a makeweight for a bit of extra income. The prices the porcelain made at auction now were eye watering.
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  1391. He's related to one of the original publishers I belive. The BBC programme is well worth watching.
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  1392. Hundreds of thousands of C96, then they down graded to the Luger.
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  1393. There was also a tube to drop a Photo Bomb, magnesium flare so the bomb camera would work.
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  1394. No it wa sthe Naval 6lb QF guns that were used. Same idea though as the Maxim, defence against small fast Torpedo carring vessels. The Royal Navy ,through Churchill as First Sea Lord had a large influence on Land Ships.
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  1395. Have you Aussie blood by any chance? 😄
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  1396. OK. OK The Spinner Surrenders!
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  1397. Ever seen a second hand E Reader shop?
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  1398.  @tjm3900  Thats why both are on the road signs now:-)
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  1399.  @dougearnest7590  No as a name we would spell and pronounce it, it Zee Zee. as double letters it would be Zed Zed. Out of intrest , cause we are winding each other up:-) How would Zoo be pronounced in US.? Mind you sit drinking tea in England when a very attractive American Girl walks in complaining she can't find her Fanny bag. She wondered why I and my friend sprayed tea everywhere and were chocking. Well, to put it delicaltly :-) By fanny you may mean back, opposite in England.
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  1400. Lassi Kinnunen  Right up until the point it shoots sideways. Novel idea you must admit!
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  1401. My UK Firearms oficer would not be impressed either.
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  1402. More fool you then! It is great fun rifle to shoot, and gets many envious looks.
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  1403. Very genorous design. One bang everyone can get some!
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  1404. Cheese rolling is still a tradition is some places in England. 😄
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  1405. I run a pair of US 1944 Dodges and a number of premetric Land Rovers. You reckon you have problems with tool sizes? :-) The only useful one is that a US quart of oil is close enough to a litre not to worry.
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  1406. As the adapter has a firing pin, pressure chamber and barrel. Each one would count as a seperate fire arm for licencing and Proof Marking in UK. The Reason was nothing to do with the War Office, it was the Treasury screaming about the cost of .303
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  1407.  @kathleenrobertpogue6818  try gettiing hubby to cut the pipe so oil sprays out under pressure , then flick a flame.
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  1408.  @gatsbylight4766  She is right, except! the oil spraying out under pressure would ignite if there was a scource of ignition , like a few thousand volts of electricity. What should happen is that in case of a blown pipe, the machine will lower a few feet , then check valves will lock it off. Until the ground man operates the emergency descent controls . I train people to use them, so I do know what I am talking about.
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  1409.  @kathleenrobertpogue6818  Im qualified to train on MEWPs, you think you know. I know I know..
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  1410. I wonder if this may have been a contrct or Licence built gun? The Proof Marks may give some indication.
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  1411.  @abrahamm1325  Thanks for clarity. I do know it was used by British military, that contract was what paid for it! They also harvested the stuff left in squaddie pockets. which apprently was couple of hundred rounds a week:-)
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  1412. Look at the Osterberg Collection, kept at the North West Kent College Dartford England.
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  1413. Very true the 75 was the eye opener, then you had to introduce the Milatruse! The Franco Prussian war really was the Oveture to the Great War.
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  1414. Unfortuantley if your a white male in Europe, your wrong! Your not allowed an opinion at all. Though I make that statement and mean it, I'm from somewhere that was Occupied by the 3rd Reich, so grew up influenced by those who lived through it. I have to say, I'm not happy around Germans. Hopefully that is something that will finish with my generation , though not the lessons of history. Fanatics are dangerous, no matter whose side they are on. Complex bloody argument isn't it?
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  1415.  @Simon_Nonymous  Any time you want to cover an area on a Fixed Arc, say to stop the gun being traversed across your lines , or on the flanks of an attack. The fixed mount, such as the tripod has adjustable stops that can be set to limit the arc. If you were using the bipod, you knock a couple of sticks into the ground either side of the muzzle. Known a Fixed Line Fire. The most common is Enfilade fire. Firing across the line of an approach On a Bren, which is really intended to move with troops, not a fixed position such a heavy gun like the Vickers or Maxim would be, iron sights would be perfectly effective, you can normally see where you want the rounds to go.
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  1416. Because they are not wild. They are descended from escaped domestic animals and are classed as Feral. That means legally they are a pest. But, if you need a cull, at least do it cleanly , one animal , one bullet.
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  1417.  @URFUTUREUK  Trouser material muffles his voice. 🤮
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  1418. Grungar: Who cares? Though you could really upstage Dirty Harry, Do you feel lucky? Light Armoured vehicle?
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  1419.  @john-paulsilke893 I I agree, but why Invest in gun? I have two 1944 Dodges, pople say that's a good 'Investment'. Why? Do they think they stay in a garage and get looked at, what is the fun of a toy you don't play with?
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  1420.  @john-paulsilke893  I have two 1944 Ex US army 3/4 ton Dodge trucks. They are growing steadily in value, howver the personal story each one has to me., Beyond money.
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  1421. And heart sizure when he gets the bill. You rent it , read the small print. You bracke it , you buy it. About $90 to 100,000
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  1422. Many moons ago. A bag at at a UK airport started buzzing. As this bag was due on an El al filight, the flag went up, and up and ..well you get it. In those far off days there was no secure ariea so the bag was rushed by a brave driver (Promissed treble time 2 hours overtime) to an open space, where it was left. The RAOC rocked up, and sent in thier latest toy Wheelbarrow. They then decided to disrupt (Blow to hell and gone with a water shot) the bag. The ATO then put on the Turtle suit and lumbered out. The brave spectators (Hiding behind anything we could find) watched as our hero pocked through various remains of frilly femmine attire . He then picked something up, and started back. As he approched with both hands clasped in front of him, a buzzing could be heard. He approched and opened his hands, an object dropped. When the rest of us had changed underpants and crawled out of the holes dug with bare hands at lightning speed, a vibrator lay there , still buzzing. Apparently a well known female Isralei actress was complaing very vocally threatening the El Al staff at the end of the trip with the Wrath of God because her luggage was missing. When questioned, she became very quiet I'm told.
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  1423.  @Reman1975  🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Similar happned to a friend who was an air hostess. She came back off leave and was getting strange looks, and no one would look her in the eye. Eventually getting thourghly hissed off , she asked outright Whats going on? Turned out anotrher stewardress, who had a very similar name, had been the subject of an aircrew prank. As Petor will tell you, aircrew are renowned for it. As crew aren't normally customs rummaged, they decided to hide a vibrator in her luggage, and tip customs off. So at the appointed time the customs guy, hiding grin stuck his hand into bag, and pulled out Two vibrators.
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  1424. ABBA?
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  1425. No, the losses in aircrew showed they were not cowards. Navigation at the time was sketchy at bes, met forcasts, and that is tale in itself, were not the best , winds unpredictable.
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  1426.  @williestyle35  True. F&S also trained members of the Special Boat Service, thier motto By Strength and Guile. Avoid a fight if you can, but if you have to then don't hold back.
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  1427. The Ian vibro massage tecnique! Paten Pending, coming to a range near you.
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  1428. Because it stops any smoke giving you away! Remeber Smokless Powder was a new fangaled thing, and last war syndrome was smoke gives positions away. Unfortunatley , as was quickly found out the hard way, Aeroplanes overhead, especially with cameras, a row of neat round circles give the game away. One of the things the French did to counter this was to develop Camouflage, and a whole new concept of Concelment from Air.
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  1429. It was , and still is the Ordnance Survey. Originally under the Board of Ordnance, the master trig point is marked by a cannon on the edge of Heathrow Airport.
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  1430. Hunter: Can you garuntee that a modern firearm will last from one hundred and sixteen years and still be firing, accuratley, today? I Can! I have a SMLE no1 (AT) The troop trial SMLE converted in 1907 to .22 and a P14, though that's only about one hundred and one years old. also have two 1944 dodges a WC51 and a WC54, there still going well also! Should mention a 1941 Mossberg Mb 42a as well. Though as that is marked Property of the United States on the barrel, maybe should keep stum? :-)
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  1431. Go to London and see the Wallace Collection , it's also free to eneter! They have some of the most beutiful Antique firearms in the world! The rest of the collection is fascinating as well.
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  1432. Yep! A lot of blood pressure control drugs, Avoid Grapefruit! 😁 Amlodipine particullaly. In an effort to replace Amlodipine a mlot of research took place. There was an unexpeted side effect of the research. Now known as Viagra!
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  1433.  @hailexiao2770  As you say grips are lousy. The whole thing about handaling any firearm is regardless of the science, it is how the shooter feels when they shoot, and the old Webley feels awful.
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  1434. London! Expensive to vist, and you don't want to live there..
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  1435. Mike C , yes most of WW2 they used the No3. Lithgow was set up to build them. The No 4 only became standard in 1939, so alll production went to home use to make for Dunkirk losses. You will see a few No3 rifle in Normandy pictures, always in Middle and Far East.
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  1436. Ooh , well , a few thousand volts of electricty down a metal casin, thats full of hydraulic oil might just have something to do with it.
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  1437.  @eberbacher007  Yes, and it can get bloody complicated as they limit max velocity and bullet weight. As stated most firearms are licensed by the Police, but ranges are MOD.
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  1438. They are, the area around the Somme is very pleaseant rural countryside. Hard to get your head around when you see it now on a fine spring evening.
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  1439. No, if you strike the false cour and fight under your own. Before you start throwing stones the Imperial German Naval Commerce raiders used the same tactics.
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  1440.  @BuRntCircuItz  If the Germany hadn't started the war and sunk merchant ships, the Royal Navy wouldn't have gone after them. Chivalvours Warfare! What universe are you in?
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  1441.  @megacapulet6470  Be karma if she got a splinter, a real pain the behind.
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  1442. I have just finished driving around Crayford. Ask 99% of the people there, they have no idea what a military manufactureing hub the place was. Also where the Vivkers Vimy of Alcock and Brown wasbuiltand tested. For those intrested , Dartford and Crayford are on the south bank of the River Thames, just down river from London.
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  1443. The Swiss did very well out of WW2, they supplied watches and optics to both sides, and famously one of only two existing steroscopic photo viewers to the British for photo recon analysis. This particualr dveice was shipped through Germany , much to thier disgust, however it was allowed as upsetting the Swiss was considered to high a price.
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  1444. The Flowers also did ocean escort, ther ewa salso the Royal Naval Patrol Servcie , they used fishing vessels and some small coasters.
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  1445. I'm old enough to remember Battle of Britiain being filmed. Most of the 'German' aircraft were actaully ex spanish built aircraft. The aircraft staged through Jersey channel island's. bunked off school to go and see them.
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  1446.  @Hairyson-g5j  Not affected by EMP. I have two 1944 Dodge, 3/4 ton a WC51 Weapons Carrier and WC54 Ambulance. Like the old MK, they would work after a nuclear exchange, as all is mechanical.
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  1447. Yes, no need to get below for the breech and limited recoil means the gun would be lower overall and more concelable. Though being finiky I'd call it more of a Gun/Howitzer hybrid. Also are wheels are quick release and /or the axle travel locks for firing. That's what happens on a lot of guns.
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  1448.  @johnkelinske1449  Britsh had virtually done that with the Lanchester. Still in Navl Service till about 1980 :-)
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  1449. Especially if it would support the local economy by being sub contracted to West German firms.
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  1450. Oh Goody ! So Ian is going to confuse the hell out of me some more. I have an SMLE .22 rimfire rifle . The only marking is a serial 792, it also has the Metford Mk2* style bolt and saftey. There is a magazine, which is .303 and operable, with magazine cut off but the rifle is now only single shot. Possibly a trials rifle converted in 1907? Most people who have seen it and know what they are talking about agree it was probably a 1903 original manufactuer. Put 100 od drounds through it yeasterday, WE can Shoot again in UK:-) I also have a P14 Winchester build , that has the early style Metford saftey.
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  1451. You'd only go to the Alley twice! The second time would be to apologise and pay for the damage.
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  1452. Letters from J M Browning imply that the his new design , what became the Browning GP (Grande Puissance) - Great Power- was intended to fix all the mistakes in his design of the Colt 1911. The SMLE and No4 has a detachable magazine, but only for cleaning. The loading was charger loads of five rounds. As for self loading rifles, the .303 Mk7 round has a rim. Rimmed rounds , not ideal for self loading. BREN had a tripod mount available, which also provided an elevated AA mount, as shown, so could be used in a sustain fire role.
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  1453. Respect? No the hypocrisy of the aggressor, just as now.
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  1454. Then why did the Soviet Unioun consider them Top Secret Documents? If you don't know where you are and the route to get to the Enemy, how do you have a war?
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  1455. Yes Bach, but a Welshman is an Irishman who couldn't swim.
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  1456. An obscure link to Gin and Firearms. London's oldest gin distiller, Nicolson at Bromley By Bow. During the Great War thier disttillery was taken over to research industrial production of Acetone for Cordite manufactuer. They succeded. Ian, the Scots make a Seaweed Gin.
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  1457.  @Rosiebeatle  Good advertising, though if you remember some TV adverts hinted at the Classic English Gentelman Grandfather type, rather like Worthings, and even Hovis. Nostagia sells.
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  1458.  @Cloudman572  And that's only in the town :=) Start going out a few miles.
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  1459. Though there wa s a lot going on in the background.
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  1460. Proper training , deal with problem, then you can Panic!
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  1461. Hey Spoons, the trouble is, now you start to realise how little you know! I've been trying to learn about firearms and mechanics for at least 55 years, still trying hard!
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  1462. You did better than the Australian's then. They tried truck mounted machine guns. The Emu War is worth the laugh.
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  1463.  @hihu7200  Keep both eyes on the past, you will make the same mistakes,. Keep both eyes on the future, and you will still make the same mistakes. You are absolutley right.
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  1464.  @hihu7200  Thanks for that. A few years back Belgium spent E15,000,000 on a new facility to neautralis the chemical weapons they have already found. Any digging over there , first thing you do is put up wind markers, any funny smell, smarting of eyes or tingiling of skin when you are digging, get the hell up wind and phone for help.
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  1465.  @chrisstephens6673  Well if you will go North of the Home Counties, or West of Reding, (We just don't mention the East) :-) Though years ago I was sitting in Birmingham Airport with a friend. There were 2 men on the next table, my friend muttered to me 'Is he speacking English?' I had to listen till he said 'one' to be able to answer that.
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  1466.  @barvdw  Yes, but older.The Channel lIsland's were originally part of the Duchy of Normandy. In 1066 William took the English crown, in addition to his existing titles. Remeber Normandy was originally seperate from France. The English crown had lands in France. Then in 1204 John Lacland lost the lot.The Channel Islands had the choice of staying with the Duc Of Normandy, by default the English crown, or reverting to French rule . Well *&^^ that! As a reward the Islands becamea self governing Bailiwick,and were allowed a Mace and the useof the Royal Seal. Fast few a few hundred years to 1920's Jersey decided to get a Tug Boat , call it the Duke ofNormandie and put the Royal Seal on the bows.The College of Heralds in London wern't having that and told the States take it off. They got the same sort of reply interfering English establishments still get nowadays. Any way it went as far as the King to make a decison .The College of Heraldry stated that thier records since thier inception in the 14 Century showed no grant of arms. Jersey's reply , was, what has modern history got to do with it? We were granted the seal in the 13 century. Guess who won? :-) The Monarch is Head of State his or her represenative is the Lieutenat Governor, we have never had a Govenor! They sit below the Bailifff,who is the head of the Island in the States Chamber.
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  1467.  @barvdw  As you say, Theory:-) Iwouldnt like to be the one that tells a Normand they are subservient to Paris, even nowadays :-) Though the 100years war, like most conflicts really ,had been brewing for a long time. Eleanor of Aquataine wouldbe a good subject for THG.She'd fit straight into Game of Thrones ,she sat on enough.
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  1468.  @jic1 Alderney is administered by Gurneresy, . Jersey and Guernersey are Bailwicks, able to raise thier own laws and taxes. Alligence is owed to the Monarch through the oldest title, Duchess of normandy. So as the oldest part of the Crown we own the rest of it. As a Crapaud, I do like to remind people of that, Home to Elizabeth Beresford, Authour, that's why there is a Womble called Alderney.
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  1469. There were P14 sniper rifles, used up until the 1950's . In 1917 a number of P14's, only Winchester production, were issued as non optical sniper rifles, the apeture sights being ideal for snap shooting. These were marked with the T on the stock. I'm lucky enough to have one. The P14 was not manufactured in Brititian, and the Amercian production lines were sold to the US at end of contact in 1917 to produce the P1917 in 30/06. So the P14 was obsolete when the No4 was introduced. Hence the Sniper No4, which served in various variations till they wore out and were replaced by the current AI range. Briutsh doctrine , which develped in WW1 from the use of the Lovatt Scout's, Highland Ghillies from Lovat's Estate, that such men had more value for thier ability to gather intilligence close to or behind enemy lines, than actually shooting people. The No 3 is just as accurate as the P14, just the sights are a curse to pick up properly and quickly. Hence the rear apature on the No4.
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  1470. Johny: See the C&Rsenal episode on the P14, Othias gives the full history. Actually, just after watching it I heard of a Winchester P14 for sale for a very good price, well, it had to be fate didn't it?
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  1471. SnoopReddogg  Just about anything that went bang, and if that failed a broom stick with a kitchen knife were issued to the Home Gaurd. The P17, with Red Band around stock was quite common issue. The BBC Dad's Army show got that one right. I am preparing a Great War display for a local viliage and was looking up Sniper documents last night. I came across a set of codes for weather reports. One that tickled me was NBG- No Bloody Good for anything. :-)
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  1472. Don't forget the Channel Islands! The Germans used them in WW2 Google Jersey St Quen's Bay and look at the coast.
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  1473. Or a Nerf gun for real Adults. Ah the dear old Watneys Seven, liquid knicker remover, except you were to pi*8ed to know what to do in the end.
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  1474. Yeah thats true! Or leave it out in the sun, or shake it up on the back of your pedal bike, then get hosed down when did manage to open it. Try to explain to Mum whay you stank like a brewery. Honest Mum, the big boys did it! Joys of youth.
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  1475. Don't know about Nostalgia. More like guilt and embarrasment. Then we got sophisticated and went over to Black Tower.
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  1476. Mc Crae's brother was chief surgeon when the hospital was the 16th Ontario Military Hospital ,Hence the Canada wing. A lot of Canadians were billited on what is now the Go Ahead garage, formely the brewery at Green St Green.
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  1477.  @someguy3766  My answer to that one is P14, a target rifle that went to war, SMLE a battle rifle I can take to a range. Got both. The P14 is a Winchester, considerd to be the best of the bunch. 😁
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  1478. The French, yes. There had been the Franco -Prusian war, particullaly the loss of Alscase Lorraine,and previous incident in 1907 and 1911 . The late part of the 19th century was a time of paranoia for France, the Dreyfus Affair almost led to a military coup d'etat
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  1479. Yep, they were wonderful places to serve. Some in the Channel Islands are built on outcrops in the sea.
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  1480. modern lead bullets are lead ., antimony and tin. There harder and so more brittle than pure lead.
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  1481.  @weevilinabox  Both smoth bored and rifled weapons were used in the American civil war. Until the development of the Minie ball, bullet shaped all used round ball.
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  1482.  @goodun2974  Ahh, how did we survive this long? :-)
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  1483. It was a clone of Nobel's Ballisite. Ballisite was still used for Grenade blanks, but to hot for ball ammunition. So close Nobel sued for patent infrigment. The British Goverment (In a British Court by the way) argued that Nobel's patent was very loosley worded so they hadn't infringed it. Guess which way the descion went?
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  1484.  @michaelmanning5379  I come from Jersey in the Channel Island's so the lineage is more Norman French than 'English' yet in the Great War the Island's detachment wa sattached to the 7th Royal Irish Rifles. This has led to a lot conections.
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  1485.  @hughgordon6435  No worrry mate. Good you can even work a keyboard, hope you improve.
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  1486.  @hughgordon6435  Just keep getting bettter. Eevery day a bonus. Best wishes.
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  1487. Been thought of ! Try Tom Sharpe's book Roittus Assembly.Very very funny
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  1488.  @MrPanzerDragoon  I've been to Normandy. Its a busy friendly place. I grew up around Nazi fortifications so they wer ejust , places we played. The one that hit me most was the Western Front. On the night before the 100th Annivesary of the First Day of The Somme, I stood in the 'Sunken Lane, looking towards the Hawthorne Crater. A quiet summers evening , sun setting , even a butterfly. Cow with a calf suckling, smell of the flowers. Thinking Christ! Thousnads of men died in miuntes over the 300 yards of so I'm looking at! I'd say it somethimng tha makes us human. We respect those who gave everything so that we can enjoy the peace.
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  1489.  @vaclav_fejt  :-) lol
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  1490.  @lordsummerisle87  Thanks for correction
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  1491. A computer can only do what it was told by someone else a long way away , and a long time ago , thought might happen, told it to. The human can react at the time to the situation that no one thought of.
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  1492. Bang! thats 3d You know , do you think the Country is made of money? There is a lovley picture of a sign at a Great War Artiller y dump giving the cost of artillery rounds, undernaeth is written Don't waste them, Save yourself from future taxes!
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  1493. First why change a design that works? Second: They were repurposed guns, least work and cost possible. Third, does help prevent damage to the magazine when swinging it about in confined spaces. Bear in mind that this beauty can lay claim to First in Class, so there's more right then wrong.
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  1494. A good bet there will be thermionic valve CW sets on board. They are still the best EMP proffed comms system.
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  1495. Malta G.C.(Geroge Cross) Check out the story of SS Ohio 'Famous Fabulous Never to be Forgotten'. Faith Hope and Charity and the late great Raymond Baxter Malta Spitfire. Eh mistake on Authour of Malta Spitfire it should be George F Beurling.
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  1496. I went to a builders yard and asked for 55 pounds of sand or a 25 kilos if they prefferd. The bloke looked at me and sniffed, then said 'We do it by the shovelfull. '
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  1497.  @4exgold  Louisa Gould. None of the film was made in the Island. Her Brother Harold Le Druillenec was also arrested and sent to Belsen. He survived and returned to the Island were he took up his old job as a teacher. As the Island's were under military control, a Festung, the arrests were not made by the Gestapo, which were a civillian organisation, but the Gehime Feilde Poliezi Secret Feild Police, the military equivalent. There are to stories as to how the remark 'Another Mother's Son ' came about. . Her son Edward had been killed serving as an RNVR officer. One tale is then when her Brother Harold took her to task for hiding Fyidor, the Russian she replied 'He's another Mother's son'. . The other story is that when she was being interogated and the NAZI interegator asked why she had risked her life for a pice of sub human waste, she then replied 'He is another Mother's son'. Either way a remarkable woman. Her betryal was probaly due to a pair of sisters that lived near by. Both the sisters were what were described as 'simple'. Post war , they had committed no crime, and as it was considered that both were menatlly sub normal, what would be point of brining any action against them? Both lived till the late 1960's. Thier cottage was on a narrow road, as kids we used to ride our ponies past the cottage. If either were outside they would stop and just stare at us till we wnt past, normally at a fast trot!
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  1498. The reason an olderMk of rifle may have been used is that it was an 'Off Book' development. War Office (Now the Ministry of Defence ) beurocracy was and still is legendary. So using 'Written Off ' stock for proof of concepts is still practiced. The Bean Counters can't see it .
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  1499.  @Brookspirit  We keep linguistic history alive!:-)
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  1500.  @kevinsullivan3448  Yeah, but you still use Dollars :-)
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  1501.  @arthurlazarus2215  Ah but you youngster will never know the pleasure ofwalking into a sweet shop with 3d or on special occasions 6d.Fillo and I can reminice for hours when you couldn't carry 6 pennyworth of chips.:-)
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  1502. If you consider the definition that a 'Automatic Machine gun, provides multiple discharge for a single pull of the trigger with no external power source,- Through a SINGLE barrel. Then Gatling does not count , it is several individual weapons fired very quickly one after another.
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  1503. What we in Britiain would call Go Faster stripes. Coach lines painted on a heap vehicle to make it look sexy.
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  1504. Well all these American Thompson's came over. Then they got cosy with all the British Stens.... and the rest.....
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  1505. Thanks to you Ian, supplling info that allowed me to ask the right questions, I now have conformation that my .22 Short Magazine Lee Enfeild was one of the troop trial rifles converted in 1907.
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  1506. Well at the cost of about $1200 per smart grenade, war would not be affordable , nearly the same as 105mm round. So poor old squaddy has to put up with a throwing a tin.
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  1507. Well the time Fire -Arm originally meant any weapon that used fire, and incinderay devices are as old as warfare. Imagine that being shot into the sails of an enemy galleon?
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  1508. Back in the days when in England and Europe you were proud of your shooting ability, and the Goverment encouraged you to be prepared to defend your country. Partritism wasn't an insult or an hysterical squeal from someone who disagrees with you.
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  1509.  @scottcharney1091  A lot of research has been done over the years. It's just not well known . There were camps, for proisoners on Guernsey and Jersey.All are small Island's ,so most sites are now gone.
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  1510. Pieshaka: Because the American's would'nt maufacture it so it went to Belgium and UK, then the US flatly refused to listen to anybody else and did thier own thing, so the British, who needed all the Lewis guns they could get anyway, refused to supply them. Otis at C&Rsenal as usual for the full story. Also have you ever lugged a Lewis gun about? The Chautchat would win on weight alone.
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  1511. Robbie: You have the totally correct answer, well done mate! You survive.
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  1512.  @scottgoodman8993  No problem, I'm learning more with other comments.
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  1513.  @jamestheotherone742  The horse the Conquistaors brought over,mostly ofwhat is now called the Andaluthian breed, or rather thier forerunners where a mix of the lighter horse types ,known as Hot Bloods, with heavierbuilt Northern European horse ,kownas Cold Bloods.If I'm being to technical I apologise.
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  1514.  @81zacki  Thanks that the way it was, so understand, but hey learn and hold no grudges.
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  1515.  @TawnyRain2332  Wise move.
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  1516. Thanks, just intrested.
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  1517. Answer to stale bread? Bread pudding, https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/bread-pudding-0 A WW2 Britsh NAFFI standby sold in pices known as Wads. The phrase Cup of tea and a wad, wasa national institution. In the Nazi Occupied Channel Islands bread flour did run out. Occasionally potato flour was used, this was then banned as it takes 4 pounds weight of spuds to make1 pound weight of flour.The Germans also banned peeling potatoes as so much nutrional value was lost. Germany suffred extreme bread shortages in both wars, leading to much civil unrest.Even silage was used in attempt to leaven bread. Rye bread may have been the cause of St Vitus Dance, also known as StAnthony's Fire. as it can host a fungus called Ergot. One pricinple of Ergot is Ergotomaine Tartrate (Used in some Migrane medication) and in the production of Lisergic Acid Dithelamide. and if you don't know what that is , AH the innocence of youth. :-)
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  1518. Contempary film of factory testing shows the gun being held with the lefth hand around the barrel sleeve.
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  1519. The picture was painted by an American John Singelton Copley. A copy is the States Building on the Royal Square, opposite the Peirson pub, in St Helier. The black guy shooting over Peirson's body was his man servant , named Pompey, who killed the Frenchman who shot Peirson. The group of women and children in the bottom right are siad to be Peirson's wife and children with thier maid servant. The Peirson pub has a section of oak beam that supposedly is riddiled with musket shot from the battle.
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  1520. That's intresting. I have an old Mossberg MB42a supplied for training with the same marking. Out of interest does your rifle have British Proof marks? That may be a story in itself.
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  1521. British tactics changed so that a specially trained 'Bomber' carried Mills 36 grenades was the primary attacker with riflemen to back him up. In the confines of a trench, speciffically built to make fighting in it difficult short nasty hand to hand weapons such as Sharpned entrenching tools , knives, clubs and pistols were far more effective . I've done re eanctment /living history in replica trenches, it was hot dirty , bruising and painful, and we were trying not to hurt each other!
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  1522.  @drdoom-skull2244  Yes, you can hold a Class one firearm on a Historic non shooting clause.
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  1523. That is a great film. It skips over some bits, that are important, but are only in the film for a few seconds. Never the less it is a genuine account.
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  1524. At that time in English mines. If less than 5 people died in an incident down a mine. It was not even recorded.
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  1525.  @LD-Orbs  No they were ordinary men, just desperate. Nothing to admire about the situation. My father had a brother. At age 18 he was killed in mining accident working alongside his Father. Fred took a bout 3 months to die from his injuries. Coroners report, which I have found, accidental death.. 18 months later the woman who would be my Grandmother was dead. I belive of a brocken heart.
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  1526. The HP of an accumalator over that of existing steam engines was enourmous, .
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  1527. There is a scene in the British film Carry On Seargent, where Bob Monkhouse is asked during a lecture where he hasn't been paying attention, to reassemble a BREN. He then does it fast and perfectly, but admits 'I worked at the place that built them'. He actaully did work at BSA for a time.
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  1528. Don't forget Breacker Morant as well!
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  1529. The old Britsh Military Adage Improvise , Adapt , and Overcome. Instilled into all military personnel to this day.
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  1530. Gypsy Queen: The first year of the Euro, i went to an event in Belgium and said to a friend over there 'It's so much easier now I only have to get one currency'. I'll never forget the dirty look he gave and said 'Yah the new Reichmark'.
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  1531.  @notforsaletoday1895  There are some nice vintage air guns about, though prices for me (Who is of more maturity) do seem ridculous compared to when I were Lad.
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  1532. Because then you have cahos. The area is unstable, start rushing in and move the wrong bit, down the rest comes. The hardest thing to drum into people STOP- THINK then act.
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  1533. He is an exxcellent presnter. No Ego about always being on camera, knowledgable, great empathy with those he interviews, and the respect to let them tell thier stories.
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  1534. Not according to scources now opened in the Public records Office that I have read. Intercepts of signals, interviews with people taken at the time and following Armisitice, and yes I do always consider 'What's in it for this person to give that answer'. But still balance does seem to come down on the atrritional objective for the Battle of Verdun. Von Falkenhym wasn't a complete idiot, he understood that on balance any offensive action would lead to greater losses. The we can sit here till hell freezes stratergy of the German's was sound given the factors at the time. It is true you can choose your historian and take their word, that's why I always try to go to as many varied scources as I can. That it was not put in German archives is understandable. , Poloticians on all sides were hell's bent on covering thier actions to appear the only one who was right and it was others fault. The British as much as anyone, that the Hundred Year Seal on some British records is coming off has led to a lot of fresh light being shone. Though one must always bear in mind the desire to look good for posterity.
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  1535. Odd fact: The building of Zeppelins led to a shortage of sauage in Germany. The intestines, known as Goldbeaters skin was needed for the gas bags. The Germans had it in for Bromley area. The last civillian victim of the Blitz of WW2 was a lady killed in her kitchen by the last V2 at Orpington. A few years back on the BBC Anitiques Roadshow at Chatham Dockyard a proppelor off a Zeppelin , dragged from a shed that morning, was valued at £21,000
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  1536. Loook up Essex Farm ADS, which is where he was based, The story of how the Poppy came to symbolise Remeberance is also a story worth telling. Started in US, went to Canada thgen back to England in 1921. In France the flower is the ForgetMe Not.Often on the Western Front you will find clumps of both planted together, and a lot of Maple Trees. Blue being the National Colour and the coats of the Poilu (Hairy) ones, as French soldiers were known at the time.
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  1537.  @mikewd1983  Got to defend the National Honour Old bean :-)
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  1538. Which resulted in the exceqution of Charles Fryatt in 1916, who then became a national hero. His body being carried back in state in the same railway van, now known as the Cavell Wagon as Edith Cavell and the Unkown Soldier.
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  1539. Through out it's history the Arsenal was much danger to the town as it was to the Enemy. Anyway our Cousins Across the Pond owe us for thier National Anthem! The Rocket's Red Glare- Congreve rockets built at Woolwich. One occasion a dozen or so accidentaly dischrged into the town. The Arsenal was not a popular neighbour. In it's latter days just before final closure it became a film set for such UK TV staples as Alas Smith and Jones, and London's Burning and The Bill. On one very memorable winters night, it was used as a set for a Porn Film! That one does stick in my memeory. Hence the bad speeling I am distracted by memeory:-)
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  1540. Ah out of harms way then! The History of the Aresenal is full of accidents , attempts to blow up the town, though not intentional,. During WW2 the Fire Brigade were under orders to save the Aresnal first regardless of destruction to the town. Also had 120 miles of railway, narrow and standard gauge at it's peack, and 21,000 employyes, now basically a high priced housing estate.
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  1541. Venables was quite a prestigious dealeras up till 1985. Wether that is orignale wood work Iwonder. Being a sthey sold to the Aristocracy I'll bet quite a few man hours in the workshop went into it.
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  1542. The classic users book for these Sniper One, by Dan Mills.
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  1543.  @ag111ga  I know! Often the tax is more than the item and shipping. So a $15 shirt from US is almost triple by the time it gets to UK.
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  1544.  @DrKlausTrophobie  Curses! The Elbonians are coming up with thier own ideas! :-)
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  1545.  @DrKlausTrophobie  New plan! Wanna buy a mine detector?
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  1546. At that time probably easier to get then Aspirin. Edit: Actually now in UK bloody difficult to get Aspirin in large amounts ,except on perscription, to many overdoses.
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  1547.  @constipatedinsincity4424  True though. You can only buy 15 tablets at a time.Though no barrier to buying more than one pack at a time.
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  1548. British military have used surplus Full bore rifles rebarrled to .22 for about two hundred years. Makes a lot of sense, not least cost of ammunition.
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  1549.  Christie Malry  I still got a Vostock rifle! A lot of rifle for very little money. What were the big old single shot .22 pistols called? I'm sure they were eastern block, though Vostock made pistols as well, i learnt to shoot on one.
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  1550. But there is a Dukedom! 😁
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  1551.  @mancubwwa  I am aware of the dimensions of such vessels.
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  1552.  @Grimmwoldds  Probaly more shock and awe I reckon. Would scare a few pounds out of me.
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  1553. Umm, if these were released in 1895, they really should have been called the Colt Wimbeldon. Bisley didn't come into use till a couple of years later.. Wimbeldon is in the middle of London, with the power of cartridges increasing, the neighbours got a bit concerned so the ranges moved to Bisley.
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  1554. Continued on Next Stock of course! ;-)
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  1555. Nothing wacky about it. It is precison slow fire long range pistol. Ten Rounds in Ten Minutes.
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  1556. Got to add here the clasic signal from Target Tug aircraft to ground units 'Remember I'm pulling the bloody thing , not pushing it'.
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  1557. The M2 is the best system to deliver the .50 BMG round. Not only has the gun survived, but the round it fires is still a leader in the class. A family affair.
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  1558. The grip was probably custom made for the original owner. Some high prescion pistols even had tailor made sights for the shooter. That was an expensive piece . I am drooling over it.
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  1559. A lot of people seem to agree with me.:-)
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  1560.  @pseudomonad  Iagree,though as seen here, we can ramble off topic, but intillgently
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  1561.  @liger7275  We allhave a fascination for the histroy in genral and of enginnerring in particular, ballistics ,Chemistry and precision sports.Or according to the Fluffy Bunnies,we are Murderous Gun Freacks :-)
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  1562.  @BHuang92  Trawlers and other fishing craft including Whalers did a lot of under appreciated convoy work in both wars.
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  1563. Proves one thing the Bible is not the word of God, but the work of a self serving committe.
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  1564. No mention is made that the attack on the Somme was originally planned in 1915 to be a combined French and British Offensive. The subsequent attack on Verdun by Von Flakenheim in February 1916 caused tremendous looses by the French, and subesequntly their withdrawl from the battle, however the British were being pressured into continuing an attack, by the French who were in overall command of the Theatre to relive the pressure on Verdun. Haig and Rawlinson were both against an attack as early as July. They wanted at least another 6 weeks. Political pressure denied this.
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  1565. It was the same about a hundred years before. If you want an example of mariage being used as a political football look up Elanor of Aquitaine.
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  1566. Greyhounds! Eat, sleep (And Snore!) wake up, go out wander about a bit eat, sleep -Repaeat.
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  1567.  @JohnRodriguesPhotographer  Britshi Vetinary Assocoation did a study a few years back ,which is the best pet dog. Greyhound came out top. I've never found a breed more loyal, My one was called Gabriel Mint, or more normally 'What the hell is he doing now? :-)
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  1568. AKA The Golden Rivet.
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  1569.  @timsmith428  Because you'd be locked in a tin box tied up to the shore. 😁
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  1570.  @jcorbett9620  It was dumped on the SMLE no1 Mkiii* in about 1916, but reappeared on the Enfeild P14 in 1917
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  1571. Can you produce it cheap? In large numbers? with minimum material? On non specaialist machinery? With unskilled labour and quickly? We'll have it! As you say a lot of it is there.
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  1572. In British training rifles, yes very much so . A lot of Martini actions were used on everything from .22 rimfire to shotguns. The .22 conversion wa s atraing mainstay up the 1960's and still can be found in clubs.
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  1573.  @billbolton  Originally the Somme wa sto be part of a concerted effort with the French, and timed 6 weeks later. The German attack at Verdun in February put so much pressure on the French they pleaded with the British to attack and relive some of the pressure. As you say those vital six weeks of training could have made a lot of diffrence.
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  1574.  @fus132  78 British Generals died in action in the Great War, highest number for any conflict.
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  1575.  @SafetyProMalta  Though due to the South African wars, the British and Empire armies were better equipped and led than the most of the other combatants in 1914. There was no conscription in Britian (ONE small exception , but that's by the by) so the soldiers were proffesional. There was however the Territorial Army, a voluntary force, now amalgamated into the Reserve, that men were encouraged to join. Many did because it gave them a paid holiday on 2 week summer excersiss. These men , and now women, do great service to this day. During the Great War there was resistance to using part time and new recuits from the New Armies. The grounds were justified though. Did these men have the proffesional skill against regulars, and would they help or hinder? Interesting fact: The TA at the time was raised for the defence of Britian, there was no obligation for the men to serve 'Overseas' . Those that did volunter wore a small clasp marke Empire Volunter.
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  1576. I'd argue that Argon is the more imporatnt gas. The industrial processes it allows are numerous.
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  1577. Well there is a lot of distres sgoing on at present.
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  1578. When you were in London you must have heard of Oranges and Lemons? The ryme that supposedly mimics the bells of London Churches.. Seville Orange Marmalade,with peel! Breackfast food of the Gods. Though my Mother had an odd habit of eating it with Pork Sausages. In Scotland you will be told the word Marmalade came about becuase Mary Queen of Scots, who spent time in France, ate it as a headache cure,. The maids would wispher @Marie Est Malade'. Pineapple growing in Hot Beds (A pit full or rotting FYM) was also a fad similar to the Tulip craze.
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  1579. Leominster? So a name stolen from a Herefordshire town, on the England Wales border , and you still pronounce it wrong . the pronouciation is Lem-stir.
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  1580. @T.J. Kong I can tell you that there is one thing worse than finding something after a credible report. Not finding something, plays merry hell with the nerves.
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  1581. Though lead from the solder on tins is considered may have been a cause of the demise of the Franklin Expedition.
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  1582. So a bunch of criminals, because hier livleyhood was at risk, raised major public unrest and vigilantism? Humm, America better look to plank in it's own eyes before condeming others.
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  1583. That C96 dissapeared for years, then made a comeback in the 1972 film Young Winston, the makers claime dthey ha dfound the pistol and featured it in the film. My parents were from South Wales mining familes. My Farther spat evry time he herad Churchiull's name.
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  1584. It was lighter but did attach to the barrel. The 1907 pattern was longer heavear , but, did not touch the barrel. And yes those points weere argued over.
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  1585. True, but then it probably gave S&W the basics for self contained metal cartridges, you only sell one pistol or rifle,. How many .22 Rimfire have been sold. If I knew then, I know where my money would have gone.
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  1586. That's feisable, then it could be a Birmingham Jobbing Gun, made from a collection of parts , each built by an individual as cheap trade guns,. The quality of such guns was the reason The Proof Act of 1813 was introduced.
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  1587. There is one of thier tugs in Jersey in the Channel Island's. You may see it on Goggle Earth in St Helier Harbour. Though it is in camouflage!
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  1588.  @nemosis9449  I was lucky enough to meet a Royal Navy Veteran in Normandy at the 70th Anniversary. He said to me 'Stop calling me Sir, I was only a Snotty (Midshipman) . He also had us in stiches with his stories, all about how he had made a fool of himself. What else should I have called him? Sir was the least of the respect he was due.
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  1589. The double arrow in this case wa sprobably due to the guy doing it couldn't bear to look at the ugly pices of ..... Though I wonder how much the War Office had to pay someone to take them away?
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  1590. Many years ago I was working at a small amusment park when a guest lost a finger. They had sat on top of a screen gaurding a fan on a hovercraft attraction. Then having bounced on it, pushed there finger through the gaurd. They just managed to touch the revolving fan . when asked why, the answer was 'I wanted to see if it was really moving! The Mother of this moron then berated him for how much money he would loose when he got home becuse he;d be off work Some people shouldn't be alowed to breed.
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  1591. Matt: The main value of the Resistance was intillegence,. They had eyes and ears on the ground and could see 'Over the Hill'. The most dangerous wepaon was the radio.
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  1592. As as the late great Gerald Durrell said to me 'Any animal that survives will do so at the whim of man'.
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  1593. Fairie: I belive the theory was , a Coloum gives you weight to breack through, but restricts the number of troops that can actually contact the enemy. where as a line gives you the wider arc of fire so more effective rounds down range, but cannot withstand the impact of a coloum. Almost the opposite of British Naval tactics at the time. Command and control is also a factor. Continetal armies tended to be conscript so a tight group is easier to control, where as British troops were all volunteers, so were expected to be staedier under fire.
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  1594. Really it is not only a prototype, its a demonstrator as well. You can see not only that it works, but how it works.
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  1595.  @jic1  And we can argue for hours on what consitutes British! :-) That goes back before the Roman Conquest right up to the current SNP. .
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  1596.  @ireallyshouldntbehereltd7814  Well my ancestory is Welsh, but I was born in the Norman bit that still belongs to the Monarch. So I have no chance! :-)
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  1597.  @ireallyshouldntbehereltd7814  As the Channel Islands were part of the Duchy of Normandy prior to 1066, and the Monarch still holds the title Duc De Normandie as the senior title , we own the England : One of our well known families , the De Cartret's was responsible for naming New Jersey, so we claim ownership of them as well :-) Keep safe.
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  1598. .22 Lapua, and .303. The .22 because that is probably the most used in UK and my rifles like Lapua, though Eley is probably most common, but has a nasty sticky finish though.
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  1599. Spill the beans !! What movie?
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  1600. Thanks will look that up.
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  1601.  @TheAtmosfear7  As A Crapaud, I entirley see your point. Is now a good time to tell the English, two of thier Lions speack Normand and one French?
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  1602.  @dawsonschmidt3714  Certainly clear you out if you try eating it! 🤣 Though do use small bundles of whole meal spaghetti to give the great unwashed an idea of what Cordite looks like.
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  1603.  @causewaykayak  I'm from Jersey Channel Island's. As kids we had lectures on 'if you se ethis on the beach don't pick it up'. Yeah, right 😄
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  1604.  @causewaykayak  May you live forever and die happy! 😄
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  1605. Oh the trials Ian has to go through! Actually the scopes were apparently pretty good at holding zero
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  1606. Jon-Paul, The French did get very wound up after the Franco Prussian war. I'd say that if you are looking for the origins of the Great War, that's the place to start. Rappelez Vous Alscase Et Lorraine , was the French buzz through the late 19th early 20th century. Just look at the Dreyfuse Affair to se ehow paranoid they were.
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  1607.  @gintasvilkelis2544  Does it matter if the rocket was a firework from a bottle? The Ukranians have hit a high value target , and got plenty of bang for thier buck!
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  1608. Yes.
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  1609. Dear Sir, in case yon Forign Johnny dosen't understand English - Procedure as Follows , Patiently repeat what you said , with clear enonciation- VERY LOUDLY!!!
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  1610. Troops were issued with a clasp knife, balde , tin opner thingy and marlin spike.
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  1611. Optics have changed so much, and continue to do so. I wear glasses and have gone from heavy glass lenses, hand ground, to light plastic machine ground lenses with greater light gathering anti glare properties at a third of the price, in about 20 years. Though the feild glasses I make most use of are a 6 X, 1917 dated Bar & Stroud. Clearer than a lot of cheap modern binoculars. Ammunition was standard issue, but there were various manufactures. Britsh Snipers tended to look for Ely or Winchester batches, find a batch the rifle liked then hoard as much as they could of those batches. There is also advice on cleaning the ammo, checking the condition of each round, and stroring in anti corrosion paper scrounged from RE and stores.
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  1612.  @paulpelletier8470  Someone obviously wanted it.
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  1613.  @AnimeOtaku2  Very true, the genisis of the war goes back a long way.It was just that in 1914 , for a really bizzare set of reasons, the cards all fell over. Be intresting to see the THG's take on why it happned. One of the best explinations I've ever seen , is rather oddly, the start of the Film Oh What A Lovley War. I'd recommend it.
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  1614. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAUdrKG31zE Britsh Pathe News showing wartime production AND factory testing of the STEN.nThe original idea for a suppresed weapon was actually for the Commando's for sentry removal etc. The D'lisle was also built for the same purpose, and the Welrod.
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  1615.  @mikesharp4033  I know , bugger with the Rugby isn't it?
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  1616. I'd suggest you watch the film The God's Must be Crazy- Shows what happens when a disruptive influence, however benine we concive it enters a socoiety, bloody funny film as well.
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  1617.  @terrywarner8657  One thing you can't do with a carbide lamp is rub it on your hands or gloves when they are wet and slippery. That was a trick I was shown with a candle as a kid. It does work to some degree. that and a cabbage leaf under your hat on warm days.
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  1618. Britsh proofing is required on any pressure bearing piece. So chamber, barrel and action. In the case of a revolver , every cylinder of the wheel.
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  1619. I'd have been buried with it! Valhalla here I come , with Attitude.
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  1620.  @IamOutOfNames  Oh they do.A few years back at Tilbury Fort, on the Thames a new Curator,decided that all military shows and and a very lucrative for the site, twice a year military flea market should stop. They were presenting the site as to warlike.
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  1621.  @adamgardner4722  Now I see the point. We had a moron over here making obsolete ammunition for criminals, Firearms of an 'Obsolete' calibre are not required to be held on an Firearms Certificate or Shotgun Certificate. Real kicker the a**h**le was a Registered Firearms Dealer. I was reading a book on the Other Mr Churchill, Robert Churchill the gunmaker, who also did Police Forensic work in the 1920's, there isa reference to a duoble barreled shotgun that 'Due to a fault in the woodwrok' would discharge the left barrel every seven and hiafl minutes. One for Mark, I wonder?
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  1622. The Big ships pose for pictures, the small ones are to busy working. The Royal Navy otherwise known as the Andrew, which is a story in itself, had black seaman for centuries before this. The Britsh equivalent were the Flower Class Corvetes, plus what ever trawlers and drifters of the Royal Naval Patrol Service, could be got hold off. Wooden hulls make ideal mine sweepers, especially in costal waters were the German U Boats and aircraft laid 'Influence Mines' either accoustic or magnetic. May I suggest you also look up the history of PT Boat Squadron 34 in the English Channel and particullaly PT 509 &503?. Those guyd do deserve remebering. Thanks as always for another intresting , relaxaing and educational tea breack. Two book suggestions, The Shetland Bus by David J Howarth and The Battle of the Narrow Seas by Peter Scott, later better known for the Slimbridge Waterfowl Trust and as an artist.
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  1623.  @nigelosborne7471  The Bridge Community is on part of the old Vickers Airfeild and the Isolation Hospital site.
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  1624. And BREXIT! So last one out switch the light off, and let's respect Ian and his work.
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  1625. So buy Ian a stiff Scotch, that would lead to great improvment:-)
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  1626. Researchers never leave a question unanswered!
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  1627.  @Batmack  Should have got Ian on thier Lewis guns, he'd have been in paradise!
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  1628. But America might have ended up part of the Commonwealth of Nations ? That could have intresting results.
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  1629. given that Diesels are the Engine that gives us the modern world, a shame to see them portrayed by ...various ...groups as the spawn of the devil.
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  1630. So its a modification ofan existing airframe? The STEN was from brain to paper to metal on no existing platforem.
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  1631. Most was filmed in Yougoslavia. The openinng scences and some of the second scenes were filmed in Jersyy Channel Islands. The weather had closed Yougoslavia, and for tax reasons the production could not be finished on the UK mainland.
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  1632. See the book Scapegaots of Empire, or the film Breaker Morant starring Edward Woodward.
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  1633.  @BillHalliwell  Don't know about the best Aussie film. I would give Beneath Hill 60 by a short nose.
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  1634. Good bed and good shoes. If your not in one, you are in the other.
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  1635. The best musuems I know like the Mary Rose, or the Britsh Musuem, and how the Science Musuem in London used to be, you are allowed to handle some artifacts, and a person stands there begging to tell you all about it. Though the London Musuems were originally set up , with free entry , to encourage the Great Unwashed to enter be enthralled and learn.
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  1636. Kushan: You are unfortunatley so right, I had to react to personal circumstances. The details are to long to go into but I was subject , I refuse to use the word victim, of a violent crime, the investigation was nil and my property, which I legally own was removed. under Guidelines. I have worked for and with Police Forces on many occasions in the past,. One of the reasons the background checks showed I was 'Fit and Proper Person to hold a firearms licence, so know the average Coppers feelings, but since I have ceased to trust them. Funny thing is throughout all this nightmare, my Firearams as such were never mentioned.
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  1637.  @kaikart123  Dynema has it's own problems. Main one being you get a total fail with no warning , so if you have a load that can move you are in deep ...... Winches are not toys. Learn how to use one.
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  1638. . Goes to show JM Browning got it right first time.
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  1639. And the most famous line' We applied rule .303'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49KxYVEGJZI
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  1640.  @Dulcimertunes  Even here , there are now blue poppies and white poppies and all sorts of arguments that specific groups should have some distinction. Especially annoying as the original idea was that all would be Remebered the same.
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  1641.  @erraticonteuse  Your explination make a lot of sense. Diffrent history and culture. Diffrent ways of remebering.
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  1642. Do you mean *** ugly with no two units using the same spares? Yep about sums it up.
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  1643.  @tz8785  Scared me! :-) Looks like it has been left in the sun to long and melted.
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  1644.  @ianmacfarlane1241  It's the age mate. :-)
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  1645.  @MosoKaiser  In theory. Try shooting one at night. At least no one can see the agony on your face:-)
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  1646. The Museum of Naval Firepower Portsmouth England is the place to go. Incedentally they also have a collection of Small Arms taken from the German High Seas fleet in 1918.
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  1647.  @warriorwolf77  It's a very eclectic collection. Portsmouth is a Bucket Stop for anyone intrested in Naval matters, there are on display, HMS Warrior, HMS Victory, the M33 Breast work Monitor, and the real jewel the Mary Rose. She is just shiveringly good on all levels. Around the area you have Fort Nelson which is the Royal Amouries Artillery collection. The RN Submarine Museum with the Holland 1 . In England we tend to spread things about. There are a pair of 15 inch guns outside the Imperail War Museum in the Middle of London, though what they have done to the inside- my blood pressure won't stand discussing. The National Army Musuem at Chelsea. Then small local musuems. I'm lucky in that Portsmouth is about an hour away, you tend to take things for granted till someone with an intrest like you asks.
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  1648.  @warriorwolf77  You'd get your value out of a visit. But as you say if it's a distance the whole area desrves a proper visit. Good thing is the place is well set up for tourism. You can go to the outskirts on the M27 straight off , park up for a day in a proper car park with return bus services to centre for you and 8 passengers, £9.
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  1649. Copying is supposed to be the sincerest form of flattery. The Schlegemich was ahead of the metalurgy and manufacturing at the time.
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  1650. Probably all three in part. That and fine though the Steyers are, would it work up a mountain at midnight when you're cold wet tired scared and dirty?
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  1651.  @neiltappenden1008  in theory a pregant women can pee in the helmet.
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  1652. Ironically, in 1870 Napoleon and Eugene went into exile. At the invitation of Queen Victoria, they settled in Chiselhurst Kent.
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  1653. I watch from England, and am an 'Older 'Shooter ' . There seem to be a lot of chanels on You Tube, mostly based in US or Russia , that present firearms as Toys. Wierd ammunition , odd targets , and antics that can only be described as Bloody Stupid! Forgotten Weapons is not such a channel. The combination of Ian, Othias, Mae and Mark , that have melded together, are an antiedote to Idiots .Even on the usual vids there is a quiet but definite emphsis on coreect handling and saftey. Keep it up , you influence the next generation.
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  1654. HMS Invicible was not an Aircraft Carrier, she was a Through Deck Cruiser.
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  1655. When I was young I flew as an 'Unacompanied Minor' on flights from the Channel Islands. Many on DC3's. In order to get me out of the way, quite often it was 'Go and sit on the jump seat.'. 😁 Ahh them where the days! I knew my way around the Dak's cockpit before I knew the dials in a car. Cambrian, BEA flying a version they called Pionair, Brtish United, and Jersey Airlines. The last company flying them out of Jersey was INTRA. One of theres NB was 1944. Thermionic Valve based avionics.
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  1656. Really what the internet should be , diverse people with common intrests brought to gether to learn, and argue. Beats performing bloody cats and idiots throwing themselves off cliffs.
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  1657.  @martensjd  Neither did the Boston Finaced IRA bombs in London. Right up till they went Bang and killed and injured innocent people,
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  1658. Should think Ian has the message by now!
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  1659. About the same time Ostrich were the 'Hip' birds in England. Ask thge Australian's about catching Emus. Lewis Machine guns mounted on trucks. The Emu war.
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  1660. May not be far wrong.
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  1661.  @christineparis5607  He dosen't want to bring attention to the competion :-)
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  1662. Light for a given value of light. To quote the original manual Lewis Gunners must be of well built stature, intelligent, and calm, determined demenour'.
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  1663.  @sjoormen1  Allegedly! He did write a book on his Experiences during WW2. Though some of his claims are questionable. The story is that Camel Dung was the main ingrdient. His other claim was to invented the Waterfall search light to protect the Suez canal. There was a rotating disc of reflectors on the outside of the beam which caused a storbing effect. He and his team also built dummy battleships and worked at Tobrouk and Alexandria, building eleborate light displays to decoy the Luftwaffe.
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  1664. It was the Navy sponsored the Tank, and aircraft, wirless communication, submarines , the Old Andrew isn't that backwards
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  1665. About the same time at the Woolwhich Arsenal in London, there was a building used to make and fill Black Pwder cartradiges. Most of the work done by boys. The powder got everywhere and despite magazine rules, boys will be boys, they would spark off the trails of powder left ingrained in the benches. On one occasion there was a runaway of the powder and the workers fled the building. Unfortunatley the doors that should have allowed them out had had two gas lights fitted to the wall near the top of the doors.This stopped the doors opening flat against the walls and several men an boys were killed in the crush. As a result UK health and saftey law now requires an emergancy door to swing fully open flaat gagainst the wall, and not reshut. A few years back ther ewa s amajor fire at the British Army stores at Doddington. For many months afterwards requistions would come back marked F.O.F.A.D F88K Off Fire at Doddington.
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  1666.  Flying lead  I think you mean Carbon Tet. (Tetrachloride) also used as a dry cleaning fluid. The Brass pump action fire extingushers on Britsh Military vehicles used that, now in great demand by owners of such vehicles.
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  1667.  @dwightehowell8179  So does Halon, , just don't breathe it in. So which is worse for the Enviroment, climate, ozone layer, causes global warming, or the worry when I was a kid, of another ice age?A damm great fire or a few squirts of stuf fto put it out. Go figure.
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  1668. I grew up in Jersey, a number of german veterans were visiting the Island. One told a story . As a young recruit in late 1942, he had managed to upset the German eqivalent the RSM. An order came through for a detachment to be sent on 'Special Service'. Being top of the muck list this man was allocated. All thought they were going East. They all made wills , wrote letters to their families and prepared to die. Then found they were going WEST! Ended up in the Island's for the rest of the war. Jersey didn't surrender on the 9th May. The NAZI surrendered.
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  1669. Normally known as the Credo. (A statement of belifis or aims which guide a person) They shall not grow old as we that remain grow old Age shall not weary them nor the years condem. At the going down of the sun, and in the morning. We will remember them.
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  1670. The actual sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTA10n1Ztqo
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  1671. Shock and Awe! Shock that it worked and Awe, hell it missed.
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  1672. Provided it is ! NAFFI loose tea , 2 made with slightly oily or heavily clorinated water 3 Condensed milk 4 Sugar , one bucket or two. 5 Stewed for at least 12 hours , to taste. Result known as Char or Gunfire. Can also be used to dissolve powder residue.
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  1673. Reading suggestion linked to this Tom Sharpes Riotus Assembly and Indecent Exposure- Of particular intrest to Firearm afficinados (With an evil sense of humour!) Hint : A belt fed Elephant gun.
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  1674. There were TV guided bombs, so they were getting there. Many happy Sea Cadets , got a lot of fun blowing hell out of splash targets with these using up old WW2 Ammo stocks in the 1960's 70's. .
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  1675. So somebody standing whinging that a chunk has been taken out of the wheel rim is not a new phenomnen then? And the 'Countless other rubber goods' have brought saftey and pleasure to many. :-)
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  1676. Very true. You could have bought that Land Rover a few years back for £200. I know I have enough of them. Now even in that sate a couple of thousnad pounds. The very early Series 1 , I bought my first one twenty years or so ago for £150, now one went, on a TV show at auction for £38,000!
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  1677.  @Qmeister044  Agreed :-)
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  1678. And here is a world wide conumdrum. Are these battelfeilds, historic sacred palces, deictaed to the fallen? Or, where people live and want a modern comfortable lifestyle?
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  1679.  @thegreenman2030  An argument still going on about the Wesern Front in Europe 105 years later. I live on the very edge of London. within a mile of me is a Roman Bath house. Withing about ten miles, I can think of four Roman , and umpteen later historic sites.
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  1680.  @erichusayn  Thank you.
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  1681. Aftrer AI started thier own manufactuer, a MOD site took one and squib tested it . then sent the barrell back. A few days later another barrell turned and was tested. The testers phoned AI, your barrel is about half a minute out. AI reply , we know, it was the barrel you squibbed. AI's reputaion went right back up.
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  1682. Warning: Once you start, there is NO known cure. Start somewhere like Ipere's, the Menein Gate Ceremony is something all kids should see, Hers another place I would recommend , two wars for the price of one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Wall_open-air_museum Should add, Ian's Trench of Death vidieo, it's about 15 miles away from the Atlantic Wall.
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  1683. It depended on who was being painted, why and by whom. If the subject was considered a Villian, you do see sutle cariceture in portraiture. Paintings wer ethe Media ofthe day, so positioning of figures and pose, dress you were portrayed in , set dressing , and how much you were willing to pay for expensive pigments, all counted.
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  1684.  @VegasCyclingFreak  Glad you see the point Most people are horrified by the story. Though as an aside the British put out a call for Doctor's who had worked in India during the Famine to help with the Concentration Camp victims. Even now the mix used for famine victims is called 'Bombay Formula'.
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  1685. An assualt Frisby?
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  1686.  @iloveindomienoodle  No, that would be the Maxim Gun! Remeber Hilaire Bellock! We have got the Maxim Gun and they have not!.
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  1687. Who also had a much revered Catholic Padre, he was killed in action.
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  1688. Probably would have been buried into the sandbags of the parapet. You don't want to a high point above the bags. People start taking a lot of unwanted intrest in you :-)
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  1689. marcomalo02  Maybe a bit hard on Wilson, but I'm not American. It's true though that he'd been stroked by the German's throughout the Great War as The Man Who Could Bring Peace, so remain Neuteral. . Them the Zimmerman telegrams, note plural: there were two, and the interception by the British, who I have to say, were intercepting American Diplomatic traffic and Room 40 had brocken the codes, Wilson was allowing the German's to use American Diplomatic cable channels, in a code the US couldn't read as we had as Act 1 in 1914 cut the German trans Atlintic telegraph cables. To dsiguse this the whole Mexican Telegraph Office epsiode was conncoted. On release by the British of the Telegram's the US press , quite rightly were sceptical about it. Then Zimmerman hinmself stood up in public and said 'Yes, I sent it!'. Documents just released in UK show that the Britsh Goverment thought of Wilson as niave,.. However we were quite willing to release all the information and make Wilson an International Laughing Stock if that was thought nessacary to bring the US into the war.
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  1690. paul manson  The French had to pay reparations and lost Alsace and Lorraine. It couloured French thinking right up to the Great War. Do a bit of reading up on the Dreyfuss Affair, if you want it in a bit lighter dose Robert Harris's book Officer and a Spy is a good read. That war was also the first time that Artillery was used by Prussia deleiberatlley on civilian targets for no military gain, just intimidation. Bismark also wanted to shell Paris into surrender, but wa soveruled. Wonder if that was what caused Hitler to give the order to raise the city in 1944?
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  1691. Are they going to be availble in UK and Europe?
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  1692. The Andrew (Royal Navy), getting thier boots dirty? That is what the ' Bootnecks ( Royal Marines) are for ! Though Jack ( A Royal Navy sailor ) may occasionly condesend to stand about with a rifle outside the main gate.
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  1693. The idea is to remind shooter, say prayers before firing?
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  1694. It goes bang when you want it to, and the projectile goes where you want to it. Who cares what it looks like?
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  1695. The original range was Maxim's back garden in West Norwood, a suburb of London. He did warn the neighbours though.
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  1696. You foldthe page! AHHH, vandal! :-)
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  1697. Petain , was and is a scapegoat. At the time of WW2 he was 84, not in good health, possibly showing early signs of dementia. He was reluctant to take the job , but wished to serve his country, and was was terrified that it would once again be destroyed.
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  1698.  @carlomarini4255  Tried sanity once. Wasn't to impressed by it.:-)
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  1699. Imagine all those Cheap Vickers Heavy Machine guns, and the rest.Oh for a time machine!
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  1700. There is an old very relevant phrase for situations like this ''Better thought a fool for checking, than proved a fool for not'. There is a little known condition Discalcylia, similar to Dislexia, only with numbers. Hence I pay very much attention to the phrase mentioned.
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  1701. True. The first time I visited part of the Somme battlefeild the first thought that struck me was 'God! The area is so small they must have been holding each other up!'
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  1702. FairlyUnknown  Something of a misconception that a Great War Soldier was always fixing bayonets and charging into machine guns and artillery fire with great determination. The maths are long and complicated, but it works out that an individual soldier might take part in a major offensive, once every two years. Most casualties were mundane (unless you happned to be the poor B*stard) things like illness, industrial acccident, medical,. like heart attack, or small (!) events like the odd shell or sniper. Also Going over the top was a journalistic phrase, most Britsh Soldiers reffered to it as Throwing a leg over the bags (Sandbags) or just 'Going over the bags'.
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  1703. Gordon Lawrence  A certain recent episode with a sports personality comes to mind.. Someone had the temirity to publish a cartoon of thier childish tantrum. Good men and women died for this to happen.
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  1704. Jump 122 years, and in order to prevent such horrors in America and Europe, and still provide cheap clothes. The ideas and work procedures from 1911 have been exported to the Third World,
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  1705. No , the Royal Marines are a seperate service.
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  1706.  @spikespa5208  Keep 'em coming! 🤣
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  1707. One thing that made the UZI stand out, or not in this case, it was so compact. I once took an early wood stock one down a street. I took the butt off and put that in the Poachers pocket of a Barbour jacket, gun in the other did up the jacket, and that was that.
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  1708. If the Canadian's hadn't discovered the absorbition effect, there would not have been research to replace drugs such as Amlodiopine. And! As a result of that research not taking place Viagra would not have been discovered. 😆
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  1709. A lot of the single shot Martini actions grew .22 barrels , I learnt to shoot on one dated back around 1850's Wacking great lump of action, for a .22 LR or even short and gallery rounds, recoil zero, effort to lift it phenomenal. The long Lee bolt with flappy saftey did carry on to early Lee Enfield N0 2 rifles.
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  1710. A trigger for every P.
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  1711. We apply Rule .303! Funnily enough doing some study of the South African , Boer War recently. A lot is made of the Mauser Rifles, yet when you look at photos a lot of the Boer's had Martini Henrys. By the by, as a result of the Morant affair, no Commonwealth country would allow thier troops to face a British Courtsmartial in the Great War.
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  1712. Joys of research, you're right, up to the very moment- your totally wrong!
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  1713. No4. Better sights. The mid mount sights are a pig, especially on these in indoor range lighting, very small, hard to aquire. That's about the only major thing I can think of.
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  1714. Like any mass produced object some are brilliant some are just.... also age and use on old weapons
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  1715.  @randomnickify  LOL. That I'd love to see.
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  1716.  @Enthropical_Thunder  Considering where they ended up and what they were used for, nobody told the Bren. :-)
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  1717. Yeah like everyone is an Expert in IED's.
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  1718. One hit one kill.
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  1719. If you do ever vist any of the Wesern Front, tread carfully, you don't know who you are walking on. And that is not a joke.
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  1720.  @xxAntiOtakuxx  Yeah , The Great and the Good telling the Great and the Good how Great and Good they are.
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  1721. To bulky, to much ammo needed. They used 6lb QF Naval Guns instead. The Royal Navy had a lot of input in the first Land Ships.
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  1722.  @lwilton  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WdSyRxO-ug You may find this intrestiing. Also the Great War took place in all sorts of enviroments, including the Middle East.
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  1723. Peter Scott's 'Battle of the Narrow seas' mentions them on Coastal Craft including SGB and trawlers.
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  1724.    Were ever you are, keep safe .
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  1725. Trouble with old guns that have been used well beyond the expected life, bit like Grandad's axe, three new handles and two new blades. But so what? Each change is part of the history.
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  1726. Germany was not an Imperial power at the time, but they were working on it! The Boers Wars were almost the same as the current Proxy wars, we'll help you if it stirs up muck for our competitors and spreads influence.
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  1727. The real bullshit in British Law is such cases as the Bacon Sarnie, it is not the intention of the one who threw it that counts. It's what the poor darlings who saw it thrown thought. I don't like your comment I find it offensive :ie you just committed a crime. Last one out, turn off the lights.
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  1728. Whats new in the Antiques world? A lot more than people will admit.
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  1729. When first used with smokless, Nobel's Ballisite the chambers melted and Metford rifleing tore out. The British Comitte for the Modifiaction of Ballasite. and some legal jiggery pokkery over patents, led to CORDITE. Enfeild developed a new rifiling pattern, the rest you know. Balliste blanks were kept for grenade launching, hence you see additional strapping on some SMLE barrels.
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  1730.  @tacticalmattfoley  It was as a War Correspondent, that Churchill went to South Africa. The C96 was private purchase. He had no official positon of the armoured train that was ambushed. He organised the withdrawl during which he was captured. He was in and out of the army at times though.
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  1731. I agree a good film, We Won The War type. The real joy of these type and age of film, they had the real ships , equipment etc. The actors often had practical service experience.
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  1732. Havoc , I agree with DP, despite the best efforts the Damm Antipodeans got every where! Just take a look at the New Zealand Wall at the back of Tyne Cot Cemetery, a lot of good men are still in the land .
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  1733. Maybe not. In Britain, at Oxford University, AI was tested to produce a safe rail system. The answer was brilliant! Stop running trains!
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  1734. I like it, I want to have it in my care and I'm happy to pay the price. The only reason for buying a collectable. That and the fun of finding it. My collectablies all have a story, and none are for sale. Just wish they could talk and tell me thier story.
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  1735.  @parvizdeamer  Hvae you heard Spitfire , prelude and fuge from the 1940's film First of the Few? Hear that on a rainy evening, outside, with a full orchestra, and a Spitfire and Mustang beating up the airfield at the same time. 😆
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  1736.  @jasonwolf6899  Basically , if the word Shire is used alone, it is a hard sound. When attached to a town or place a such as Wostershire or Lancashire it is soft.
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  1737. For the Channel Islands, we don't have a King or queen , we have Le Duc. Always the male pronoun. In 1204 when the Duckedom Of Normandy, went back to the French. The Islands were given a choice. Go to the French, or stay loyal to our leader the Duc De Normandy. We choose to honour our Liege lord. And have remained that that way,
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  1738.  @Zaprozhan  And the result of all this input is the Camel! That is a horse designed by comittie.
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  1739. @FREN Actually the original design is Genoise, Italain, and in the 1860' Palmerston built dozens of them all over the UK to defend against France. The Germans also used a lot of them in the Atlantic Wall during WW2 especially in the Channel Island's. We got rather good at building them. Most if not alll now have legal protection against demolition or development.
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  1740. I belive the Escort vessels were actually two of the 50 American Four stackers, ex USN 'Gifted' to Brtian in return fro bases in the Bahamas,. Best known of the bunch was USS Buchan, renamed HMS Cambeltown, She was used to ram the dry dock gates at St Nazaire.
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  1741.  @niznikb  Many pistols such as the Vostock came with a set of weights so you could tune it to you.
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  1742. And the forts on the North Downs, including Fort Halstead.
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  1743.  @billy123174  Jersey has never been part of the EU., the other lot were. If you had a Jersey marked passport, unles syour parents of grandparents were English , you never were an EU citizen or could claim EU rights. By the way if you vist Normandy, and I'd reccomend it, don't call a Norman, French, they don't like it.
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  1744. The History Guy! Lend me your ear! Anyway , as a spectical wearer, you should have more sympathy. :-) Charles would still have a good political carrer today. In 1870 the Spanish Throne laid the foundations of a world war, and Gibraltar is still causing problems to this day.
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  1745. The revolvers were used in trench raids. In the confines of fighting trenches, rifle and bayonet are just to awkward to swing about. Pistols . clubs and entrenching tools were weapons of choice. Even a 16 inch bayonet was found unweildy and a lot were cut down. Standard British /Empire tactics became a guy with a bag of grenades as the first offense with riflemen to back him up. Lewis and Vickers Crews could be issued with revolvers, also tank crews.
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  1746. Depends on the speed it moves. Newton No2 . Force = Mass x aceleration. so it can weigh less if it takes off faster. The 3 laws of motion Newton devised all work together.
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  1747.  @Adarisa  Don't forget the London Bourough of Bromley KENT!! Bloody expansionists!
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  1748. The BSA one ? Nice little gun, a lot of kids , including me, they were the prized poesscion.
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  1749. One giant pice of stupidity. The manufacturer takes a lot of time sticking warning notices over the machines, for a reason.
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  1750.  @toast2610  Actually Mon V, I idntify my self as a Jerseyman. And as the Queen's oldest title is the Duches of Normandy, if which the Channel Island's were part. The only part remaingg in the UK. I can be in conflict with myself, but hey I live with it The Britsh Empire was no better or worse than most. It is the prejdice of one grup of people aboput others that cause conflict.
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  1751. First time I've seen pockets that need wheels on them. :-)
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  1752. No love, No work.
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  1753. PLEASE!! Take time to note day date time place and any other context of what you dig up. Being here you understand the importance, but so many just grab and run, any information that is important is lost. A cause of livley discussion in UK and in Europe many places require you to have a licence for a metal detector.
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  1754.  @jonathanatkinson6081  Yep, same in UK. Had to attend a place where someone had jumped off a bridge. Hit a van windscreen on the way down.Then bounced on to road , got hit by articulated truck, plus a futher number of cars. It was a case of sponging up the remains. But had to go to hospital for a Doctor to pronounce dead. I learnt anothe rimportant lesson then. Don't be sick on the evidence!
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  1755. Jixijenga: Wilson was being stroked by the German's even to the point of allowing them to use US diplomatic communication channels in a code that the US couldn't read. The first action of the British in WW1 and Ww2 was to cut the transatlantic cables the German's used. We also read US diplomatic traffic and broke the two Zimmerman Telegrams. In order to disguse the fact we could and did read US diplomatic traffic the story of the telegram being stolen from Mexico was devised. When first published in US the press were quite naturally skeptical. Then Zimmerman himself in one of the most breath taking pices of international diplomacy went public and said 'Oh yes I sent it'. Wilson then declared war. He'd been made to look a complete fool. But at that time due to the state of general ommunications only the British and French goverment knew, and it was n't in thier intrest to embarras Wilson. Though I have no doubt the hint was dropped that 'well, maybe'.
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  1756. But a Smith and Wesson beats four Aces! ;-)
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  1757. The sword was from the Royal collection at Windsor. The placing of the tomb at the West Door of Westminster Abbey was decided so that it would be visible to all. There are a number of traditions that have built up. First it is the only tomb in the Abbey not walked over. Second Royal Brides at the Abbey , starting with HM QueenElizabeth , The Queen Mother, lay thier wedding boquets on the tomb. The first was to Honour the Queen Mother's brother Ferugus killed in 1915. No soldiers gaurd the tomb, for various reasons, including that it was felt it would segregate the Tomb from the people.
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  1758. Why do men go to war? They belived that what they were doing was right.
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  1759.  @HollyMoore-wo2mh  Absolutley true!
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  1760. Rushed into production, them modified heavily. Hum Wonder where BAE Systems got involved in it?
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  1761. A pleasure to see craftsmen at work.
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  1762. Costs, Webley £5 10/- , 5 pounds ten shillings or 5 and 1/2 pounds. Colt £4 5/- , 4 pounds 5 shillings , 4 and a 1/4 pounds. An average wage at the time , about 17/6 , Seventeen shillings 6 pence, , there were 20 shillings to the pound. . Beer at the time 2d, 2 Pennies per pint. (12 pennies to the shilling)
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  1763. Trev: The Problem is 'Guidelines' Senior officer don't like the law so 'Interpret it to suit themselves' I did get the de-ac's back in the end but the police were not that willing. It took Solicitors and many complaints, including me quoting the stautes. . Yet during the incident I had belted one of my attackers with an iron bar, the only thing I had handy at the time. The answer to that was fine you were defending yourself. Gets a bit much when you have to know the law better than the Police.
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  1764.  @leeenfield3404  Yes a mate of mine was in the First Gulf War.He b rought me back quite a bit of stuff that fell off the back of a US lorry . :-) By the By I shoot a P14 :-)
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  1765. There are anecdotal stories of Britsh and US troops coming to blows over how black troops wer etreated in US Forces.Plus similar stories of tension when British Civillians would not segregate black and white at social events.
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  1766.  @shawnr771  Just a diffrence in attitude. as in US there are exceptional stories of Black people , the same in UK, Generally, you still get the idiots. But there was no official defined segregation.
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  1767. Cant do that! Red pigments are poisionous , three thousand page H&S report, leave undisturbed!
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  1768. Jay Zenitram  Schipole Airport is about 4 meters below sea level. Wired when a GPPS read Altitude Minus..
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  1769. Hello! Elbonia Defence forces? This is your friend. I have a speed loader design for you!
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  1770.  @walkingcontradiction223  I had a home invasion a few years back, but I'm trained to react and in that case What Rule Book? The pair tried it on someone else a few weeks later, and one of them got stabbed bythe home owner with a screwdriver. My regret? The other guy had to go through it.
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  1771.  @georgerobartes2008  LMAO Twice! I'd have loved to been a fly on the wall when they went back under thier rock ! Ho'd it go bruv?
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  1772. What's worse then raining cats and dogs? Hailing Taxis and Buses! British joke , well sort of. I'll just get my coat.
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  1773. Off topic but Leatherman have got it right. Mine has got me out of the brown and dirty many times.
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  1774. I started! But, I'm not going to finish. MeatPorridge.
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  1775.  @ukp42  Ha ha :-)
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  1776. Unfortunatley OSHA, what , another one?
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  1777. The main factory site, is now a Mc Donnald's :-(
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  1778.  @gutfinski  The thing is most people who live around Dartford and Crayford, Kent UK, have absolutley no idea that a hundred years ago the area was one of the main enginnering and arms producing areas of the world. Guns, aircraft and ships. The local Poloticians , don't think it is a 'Nice' legacy.
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  1779.  @blueband8114  Though over a hundred years have passed now, so the Preserved Sections have had so much work done, they are unrecognisable. I've been priviliged to dig some small parts of the front lines, that gives a totally diffrent perspective, it was a very Dynamic Landscape, to put it mildly.
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  1780.  @johnm3907  But very restircted compared to the US. SMLE and P14 are allowed though!
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  1781. And who is going to tell him 'No mate, you can't park it there'!
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  1782. The missing mines have been known about from the time they were dug . For those intrested I'd recommend the Australian film Beneath Hill 60 it is historical accurate and well made. Fun fact: When orders were sent for large amounts of Amonal (Ammonium Nitrate Explosive) the signal got corrupted to Amolnitrate- This being, at the time, a drug used to supress...Libido.. The result led to much headscratching at GCHQ. The technical term for the lifting power of an explosive is called Brisiance. Deflagration Burns very fast Detonation- Substance disrupts at a molecular level. Nuclear- Substance disrupts at atomic level. The shells on Mont Blanc would not have been shipped with fuses (Detonators) fitted. Bloody obvious really, the fuses were impact, so any bump, boom. The explosive contaiined in the shells would cook off, that creates the shockwave when the pressure bursts the casing.
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  1783.  @victosaure5930  I've had a look at my P14 bayonet- markings 1913- that is the pattern of the bayonet. the two figures 12 16- 12th month -1916 makers name, in my case Remington (But my P14 is a Winchester rifle) other side Broad Arow mark C5 A , inspectors mark and two crossed swords proofing mark. yours may have similar, but over stamped with US military markings.
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  1784.  @victosaure5930  Ah, the cross may well be a double broad arrow. When British equipment is disposed of a second arrow is stamped over the top for 'Out of Service. that would suggest it was made for a British Rifle, but never issued, so when the US took over the production line any old stock was included. The British originally paid up front for all the lines and material, the sum of $21,000,000 is lurking in my mind. It ended up each manufacturer , no parts interchanable, due to speed of production. So each P14 has a w, E, or R, prefix to serial number. Mine is a W. the US paid about $9,000,000 for the production lines (Good Deal!) and took over all stock. 😁
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  1785.  @victosaure5930  Ah , sounds like a cancelled arrow. When British equipment is disposed of the broad arrow has a second arrow struck on top of the original to make an X. The British paid up front for all teh equipment and raw material for the P14. The sum of $21,000,000 comes to mind. Due to speed of manufacturer true interchangeability was not achieved. All P14 have a W, E, or R prefix to serial. Mine is a W, considered the best. when the contract finished, the US bought the lines for $9,000,000 and took all stores. So may have bene your bayonet wa sin store, and then issued with a M17. Intriguing .
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  1786.  @Doobie3010  So what's new in that department? 🙂
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  1787. All the flying pigs have safley returned to the base. We counted them all out and we counted them back in. It was a scare caused by a backfiring car that has resulted in the Ordure you see all over the base, when they vented before landing. Anything elses is corrupt western Fasciti propoganda against the peace loving humintarian Putin. That is so Comrade, isn't it?
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  1788.  @jasoncornell1579  Hook was also , contrary to the film, a very disciplined , proffesional soldier.
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  1789. Russia is busy throwing --- muck... in all directions , to see what will stick, and what will distract the rest of the World. Unfortunatley Putin's plan seems to be 'If I can't have it, no one will'.
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  1790. I used to use a folding single barrel non ejecting 12 bore Baikal. That gun spent most of it times in a leather saddle hoslter , out in all weathers fording through rivers, in rain , snow and with mimimum care. It just kept working safley. I own a now 40+ year old Vostock .22 bolt action target gun, first rifle I ever bought. Still shoots far better than I can achive. All Russian guns tend to be what the west considers short stocked, but bear in mind if your hunting in Russia in winter, you'd have a very thick coat.
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  1791. Heres onf for Ian to find and film. If you don't have PIAT try the Smith Gun http://civildefence-suffolk.webeden.co.uk/#/3-inch-osb-gun/4547712744 Pjojectile is a milk bottle filled with Nitro Glycerine. You know what guys? Pass the PIAT.
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  1792. In the Villiage of Tilly Sur Selles (BE careful there are actually two) in Normandy July 1944 there was a major battle for a cross roads. At the time there was a statue of Joan D'Arc, Maid D'Orleons on a plinth in the middle. It got hit by a shell. The villigares keep the staute saying Joan was shot through the heart. I visited the museum in which it is kept with a ballistics expert. We all solemly listned , then on leaving my friend burst out laughing. He reckoned she had shot from behind low down. On the plus side the villiage also produces the oldest and best Calvados in Normandy , there fore the world. Like drinking liquid sunshine.
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  1793.  @AtheistOrphan  The Strength of a Shire Horse, the speed of a Racehorse,and the brains of a Rocking Horse! :-)
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  1794.  @mordecaieagle4240  It's from Jingo, describe Achmed and his sword. (Must admit I had to look up) the title at this time in the morning)
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  1795.  @bentilbury2002  Teacher, Teacher I saw an Elephant pick up a bun with it's tail! Teachers smiles sweetly, 'Yes darling! What it do then?' Pupil, you wouldn't belive me if I told you!
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  1796. Jump forward thirty years. 1944 Occupied Channel Islands. Same arguments bettween NAZI Germany and the British and Churchill. With British Civillians involved. Fortunatley the International Red Cross organised the SS Vega. Civillians were fed
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  1797. I got the blurred Loupe with prussian blue around the edge. Now you turn the loupe to focus it. :-)
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  1798. These in .22 sell in UK for about £30. They still shoot straight though. The actions can be of Victorian maufacture, if not polished out there would be a large VR on the side of the action.
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  1799.  @Kumimono  Regina, Sir! Empress of India and all that. Quite a girl actually if you look into the background. Victorian Morales- well yes , just check the history:-)
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  1800.  @transporter8884  Ego.They were Hitlers English Poccessions (Don't tell me or any other Islander we are English, we don't likeit) Hitler had the idea they would remain in German pocession as Strength through Joy resort.
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  1801.  @binaway  Plus about 35,000 troops and the only Panzer division never to see action. Due to the size of the Island' s roadFrench Renault F17 were used.Anumber of the turretes were taken and placed on the fortifications. Anoither popular gun wa sthe Chez 4.7 cm anti tanke gun, around100 were established in Jersey. There also also French guns dating back to the 1890's. There were Luftwaffe operations, but due to a high rate of accidents (Which is a tale in its self) no permenat Lufftwaffe presence.
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  1802. To be exact, it is on the edge of St Aubin's bay. Walter Railigh wa sgovenor of the castle at one time.
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  1803. Get a system called Tifor, they are hand operated winches that walk on thier own wire. Easy and safe to use, if sensible, .
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  1804. Next place has got to Eben Emale.
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  1805.  @9VARZ  Oh S*it! There is one good reason for not buying it. The old P38 was easy enough to work on the air suspension, the Discovery is over priced over complicated and bloody useless, go to coils.
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  1806. On boarding the Altmark apart from the phrase 'The Navy's here!' it wa sthe last time the Andrew issued Cutlass for boarding. As for the Graff Spee, the Britsh actually came up with the idea of sending Britsh merchant men out of Montividio , as the rules were a combatant unit couldn't leave till a merchant man had 24 hours start. The idea was delay Graff Spee till heavy units of the Andrew arrived.
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  1807. And the Aro 234 the only German aircraft able to fly rece over the Normandy Beaches.
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  1808. But zey haven't caught me, or even know I am here!
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  1809. Pleasure Troy.
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  1810.  @pohakumana  No they aren't. Give electricity a path to ground, ie a large steel ,. MEWP, full of hydraulic oil, and the result is now on film.
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  1811. With an unkown amount of electricity about? After you.
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  1812. Sounds familar! I wonder where I've heard that.......are yes ! Quantative Easing. :-)
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  1813. The Russians don't have to take Odessa, they just have to render it inoperable. Putin seems to have resorted to 'If I can't have it, no one will'. The prime purpose of conquest is to exploit the economy of the captured. If not destroy said economy.
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  1814.  @zacharyrollick6169  Makes the tea the correct strength. A good tea should brew , or rather Infuse. for two or three minutes.
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  1815. Gravity : Nope!
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  1816. Or if youre on the other end, a Hurt of Bren Guns.
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  1817.  @kamelionify  Thanks.
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  1818. You'd be suprised! Evil, ugly little sods, I've seen them mob a fox. Give them somwhere to roost of the ground. Nothing will get in they won't tell you about
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  1819. These were often Winchester 70 actions supplied via the Send a Gun to A British Home movement formed in US. Though there is an anecdotal trail that Mossberg MB 42 's supplied under lease lend were also modified to with suppresors and supplied to the Auxilary Units.
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  1820. To quote the old adage Two sets of people hold the law in contempt, those who brake it, and those who make it.
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  1821.  @zoiders  Basically. I've lugged a De Ac one around the Western Front as part of Remeberance celebrations, They are heavy , and full of sharp edges. As for Churchill, my Farther was a South Wales Miner, he was about ten at the time of the Tonypandy riots, he spat at Churchill's name. Though as usual , its whose story you read.
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  1822.  @zoiders  Forgot to say . When the Platoons firepower depends on the gun, you don't give it to an idiot. :-)
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  1823. Yeah , but you only have two families involved in that one. This lot were at it for a hundred years before, and after.
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  1824.  @cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647  Be prepared I did so recently ,now having grandkids. Found out my Farther lost his elder brother in a South Wales mining accident in 1914, and my maternal grandmother ,who obviously I never met, died 18 months after. He never spoke of it.
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  1825.  @cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647  yeah my fmily had that as well. Only found out after my Mother died she made sure somone told me.But hey All families are human :-)
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  1826.  @cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647  The problem with families, is you don't get to choose 'em! Enjoy the journey. :-)
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  1827. British Army also had a canvas strap with a buckle and leather hoops, like a cartridge belt. That was designed to fit around the centre pole of a bell tent and keep rifles upright.
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  1828. Britsh Army Hard Tack is Biscuits Brown AB (All Bran) . There use in survial is as follows. Place two packets in a green army sock. Then use said club to beat anything to death rather than eat the &** biscuits. The altenative is Biscuits Fruit AB, they are Super sized Garibaldi biscuits and the Food of the Gods. Another deep joy was Cheese Processed, AKA Cheese Pocessed. Legend has it that it is considered inhumane and unusual torment to feed it to prisoners.
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  1829.  @shugo541  Not to mention straight of the motorway into the car park and the bus fare included in parking. Brilliant idea.
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  1830.  @thedogfatherjt2243  The teatment of Russians POWs by thier own goverment following the Liberation of the Channel Island's, the Soviet Goverment didn't give a damm about anybody. All they wanted was labour.
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  1831. It is illegal for a woman to eat choclate on the top deck of a London Bus! It is considered lewd behaviour, which might excite working men. 🤣
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  1832.  @kennethgarland4712  Absolulety correct! And, the language is not French, it is Jerriais, the Norman dialect. the Head of sate is the Duc De Noemandy, always the male pronoun, The Duc, also has a secondary title, that of Queen of the United kingdom. those Lions by the way? there ours, the British stole them. the Sates of both Islands have a Baillif, they are the civil power. The Duc has a representaive on each Island, a Lieutenant (NOTE!) Govenor. Who though they represent the Duc in the Sates Chambers, sit below the Bailliff. Both Chambers also have a Royal Mace, and use the Royal Seal, the history of that is a story in itself.
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  1833. Money must have quieted his concience. The black figure shooting over Peirsons body is his man servant Pompey, who killed the French marksman, the figures of women and children in the lower right are allegedly Pierson's Wife , children and maid servant.
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  1834. Non rigid Dirgibles were also used in the Great War by the British for anti submarine patrols in the English Channel. The first person to land on a moving ship was Edwin Harris Dunning DSC, on HMS Furious 2nd August 1917 , he was killed on the third attempt of the day. The person with the most Carrier landings was Captain Eric (Winkle) Brown CBE DFC Hon FRAes RN. Samnuel Cody's memeorial at Royal Aircraft Establishment Farnbourough is a facsimile of his engine test stand . https://www.ipmsottawa.com/farnborough/codystree.htm
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  1835.  @davidcampbell4465  Or as it became known in UK Die-Nasty. The all fell out of the family tree, and hit every branch before landing hard on thier heads.
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  1836. USA was never occupied, neither was , most , of the UK. I come from part of the UK, Jersey Channel Island's, that was. The teachers and adults who influenced me had lived through it. Speack if you see wrong, fight for what is right. and always question anyone who trys to impose thier view on you. ,
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  1837. And the Canarys! Girls that worked with TNT at the British Arsenals , there skin turned yellow. That's without the effects of Phosporus, see The Match Girls. Woolwich Aresenal had thre ehuts during the Great War used for Radium sights and instruments, the area is now sealed of and no gras sgrows.
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  1838.  @aardque  Even the power company would come and physically check. There are some sobering vids on power line saftey on youtube, worth watching, even if it's just a tree has come down outside your house and hit a line.
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  1839. He would have needed to be to be well built. Those things are a brute to lug about.
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  1840. I have 2 1944 WC Dodges, a 51 and a 54. Joy of them, they were never designed or built to be show vehicles, thier job was to keep men alive. And they are both a joy to own and drive.
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  1841. I disagree, History is, I can't see how this Glorifys the woman, more shows her to be a priviliged spoilt brat with to much time on her hands. I would suggest that a number of the agitators well known today have the same sort of background. Notice once one rises to the top of the heap it becomes Policy to remove interllectuals? Doing away with the rivals.
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  1842. good photo of Maxim. You can't see the strings! South East London must have been an exciting place to live at that time with Maxim trying all his new guns out.
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  1843.  @mommad9863  How many sober people have been killed by someone who choose to drive a vehicle after voluntariily drinking??
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  1844. Then can I explain to you, that the oldest title the Monarchy holds, is Duc De Normandy, and that you lot North of the South Coast are the newcomers. And, stop claiming our Lions!
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  1845. Blody hell , that must be 55 , 56 years ago now the film came out!
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  1846. Ben: From practical experience the wieght of a BREN hold it quite stable.
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  1847. Which goes to show why you should question scources ofinformation very carefully.
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  1848. To you it's historic, to others it's 'Where I live'. History and we live here! Still causing problems on the Western Front.
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  1849. Max: The English are the same, but then so are the American's , the German's the Austrian's the Dutch and the Belgians. 'WE' are wholly good guys! 'THEY are wholly bad guys!
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  1850. There was an American drive 'Gun's For British Homes' produced all sorts of firearm, and ancillary equipment such as Binoculars and compasses.
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  1851. The numbering system was for security, a lot of these wapons were manufactured by slave or forced labour. In order to avaoid the same situatioon as happned with the Polish Randoms, parts being smuggled out and then assembledelsewhere, everything was marked to track it.
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  1852.  @BoldAlligator  You need people in the musuems as well, who know and love thier subject. The Mary RoseMuseum is like that , so is the British Musuem. A 64 year old weary cynic, acting like a 10 year old in a sweet shop because the nice man is letting him play with all these old coins and answering silly questions :-)
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  1853. Compatability. I have two 1944 Dodges WC 3/4 ton a Weapons Carrier and Ambulance. The bar was set then. 80% parts interchangeabilty. you can Peter and Paul, got two damaged? Build one that works from the two, and still a load of spare bits to keep others going.
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  1854. Put enough holes in any ship, it will sink.
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  1855.  @briangarrow448  Depends if I owe you money?
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  1856.  @briangarrow448  Well Flashman was a noted, and made sure everybody knew it , Cricketer.Look where it got him.In debt being chashed by the match fixers, and Bismark. Good reads aren't they? :-)
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  1857. I've looked a lot, and invaribly the Muppet puts his palm over the ram rod.
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  1858.  @Madchefred  The original BEf had the same reputation, 15 aimed rounds a minute was the minimum expected, and the better you shoot , the better you get paid.
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  1859.  @amymccall500  it works, that's the important bit.
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  1860.  @slamblamboozled1245  The one I learnt on had a large VR on the side. Bit of a give away? :-) It is a very tough reliable action.
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  1861. Point off intrerst, and not Conspiracy theory. There were some odd radio communications picked up before Gagarin orbited, which suggest he may have been the First Man to Survive a Space Launch, Orbit and return. The monitoring of Russian communications started during WW2, but most of this time is still classified.
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  1862. The man who was Charles Du Paty deClam, son of Armand Du Paty, one of the major carechters in the Dreyfus case.
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  1863.  @clark9992  And all the wierd pronuciations Igtham (Item) Trottescliffe (Trossley ) and that all time favourite Leominster. (Lemster)
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  1864. That is known as Umble or Humble pie.
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  1865. Hey they worked, right up the time some sneacky sod developed the world's biggest mobile artillery, Krupp and Skoda. But take comfort that they had to work hard speciffically becuse you had the forts.
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  1866. Is this the first example of standard design in warfare?
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  1867.  @chrisneedham5803  No man's Land group did an excvation of the feild next door some years back- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1860jWey9Q
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  1868.  @allanlank  I've been there a number of times, never ceases to grip the heart.
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  1869.  @josephturner4047  Deepest sympathys,that shouldn't happen to any Grandparent. or parent. Though in that situation it is normal to sound Reville immidiatly after to represent reawaking in the after life.
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  1870.  @barvdw  My mates are Belgium! Guess what I call it? :-) So saying at one commenration event I was priviliged to attend that night we had at least tweleve diffrent languages being spocken around the table. Awaiting the time I can vist again.
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  1871. The belt case is standard Field Glass issue, see the date in the top? The Bren did come in a wooden box, with a spares roll, tools , magazines etc. These shipping crates are rare in thier own right and change hands for a lot of money. There was also a canvas case from shoulder starps for cleaning tools , some spares and a spare barrel.
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  1872. Give it ten years or so, and they will be selling them second hand on E bay. Development and innovation is that fast now.
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  1873.  @davidedbrooke9324  AHHH!!!! Neevr call a Norman French! Like calling a Scotsman , English, only the Norman's are less forgiving! :-)
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  1874. Everyone gets Frothy over the Luger and decries the C96. But, how many toggle action pistols do you see now?
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  1875.  @kovy689  I can tell you the thickst, but most lovable and gentle, Greyhounds. 😁
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  1876. You've still left a large important part out. That of the Duchy of Normandy. The Monarch's oldest title is Duc de Normandy. That is how they are recognised by the Channel Islands. In 1204 the Islands decided to remain with thier Duc (Always the male pronoun) and not reconise the French Monarchy. By the way the three English Lions? Talk to them, the top two speak Jerriais, Norman French , the bottom one speaks French.
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  1877. A trick I was taught for cold weather shooting, don't use gloves, bind thermal material around your forearms so the blood is wam going into your hands, then gloves don't get in the way. Though keep gloves for when you aren't shooting. It works.
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  1878. Proves that the item has been tested to near destruction before you buy it.
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  1879. You get a TRAIN in Leeds? WoW! Who do YOU know? (English peple will know exactaly what I mean)
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  1880. paul manson  Never under estimate a good Quarter master, you can have all the trops in the world, but no guns, bullets , toilet paper, they are useless. By 1918 the German cuboard was bare. There wa snot even yeast for bread, silage, pickled grass normally fed to animals, was used as a rising agent. German troops reaching Allied supply dumps just stopped. Why go futher we have everything we want here? How can we win against an army that has so much when we have so little? I agree Ludendorff got promoted well above his ability. He made his reputation on the Eastern Front as a 'Corageous , dashing commander' when in fact he was bricking himself over the two Russian Armies and wante dto retreat. It wa sonly that one of his staff officers, can't remeber who at the moment, had witnessed the two Rusian Commanders brawling over an exercise pre war, and convinced him that neither would support the other regardless. On such petty things a battle is lost.
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  1881. fazole  In the case of munitions on Lusitania and other ships from the Neuteral America, yes there was what was called a Black Manifest. The US knew so did the British, but it was not mentioned that both had copies, as it wasn't with German shipping. The Lusitania's Black Manifest, since releaesd show brass part finished shell casings from the Bethlehem Steel Works. A lot of the damage trumpted as the munitions Exploding was occcasioned when in the 1950's for reasons never made public, the Irish Navy Depth charged the wreck. Though why you should think that eveidence that a power engaged in hostilities should be communicating , through your Diplomatic channels with your neighbour offering that neighbour military aid and territorial gain if they invade you, is not a reason to very peeved, well that makes you a very tolerant person. Bear in Mind the Authour of this proposition, a High Ranking official, the Forign Minister of Germany confirmed in public to the US pres sthat he was the authour of the proposal, with the support of his Goverment,.
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  1882. But, it could have started ealier. The Moracan Crisisi of 1905 and 1911. Seems this incident, which I'd never heard of before, set a German Precedent. Though it normally considered a British Empirical saying 'Send a Gunboat'.
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  1883.  @Nightcrawlerfive  Even the British fell over in suprise when Zimmerman camly announced , yes I sent it. There are actually two telegrams. The story of the British finding it in Mexico is a lie. One of the first actions of Britian was to cut the German trans atlantic telegraph wires, so everything came through Britian. Trouble was 'Gentlemen don't read each others mail' So we couldn't state out right, we 've hacked your cables,and brocken your diplomatic codes. By the way we also can read the German Traffic which they are sending over your US diplomatic wires, which the US couldn't. Now of course the US Goverment is not allowed to monitor US telecomms! So they get us to do it where the cables come ashore in Cornwall.
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  1884. Careful ! Great War Research is incurable, I should know, Dear Agony Aunt for the last fifteen years or so.....
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  1885. Used to be known as 'Grid Square Removers'.
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  1886. Diffrent gun! These beauty's go more like Bumfpha bumpha.
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  1887. That was part of the Indian Mutiny. The story was put out that new cartirdge was sealed with a Beef fat, that upset the Hindu religion or Pork , that upset the Muslim religion. I belive the fat wa sactually goat or mutton. Amongst other things this led to the incident of The Black Hole of Calcutta.
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  1888. We are talking India here. The Britsh Raj for all it faults wasn't stupid. You don't excersise controll over three million odd people with a couple of thousand by giving obvious cause for unrest. Religious faiths were an obvious target for unrest and so were respected. In fact most of the problems for the Empire came when Christian Missionaries were let loose on local custom .
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  1889. The Trade Wars with China, and that's what they were of the 1850's are relevant to today. Britiain was buying Tea, ( Americans going 'Not again') Silk and porcelain (China) in large quantaties. The expectation was China would buy goods from Britian in exchange. Except, the Chinease were having none of it, Cash on the barreel, in Silver or gold. Britian also had problems in India with Opium production , and use. It was also the only thing a lot of Chinese Merchants wanted. Alarmed for obvious reasons , the Chinese Rueling elite banned Opium. This was as unpoular with thier own people as the British. Eventually tea seeds were 'Aquired ' by a Scots man Robert Fortune, in 1848 . Silk Moths were also aquired and the monopoly of China brocken, as far as the British were concerned , and Tea in India replaced Opium as a cash crop, win , win for the British Empire. Silk production even took place briefly in England.
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  1890.  @elcastorgrande  A good story always gets about. :-)
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  1891. All Empires have their day. The EU has had it's.
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  1892. Fitzroy founded the Met Office in UK. Now an International Strateigic Meterlogical Office. He is also commemerated in the Sea Area Fitzroy off the Western Approaches. He is supposed to have committed suicide in 1865, because his weather forecasts failed to prevent ships sinking. I also live about 5 miles from Downe House.
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  1893. Yes, maybe Ian should shave? :-)
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  1894. Apparently the temprature isn't high enough to burn them. Much easier to crack an e reader :-)
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  1895.  @r.blakehole932  Intrestingly a lot of archives are going back to paper for just that reason. A lot of stuff on one foremat wont read on another , and formats change quickly.
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  1896. If the loco moves at sea it may be damaged. Sod that! It would go clean through the side of the ship. Why the stupid music?
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  1897. Mike: What about the French La Gloire. The worlds first ocean going Ironclad warship? Launched in 1859 the most powerful ship afloat. One year later in 1860 Britian launched HMS Warrior, La Gloire was obsolete, though a few years later both were ancient history when in 1872 HMS Thunderer the Royal Navies first Turret Ship was launched.
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  1898. There is saying I've just seen 'Your Rights end at my offence'. So every vidio you look at Youtube, find something offensive and complain, won't be difficult if you are a narrow minded twit.
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  1899. a google user  There is a story, substansiated, that Australian troops found a MG08 gunner who had chained himself and the gun to tree. He kept firing untill he was badly wounded. When asked why the chains, his reply was he was afraid his courage might fail and he would run away.
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  1900. Question: Why do Americans say 'Lock and Load' when the British use the obvious sysyem, Load and Lock. You Load the weapon with an unprimed lock, then prime the lock, that is the obvious safest way of doing it.
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  1901.  @trazyntheinfinite9895  Bear in mind that has varied through history, and in UK V American English, spelling and pronouncation still does. Tyre and Tire come imidiatly to mind. (Not to mention typing)
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  1902. The sold out of Service mark was two arrow marks nose to nose making an X . Not all surplus kit at the time had it though.
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  1903.  @guypierson5754  I'll have that picture in my mind all day. :-)
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  1904. OIh I know exactaly what you mean! I turned a .410 converted No 1 down at £100 , I must have been practicing! I couldn't be born that stupid!
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  1905. Might be safer to drive on UK roads.
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  1906.  @mop0014  Not heard that one. I must admit the Mosquito Bomber from WW2 came to mind ,so never underestimate the Mosquito :-)
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  1907. Micke; Don't annoy the wildlife, they belong there.
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  1908. And the old Gunners Quadrant.
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  1909. Ireland dida lot to help the Allied cause. Not least the actions of Maureen Sweeny.
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  1910. ukranian anti tank teams reactions 'Oh Goody a new toy to shoot at!' Rule 1 of armour, don't put into urban warfare without infantary support.
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  1911. Thanks for conformation James. There were also Irish yeomanary, no Eirie at the time, and Australian and New Zealand detachments. And Spaecial detachments, the most famous or infamous being the Bushveldt Carbinners' .
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  1912. Current situation Ummm! Nasty men in Black knocking on door looking for subversives.
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  1913. Your better with a group. Also the Naval Firepower Museum Explosion at Portsmouth has a very nice reference collection including examples from the German High seas Fleet. They group tours.
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  1914.  @scottcbutton  Also primers, and stability of the propellant The British Military settled on Cordite, a variation of Nobel propellant. So close he sued the UK goverment, turned out the patent had wooly wording so the UK told him to go away and stop bothering them. The stuff did have , and still does , some problems of stability in hot humid climates.
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  1915.  @morton2200  Thanks for info :-)
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  1916. Other problem is where would you get .303 ammunition in an Occupied country? The STEN was 9mm because there was a ready supply. STEN was not actually that common amongst resistance forces and mostly used on single shot. The majority of heavier weapons were taken from the Occupiers. A Resistance group were not equipped trained or expected to take part in set piece engagements or hold ground. There main value was the intelligence they generated. Armed actions were often counter productive.
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  1917. They must have long dark winter nights in Romania.
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  1918.  @michaelrizea3108  That's not a purley Romanian problem my friend.
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  1919.  @laxityazathoth1423  Sounds optomistic:-)
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  1920.  @zoiders  Having worked at a place that stored SUSAT I can assure you it's true.
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  1921. Jesse Quine  I take it you come from somewhere that has not had armed German Invaders walking your streets with in living memory? There is an under bubbling dislike of German's even now in a lot of Europe. I have a problem with German's coming from the Channel Island's, but that is MY PROBLEM! Hopefully it will die with my generation, but be very careful,. There is still an obvious mark on the countryside of Occupied lands in Europe, and that is Germn Cemitries, all are multiple burrials, except where CWWG and othe national war cemitires are mixed, of which there are many, because the people did not want the invaders left on thier ground, nasty? see it from the point of the view of the Occupied. YThough the Russian War Memorial in Berlin was knowen locally as 'The Tomb of The Unkown Rapist'.
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  1922. Burlats de Montaigne  Yes Mon V. As a child we adored a tall gentle man who was a gardener and used to give us fruit and veg to take home to Mum, I only found out ta his funeral that he was German. Equally there was a 4 foot 5 stone wringing wet little lady who sacred the hell out of us, she had survived Auschwitz. How do you come to terms? God knows, I'm still trying.
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  1923. I still start any journey with an adage whacked into me as a kid on the Island Of Jersey . We'll go sailing 'God and Weather Permitting'
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  1924. There all that , and a sthick as aplank, they aren't ther brightest stars in the sky. But easy to keep! Eat, sleep , wander about a bit, find some way to embarrass owner, repeat. 😁
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  1925.  @ericbartol  A problem in UK as well. People spend eye watering amounts on Posh dogs. Then get upset because the dog roams about causing havoc. What do you expect you dumb >&**(? There a working breed , they are intillegent , they get bored!
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  1926. Funny enough, it all started in the US. Didn't get to Britian till about 1921, so thise year is the Centenary.
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  1927.  @shawnr771  true.
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  1928. ​ @henryvandeventer2457  I don't doubt your family history, as it happens my family history contains perscution by the English Establishement. What I said was the tactics were not new,, and are still in use by some regimes. My family is Welsh by the way.
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  1929. 34:19 It's called going bid happy. I've seen a brocken wood chair, basically firewood' make £500 Sterling because two wealthy bidders hated each other. The old Auctionner saw is a Good price demands a dertimined underbidder.
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  1930. Bit of a myth. Most knew they were in for a long war the 'Over By Christmas' started as a sarcastic remark , but has gone into 'Everyone knows'
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  1931. So the U Boats were just after military cargoes? As for Reperations, have a word with the French following the Franco-Prussian war in 1870, and the Austrians post the Austro -Prussian war, the six week war of 1866. After both these conflicts Prussia suggested to the other Independent Grman Sates, 'Let's unify! By the way, that army sitting out there really need not influence your descion, ask Austria , then France. So we'll be the Boss then agreed?
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  1932.  @neues3691  So? Am I only one that sees parralles with the Roman Empire? Not a lot changes ,unfortuantley
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  1933.  @chrisd8866  The parralles just keep coming:-) Though formany years it was the conquest of South America that was thouight to have introduced Smallpox to Europe,
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  1934. With friends like Alison has, who needs enemies?
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  1935. First no need to be sarcky. A gun fires at a flat trajectory from depresion o 23 degrees. In the case of entrenched troops even with delayed fuse shells you need a plunging fire to give the trajectory where it can bury itself, and in the case of the Wesern Front of the Great War, a lot didn't work. Proof is they are still there . The shortage of heavy weapons for plunging fire was a headache for both sides. Shrapnel , air burst, was the one used in the majority of cases, British Shrapnel was lead so lots are found, German shrapnel was steel so is unusal to come across. The Roayl Artillery fired during the Great War about , got to remember the noughts, 999, 999,9037 18 lb shrapnel shells at a cost of £4 Sterling each.
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  1936. When you say 8mm, do you mean the case head is marked 8 mm?Or is it 7.92 mm
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  1937.  @davidberesford875  Thanks, some of the reference to 8 mm being 7.92 is confusing me.
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  1938. Note : The name Crozier is that of a family of Anglo Scottish border Reivers, ie a bunch of bushwacking cut throats.
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  1939. PeLOmaRgni  Hey Mon V we have Les Charriers and Le Squez and Quennavais in an English land, all of which the Locals pronounce! Try Welsh Boyo such as Abertillery and Cwm Du. ? Stiil can't get the hang of Mimoyecques though. .
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  1940. The rifles at 1:47 are British Long Lees. The famous Mauser Rifles ,were actually few on the ground. The Commando's fought with what they had. A lot of Brtish subjects were also forced to work for Boer Coloums, Fortunatley by 1914 the Britsh Army had learnt a lot of lessons from South Africa, and we were friends again. It is also why Churchill named the Speacial Stricking Forces in WW2 Commando's. Another story worth remebering of this time , that of Breacker Morant and the Bushveldt Carbiners.
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  1941. See punt in action https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwEwF7VAaEA
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  1942. The commandant at the time was named Huffmier, he had commanded Schanhorst during operation Cerberus. He was an ardent NAZI and Hitler appointed him CinC of the Island's in 1944 as he thought the previous commandant Von Schmettow was to soft. As Force 135 approached Gurnersey Huffmier sent a represntaive out the ships stating if they approched they would be fired upon. Snow's reply wa safter the first shot Huffmier would be swinging from the nearest tree. So he wasn't the most co-operative person with the Liberation Forces.
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  1943. Ah , death by simple diseases, lung disease, mass poverty. Would you really want to be the majority in that period?
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  1944. John: I know a couple of lod Martini .410 that still see regular use for rat and pigieon control, they just don't wear out!
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  1945. Richard: That's becaus esome ^%&*(()************* hole with was manufacturing ammunition for them. As they are obsolete weapons there is no paper trail for them. The afore mentioned &*^%$$£££ Hole is now spending a lot of time in at Her Majestey's Pleasure due to some ground breacking ballisitic and Forensic work by Brtish Police and certain other weapons establishments in UK. The ** thought he wa sgood. We were better!
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  1946. In 1946, when Germany was split in Allied ,Russian zones and of course the Berlin Agreement. There wa sa n agreement known as the Robertson-Malinin Agreement, that allowed for Liasion bettween Allied and Soviet forces in East Germany, to bolster 'Trust and Peaceful Co Operation'. ended 1990.
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  1947. Save 5 minutes and 6d on a gun manufactuer, a lot more come out a lot cheaper a the end of the day, and you have material left to make more. Every little bit helps. A classic one I was told, in Manufacter of Bedford Engines, the casting proces was refined so that on machining each engine prodcued 1oz less swarf, the result over a days production was two extra engines for the material allowance.
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  1948. So how can your European followers help you?
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  1949. In addition to the Universal Carrier the Boys was also mounted on the Morris Light Recconasince Car, that was a wheeled vehicle. The Monopod design allowed simple mount/dismount on a vehicle. There are also stories of the use in the Far East against snipers in trees and camoflauge wooden bunkers, the Aussies apparently liked it as it would shoot through the wood.
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  1950. Thanks, it's the age you know.. Now what was I saying?
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  1951. Actually I do know about the subject. The Enfeild had double the magazine capacity, the short bolt means you can reload without dismounting from the shoulder so don't loose site picture, The shorter length means it easier to manouvre and aquire targets. With the correct Enfeild load second finger on trigger , trigger finger and thumb to work bolt, 15 rounds a minute is easily maintained. The bedding of the barrel, particularly with the Indian modification giving end float to the barrel gives much better harmonics. Incedentalliy, showing your ignorance. The magazine was only demounted for cleaning, at all other times an Enfeild was charger loader.
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  1952. How can you say the length was to short for trench warfare? Have you ever stood in either excavated trenches or dimensionaly accurate replicas? Trench fighting was hand to hand, the main weapons were club, sharpened shovels or bombs (grenades) As for acuracy with the Enfeild load, practice and try it. May I suggest an old /Chinese proverb 'Better be thought a fool, than open ones mouth and prove it'.
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  1953. Diffreence is I can and do back my comments up with practical experiment, and study with people recognised as experts in subject of the Great War.
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  1954. Isn't this the pistol that used to be supplied in Cluedo games?
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  1955. Part of the US plans during ww2 were to seperate the Britsh Empire, especially India from the Crown. Also the cost of every pice supply to the UK was paid for, finally finishing in the 1980's if I remember. US forces paid nothing for British goods. The US Bell X1 was a copy of plans supplied by UK of a Blackburn design. The first Electronic computer was not IBM Univac it was the Collosus design built by GPO enginner Tom Flowers. Repatriations of technical knowledge from UK to USA destroyed Britsh industry post war.
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  1956. Makes a lot of sense. Especially if you have to wear heavy winter gloves. Would bite well even on wet leather.
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  1957. One thing that this rifle did do was to overcome the fixation the British had with the rear sight halfway up the action. The No $ has the rear sight almost identical. Though the N0 4 was only adopted in 1939, so most of the British Army in the Middle and Far East went through the early part of WW2 with the No3 rifle. Watch film of Alimain and you'll se ethe old 16inch sword bayonet which the No 4 never fitted. India also produced the no3, which has varation on the barrel bedding to European manufacture. So saying the final .303 Mk VII round kept going and is still in use today.
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  1958. Might be intersting to make a bolt for a de-ac. Humm! Definitley something to think on.
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  1959. So Ian, reading the comments, did Mossberg contract for .22 trainers to UK first, then were the rifles taken up by the US?
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  1960. Just looked the UK Amazon to see about ordering the book. The published review contains as much BS as the text .
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  1961. Dimetropteryx: Britain got about 40,000 MB42 rifles, hardly small numbers.
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  1962. or as friend said to me 'They talk a good product';
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  1963. Why ugly? Form follows function, and it goes function as advertised.
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  1964. RTFM?
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  1965. Chuck some kerosene into the fuel, simpler cheaper.
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  1966. Mauser C96 , World War 2! And he calls himselff an expert! The pistol was first produced in 1896, Churchill used the weapon in the 1900-1903 Boer War! As for UK film and TV use. A favourite of 1960's early 1970's film and TV was a C96 Carbine with an extended barrel as the Baddies gun. There were long barreled carbine versions built of the Mauser. The name Broom handle Mauser is an American abomination beacause of the shape of the butt.  The Bolo Mauser is a C96 with a shortned four inch barrel issued following the 1917 revolution.
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  1967. If you are in UK visit the Musuem of Naval Firepower at Priddy's Hard in Portsmouth. They have a collection of small arms from the Grand Seas Fleet, just up the road is Fort Nelson, the Royal Amouries Artillery musuem.
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  1968. Yes like Birmingham or Enfield in UK.
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  1969. Point of order. You don't 'wind' the lock, you Span it. Why , I don't know, but say the wrong thing to a collector they have a melt down.
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  1970. Actual it is accent now more associated with the South West of England. Tis actually quit ezay to understan. Besides most American's have a a problem prouncing English place names especially when it comes to the Shire.
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  1971. True, wrong gun , wrong time.
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  1972. A clamp on side baton was a handy Maglite assesory
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  1973. The Dutch stayed neutral during the Great War. Please stop treating the Great War as a game. Hey lets start a vidio game about Vietnam and enjoy the American's being slaughtered.
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  1974. They are a lot of fun as a pllnker :-) Following WW2 I know a lot of them went home to the US and Mossberg 'Sporterised' them by removing the front half of the woodwork.
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  1975. Just worked it out. I paid £30 Sterling for mine about ten years back, roughly what it would have cost allowing for inflation in WW2. Good deal I think!
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  1976. In the early 1940's the MB42a was costing the British Goverment $10 less sights. Mine serial 38759 dates to a batch deliverd in February 194i, one of 11,000 the last of lot. . It has a full two piece forend, and the adjustable 7 shot magazine. Parker Hale sights were fitted. It stayed in military service till it came to me. One oddity of UK law, it had no proof marks. Before I could own it it had to go to the London Proof house to be proofed and marked. The barrel is marked US GOVERMENT PROPERTY and the palstic handgaurd is perfect and fits well.
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  1977. I wonder if any of these were submitted for British Proof? Be interesting to see if one would survive.
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  1978. Quick thought Ian. Have you ever come across the SMLE no 1 with the wire cutter attachment? I'd dearly like to get hold of one.
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  1979. Did you get a chance to fire either of the rifles?
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  1980. Shame, maybe next time. The competion rifle looked intriguing, could you do more on that?
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  1981. Strange we all think of the Swiss as neutral. Through out history one of their main exports was Mercinaries. They were considered amongst the best in the world. Why do you think the Pope still has a Swiss guard?
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  1982. Sir! The early fliers considered themselves Gentlemen not Cowboys! Bear in mind heavier than aircraft were the Gucci kit These guys were the Buck Roger's of he time, so it was in the intrests of both sides propoganda to portray Noble, Heroic, Youth ! Defending the Dear Old Home, and Mum's Home Made Spotty Dick (Nearest I could think off to the American Apple Pie reference) or what ever the French, crossiant's maybe, equivalent from the dastardly enemy. ( The term Gentle in this respect traces back to Norman French were to be Gentle meant aristocratic)
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  1983. Point of order Ian! The first use of tanks was at the village of Flers on 15th September 1916 at the Battle of the Somme. Cambrai was was over a year later on 20th November 1917, this was described as an Armoured Raid, not a battle. It was the first use of mass armour over selected ground with no preliminary bombardment, on a narrow front. Prior to this tanks had been used in what was described at the time as 'Penny Packets'. a few tanks to each sector. The armour was described by the British as RHA, Rolled Homogenous Armour. Sorry Ian, but you do attract the enthusiast to your channel Any chance of you trying some of the K rounds against plate for comparison?
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  1984. Then you eject cartridge and leave odlles of forensic evidence about.
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  1985. Wrong currency Dear Boy! At that price at that time it would be about £215 Sterling, I'll have a Dozen. Except our stupid laws would make me take the gas tube off. I could have them bolt action but not semi auto. '
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  1986. Ah yes Fuzzy, but post war, they put wood on it! :-)
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  1987. First point, NEVER put your palm over the top of the ramrod! If there is a hot ember or chamber is hot, it can act as a fire piston and set the charge off. Ian if you do get to London, visit the Wallace Collection. It's free to enter, and the armoury has one of the finest collections in the world.
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  1988. The trick is to get the gas to go fast enough, hence the venturi. The Principal is Newton's Second Law of Motion The force exerted = Mass Multiplied by Change of speed in unit time. ie acceleration. (F=MA) The gas may not weigh much, but if you can get it up to speed quickly, it has a lot of force. The trick is to balance the two, or you'd end up with the gun going forward at same pace at the projectile trying to leave the barrel. Though the weight of the gun gives it more inertia compared to the projectile which delays the guns mass attempting to move forwards. Must be fun if you get it wrong.
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  1989. And built by the Triang Toy company.d
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  1990. It is one of those 'Everyone Knows' things. I've heard it, the reasoning was the STEN was intended to be dropped to resistance forces, hence the calibre 9 mm x 19 Parbellum, whilst British standard pistol was .38/200 and the magazine. Neevr sene any definite eveidence though, or had a chance to try it.
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  1991. Bet you wern't wearing the original pattern underwear! Sandpaper the ass with that much running about.
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  1992. Grenade launchers in UK used a Ballisite cartridge, much more powerful than a blank powder round . These were also used as marine line throwers, generically called Costain Guns, and to start yacht and small sail boat races. . Greener also made a .22 blank launcher for gun dog dummies.
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  1993. Ian, another place to vist if your passing through London is the Wallace Collection. http://www.wallacecollection.org/ the whole collection is jaw dropping with some of the most beautifully engraved antique firearms you will ever se.
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  1994. I've got No2 . It was No1 built in .22 but used a Long Lee Metford type bolt.
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  1995. But the rifle puts it where you want when you want it, the magazine also has a smalll insert screw to chamber .22 short
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  1996. What about the old French possecions then?
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  1997. Hey Ian, one question mate. How come so many good weapons come from Neutral countries? :-)
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  1998. Well Switzerland certainly did ! Supplying watches to both sides in both world wars, I have one supplied to the British Army. Also the story of the Stereoscope supplied to the RAF for interpritation of recon photos. The only one available was Swiss, and had to come across Germany to be supplied. Switzerland told Germany if they did allow transit nothing would be supplied. Germany bowed down. The British also converted some MGBs to a civillian configuration to run to Sweden for ball barings and special steels. BOAC, now BA used Mosquitos in civillian markings to Portugal. The only when not to benfit was poor old Belgium.
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  1999. BAE systems had a lot of input and made a lot of money out of L85A1. When it turned out to be bloody useless, they then bought H&K and made MORE money fixing their initial cock ups. The other problem is the magazine, strip get the rebuild wrong, which is very easy, and guess what?
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  2000. The British Aquisiton Committe tradition; Everyone want's their bit added. We are designing a small light weight device to enter holes for observations. Started as a mouse, ended up an Elephant.
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  2001. Roy Perkins  Home gaurd used the P14 and the P1917, just to confuse. The P1917 had a 4 inch broad red band painted around the stock to diferentiate. The bayonets had a two vertical gro grooves cut int each side of the hilt as well. The feel is distinctivley diffrerent from the SMLE pattern.
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  2002. If you had one to make a mould from, there are a lot of things out there. Probably now 3D print it.
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  2003. Did they sew your pockets up before you were allowed in?
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  2004. Early versions of the Lee Enfield, No1 had mag cut off and side mounted volley sights out to 1200 yards. Just drop a load of hurt on them, if thier in a bunch you'll hit something. The No1 Mk 111 of about 1916 on got rid of theses.
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  2005. I still have the Parker Hale sights on mine, it ended it's military carrer in a Sea Cadet Unit.
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  2006. Wasn't there a restriction on barrel length that meant C96 had to be cut down?
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  2007. The wire used was mostly copper, stel wire was found not to be ductile enough as the wood and barrel do expand slightly when fired. The preservative is Shellac. Field expidient included string and rawhide leather.
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  2008. I have read litrature on this that it was intend for recaltatriant recruits, or the plain stupid, for exactly the things you say. It was a less than lethal way for an instructor to find out what you were doing wrong.
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  2009. Lots about, and legal to hold on a UK Section 1 FAC,. Ammunition though is mostly Indian and can be a bit cantanckerous. De - Acts, depends on the &^^%$$$ E^&&(U making any sort of sane decision, so next time a pig flies past. Though under UK Firearms law it speciffically states that a De Activated Firearm, is NOT a Firearm. Though you must check for approriate proof marks. If you don't hold a UK FAC, the biggest problem is 'Reason to have', why and where would you shoot a full bore rifle in UK. Better to look at a .22 conversion or N0 2 as these are easier to justify as a club shoot gun. 7.62 most are shot out.
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  2010.  @marksaxby607  Like it!
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  2011. Looks like a Briitsh Army WW1 Trench Cap, supperseded in 1916 by the Brodie Steel Helmet, though still used in the rear as 'Soft' headgear.
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  2012. 'Buggered Up?'Ian you have been spending to much time in the UK.
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  2013. I think our Ian, may have spent just a little to long watching English TV. Speciffically those of a certain Vehicle Hire company, with a name linked to Star Treck. Stick to the BBC mate! No adds.
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  2014. Should have put ADS in the above. Ian's stunning sales technique has me all of a dither.
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  2015. Do we tell Ian about the famous chases with half naked women that were the highlight then? :-)
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  2016. Bad Luck! Probably the least loved of the range. You can't beat the good old No4. Better sights than the No1 , and incidentally the sight picture Ian showed is about as god as get on the up the the No4. Bloody impossible in all but the best light, then the sun normally dazzles you anyway.
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  2017. The Swiss sold stuff to Germany at the time, so presumably they bought one. one tale from WW2 the RAF wanted a Photogrammetry machine, this is used to view stereo photos for targeting. The only ones who made them were the Swiss. Germany objected but were told by the Swiss, you don't allow us to ship it, we won't sell to you. It was shipped.
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  2018. Dutch Man: Your'e judging by the point of view prevelant at the this time. The Roman's like the Germanic tribes looked upon themselves as living the way they wanted to, and it was perfectly satisfactorty. When Rome started imposing, like everyone in history it came down to one party saying ' Stuff you Pal! That's one step to far',
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  2019. British Military have used .22 rimfire as a training/Cadet round for many years. First reason, currently under UK law .22 is the easiest to own, most UK competions are .22. Cost and also, you can fire them on small indoor ranges such as most cadet units have in their drill halls.
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  2020. Got to be one of the funniest things on the Internet. Makes you belive there is Justice.
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  2021. Pilot Officer Prune, was the RAF's equivalent of the US Armies Private SNAFU. I believe there was an attempt to sell a simplified version of this as a kids toy. Rare beast.
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  2022. This is a gun of it's time. For the youngsters amongst you, the 1970's saw the upsurge of Middle East Terrorism, plane hijacks and fanatical death or glory of Black September. Then you had various off shoots (Just relaised, lousy pun) such as the Red Brigade. Europe was at war with itself. The Munich Olympic massacre was a World Wide Media event, comparable in it's impact with 9/11. The German Federal Police just were not equipped or trained to handle such an event,. One result was GSG9,. They wanted a weapon that over fairly short range could garuntee first hit first kill, regardless of where the round struck, hence the eye popping choice of calibre, through one wall out the other, and then some. Part of the guns fame is it's use in the James Bond Film, Living Daylights.
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  2023. Long live the Nerd, go for it Ian. If you are spending a lot of money of a quality firearm with a serious intent to target shoot, of course you want to protect the sights from any chance of knocking or damage. So the coverting of 'Another bit of Gucci Kit to swank about on the range isn't new then.
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  2024. Philieas: Gas erosion is a problem on any gas operated system, the trick is in the design. A lot of heavier gas operated systems have adjustment to take into account fouling and variable ammunition quality. On a larger piece it is easier to replace parts as required . Trouble is with a pistol, there is so little space , how do you fit such things? low pressure cartridges requier much finer intricate ports to bleed the gas in sufficent quantity and pressure to relaibly operate the action.
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  2025. There are some 15th and 16th C examples in the Wallace Collection in London, now I understand the process they are even more breath taking, thanks Ian.
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  2026. George V 1910 till 1936- Edward- George VI 1936-1952
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  2027. And the stub on some of the later magazines.
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  2028. I heard a story that the gun was demonstrated to the Danes. They loved it , but, the Crown Prince said no. The reason being at the Pom Poms rate of fire it would bankrupt the country in an hour. A scaled up 2lb version, also called the Pom Pom was standard light anti aircraft gun for RN vessels in WW2. The factory was at Crayford in Kent. Very near where I live.
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  2029. Also allegedley used the hot water from the barrel jackets to make tea. Intresting if you go tit wrong. The recoil booster on the one in the vid ifs diffrent from a .303.
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  2030.  @waynesimpson2074  God one! :-)
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  2031. Miking buissness and pleasure ? :-)
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  2032. Yep, and one obvious 'I've got it in my sights'. Suprising how many old phrases hang about, and how few people know where they derive, Ramrod straight is another, and another quick one Swashbukler, from the sword and small sheild.
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  2033. What wonderful discussions we go off into! :-) In UK Pawnbrockers use a sign traditonally of three bras sballs in an inveted triangle, the other joke is 'If you see the Pawnbrocker covering them with a blanket, it's going to be cold. just thought I'd launch a broadside at you all, seeing as we are up the hilt in this? (Or maybe I'd better just go fo a lie down in a darkened room?)
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  2034. Just had someone asking for information on these, paste link, over to you Ian!
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  2035. When Alfred Noble patented Ballisite in 1887, the British Goverment started trials. The found the Ballisite produced excessive recoil and subsequent shortening of barrel life, it also became unstable over time. The British 'Explosive Commitee' started its own trails and modified Ballisite to produce Cordite. Nobel sued the for patent infringment, but due to ambiguios wording in his patents, the British Courts ruled against him. Cordite became the standard proppelant for all British weapons from pistols to battleship guns. However! When rifle grenades came into use in WW1, Cordite di give a big enough bang so Ballisitte crtridges were introduced . Th down side was the barrels wern't proofed for it. That's why you often see pictures of SMLEs fitted with grenade launchers having wire or even string wound around the front stocks.
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  2036. I wonder, getting the gas ports exactly right must have been a bitch.
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  2037. Another little known operation, is the Second Dunkirk, Operation Ariel. As for barrage ballons, they wern't always deflated before moving. Some poor bloke who had upset the Filght Sargent had the ballon hitched around his waist and told march! The stories of Erk's (RAF Ground Crew) being blown for miles are legion. They is also a famous shot of a Ballon attached to LST's at Goldbeach in Normandy. For the 70th Anniversary of D-Day a modern replica was flown. Just as the whole three day Remeberance got hit with high winds :-( I can attest they are complete &^%%&* to do anything with if the wind hits them.
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  2038. Try reading Lord of the Rings, and remember that Tolkien was an infantary officer on the Western Front, only for about 6 weeks though before be sent home with trench fever. The books take on a whole new aspect.
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  2039. Always treat something that throws ordnance about as loaded. and point in a safe direction! There is also old saying supposedly sent by all aircraft towing target drones at the start of the excersise 'Please remember guys! We are pulling the target , not pushing it!'
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  2040. Huh, OK for you lot to be Privaters! When my Jersey Ancestors did the same in 1781, you American's set the French on us!Mind you we beat them. :-)
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  2041. One legacy of the Anglo Dutch wars is the Church Pennat of both navies. . A mix of both flags flown during Church Services and Burials. Respected by both sides.
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  2042. Basic Common sense one boom going one way , one boom going the other. Being the bit in the middle, may not be a good idea!
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  2043. A classic example of Don't ask the question, unless you are preapred not to like the answer.
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  2044.  @Full_Otto_Bismarck  You could try asking the BBC about that sort of behaviour.:-)
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  2045. Not enough known about Ballisitcs to really calibrate them
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  2046. Finally closed about 1985, though was making office furniture at the time. Vickers had an airfeild on the marshes alongside what is now Unviersity/Bob Dunn way. The new Bridge Community tech hub is on the site.
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  2047. A lot of UK gun clubs and ranges had .22 rifles for use by guests and in traing, I bought me first one for £5!
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  2048.  @masonhaggerty186  The FT 17 did end up as a SP gun. Though in German service in the Channel Islands in WW2. A number of them and Char B's ended up in the Islands as part of 213th Panzer Battalion. The only battalion never to see active service, but a number of FT's had the turrets removed and put onto fixed fortifications. The chassis were used as tractors about ten of them had 75mm guns mounted as SP's.
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  2049. Something new every day: You forgot the other bit that came about as a result of Dunblane. ACPO enquiry into handgun shootings , time period I forget. Killings carried out with laegaly registerd handguns, 5 The report then went on to point that all 5 had actually been stolen during burgalry of the FAC holders homes. Then started pushing that point for removal of hand guns.
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  2050.  @JM-vw3zb  Pleasure.
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  2051. Study the rope as well! The block is only part of the system.
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  2052.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  What's the saying ? No names, no pack drill :-)
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  2053. Fienians wasn't it?
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  2054. Have you seen the film A fistful of Dynamite? The main carechter in that keeps flashing back to Fenian Ireland, has a bar scene with a cut down SMLE.
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  2055. Didn't exactaly suffer for the cause did she?
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  2056. The Germanic states complained Prussia was getting to big for their boots. The Austrains , said 'We are big boys on the block , we will sort it and got thier butts kicked in six weeks. So they decided 'Let's be friends, and pick on everyone else'.
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  2057. Hills near her home? Jersey is a piece of Rock 9 miles long by 5 miles wide. There aren't any hills.
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  2058. I've read that the term was Sure S*it
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  2059. BRIXMIS in Eastern Germany reported that initially the Soviet Pilots handled the Mig 29 with verve and panache. Showing the machine off, and obviously very pleased with it. But over time the handaling became predictable and stale.
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  2060. Yes, Greyhounds have that tendency. Eat , sleep , wake up , walk about a bit, find anything edible not nailed down, go back to sleep. Repeat.
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  2061. I suppose cost came into it, but may well have been a descive weapon if it had been adopted. But hey ho the average conscript couldn't really breack a bolt action, we have millions and they do an adequate job. So nice idea but...
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  2062. All true, but one of those whatif's? of history.
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  2063. Finally !! Now the pronanciation is correct we have to get onto Tea and Biscuits.
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  2064. There were two guns in the turret that blew. The second gun was taken back to Woowich for testing. The old Woolwich Arsenal records had beutiful Ink drawings of the burst and the special mount made for testing. I'd love to know what happned to the records, they were amazing, maybe the Public Records Office has them, I know they aren't in Firepower.
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  2065.  @I_am_Phil_Lee  He can study in prision in UK. and not have tuition fees or pay for accomadation.
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  2066. Being faced with Large Bills, thanks to us British saying Bye Bye to the EU. If asked why I voted out, one reason , All Empires end in time.
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  2067. The other one is better working now, than perfection at some point in the future.
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  2068. Dust on landing is a helicopter nightmare for all sorts of reasons, not least you can't see where the ground is, and the engines suck it in. Engines ae jet washed regularly in dusty conditions.
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  2069. That traverse just seems to move the barrel left or right of the aim mark. Surley traverse should allow some change of angle from the centreline? Be easier just to shift the trail left or right.
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  2070. I see what you mean, but does seem a bit complicted really.
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  2071.  @therandomguy519  Dependson the situation.
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  2072. Kushan, Add me to the list of COB.
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  2073. A man who suffers for his cause. Is it heavy enough to run at the target and beat it to death? Or is it a Pen Gun on steroids? Though if it supposedly slam fire and the stock slides in, surley there isn't enough residual impulse left to strike the primes?
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  2074. Yes that's what I always thought. Though the German guy has access to recently released records that do cast doubt on this. Joy of history my friend, you can never be totally sure your right. That's why it' so intresting.
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  2075.  @victuff5302  Then the sodding goverment got frothy and went vote hunting.
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  2076. The Morris Light Recconasince car , The Dingo all had Bren mounts. I was told by one old guy who was an artillery man that he 'Aquired' one and bolted some odd bits of metal so that he could carry one on the Quad tractor they used to tow the 25 lb gun. The dear old Bedford and Morris 15cwt had a dual mount , with drum magazines and feed plate Brens mounted in the back as an officiaal Light Anti Aircraft role.
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  2077. If it wasn't for De Cartret, New Jersey would still be a lump of mud.
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  2078.  @Jameson1776  I never claimed it was a good old joke! :-)
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  2079. In one of the Terry Pratchett Discworld books he talks about a Mountain called 'What fool dosen't know a mountain?' The name is trans lated from what a native told a Civilised Explorer who kept pointing at the mountain and yelling 'What's it called?'
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  2080.  @Jameson1776  No worry.
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  2081.  @Jameson1776  The only answer to that is try reading one of the novels. There is no quick description that does them justice. The cast of Discworld is mostly 'Human' , though again to quote 'For a given value of Human'.
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  2082. I'm always up for a good read. Try Ben Arranovitchs Rivers of London series . Just been given Tade Thompson's Rosewater triology. African Science fiction, It's really intriging , though I've only started the first book so can'r give you a run down.
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  2083.  @voiceofraisin3778  Actually that was a Polish invention. Tom Flowers from the GPO devised Collosus, using Thermionic vavlves, that was the first Electronic Computer. There was also a less well known Sytem called WS10, that wa sthe Worlds first secure mobile phone system, devised for use after D-Day and later at Australian Atomic Bomb Tests.
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  2084. to misquote the old song 'Ian has got his hat on! Hip Hip Hooray!
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  2085. Following the 'Mother to Daughter' comment, Mrs THG is sorry to announce that Mr THG, will be unavailable for a while. :-~)
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  2086. London Airport ? Which one?😁 lets start with the Grand Daddy, Croydon, the UK's first international airport opened 1920, EGCR- Famous as the birthplace of the callsign MAYDAY. Now closed, though the control tower and airport hotel are a musuem. London Heathrow LHR, London Gatwick LGW, London Luton LTN, London Stanstead STN-Also has the dubiuos honour of being the Hijack Airport for Europe. London Southend SEN and last but not least, the ex RAF WW2 Battle of Britian Fighter station Biggin Hill BQH.
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  2087.  @Eric_Hunt194  OOPS! Sorry.
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  2088.  @sirmeowthelibrarycat  Umm, there was a bit more to it. The Entente actually put a lot of effort into trying to prop up the Wiemar Republic post the Great Wa, to keep Democracy, in what was a relitivley new Germany, that had no democratic history as the West thinks of it. The Great Deppresion' didn't help. The We were badly treated , and didn't loose the war but were tricked by poloticians , became a handy peg to hang the NAZI cap on. France went into similar mode post the Franco - Prussian war.Remeber Alsace Lorraine!
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  2089. And there was Ian calling it names yesterday. Regardless you don't want to be in front of it.
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  2090. Hope so.
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  2091. Iepere is a fantastic place to vist. Ian Hislop who is related to the original publisher has written a very good funny moving play. There is also a BBC adaption of the book. The original idea came from and is one of the most parodied magazines in the book is Hilaire Bellock's War in Europe. I'm smugly in poccesion of a complete original set.
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  2092. 600 yard Social Distancing! And I'm in a position to get Veeery positive over that.
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  2093. There is a great cycyling tradition in Belgium and Holland.
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  2094. So saying, stand in front of the brute when it's fired at you.
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  2095. War on both sides and the Swedes thought... Wow! Profits will be enormous! Why did the German's supply, keep 'em sweet! We need the various ores and steel the Swedes produce. Though that is a beautiful rifle, high drool factor.
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  2096.  @TheArgieH  Don't know about low cost. £2000 at the time, nearly bankrupted the UK, hence Palmerston's Follies. Though in Kent you had the positions up on the North Downs such as Fort Halstead as the second line.
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  2097.  @TheArgieH  They were a workable design.. I've never counted the number on Jersey, but any bay where a landing could take place has at least two. Possibly pill boxes migh be a better comparison? I would say unfair to imply they were cheap and quick. After all they have lasted a lot longer and in better condition than many of the Atlantic Wall fortifications built alongside them. Though in the Island, a lot have the local Granite as a facing.
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  2098.  @TheArgieH  Some in the Island's are built on off shore reefs. The ones at St Quen's bay, next stop East Coast of America. I've seen waves breacking over the top. Not a fun posting. In WW2 the German's crashed a JU88 next to it.
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  2099. Ca va Mon V.
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  2100. The idea of using a musket and bayonet as a spear. I find that intriguing, maybe Ian should try it. So not being sure what you hit, nowadays you use an SMG.
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  2101. Vickers Crayford factory, ended it's days, making filing cabinets. Renault is another company that made mostly heavy military gear, . Skoda made everything from pins to battleships.
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  2102. Or as the rest of us do, sit next to a Brummie for about five minutes till he says a word you can understand anyway.
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  2103. drdave: I've heard the palce called a few othe rthings! :-)
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  2104. It is quite simple, British Admiralty charts were and still are, the best there is. When the Merdian conference in Washington was held in 1884, despite the objectionable French claiming Paris. Woolwich was decided on. Though to shut the French up they were given charge of the Leap Second. That is now less important as the development of Atomic Clocks led to UTC which is independent of Celestial Time measurment.
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  2105. Continued on next rifle....
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  2106. People will now be bringing you sick guns to lay hands on.
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  2107. A good sniper rifle is around the $12,000 mark, and will they still work 106 years later?
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  2108.  @OBIOsim  Thanks for link.
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  2109. Dominic  He definitly had a snit against the British, mainly because Churchill would never take him seriously. He kept it up for the rest of his life. Though when Britiain tried to join the then Common Market De Gaulle wa salways the one to veto it. Though many now might thank him for that. He also pulled France out of NATO, and insisted on France having it's own Nuclear Deterent, Originally known as the Force De Frappe or Strike force post 1961 it became Force De Dissuasion , Force of Detterent. .
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  2110. there is also a memorial, or least an info plaque, on the building at Woolwhich Arsenal where the body was kept overnight when it was returned to England. Also that's why Chiselhurst has a Royal Parade- again with the influence of Queen Victoria.
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  2111. With practice these type of single shot training pistols can be accurate freehand out to 20 meters. Though 100 + years and who knows how many rounds up the barrel do lead to a tendency to wander.
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  2112. 223 varieties of Dog, hate this.
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  2113. The Power Of The Mind!!
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  2114. Funny enouigh! The old Woolwich Arsenal site, in South London on the Thames, had an area that consisted of three huts during the Great War , that were used to paint Radium sights and instruments. The area is heavilyy fenced and secure, no grass grows.
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  2115. It worked and filled in the ideas THEY had about how a war would be fought. Manufactuer put Franc's in the local Peaseants pockets, and the Poloticians got re-elected. Read in any wepaons system and local currency and Poloticians you like
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  2116. A leading political opponent. Which in Russia means I want my chance to be in the top trough . You think Western polotics are cut throat? In Russia, they are, litterally.
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  2117.  @painterken2542  First , how do you know if the power line is dead? Second , yes there are ground controls, assuming the muppet had left the key in the right place, that is in the ground controls. And someone knows how to use them. Third: When the power goes out on a boom like that the manual lowering procedure involves a lot of hand pumping from ground level. not recommend when A the machine might have a thousand or so volts going through it B its on fire.
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  2118.  @painterken2542  the key is placed 'Where the manufactuere's manual states it should be placed during operations'. Not all machines are the same.
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  2119. Biggest problem for Europe is shipping and customs. Virtually doubles the cost of the shirts. Polo shirts are more an acceptable casual wear in UK and Europe. Considered Smarter. Cultural thing no rhyme or reason.
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  2120. Sorry mate! The bug is incurable. You'll just have to live with it. Now when's the next Chunnel train due out?
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  2121. Have a good time If this weather holds up cold and bright, just right.
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  2122. Obvously your trips across the Pond are having an effect. Woderful understatment Sir! :-)
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  2123. That's because a lot are upgraded Vaubin Star Forts. The whole area was at one time known as Vauban's Playground Ieper is an outstanding example, as it Middleburgh in Holland. Virtual all major towns in Nrthern France and Belgium had some defences.
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  2124.  @JohnyG29  There are records in the National Libary of Congress, that show an American desire to breack up the British Empire , particullaly from India , as part of thier 2nd World War aims. Don't forget there also exist plans to invade Canada. should Britiain have fallen.
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  2125.  @skepticalbadger  A sharp as rolloing pin me! :goodvibes:
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  2126. Now we just need Ian to turn scrap into firearms at the touch of his finger! :-)
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  2127. Try the Australian film Beneath (or Under, can never rember) Hill 60. It is a stunning film.
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  2128. Why, should we who watch Ian's channel want to play with vidieo toys? Our fun is with the real thing.
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  2129.  @TooUnrested  Bloody annoying is what it is.
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  2130. Um provenience can be a problem, not to mention the French Goverment kicking off, it was stolen therefore it remains stolen under European law. Nice but no thanks.
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  2131. On something of that histroic importance, don't be so dissmisive. To start with Interpol is an organisation for co operation, it has no enforment or investigative function. Info would be passed from France via Interpol to the US Authorities. The French authoruties can also raise the matter in a local court. This is not the first case of GI's looting European tresures, just check the archives.
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  2132. Why carry your weapon , when your weapon can carry you?
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  2133. Why must this be similar to the gGarand? Why not the Garand similar to the ZK-391. What a beautiful pice of enginnering.
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  2134. Fair enough.
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  2135. The best museums I know in UK encourage and support volunteers, who will happily talk to the public, because they want to. The resultisthrough put the gift shop =money, and people come again because they enjoy it and learn.
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  2136. Sorry Lance, but, got to be said is is Saint All-Bans, and D-Vye- Sis . If thee want the proper way of saying it. Try the song I'll neevr get no scrumpy here.
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  2137. Breacking of codes and chiypers could well be described as Divination by Numbers.
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  2138. Had a bad day? Piss**d off with the world? Put on an Ian and relax.
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  2139. Actually says Ian, with about a two Octavie raise in voice, That's not Bad :-) Mind you the alternative was a glass bubble filled with Nitro Glycerin with the outside coverd in very sticky glue. There are tails of the Boys being used in the Far East to shoot snipers through trees.
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  2140.  @michaelgahler4729  For the MOD to consider a vehicle a 'Disposable Asset' they must have put the things through hell, on multipule occasions.
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  2141. I worked with someone who had been a printer. He could lay down a sheet of paper , then just tear it perfectly straight. I kept trying , it drove me up the wall! :-)
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  2142. News. If you'd bother to do your research you'd have found the Channel Island's have had the right to rais ethier own taxation and legislation since 1204. that is why they are Bailiwicks.
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  2143. There is also the Royal Artillery musuem at Woolwich itself.
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  2144. Help?
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  2145.  @Onewheelordeal  A lot of the earlier editions are now collectors picies in there own right.
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  2146. I knew one of the guys who designed the paint for Concorde. He was someone who could actually make drying paint intresting.
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  2147. Deep joy of research,
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  2148. I'd suggest that whilist the Canadians and don't forget the Newfoundlander's were goood troops, tactics had eveolved and Plummer in particularhad influenced Haifg on Bite and Hold tactics.
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  2149. Proably haven't stopped laughing yet.
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  2150. Strangles is a bacterial infection causing swelling of the lymph nodes. Including in the throat. Even if an animal recovers they are likly to suffer life long respiratory problems. It can be spread by cysts dropping from sub clinical animals onto the ground. First actions on suspecting an animal with Strangles, Isolate.
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  2151. The way it was Screwed over at Great Expense a few years back, they wouldn't have the nerve to charge entry. If you do have a true intrest in military history, avoid this musuem like the Plauge. It wa scompletly 'Rebuilt' a few years back, the purpose to Enhance the use of the facillities for fund raising projects. The actual Historic Musuem part was found to be inconvinent and forgotten.
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  2152. Them and Belgium, I suppose as both are Neuteral they have to sell them somewhere :-)
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  2153.  @etherealbolweevil6268  I think you will find that torpedo loading bi plane is an Albercore.
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  2154.  @tulayamalavenapi4028  I think the name was changed for some countries.
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  2155. Later in the war it was the situation of the German home front as the Allied Blockade really took effect that caused discension in the ranks. Why are we here when our families are starving and the whole bloody world is against us! Bear in mind Marks always thought Germany would be the first Communist State.
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  2156. At one time there was alos an Alderney Breed.
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  2157.  @markcantemail8018  A lot of Force 10 from Navarone was also fimed there.
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  2158. I England there is a rifle, held at Bisley a SMLE .330 No1 with a projectile partly up the barrel, ahead of it is a Mauser 7.92 bullet . The two bullets did meet in the barrel.
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  2159. If you can see across the road, it's not raining.!
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  2160.  @FLVCTVAT_NEC_MERGITVR  I'm British and even I have problems keeping up with when mark or number comes first.The genral idea is that a certain sealed pattern has a number, then versions of the same mark, but no major diffrence become 'Marks' and varition of the marks, such as manufactureing procedures get *
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  2161.  @FLVCTVAT_NEC_MERGITVR  They were stil ,manufacturing changes, simplifications forproduction , there was no major change in operation. The njority of parts were interchangable.That's why the *. The No4 came about as there was a new nose cap, varations in rifling, bedding, type and palcement of sights, so you needed new machimery to manufacture.
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  2162. They were demonstrated in Denmark. The King wanted them but his Chancellor said no, at the rate of fire and cost of ammunition it would bankrupt the country in half an hour. In WW2 there was a two pounder multi barreled version used on ships, though a lot of these older ones ended up on converted yachts and fishing vessels.
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  2163. Whitworth had his own ideas on rifiling.
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  2164. That should be around 1939 date.
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  2165. Though if you look at Boer pictures of the time, bear in mind each man had to supply his own rifle, then the Mauser is very much in the minority. A lot of them were armed with Martini Henry's. A lot of non Boers got conscripted into the Commando's. See the Australian film Breacker Morant starring Edward Woodward. Based on the book Scapegoats of Empire. Worth the read and the watch,
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  2166. Proofing firearms in UK goes back way before that. There was a tendency post great war to mark German stuff, especially at the time, model and toy trains. Germany , Austria being famous for tin plate.
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  2167. When the British Army introduced Baton Rounds in Northern Ireland, demonstrators soon learnt 'Don't moon The Army guys'! Incedentaly, correct practice is aim in front of the traget, and bounce it on to them. Direct hit they are lethal.
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  2168. Why not just use the .410 itself. Damm sight more effective at close range,
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  2169. Jersey Channel Islands . Noirmont Point. The area is owned by the States of Jersey and is a memeorial to the Islander's during World war 2. Batterie Lothringen. There are a number of guns and fortifications, easy accessable. Though due the the German's magpie habits over artillery , represented are German French, Chez and Russian guns. some dating to the 1860's. There are also a number of guns on Display at Batterie Moltke at Les Landes.
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  2170. French or English?
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  2171.  @Destilight  I hope so , there aren'tenough English about as it is. Redlegs watch out!
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  2172. The problem with Safety and security is the accountants say 'What do you produce?'. If the job is done right, nothing! Because nothing happens. Problem is you can't prove that nothing would have happened,
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  2173. Didn't realise that the US Chauchat had a straight magazine. Though if my info is correct wern't the30.06 versions hand built. No interchangability? So if the gun is an original 'complete' gun, no reason it shouldn't work.
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  2174. Try Malta Spitfire by Raymond Baxter. He went on to be a BBC commentator on Science and Engineering so you'll fine a lot of archive stuff on Youtube.
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  2175.  @mpetersen6  Good thinking that man!!:-)
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  2176. You newcomers. The Oldest title is Duc De Normandy, still recognised in the Monarchy's oldest possesions the Channel island's.
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  2177. Now you know why a couple of hundred years ago. The British introduced the Proof House System. It would have been humanly and safley put down in the bunker.
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  2178. Master! I thought it were an Onion! :-)
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  2179. Sorry guys. I just can't see what pravtical use this thing would be. It is on a large wheeled carraige, heavy to move, can do nothing that dedicated feild artillery can't do better and would be a bullet magnet in an open position. The only justification I can se efor it is a light anti armour pice, and to be honest in that era the Britsh 2 pounder gun is smaller lighter easier and was effective.
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  2180.  @davethorstry6700  grmany , Belgium , the Portugese were and the French all were tyring for a slice of the African pie.
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  2181.  @davethorstry6700  Questions were asked , that vested intreested tried to silence them, that's [polotics.
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  2182.  @shawnr771  Not when you think what's down there. Belive me you'd fight for the chance. It is treasure hunt, that exciets, and sobers. you at the same time.
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  2183. For thoseof you that may not know this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTA10n1Ztqo Armastice ,when the guns fell silent.
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  2184. Yes in the dry summer.
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  2185. The then Common Marketr did the same. Milk lakes, wine lakes Butter mountains.Same cahyos as well.
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  2186. Considering at both periods Britian was storing the French Gold Reserves , which they refused to spend, yes the Frogs did.
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  2187. And a big ballon saying Helllo! Come and Get Me!
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  2188. If you want the Military to buy it, make it look like they expect to! Though what ever the reasons that is a beautiful pice of enginnering.
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  2189.  @lptomtom  Right. I know the preference went back to revolvers for some years after.
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  2190. The old Ton class sweepers used them a swell.
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  2191. There was still a Ton class active on the Thames with a Sea Cadet unit till the late 1970's early 80's Mate of mine did his Sea Cadet training on her.
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  2192. About 6 weeks pay for a private soldier, bearing in mind 1/- a day, less stoppages so they'd clear about 4d or a quarter.
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  2193.  @omartorres5688  I learnt to shot on an 1886 Martini action, with a .22 rimfire barrel and chamber stuck on it. And NO I'm not that old it was new when I learnt! :-) There are umpteen shotguns in UK on Martini actions, bought cheap surplus and cut and shut for whatever was wanted. They now go for pennies, as they are not 'Fashionable' as if Bunny cares when the shot hits him up the rear.
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  2194. Allied systems were as , if not more advanced in places, just kept secret, from the Russians! 😁
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  2195. All computer now. Though check out Minatur Wunderland in Germany.
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  2196. Wait till he gets the bill ! Its in the contarct, you breack it you pay for it. Around the $90 to 100, 000 mark
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  2197. And each soldier has at least a half ton truck in close proximity carrying the batteries. The British Army had a design system/project called FIST Future Infantry Soldier Technology, required 22lbs of battries.
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  2198. Proverbs 26:11
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  2199. Following the six day war the canal was shut for 8 years, so why panic now?
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  2200. Another intresting part of this war, remarked on by Military Observers from other countries, the use of entrenchment and fixed machine guns on land. Rossevelt got the Noble Peace Prize, and arguably Wilson wanted one for brockering peace in the Great War, and that led to a lot of problems. Do note: The Japanese were on the Entente side in the Great War.
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  2201. The Chinese communists have been at for a long time in 1949 there was the Yangtzee Incident. (Good film made about it) involving HMS Amathseyt.
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  2202.  @dr.froghopper6711  It makes you what normal people would think reading our posts. :-)
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  2203. So Forgotten Wepaon's is now going to run an Adopt a Persin Luger campain. Anyone who has got one supply numbers and try to find the matching bits.
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  2204. You should put somethinmg like smart water in it. Evidential traces.
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  2205. In the Occupied Britsh Channel Islands. The Germans always claimed the Gestapo never operated. As the Islands were considered a Military Festung (Fortress) the Gehime Feldpolizei took thier place. According to those I know who had dealings with them, there wasn't much difference. Incedentally in Jersey they chose to drive about in a large confiscated purple car.
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  2206. Yes, they did have testing gadgets, there were already enginnering standards , mostly from people like Witworth at the time. The original design could be called Modular, there is the mechanisim, what calibre do you want it in?
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  2207.  @sonickiller360  Will do.
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  2208. The recoil of that thing would make it feel like you were on a Rocking Horse. But then the required qualifiactaions of the Royal Navy Gun Running Teams was said to be Speed of a Racehorse, Strength of a Carthorse, and Brains of a Rocking Horse.
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  2209. Local paint chip company salavating! :-)
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  2210. What it will do is complete a pay barrier for any crossing of the Thames East of Heathrow. It's nothing more than a political rip off.
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  2211.  @pbwmanagement  TfL= Totally Foulup London.
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  2212. Displacment of large amounts of air. For whatever reason it happens a building collapsing is going to be noisy,
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  2213. I'll bet his past has some training in it though. Most people can;t cope with things like this. They just don't happen! training gets you past that.
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  2214. Been to the memorial many times. Look up Trench Dtectives on youtube Andy Robertshaw and No Man's Land Group had a dig in the adjecent feild, you will not regret it.
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  2215. A lot of Goverment Departments seem destined to keep trying. Though ropes are a fascination in themselves. Our world depends on them.
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  2216. Any chance of finding date of original manufacture on these?
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  2217.  @Cohac  well at least some of us think :-)
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  2218.  @michaelmccarthy4615  being nasty, Whisky takes longer to kill you than Boeing.
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  2219. No, but we took over a lot of their words, Johdpour being one, tight fitting trousers for riding horses, that go all the way down to the ankle. Up to then you had Breeches that button just below the knee and long boots or gaiters. Bungalow, single story house. Curry , of course. Bint as a term for a woman, Kahki, is an adulteration of an Indian term.
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  2220. Theydid close for eight years following the Six Day War.
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  2221.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  And! The most famous of them all, was first published in a serial form in the magazine Young Folks,
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  2222. Jay Zenitram  Very true, what's the point of having things unless you use them?
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  2223. The Lieutenant  You Dare questuon the reliability of Old Dodges! OHH. My two old darlinge are a lot more relaible than many modern vehicles, futhermore you don't need a computer to fix them. A few years back a friend's Dodge had a dynamo failure. A bearing had collopased. The bearing was dated 1945. Seriuosly they were built by people that knew if a truck failed men died. I don't own them, they are in my care for the next generation, they belong to those who built them and those who used them in service.
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  2224. bitfreakazoid  But if they work, oh the fun you can have! :-)
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  2225. So you have to waste a valuable resourse! A lot of money in pee,! Cleaning agent, mordicant to fix dyes, mix with the right soil to make Saltpetere .
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  2226. Go to the villiage of Vimy now. The monumentsand stauteus make it very clear that Canadians captured the villiage. It is often stated that the Canadian's were Sacrificed at Vimy. The truth is they were there at the time, and were very very good, that's why . They were know to Dig a good hole, and they were handed the largest shovel.
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  2227. Don't know about Sqauddies, but shows Beurocracy, that there are 3 or more rifles with the same setup.
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  2228. Look at the Jersey Tourism web site Kemp tower, though it's poshed up now. Armament varied, normally a single 12 pounder cannon but some had two. They were also built on rock outcrops offshore around the Island's. A number were refurbished for coastal defence in both world wars by British and Germans. Originally the were built because of concern about Napoleonic France invading. They were commisiond by Palmerston the then Prime Minister, cost about £2000 each at the time. They nearly bankrupted the country and as the threat never materialised were known as Palmerston's Follies.
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  2229.  @williamsager805  To whom? :-)
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  2230. The 'Tightrope man' and old concept. fine for 5 minutes, but after that,
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  2231. Von Huffmier was as a commander bloody useless, the sole reason for him existing and being Hitler's choice. He was a rabid Nazi.
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  2232. True autonomy. Make an error , correct error , do not repeat. Errors are the key to learning.
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  2233.  david edbrooke-coffin  Almost ! One side ran off with it :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Bucket
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  2234.  @pickeljarsforhillary102  hadn't heard that one! Thanks
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  2235.  @roberthardy3090  Funny enough one of my old teachers had a similar story :-)
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  2236.  @kennethfharkin  You were young once. Didn't you have comments about the 'Youth nowa days no respect'I know I did . :-)
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  2237.  @blank557  Considering Marks thought Germany would be the first Communist State. Hum. One for THG?
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  2238. The Landy is probably a 2a from 1964 through till 1970. At that point legislation changed so the lights had to be the width of the vehicle, hence they went outside. Could have a been a six cylinder one,
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  2239. No the salt in the Bacon and the Bactria in the Brie, especially the proper unpasturised, will get you istead. Shock , Horror! A laof of bread containe enough Cyanide to kill a Mouse. Not any Mouse F***ing big enough to eat a loaf of bread at one sitting.
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  2240. You have forgottenj the original long barrelled air pistol used in publicty shots.
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  2241. Bear in mind that at the time virtually all military bolt action magazine fed rifles had a Magazine Cut Off. The magazine was loaded earlier at lesuire, in battle you still stood in a line and fired on command, so the magazine was not considered the primary feed. The end game was still fix bayonets and charge!
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  2242. The rifle was based on the Enfeild P14 in .303 . The Britsh Army were looking at a new cartridge following the South African Boer war, and the performance of the Mauser. The Enfeild .276 cartridge came to naught but a rifle Pattern 1913 was developed. When the Great War broke out the P13 was updated , as it was easier to produce than the SMLE and became pattern 1914. Then as there was no capacity in UK, the Americans were approached. Winchester, Remington and Eddeystone Remington took on contracts. Due to supply and cash flow the British Goverment paid for machine tools and upfront costs some $21,000,000 . The rifles were then built between 1916 and 1917. By that time SMLE production was up so the P14 was second standard or occasionally issued as a sniper rifle in late 1917. The production lines stood idle. When the US came into the war in 1917 there was only the Springfeild Arsenal turning out the Springfeild 1903 the Standard US rifle, and the US were short of rifles. The P14 proved adaptable to the American 30.06 cartridge so the British sold the production lines to the US for about $9,000,000. The result was the Enfeild M1917 (Always the full date) became the most issued rifle in US service.
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  2243. Anyone notice the date?🤣
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  2244. So is that the original 'Burp Gun'?
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  2245.  @DreadPirateRoberts1  The Jackstaff is mounted in the bow of a ship. Her Majesty's Ships, when in harbour fly the Unioun 'flag' from that Jack staff, hence it becomes the Unioun jack.
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  2246. Opening 7th April 2025. At cost! So now if you want to get anywhere north of London from Kent , you will have to pay, or go miles around the south edge of the M25.
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  2247. No, the lower parts of the fortress firing along the canal did a lot of damage and delayed the German ground forces.
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  2248.  @chunksis2  yeah he does need treatment. Phyciatric treatment.
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  2249. At the time Communists didn't like each other let alone ex Imperail's , they would have been the White Russian Faction. Various Red factions fought each other , and then I belive there were the Greens , they just hated everybody. Any suprise Russia is still screwded up? It has never been a Democracy at any time.
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  2250. There is no Queen's English. the pronuncation and syntax you refer to is know as Recived Pronuncation or RC. It is totally contrived. I speack it for clarity when not in my home area , then I return to my proper way of speacking.
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  2251. There is a Great War Centenary Statue in London , made of metal, that has a figure carrying an actual De Ac Lewis Gun. A lot of the Star Wars 'Stores' seen around spaceports etc came from a firm in Essex that specialises in British Military surplus it then went back and was sold of cheap, as 'Its already been paid for'.The first film was actually made on the cheap. I know one of the prop builders at Shepperton who kept some odd stuff, because he thought it was an intresting one off stuff.He now calls it his Retirment Collection! :-)
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  2252. Yes, it is a place people live and work. The Newfoundland Memorial has had 100 years of people walking and visiting. There are still places , such as the feild next door, that have been dug by archeologists, they give you a whole diffrent perspective. The argument over what should happen to the Western Front started in 1919, should it be preserved for all time, or is it a living changing landscape? Answer as of 2019? Argument still raging.
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  2253. You need the 1,000 page paper manual so that when the computer goes wrong you can find the information to fix it!
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  2254. Acually , those quick release buckles are a style introduced in the late 1960's early seventies. Though, may be protytype or trails pices.
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  2255. The problem was any British Goverment rpresentative has to worry about Collateral damage. The various terrorist groups in NI just don't give a S...
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  2256.  @Aegis---  Having been near missed on several occasions by terrorist incidents. I hold to my view.
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  2257.  @lifeontheX  a suprising number ofpeople don't actually know that.
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  2258.  @neues3691  OH? So the blood of Christ and the Body of Christ is not used in Christian Services, ? Say what you like Relgions ofany type demand blood.,and with the return to Fundementalism in all branches. I'll stick to being an Athist.
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  2259.  @johnbarber4549  Haven't got the licence to hunt Tay.
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  2260. The US had PT boats in the English Channel as well-https://www.cios.org.je/news/2015/pt-boats-wreath-laying-ceremony/
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  2261.  @rogueriderhood1862  Not into the modern junk ! Strictly Geat War rifles! :-)
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  2262.  @rogueriderhood1862  Thank you . I will check out the rifle, never seen one in the metal.
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  2263.  @rogueriderhood1862  Thanks
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  2264. I'd have said the lare blue bin solved the problem nicley. :-)
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  2265. In England Blood hounds are used in packs for hunting with horses. They hunt a 'Clean Boot' that is some fitness freack willing to run miles pulling a drag. Great fun and fabulous dogs.
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  2266. So that's were Cobray got the idea for the Terminator!
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  2267.  @McGoughable  Nice to know Britiain still has a reputation! :-0
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  2268.  @McGoughable  :-)
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  2269. Funny thing is , I live in UK, and Captain Kangaroo, was never shown on British TV. However! The theme music Puffin Billie, of Puffing Billy, gets spelt both ways, was used on the BBC Home Service Childrens Favourites radio music show on a Saturday morning for years. Originally compiosed by Edward White, in honour of a Steam Loco on the Isle Of Wight. One thing the show did do, gave me a life long love of Classical Music.
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  2270. In England most musuems are now Venues. The artifacts are nothing but exotic decoration for Corperate Jollies. Fortunatley as of 23:00 gmt we are out of the EU so EU deac's rules,which have been sent into the long grass anyway, won't count.
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  2271.  @Adogsmate4267  I agree, after all once Hess died , Spandau Prision was demolished crushed and the remains dumped at sea. An object like Himmler's Personal plane could be a powerful talisman.
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  2272. Just found this Sten manufactuer 1940's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAUdrKG31zE
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  2273. Did you get the Common signal from the tug aircraft Hey you guys! For Christ sake remember we are pulling the thing not pushing it!
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  2274. May ne Undrerated, by by God, not underpriced. Around £150,000 .
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  2275. In England we have had to live with terroist threats for decades. A lot funded from Boston.
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  2276.  @briannicholas2757  Well the result was death and injury, to my friends and colleauges. So don't expect sympathy.
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  2277.  @briannicholas2757  It does and my apologies. I've many Irish friends, despite being near missed on four occasions. Should add, on 7th July 2015, I walked out of King's Cross station in London about 15 minutes before hell broke loose, becasue I'd decided I wanted to arrive a bit early, other wise. The irony is , the IRA provided alot of 'Mutaual Assiatsnce' to various Middle Eastern based terror groups. The first briefing I rreecived about anti terrrorrist procedures, was in 1972, aged 15. As one of the last Boy Service recruitment to the Royal Navy, we were coonsiidered 'Ligitamate targets ' by the IRA.
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  2278. There waere many Conversions, mainly by Parker Hale, there were also Factory built .22 rifles. I learnt to shoot on a Martini action stapmed VR dated 1890's, and no I'm not that old! The action just had a .22 barrel bedded on. Talk about overkill.
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  2279. Told you so!!! :-)
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  2280. An obvious follow on to this, is Pegasus Bridge. Ham and Jam.
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  2281. Bl**dy H8ll Brexit gets as far as Forgotten Weapons? Enough Folks PLEASE!!! Leave some place of sanity in this world!
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  2282.  @bubba200874426  So what is the point of them then? Firecrackers would be cheaper, jumping up and down yelling BOO! would need less logistic supplies.
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  2283.  @bubba200874426  Unles you count sending it and sitting under it,No.
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  2284.  @LinksRoyal  Yeah, as long as you stop the Enemy sending them back at you, that's a good result.
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  2285. When the Palmach made Stens the biggest problem was brass for the ammunition. So they bought and imported Lipstick cases. Though barrels are the most complicated, maybe the 10 1/2 inch was what was set up for manufactuer?
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  2286. To true!
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  2287.  @WALTERBROADDUS  No but could be sold into servici. Nelson's first ship Foudraient was just such a French Frigate. The rules were any one who was a ship that captured a Prize was in for a cut. There were far more tears shed by Jack after Trafalgar due to the sinking of prizes taken in the following storm than the death of Nelson.
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  2288.  @111doomer  But the rule was , anybody on board a ship taking a prize got a cut,and the Admiral of the Station, of course the higher up the order the bigger the cut. If Iremember correctly it was HMS Cossack taking Altmark was the last time prize money wa spaid, and the Cutlass used as a boarding weapon. A lot of Grand English Houses were built on Spanish and French Gold.
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  2289. A well respected TV commentator on Britsh TV during the 60's and 70' was Raymond Baxter. He was a Malta piolt on Spitfires. A Canadian pilot Beurling wrote a book Malta Spitfire . For Pedestal speciffically I'd recommend the book Malta Convoy by Peter Shackland and Anthony Hunter. Also the story of the three Glouster Gladiators Faith , Hope and Charity, not to mention the two fast minelayers Welshman and Manxman. At one time Malta mounte dthe biggest artillery pice in the World. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3KcLu6_TLE
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  2290.  @wierdalien1  Oh nasty! He also shot up the back wall of Eltham Palace according to legend.
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  2291.  @wierdalien1  :-)
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  2292. When they can work out the safe area? :-)
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  2293. Even 'Bad Books' teach you something. If only an appreciation of how to use words.
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  2294. Wreck of the Mary Deere.
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  2295. Downe House, where Darwin lived, has a local famous breed of poultry. The Orpington Buff, first bred 1866, they are a dark couloured bird with black specks. Bred so as not to show the dirt and soot of nearby London. Jump forward and hundred and bit years to the 1980's...and the headlines are OSTRICH! The up and coming new wonder animal! Prices on par at £1000 per pair of fertile eggs. same result.
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  2296. And the American's choose to forget that 75%of thier rifles were of British Design :-) The Enfiled P17.
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  2297.  @timengineman2nd714  I shoot a Winchester P14 and a 1903 SMLE. The P14 was a target rifle taken to war, the SMLE was a war rifle you can take to the range. :-) So saying my P14 has the circle T on the stock, but no sign of an optical. It has ben Waldernised, but still has the front volley sight. Though many were issued as Iron Sight sniper rifles. In WW2 a lot of P17 came acros sfor Home Gaurd and Second line use. They were allmarked with a 2 inch wide red band on the stock to differentiate the .30/06 from .303 P14 The bayonets for P14 and P17 also have two veertical grovves on each grip , again as they won't fit SMLE. It also has an intresting brass disck inlaid on the stock CIA Rifle Club, took me a long time to work that one out . Chief Inspectorate of Armements. AKA Churchill's Idle Army.
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  2298.  @timengineman2nd714  Ahh! there are some .....nasty....people out there.
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  2299. Not if they let Ian loose on the calander as well. Probably be about 19202020
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  2300. This man has to much imagination! What next?
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  2301.  @timelordtardis  LOL
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  2302. I have a number of pistols on the table. What table? The Royal Amouries really need to get thier act together. Some videios are great some like this are so amatuer it is cringeworthy.
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  2303.  @stevetaylor8698  I'll chip in(Pun not intended ) with my Chainsawas and ad dnoise polloution!
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  2304. Beloved of the Sci -Fi film makers.
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  2305. Whitworth's testing started by building four rifles with seven foot barrels, then cutting the barrel down to measure velocity and acuracy. Queen Victoria famously opened a Wimbeldon shooting competion by firing a mounted Witworth to hit bull at 500yards. An example of one of the test rifles, and Victoria's rifle ae held at the NRA Museum at Bisley. To call the rifle a one trick pony is harsh though. The concept of the rifle came about as a result of ideas on measurment , standardisation and the practical application of them, so the rifle was an ideal test bed for other ideas then applied to genral enginnering.
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  2306. Have to say in this case Go Elephants! Animal one's I have to add, just in case.
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  2307.  @gwtpictgwtpict4214  Well we survived! :-)
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  2308. AKA MODPLOD. A great bunch of people.
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  2309. Hey Dick, a bit of advice mate? Buy a push bike.
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  2310. If you can find it the IWM book Battlefields of the Great War, panoramic photographs. Original pictures, then you see unbeliavble devistaion that occured.
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  2311. My pleasure Mon V. Full details The Battlefeilds of the First World War The unseen panorama of the western front . Peter Barton. Publishe Consatble. Has two DVDs of photgraphs as well.
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  2312.  @BobSmith-dk8nw  Swaings and roundaboiuts, don't forget the British also taught the US code breacking and Sigint techniques, including the development of Bombes and Colossous to breack japanese codes. I won't voice an opinion on the IBM claim to the First electronic computer.
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  2313.  @John-ru5ud  Thank you. Couldn't remeber , it's the age you know.
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  2314.  @John-ru5ud  True.
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  2315.  @BobSmith-dk8nw  I' m well aware of the US industrial capacity. I have in my care two 1944 Dodge 3/4 ton trucks. A WC51 Weapons Carrier and WC54 Ambulance. If you drive the comparable Britsh vehicles of the time, you know why I have the Dodges!
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  2316.  @DawnOfTheDead991  The Britsh Admiralty, and the shipping owners had learnt that mistake in the Great War. Though some bright spark wanted to teach Seagulls to crap on the U Boat periscopes, so every country has 'Em
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  2317.  @BobSmith-dk8nw  One of the best times I have had with my WC51 was driving down a road in Belgium after Midnight with a thunder storm on the horizon. I just couldn't get out of my mind the thought of a grizzled seargent chewing his cigar , cuddling his Thompson muttering 'It's to quiet guys! Just to quite'. And I was sober at the time:-)
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  2318.  @ericgrace9995  There are photos on the CIOS website showing British vehicles in German service in the Channel Islands , and French tanks. A lot of the Artillery in the Western Wall was also captured picies, including some dating back to the late 19th century.
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  2319. Tte name still exists.Agemtleman in Finigly Essex has it.
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  2320.  @jpegwithallthecrust2649  It's because of men like George, the idiot can post such things.
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  2321.  @Dsdcain  And 99% of people. :-)
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  2322. No. they are Islands. have been about 6500 to 6200 BCE .
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  2323. Not really jealous .... You.........................!
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  2324. Yes if you get attacked by a house it stands no chance!
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  2325. We have a system that works, we have the tooling to build it and the experience. Why not? And we will confuse and annoy those Western Experts when they disassemble it!
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  2326.  @Ar7is.anonymous  The protesters are the public? So are murderers , rapist, burgulars, peodophiles, fraudsters, drug dealears, the man walking the dog.
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  2327. Mr Caboose, We are law abiding, they know where to find us.
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  2328. Or several :-)
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  2329. I had a Chinese 7.63 C96 , before the poloticians go involved. It was well made and finished, withstood Brtish Proofing, and was totally reliable.
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  2330.  @ChrisHodgsonCorben-Dallas  Intresting point! Wonder if Ian could get hold of one?
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  2331.  @ChrisHodgsonCorben-Dallas  Now that will be something to look forward to!
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  2332. The teat is the praise. In UK the treat is tennis ball. The Trick, is the ,feeling,or link. Really no words for it that you and Your dog, no one elses, form.
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  2333.  @damnjustassignmeone  Yes it is easy , being properly trained on MEWPS , that is the reaction . What a *&^^%%% moron! Put everyone else at risk
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  2334. Now you know where the SA80 started!
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  2335. This type of Lewis was also fitted on rails that went up from the cockpit of a bi plane fighter and was fixed forward on the top wing. You see them on the SE5. Dirt Clods? You sure it was not a lot of startled Pigieons?
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  2336. That was the answer, wet canvas
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  2337. Breech loading, camoflauge, highly trained marksmen. Sounds like you would have had the first sniper company. But as usual the Treasury Were whinging over cost., and still are.
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  2338. What most people call the Queen's English or 'posh , is correctly called Recived Pronounciation. The acent of Standard English.
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  2339. So the French, out to cause trouble, sent supplies to the Americas we loyal Crapaud's ( the name for those Jersey Bred) doing our Kings work , (And making a profit, historical tax men) attacked the French ships. Now the French, still upset that we stayed with the Norman Duchy, still the English Monarch's oldest title, wanted the Islands back so invaded. Got the crap kicked out of them, by The Royal Militia Island of Jersey, which is the oldest established organised British Military unit, with the help of some English men. The Lieutenat Governor, (The Monarchs Represenative, Jersy is a Self Governing Bailiwick, the Monarch is the Head of State, sowe aren't Governed) was brought to the ROYAL SQUARE. Surrender to the French! Na Ma Boy ! Pierson was killed, and it was a celebarted victory . So to commemerate this a picture was commisioned, Artist was John Singelton Copley, an American. Note : to the side is seen a black soldier/servant , Piersons' man named Pompey, who shot the man who shot Pierson and was lauded for the act. So the Britsh were allowing Black Men to serve in armed roles an hundred or so years before the Americans. The group in the bottom right of women with child are said to be Peirsons' wife child and maid.
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  2340. Just prior to WW2 the P14- by then designated Rifle No3 Mk1 went through upgrade refurbishment. about 670, 000 of them! The work was carried at the Royal Ordnance Depot. Weedon
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  2341. In UK it is pointed out, Road Paint costs money! It isn't put there if it isn't needed
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  2342. Life my friend, is just to short to answer that one.
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  2343. The other problem with e readers , you can't hide behind them and escape the world. Best reason for a good book.
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  2344.  @stephen7571  So? You wait ten minutes, and the Welsh weather changes.
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  2345.  @stephen7571  Theoldjoke is whospendsmoretimeon Pen Y Fan in winter? The SAS.or Mountain Rescue pulling them off.
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  2346.  @colinpacker  Oh sorry, passes the base of Nelson's Coloum, in the middle of the square. Which just to confue the issue, is the second coloumn named for Nelson. The first one is above Portsmouth harbour, alongside Fort Nelson, and is still used as a navaigation mark for vessels entering the harbour.
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  2347. The man was Zimmerman. Following the release of details of the two telegrams, one on the recommencing of unrestricted submarine warfare and the other on Mexico to the US press, it wa streated with sceptisism. Then Zimmerman public announced that yes, the information wa strue he had sent the telegrams. Read up on the subject, it is absolutly fascinating tales of skulduggery on all sides.
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  2348.  @psilvakimo  He actually stated he had worded and sent the telegram. The explination seems to be he considered it a matter of honour not to lie. The material was coded in a code the US couldn't, or wouldn't read, as it wa sent on US Diplomatic circuits, on Wilson'ds say so. The British , who had made the first act of the war cutting the German transatlantic cables, had intercepted the message and already brocken the code. The dillema for the British was how do we disguse the fact we are intercepting US Diplomatic traffic? Hence an elaborate ruse that the message wa sintercepted at the Mexican telegraph office. When first released the US press and public were highly sceptical, then Zimmerman came out with 'Yes, I sent it'. What wasn't known to the US public, but of cours eto the Entente, wa sWilson's personal involvment. His menatl health and genral well being was being questoned, atthe time anyway. If the British had made the facts public, what wopuld happen to his standing in public? He'd been made to look a fool, so I wouldn't be suprise if some malice on Wilson's part wa salso involved in the declartaion of war.
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  2349. From the Ice Age on ma boy! We are still causing trouble! Not bad for a bit of rock, 9 miles long by 5 wide. Gets a bit bigger when the tide goes out though.
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  2350.  @theoutlook55  Well after years of being controlled by youir pet. Nice to think you have some choice. :-)
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  2351. Now there is a fascinating cross border /culture question my friend! :-)
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  2352. Ahh you mentioned the C Word! A lot of the French line through out Europe was not in muddy country. We outside France tend to get hung up on the Belgium, Northern France sectors, were most British and American troops served. a lot of that is low lying temprate and muddy, Go futher east and mud and wet are les of a problem.
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  2353. All military weapons are designed by Comittee, some one shouted loudly enough. There is probably a PHD for someone into why the descion was made. Though the priniciple of mediocre working today rather than perfect next week came into it as well.
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  2354.  @billd.iniowa2263  LMAO. At least we can go and look for some now!. :-)
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  2355.  @dougearnest7590  LMAO Yes you say something so innoceently , and watch others around go in to total shock and horror.
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  2356.  @NefariousKoel  Where do you get Tyranny as the norm?
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  2357. And there you have an argument going on to this day in Belgium and Northern France. Is it Sacred Ground, or the place people live who want modern services?
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  2358. There is no pit deep enough for whoever put that recoil pad on. 20 bore has under gone a rvival in UK over the last few years, much pleasanter to shoot than a 12 bore.
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  2359. Sorry Ian! Can't hear the shots for the wind.
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  2360.  John Thomas  Always allow that there is plenty of safe area such a berm around where you miss.
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  2361. Little detail Crosses are American Cemteries. Commonwealth War Graves Commison cemetries use a headstone, There are of uniform design and lettering. The idea wa sthat rich or poor , officer or private, the grave was marked the same. Though families could pay 7/6 (Seven Shillings and Sixpence) to have some approved text added. There are also some cemitires that contain Entente and German burials. The German War Cemetries are often mulitple burials. Frenakly , there was no love for them , and the locals whilist happy to give up land for Entente dead were not going to do so for the Germans.
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  2362. Watching in slow motion that is a strange action. Is it me or does it pause before finally going into battery every second shot?
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  2363.  @anthonyhayes1267  I didn'nt know that. Then when the German warship, name escapes me, was forced into harbour, and presented to the Ottermans, rest is history. Especially as the two ships the British grabbed wern't that special.
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  2364.  @anthonyhayes1267  Like it!
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  2365. The first time I visted the lines my imprssion was Christ! The whole area is so small, how did they manage to fall over? The camera actually streteches the perspective.
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  2366. The British doctrine for Snipers was First observe and report , second shoot only if the value of your target is more than the value of intelligence gained. They also introduced the sniper pair, shooter and observer , though in WW2 many snipers did operate alone. The No4 is the old SMLE No3 with the P14 barrel and sights introduced in 1939. Though if you look at period photos you will see particularly in the Middle and Far East the old No3 still in use.
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  2367. Not interchangable parts, but borrows concepts. The Apature rear sight, heavier barel, nose cap and bedding. Though the rear sling swivels are interchangable I can garuntee, done it on my P14. India did alter the bedding and adopted more float at the front end of barrel on the No3 . Though following WW2 with Independence immenent,( 1947,) for economic and political reasosns Britian wasn't go to supply the machinery and India felt they really didn't need to replace the No3.
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  2368. Bear in mind the Old Girl is over 100 years old, she's entillied to a be a bit quircky.
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  2369. Don't know about beauty, but the lead is going in the right direction, that's the primary function.
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  2370.  @nindger4270  Ah sucks, Beurocray wins! :-(
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  2371.  @leeenfield3404  Well I can :-)
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  2372. One of those what if's? There is a good start in there, with a bit of tinkering could have been very popular. .
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  2373. Don't worry the tolls will reduce use.
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  2374. In the 1980's there was an Ostrich craze in UK.
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  2375.  @shesawitch3581  I would not dream of arguing :-)Let your btother look at the pictures occasianoly.KeepSafe.
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  2376. David Tuttle  We managed that ourselves. About the same time the Royal Navies firt Turret Ship HMS Thunder went down the ways. Had the same type of guns as this one. Rather embarrisingly, Woolwihich dropped it in the River Thames when shipping it down for proofing, and later one blew up becuse of double shotting.
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  2377. Why make the effort?Just stack them up as is :-)
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  2378. I know the designs of Spot, are there , because they work. If they appear to copy animals, its because Nature has taken a long time practicing to get things that work. But still, one has a tendency to think of Spot having a Head and Tail.
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  2379.  @ForgottenWeapons  No but would be intresting to meet up for a short while. You may get extra local knowledge.
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  2380.  @abrahamm1325  Quick PS. Get a copy of Gerorge Mc Donald Fraser's (Him of Flashman books) The Complete McCauslan. He was stationed in Palastine post war. In addition to being very funny, the stories give an insight into the British subeltern's out look on the place at the time.
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  2381.  @walterschumann2476  Very little.
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  2382. You may find this intresting then https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu_VBDDcLFY
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  2383. Assuming as Ian demonstrated the plate would actually bed into the surface.
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  2384. You want to live forever ? Well First Don't eat anything Second Don't drink anything, but and most importantly od all! Don't breathe the air!
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  2385.  keith moore  The Fixed Gun at the time was considered a defensive tactic. With a Barrage launched before the Attack. In the 1920's 30's when these guns were being developed, and back through most of European warfare , what we call Mobile Warfare was only a small point of doctrine. The Britsh Army at the time of the outbreack of WW2 were the most mechanised army in the world. It was German Doctrine that cause dinitial defeats. Like the Stormtrooper tactics ,keep moving fast so the opposition can't organise.
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  2386. A lot of archives in UK are going back to hard because proggrames change so often you lose compatability.
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  2387. That is a Goverment Arsenal Enfeild gun,. They are so close to Webley's that Webley sued for patent infrigment. The lockwork is a bit diffrent. Tank designation is a bit of a misnomer as they were genral issue , just so many recalls , rebuilds , switch back and fopre on Mk's it gets complicated. So the gun still has a story to tell.
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  2388. Try CJ Samson's Shardlake series. Based around Henry 8 rule.
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  2389. DOUG HEINS  Well! Someone is determined to put the record straight! Thank you for that. In the rest of Europe the assasination was orignally met with a 'What another one? Yawn '. attitude. Though if you read the full story of the days events, you couldn't make it up! It's like a wild black comedy.
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  2390. When he can stop griining that is.
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  2391. So we will look innocent , make a few marks, and develop an intresting locking system with a lot of military potential.
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  2392. Baton rounds, well what can wrong? Depends how your standing when it ricochets. Lots of very un PC comments on that one :-)
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  2393. You got to wonder about the patterns on Ian's wallpaper.
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  2394. Breacker Morant is worth an episode on his own.
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  2395. Grain, coal, sugar, anything that can produce fine carbon based dust can lead to an explosion. What you are looking at , an inflamable dust in a concentration that is subject to an ignition scource, is a Thermobaric Bomb.
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  2396. In England , commonly reffered to as 'Estate Cars'or , if you are posh, in very high snobbery places, based on a Rolls Royce chassis, reffered to as a 'Shooting brake'. After the wagon use dto carry 'Guns' to the Phesant shooting. In the 1960's both the Mini Estate and the Morris 1000 Estates had wood sides known as 'Travellers' both very sought after classics now.
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  2397. You do realise this could end up the one film where we won't be watching it going 'Nah, that wouldn't happen, the firearm he's using.....'
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  2398.  @Pugiron  Actually Wraith it is supposed to have originated in Scotland.
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  2399. Imagine the shock of the intended targets when they did.:-)
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  2400.  @AM-hf9kk  Not in England I'm afraid. :-(
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  2401. 213th Panzer Battalion based in the Channel Islands. A number of FT turrets were taken off and mounted on fixed fortifications. The chassis were used as tractors and about ten converted to SP guns. There were also some Command tanks and flame throwers. Char b were also used. The battalion was the only Panzer unit never to see active srvice. There is good reason to belive an FT is intact in a tunnel in Gurersey but one end of the tunnel is owned by the church, who don't want to know, and the ground above, the owner wants a bucket cash before allowing any surveying.
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  2402. Wasn't a similar issue proposed for the Paris TU144 crash in 1973? Camera being used either distracted or slipped and jammed controls?
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  2403. Depends how it is described. An old one was Naploeon's Carbine. I turn up with an old dirty carbine. My Great Great Great Etc uncle's brother's cousin is supposed to have brought it back from Waterloo. What do you think? Expert examines it, finds under the muck and crud an engraved Bee. His little eyes light up 'Oh weel it's not worth a lot I'll give you £10 for it. Nah don't rally want to sell it, its a family Heirloom So on it goes , the Expert has 'Dsicovered' a rare weapon and WANTS it. So eventually I reluctantly agree. He's happy, but then has second thoughts. My reply 'Did I describe it as Napoleon's Carbine? What does he do now? If he outs the fact he has paid a fortune for a piece of scrap, his Expertise is laughed out of court. So he keeps his trap shut and either buries it or tries to pass it on. I did nothing wrong.
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  2404.  @arianebolt1575  I like that version
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  2405.  @hihu7200  And damm near the same political situation in Eastern Europe. That's the worrying thing.
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  2406.  @jeanberthus7162  Thanks for that, learnt something new.
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  2407. The Island at High Water is 9 miles long by 5 miles wide. Gets a bit bigger when the tide goes out.
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  2408.  @williestyle35  There day still is. They just don't care for publicity.
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  2409. It was Indoor when he started :-) The backstop must have bene really something though.
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  2410. One has to ask. What the hell needs that sort of calibre to hunt?
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  2411. :-)
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  2412. Oh, you'd be missing so much! The Imperial War Museum had £21,000,000 spent on a few years back. I could have ruined it as well for half the price. Fort Nelson at Portsmaouth, artillery, Explosion, the Museum of Navl Gunfire, also has a collection of small arms from the German High Seas Fleet scuttlked at Scapa in 1919, HMS WArrior, the Mary Rose is a must before you die. Then the Natonal Army Musuem at Chelsea in London, the Wallace Collection, also in London, The Tank Museum at Bovington, the Royal Corp of Signals Museum up the road Duxford Aireodrome. Try this site http://www.warmuseums.nl/landindx.htm
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  2413.  @rogersmith7396  Similar happned in the 1982 Falklands Conflict.
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  2414. OY!! We wern't Pirates! We were loyal subjects of our Duke (The English Monarchys oldest title is still Duke of Normandy) fighting for his cause! (Though making a profit as well)
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  2415. To sit inshore firing at land targets, that is what the Monitor class warships were for. They were cheapear, had shallower draft, one maybe two large guns, but were not intended to be in combat with other ships. The precusor in the Royal Navy were 'Bomb Ketchs' aremd with Mortars. The two most famous of them are Erebus and Terror. Thier stron construction and obsolesence on launch made them prime canidates for conversion to exploration vessels in the Northwest Passage.
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  2416. French history leading up to the Franco -Prusssian war and after is worth browsing. You could argue that it was War one , the Great War , war two and the Second world war, was the third round.
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  2417. Huntley and Palmer still make Capt. Scotts Expedition Biscuits. Qouted as High Energy Low Cholesterol. As I'm looking at a packet now, marked best before 06, To quote the back of the packet.In 1911/12 Huntley & Palmers baked the biscuits that the Britsh Team used on polar challenges. The original formula used Lard, the modern version substitues vegtable oil. And the taste taste says! Beyond there best.
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  2418. I agree that front really was horrific, even by the standards at the time. Very little mentioned outside Italy and Austria.
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  2419. Run away! Actually just stroll away.
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  2420. Pity the Austrains didn't kick the Prussians. Europe would be a whole lot diffrent. Do know if any better but maybe no World Wars?
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  2421. So next episode the History of Divination?
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  2422. The FT saw service with the Germans in WW2. Panzer Battalion 213 was equippd with Cahr B' and a number of FT for use in the Channel Islands. A number of FT had the turrets removed and put onto fortifications, the chassis being conveted to tractor units and SP. The 213 was the only Panzer battalion never to see action. Ponit of Order Ian, the Mk1 through Mk5 British tank was developed soley to crash thorugh trencgh lines. The Medium Mk A Whippet was designed as a Pursuit tank, similar to the FT in it was to replace cavalry. There is good reason to belive an FT is still intact in a tunnel in Gurnersy. Unfortunaley one end of the tunnel is owned by the Church who don't want to know and recce from above , the land owner wants a lot of dosh,.
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  2423.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  There was a Beer Alowance, two cans a day instead .Back then if you didn't take the Tot you were marked in the Ships Bok as 'TT' . That meant you got an extra few bob in wages to make up.
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  2424. There was a 4 wheel Reliant . The Reliant Kitten. Best descriptiopn, a plastic sandwich box , with a wheel on each corner
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  2425. He was Scots. They now seem to like the French, again, still causing grief for the English. Rebuild Hadrian's Wall, with no gates.
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  2426. Intrestin little thing I heard on an English radio proggramme. If cars had developed at the same pace as electronics, a Rolls Royce would cost les s than £1, be about the size of matchbox and do a thousand miles to the gallon (Imperial gallon naturally)
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  2427.  @fleissigkarl3261  And people still get lost. Make something foolproof, the Human Race will retatliate by breeding a better fool. Was ever thus!
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  2428. The Chauchat was available , the Lewis wasn't. Besdies historically the US had a links with the French in the military feild, Britian was the new friend in the group.
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  2429. With all the this bit connects to that bit, I expected Ian to burst into song and Hear the Word of The Lord!. Damm, that will be an earwig all night now.
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  2430. Cook up the offal of the Deer. Thne you will be eating Humble Pie. Should appeal to you as it drevies from the French Omble, meaning deers innards. Another point, the shank bone of deer is the best for Boning Leather toa high smooth gloss.
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  2431.  @OurzSauveli  There is some question over the gentic content of Tarpan's in Cabbalus and wether selective breeding might be feasiable, to get back closer,. Przewalski's Horse has arlready split to tow lines, the Munich line being relativley pure. The Polish line has six Cabbalus mares introduced in the 1930's.
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  2432. The battlefeild don't work like that. If the ground is good and the climate mild the Poloticians build golf courses and refuse to let soldiers anywhere near it :-).
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  2433. From practical experience the Webley in .455 man stopper in black powder bites hard when you shoot it. Brtitish Army practice at the time was classic single hand target stance. With a rifle you have two hands and can lean into it.
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  2434.  @deandeann1541  Thanks for that. Most people that now live in the area of Dartford UK, that was a main site for Vickers Maxim have no idea there local Mc Donalds is on the site of a machine gun factory.
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  2435.  @kevinsullivan3448  But, the machinery exists, Igor! Pass the black powder! :-)
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  2436. In Britain Bouy is pronuced just as Boy. To quote an old English song, appropriate to this 'Ave you got a light boy? 'Ave you got a light?
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  2437. Oy! Jerrias , the legacy of Norman French is not a Country Bumpkin language! M'n aérodrisseux est remplyi d'andgulles. Don't consider Norman to be French, that is still an insult in many places in Normandy. The French didn't get Normandy back till 1204.
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  2438. Often contracted from sorting wool and rags , was known as Rag Picker's Disease'. More immidiate risk if you are handaling sheep and raw wool Lanolin Poisoning.
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  2439.  @dariorazum6121  Convoy PQ17 is the , well, most infamous example of where auxilary naval craft like Trawlers were decisive. They operated under a completly diffrent flag and command. The Royal Naval Patrol Service.
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  2440. The echo is louder than the original shot.
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  2441. A lot of UK law demands Physical Records. Handwritten Paper records, difficult to alter without leaving a trace. As for such things a E readers, - You can't hide behinnd a E-reader. and the batteries don't go flat or compatability problems with a printed book. Historical note: Anthrax was such a problem amonst those sorting rags for paper, it became known as Rag Picker's disease
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  2442. This was the man making remarks about English rain? Mind you which would you rather, crawling in mud or snow?
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  2443.  @jonipaananen9304  Agreed, even at relitivly high tempratures , wind and rain together can be a killer.
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  2444. A good enginner does not nessacarily make a good tutour. For a Good Engineer+ Good Tutour = Luke Talley. Thank you both. I sat up at at 1 am 10 years old watching a 405 vhf black and white grainy picture to see the culminatiuon of thier work. Both of you are still developing my understanding.
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  2445. I have done Living History, Great War and WW2. To have the artifacts, that people can handle, feel the weight, have the smell try walking or moving in the kit, This can only be done with artifacts. Something tangible is worth a thousand words, it is the intial point of contact that makes people want to know more.
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  2446. And me.
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  2447.  @manuelh.4147  I have , but it is nice to have others with an intrest and knowledge to bounce ideas off, and have some damm good arguments as well!
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  2448. And the fourth crew man, the Accountant shouting 'Stop it! You are bankrupting the Country!' Allegedley why the Danish never bought them.
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  2449. so for the rest ofus Pacfic standard is minus 8 GMT (Zulu) Correct? Going to be an intresting evening for me then. My mother go tme up at 1 am To see the Moon Landings.
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  2450.  @trifidhm  He has, as I mentioned. Be intresting to see what more comes out. So far I've found no other example to compare it to.
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  2451.  Superdude70  The old Lee action continued up to the 2000's as a cadet rifle in .22. Mine has no markings except serial number and that is very low, which is why it is to me such an intresting oddity. On the plus side , the rounds still go out the end where I want them to.
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  2452.  Superdude70  If you can work the magazine out let me know! They are fun to shoot though.
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  2453.  Superdude70  Definitley. My local dealer, the ** is currently dangling an 1896 Winchester carbine under my nose. 1914 date shipped over for British Miltary use, either RFC or RN. Got to get some overtime! ;-)
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  2454.  @minuteman4199  True, but a working boat , it takes a toll. In Wartime especially the rescourses are stretched. The original builders must have done a hell of a job for the Bean Counters to consider spending anything on her.
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  2455. Point of order! The No 4 was introduced in 1939, following looses at Dunkirk it was manufactured to repnish European forces. The rest of the British Army and most Commonwealth forces continued with the No1. So the iconic WW2 Britsh battle riflke is still the No1.
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  2456. Classic Mouse built to Mil Spec. May be dubious when it come to using them, but the French are good weapons designers. Mentioning the Atlantic wall, the Germans mounted two prototype 50mm automatic mortars in a bunker at Corbiere Jersey. Later taken to Royal Small Arms Enfeild for evaluation. In one place bearby there is also a 30 foot high reinforced concrete tower , half built into a granite cliff face with a 10 foot steel hemisphere on top, plus all ancillirys inside, to mount TWO, count them! TWO MG 34/42.
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  2457. Try Belgium, though not if your on a diet; :-)
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  2458.  @Rosiebeatle  I used to work as a Process Server, that is somone who serves Court Documents. I found quite by chance that the British stereotype is alive and well. I smoke a pipe , have done since my late teens. On one occasion, when you still could , I was waiting at King's Cross Station late at night. for those not in the know a single man standing late at night at King's Cross is automatically subjet to some speculation. Any way a woman came across the concourse , past other woman, and other men smoking ciggarettes and asked me about a train. As it was I hadn't a clue, but out of curiosity I asked why she had come up to me. Her repliey 'Well my Grandfarther smoked a pipe'.
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  2459.  @Rosiebeatle  They don't know me very well:-) Fascinating how a sosciety will develop strerotypes though.
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  2460.  @Cloudman572  I'm hopimg to get back dowm to Portsmouth! Fascianting place for history buffs
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  2461.  @nathansellars3757  She is actually a composte wood iron hull.
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  2462.  @MentourNow  Importantly , everybody walked away. How are crew taught, apart from training till it's automatic , to deal with the stress in such situations?
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  2463. In a big way.A classic example,and one of my favourites as she brought the Third French speacking lion to the English Royal Seal, is Elanor of Aquitaine.
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  2464. Battries from Alderney the Northern most Island, and the only German Concentration camp on British soil, shelled Cherbourg. As a result HMS Rodney was ent to shell the battieries, the only time a Royal Navy Warship has fired in anger on the United Kingdom.
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  2465. Im looking at the guage now. Everything looks fine. Right up until it isn't.Though Spot is a remarakable pice of kit, it can't think, I'll just tap the gauge, the alarm must have sounded for a reason. Spot is a tool, not a replacement. Better thought a fool for checking , than proved one for not.
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  2466. As the late great Dave Allen said after being banned from the BBC, it's only a series of sounds!
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  2467. I knew 'How' it works. Now I know WHY it works! Thank you.
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  2468. As Ian said the BREN learnt from the Lewis, easier to manufacture, simpler to operate. more reliable.So saying the Old Lewis didn't actually go obselete till about 1946, so it did it's bit in many other roles. Vehicles , ships ,especially auxilary craft, Home Gaurd. Hey they threw bullets wher eyou wanted , use them.
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  2469. Same here, but the old vetran shooters keep telling me P14 to 400yards after that a No4.
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  2470. Ah, my view is the P14 was a target rifle taken to war, the SMLE a war rifle you can take to the range. The biggest advantage of the P14 over the No3 is the sights. The No3 sights are a pain to aquire quickly. By the time of the No4 you have the rear appature concept and the barrel and nose cap of a P14 type wedded to the Lee 10 round box and action. I have a Winchester P14 (T) thoiugh not the MOA rear sight, that is the next Unicorn hunt. Mine has been Wooldened though, i suspect that is were it lost the MOA rear site, average conscript would be confused and dosen't need it.
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  2471. Don't forget local import taxes.
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  2472. That was done in WW2. For the raid on Pegasus bridge a three Dimensional scale model was built and the camera Flew over it. Same for the Dam busters Raid and the Raids on Tripitz.
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  2473. You do realsie that you have just found something that unites both side of the Irish Channel?
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  2474. Well I've heard of can't walk and chew gum at the same time. But can't stand up and talk at the same time?
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  2475. About time the great unwashed were told what they owe to firearms and the manufactuer of such. Standardised parts, production lines, standards of manufacter. The chemical industry. Where do you stop?
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  2476. The Gun at 3.52 is mounted at Battrie Moltke, Les Landes St Quen Jersey Channel Islands .Retrived from the base of the cliff and restored by the Channel Island Occupation Society. The gun is a French Cannon De 155mm GPF-German designation 15.5 cm K 418 (F) Would have been nice to acknowledge.
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  2477. There still sulking. Now the war is over fish.
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  2478. That Note, would best be described as a 9 bob note (there was an old currency note called a 10 shilling (AKA 10 Bob) note. so the term is coloquial for a complete fake.
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  2479. Reportded to Youtube, hopefully this stupidity will be taken down. And I have handled all sorts of firearms all my life.
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  2480.  @wallaroo1295  Dodge owners should stick together, to many damm Jeeps about. Any way, it does seem to me that wars are in a time of plenty, if your sosciety is staving and diseas ridden, most people are to concerned with staying alive. Another thing , oddball, it seems to me that every time there is a major war, there are bad winters, wonder if it is all the dust and smoke being kicked up.
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  2481.  @zoiders  K guns were retired by the RAF and stored, especially in the Middle East. When the SAS were formed, originally it was provided you call yourselves the SAS, to pad out a ghost unit already conncoted by Dudley Clark, it was grab what you can and the K guns were grabbed. The LRDG used Lewis guns, and Boyes on thier vehicles.
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  2482. Taking wheels of ground or off unit completly is quite commom . Pneumatic tyres have a tendency to bounce when mount is subject to stress so better no contact with ground.
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  2483. There would have been a valid point for scrapping' special' aircraft at time. These aircraft associated with 'Hero's' of the Third Reich , could have been seen as talismans around which groups could reform.
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  2484. Yes my friend , but the British and Forign languages can be summed up by the old joke 'They don't understand me? Then say it again only louder!. There are still lot of British coloquisms such refering to wine as Plonk, supposedly a mispronciation of Vin Blanc that most do not know come from the Great War. Though American's do seem to have their own problems pronouncing non US place names
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  2485. There is a joke at the Royal Observatory Greenwhich. They have a number of antique telescopes. On one of them the guide says to kids, and Gullible (Guilty! ) Adults. 'Look through this you can see Pluto'. So duly look, and little picture of the Dog is smiling at you. 😅
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  2486.  @williamsullivan9401  Or in the case of the British empire, beat them, then make them understand. Then nick a lot of thier words. Though the various dialects within the Uk are almost a series of forign languages to those from outside the area.
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  2487.  @DeepPastry  Ahh. Wel I suppose I my speech, at least in public, would be described as Recived Prononciation then? Mainly because the local Jersey accent and the proper Jerriais which to me is natural is near gibbeirsh to most. My Mother was originally Welsh , and always tried to hide her accent. I always knew when I'd pushed my luck as it came back.. Bye Byeeee! Funny enough same thing happens to me the Jersey comes back.
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  2488.  @ExUSSailor  He was Scottish. Need anymore be said?
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  2489.  @ExUSSailor  Try George Mc Donald Frasers book the Complete McCauslan. In addition to be well written and very funny, you get an idea about the Scottish Regiments.
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  2490. @SapidSalamander No my friend! The little rock I come from has stayed loyal to the Crown all through since 1066 when my ancestors went with William Duc De Normandie to deal with the Anglo Saxon bunch across the water. (We let them think they are important, it keeps them quiet.)
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  2491.  @natemmerson6849  Don't mention Culloden!
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  2492. Don't forget Aldi.
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  2493.  @jic1  Yes they are. They own the rest of the UK as they are the Crown's oldest possecion, all that remains of the original Duchy of Normandy. As I was born in Jersey, it's the history of my home.
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  2494.  @jic1  Do you live on or in the Island's? I'd say your adress is Wimbeldon Common.
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  2495. Digital storage changes so often, even something stored five years ago may be impossible to retrive. As pointed out Microfilm, that last 500 years, and can be read with a bright light and lenses. Already digital files are being reconverted to microfilm.
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  2496. To the NORTH of Jersey , they are there to keep the wind off us. Dp you know the bunch of traitors supported Cromwell?
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  2497. Question: You drive one mile, then the car goes off on it's own to plant a tree? So where are you and what are you doing at the time? Can't go anywhere the car is planting a tree!. Anyway , I was driving Mercedes Hydrogen Powered buses in London in 2012. They were even used to demonstrate London's Green potential to the International Olympic Comitte. Bloody gods vehicles actually.
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  2498. I had one! Then some F***ing Polotician went vote hunting! And it's ten years.
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  2499. SnoopReddogg  Redords show that in 1917 the Winchester P14 was issued as a sniper rifle, without the scope , it was used for snapshotting with iron sights, which are very quick to aquire. Mine got Wooldenised so there is only the front remains of the volley sight and the standard rear not the MOA sight. Which I'm trying to find.
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  2500. SnoopReddogg  Come down to Bisley and discuss that! Garuntee there would be a lot of hot discussion:-) My favourite is the SMLE, always and forever! But the sights on the Mk1 No3 , or other way round , are a pain to pick up quickly with the rear sight in front of the reciver. The P14 does have the edge there. The rear mounted sight on the SMLE only came in on the No4, and that was only introduced in 1939, then to misquote Othais, Another War Were Declared. The result was the dear old No 1 carried on till about the middle of 1943 in Europe when No4 production caught up, this replaced early Dunkirk losses. In other theatres, especially Middle and Far East the No 1 just kept on going. You can get various bolt on peep sights for the P14, but they are almost as expensive now as the gun itself. They did get an optical sight, between the wars, not sure which one though, and some kept going into and post WW2. As a quick Did You Know. A lot of guns were supplied by civillians from the US under the Send A Gun to A British Home scheme, along with optics , compasses and all sorts of useful stuff. Particullay prized were Winchester 70 models. Some of these were fitted with optics and suppresors and issued to Home Gaurd Auxilary Units, the planned stay behind force in case of invasion. Theywere intended to be assasination weapons, including British targets who either knew of the AU's existence or were considered Colabaorators.
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  2501. SnoopReddogg  Sod it! It's a foul wet blowing Sunday morning here, and I can't get away! :-(
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  2502. That would be us Jerseymen! Quite wrongfully accused of being Prates by the damm colonlials and thier French allies during wht they refer to as the War of independence. The French even tried invading the Island (See THG vid) WE were acting under letters of Marque from our Liege Lord the Duc De Normandie waging proper action (For fun and Profit) Aginst the Duc's avowed enemies!. .
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  2503. One target went down with hits, the second fell over in suprise.
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  2504. it does put a whole new context on deep ....... :-)
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  2505.  @sixstringedthing  The WW2 guns in multi mounts were 2lb Vickers. Though the older guns like this got dragged back into service on converted yachts and fishing vessels.
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  2506. Similar story that a British Soldier didn't shoot a man in the Great War, a guy by the name of Adolf Hitler.
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  2507.  @Chlorate299  So what about all the Colonists who wore homespun kit then?
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  2508. Southern Cotton was essential to Britsh industry. The answer was blockade runners , starting from Bermuda. The profits were so great that one succseful run would pay for the ship outright. There are numerous stories of tricks and close encounters, including the use of cotton bales socked in Nitre put in the boilers and the saftey valves screwed down.
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  2509. True but cartridge ammunition was intially expensive, and fincky with supply. Black powder percussion caps and lead could be found most places alot cheaper,sowhy be an Early Adopter?
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  2510. Ah no 'A! Is that story from the Evening Post still going round 'A? 🤣 Along with the Havalaugh Puffin colony off Les Landes. For those wondering, both stories were posted at the beggining of april.
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  2511. Winchester 1897 was also issued to naval Units, especially mine sweepers and boarding ships. These were mostly commendered fishing boats of the Auxilary Patrol.
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  2512. NEWSflash: Military medical personnel are permitted to carry arms, but they must only be used in self defence or defence of thier patients.
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  2513. They pulled naval 4.1 inch guns across. Most guns were moved by Oxen anything up to 16 pairs though there were Armoured Steam Tractors, traction engines, used as prime movers. I agree that Britian had a very small standing army, the Navy was always the most beloved. Bear in mind with one exception (Dear Old Jersey Channel Islands) there was no conscription into the army. It wa sthe riff raf muach like Wellington's day. The Yeomanary and as a result of reform after the war the Territoral Army encouraged Part Time soldering, often seen as extra pay and a holiday from work.
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  2514.  @woodland5325  Not like it used to be though. The 3 qualifications for a Naval Gun Running team member. Strength of a Cart Horse, Speed of a Race Horse, Brains of a Rocking Horse :-)
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  2515. They also has a Berthier down there, was bale to spout of about that! :-)
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  2516. Who cars? They are useless bits of fantasy rubbish which PUBLIC money is being spent on. There are charities out there that could have used the money to improve lives.
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  2517.  @kellmehrtens2215  That blanket is a choclate teapot with steel cable. Just another flying object.
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  2518.  @codyforemanable  Worse than nothing as you think it's safe. Always assume your cable will breack and things will fly or roll.
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  2519.  @redharlow1566  More likely just to fling the blanket in your direction.
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  2520. 3 lies in 3 words ? :-)
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  2521. Barrels do vibrate.
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  2522.  @wilsonlaidlaw  It's the age mate! I know the feeling. :-) A friend of mine had a hand built twenty bore with a brass weight in the fore end to sooth the recoil on his shoulders. Was a very sweet gun by Manton.
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  2523. If you want to get ahead, get a hat. A Gentleman never goes uncoverd! Incedentally the Polish? It is NOT a Beret! It a General Service (GS) cap!
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  2524. MERDE! Mon V Ian ,ne devrais -tu pas en Francais?
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  2525. Who the hell is that second clown! Any range I know his ass would be well bruised with that handling.
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  2526. Yes , the last product of the Vickers Crayford factory in the 1980's was office furniture. History of the factory https://www.crayfordhistory.org.uk/projects/vickers-crayford/history-of-vickers-crayford/vickers-machine-gun-maxim-gun-history
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  2527.  @ForgottenWeapons  And Vickers did both! :-)
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  2528. Unusal now because our Goverment at the time went vote hunting, so we Law Abidiging Firearm holders got dumped on. No Proof Marks?
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  2529. Fascinating. There is a lot of paranoia over shooting steel in UK. This film is thought provoking, and a good argument.
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  2530. West Norwood cemetry.
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  2531.  @ScottKenny1978  Oh dear ! Don't tell! I have a Lend Lease marked Mossberg MB42a.:-)
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  2532. American soldiers shold have been used to rocket attack. After all we British had been chucking them about since Fort McHenry. Designed by Congreve , son of the Comptroller at the Royal Woolwich Arsenal, which was sited on the south bank of the River Thames on the eastern edge of London. They were also built on site . It may be of some comfort to those in the US to know the rockets were more sucsseful in causing damage to the area around and the town of Woolwich than they ever did to the enemy. (PS the pronounciation is : Wool -Itch)
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  2533.  @constipatedinsincity4424  Thanks I have a Dodge WC51 and Dodge WC54 in my care , ready for next generation :-)
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  2534.  @constipatedinsincity4424  Thank you. Keep safe.
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  2535.  @americanmade4791  Ah, I have to be careful answering that. You see when I got to about thirty, I tried Sanity. Didn't like it! :-) Now I'm getting to old to care.
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  2536.  @JarrodFrates  No, any person may win the Victoria Cross, for Valour 'In the presence of the Enemy'. It was awarded to Army Service personnel, who were Civillians in the South African Wars. The George Cross, now the George Medal , is awarded to anyone who shows Valour, other than in the face of the Enemy. It has also been awarded to Military personnel.
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  2537.  @JarrodFrates  I stand corrected it is an Award, and should always be reffered to as such.
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  2538. Re your last: I have checked the Warrant: It may be awarded to a person of any rank in any service and to civilians under military command.
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  2539.  john osborn  Yes I remember that. The question was asked why not the VC? The answer, typically British was 'Though his actions were outstanding, unbenowenst to him , the Enemy had withdrawn'. Dammed unsporting of them!
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  2540.  @brendawright5899  Thank you, I never knew that.
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  2541. No prior experience, which means not dragging any baggage or prejudice along with you. As for MG34 in bunkers. There is in Jersey Channel Islands at Val De la Mare St Quen a reinforced concrete tower, about 50 feet high, 20 or so feet across with a heavy armoured cuploa. It is built into a granite cliff face, again about 30 foot up the side, with about 4 foot clearance at the base for you to squeeze inside bettween it and the rock face. Inside are two levels of heavy metal grate flooring with an elaborate traverse mechanism and various optics. The armourment for this quite formidable structure? Two MG34.
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  2542. And Ian was last seen walking with a very stiff leg. Sod Santa! I want Ian dropping boxes down my chimney this year.
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  2543. They didn't lose. Yes this fort and one other fell, but the in depth defence of which they were part held. The city was not taken.
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  2544. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwEwF7VAaEA Punt gun in action
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  2545. That seems to be a growing sport in the US. :-)
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  2546.  @forza223bowe5  Why should the People obey the law when those with the power, WE gave them or the money to buy lawyers change it to suit thier whim?
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  2547.  @lordsummerisle87  Actaully the are Section 5. Secratray of State licence.
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  2548.  @nightofthunder5509  You mean the Violent Crime Reduction Act ' A Realistic Imitation Firearm AKA a RIF, otherwise a toy that isn't painted some garish colour, so go buy a De Activated Proof House marked one, that looks and was real! AH! Just remebered the total &8** up with current European Regulations! or are they actaully in force yet? Roll on March 29th. Any way there are so many exemptions from the VCR, it's bloody ridiculous.
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  2549.  @sethy5136  YEP!!! :-)
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  2550.  @a.m.7165  They are marked Carl Zeis Jena , the other side is scratched but is it b or d elactis 11994, scratched out 8 x 40. I have a number of pairs of ex military dating back to 1917 including a pair of BAUSOS& lOMB rochester NY, which are WW2 vintage . I think they came over with the Send a Gun to an English Home plan as they were given to me by an old Home Gaurd guy. I've another set of German Military ones but can't put hands on at the moment.
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  2551.  @a.m.7165  Thank you. They get used a lot, and for night work I find them better than modern optics.
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  2552.  @Skilltagz  Thanks to AM I now know my pair of glasses are from 1920's -30's.OK so a bit later,but the optics are clear and they work fine.
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  2553. Chrome plating in gun barrels and chambers is still used as it is resistant to certaim primer compounds that leave a corrosive residue.
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  2554. Does it matter if the Ukranians used a firework rocket? The target has been well and truly mullered. That is the point.
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  2555. 6th of March 1944 U 1206. Why you get your plumbing procedure correct, very time! :-)
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  2556. As someone outside the US, sighs of relief.
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  2557. The Checzs had a 4.7 cm AT gun. The Germans captured a lot of them, which ended up coast fortifications. About 130 in the Channel Islands. They are very similar looking to the PAK. A lot of captured 76 mm Russian guns had the barrels cut down and were used as anti tank as well.
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  2558.  @RobinRobertsesq  Also on captured Renault FT chassis. The actual turrets went onto fortifications.
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  2559. Yes German POW's were used to clear mines. About 65,000 had been laid plus other explosive devices.
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  2560. Requiring the owner to have forty diffrent certificates and proof house markings if sold in UK.
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  2561. Muck happens. You are honest enough to put it out there. Though off camera, a few flying stones and loud rejoinders I imagine.
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  2562. A P14 is a target rifle taken to war. The SMLE is a military rifle you can take to the range. Having both, when the world end's I 'll take the SMLE.
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  2563. Marvincz. Twice the magazine capacity, you can work the action without dismounting from the shoulder, as part of that the action is faster. The SMLE is reliable, and it is an acurate rifle. My P14 is a Winchester (T) Woolden Mk1 and was owned by an an ex army armourer so is the best of the bunch and is a nice gun to shoot, but the SMLE has that undefinable feel as well as the obvoius advantages. The best of both were combined in the SMLE No4, though mine is a Mk1 No 3
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  2564. Hey part of the fun of this forum, I'm putting my point to those who know just as much as me, so any discussion is sensible and inteillegent. Your dissagrement is just as valid.
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  2565. Proably because the stock S&W had left were already unservicable from US testing.
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  2566. BJ Maguire  That's true. The S&W .38/200 soldiered on for many years.
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  2567. There were fortified sites in England long before th eNorman's arrived. Anyway most Norman Castles were wood and earth
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  2568. Though useful if the Fashion Police come calling? :-)
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  2569.  @themasterofdisastr1226  lol :-)
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  2570. Talk about prejudice! May gets the whole big round drum, Othais get a little box. Still not forgiven him for the Viller Perosa?
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  2571. So Ian, when is the next trip to Elbonia? Arent they due an upgrade.
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  2572.  @captainswoop8722  Not realy in 1922. production was winding down and those in charge of stores were tearing thier hair out trying to get rid of stuff. In the winter of 1919/20 the Woolwich Aresenal on the Thames in South East London was badly flooded about 18,000 tons of various munitions were either damaged or washed away. There is a note from the Director of the Arsenal at the time telling all store holders to write everything off regardless of its condition.
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  2573. Being Britsh and loath to waste anything, once bolt action was adopted , thousands of Martini actions were converted to .22, by the simple expidient of sticking another barrel and chember on the front. They became a mainstay of British shooting clubs. in the 1960's I learnt to shoot rifles on a number of such guns, the actions had Victorian crowns double X , sold out of service marks , and dates in the 1880's. Never had any out of battery with them.
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  2574. then at least do a clean cull. One horse one bullet. Not packed to die a slow miserable death from Strangles, and belive me it is. I've treated horses with strangles. No animal fully recovers, there is always some lung damage.
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  2575. Or better still! A Ribauldequin! Ducks Foot on steroids.
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  2576. If someone doesn't know they ask, so what? Better be thought a fool for asking than proved to be one for not. There is also the colloquial use of language which may not be obvious.
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  2577. N Hosto: Bully for you. American use of tons is diffrent from British Imperail tons, same with liquid measurments, can cause many problems, so don't sneer if someone asks a sensible question.
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  2578.  @arthurlazarus2215  LOL.One experssion I still use 'Worth a Guinea a minute'.
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  2579.  @arthurlazarus2215  You and me.
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  2580. To right top to bottom changes and clean up.
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  2581. ddin't know that thanks!
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  2582. See the Eric Laithwaite films on You Tube. He invented the Linear Motor and demonstrates the principles in the late 1960's. He eevn mentions a gun.
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  2583. Perfectly reasonable the the Martini is a training rifle. I learnt to shoot in the 1960's on a Martni rebarreled to .22. That had a date in the 1800's. They were a mainstay for clubs for many years. The original Troop Trial SMLE rifles were rebarreled to .22 for training. Though OTC were mostly attached to Public Schools (That's private schools such as Eton to those in US. Yess I know live with it, ) A college- that would be a place for the common riff raff, odd they had an OTC pre the Great War.
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  2584. The marks look like a Birmingham, provisonal mark and then a full proof. This would make sense if the action went from Blsck powder to nitro proof, as both have diffrent requiments. The thing to know, is the crown mark a Queen's Crown? This would be before 1901.
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  2585. Words change meaning I know. What now we would call a college would then probably have ben an Instutute. As Ian has already found out the 1050 odd SMLE Troop trial rifles the survivors were converted by the War Office in 1907 to .22 training rifles. I never knew that, but now having consulted the NAM and Royal Amories It appears likley I have one of those rifles.
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  2586. That tactic actually changed very rapidly , becasue of the enfilade fire from machine guns. The trouble the Britsh had in the early days of the Great War was poor training, and Genrals not trusting the men to move on a more individual basis. 1st July 1916 stopped that.
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  2587. You need to do an episode on a young Britsh General Post Office Engineer called Tom Flowers. A brilliant enginner.
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  2588. The Falaise Gap is due its own episode. An entire army trying to cross a ford that has high narrow sides in and out, and is about tweleve feet wide.
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  2589. Usual answer something new. You don't know what will work till you try it! If it lasts long enough to save your life be thankful throw away and get another. Hopefully you not out there on your own so if you do need to hit it to make it work there is backup.
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  2590. Cascubles (The lump at the back that a recoil rope was attached) https://www.lordashcroftmedals.com/
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  2591. AKA Crucible Steel.
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  2592. One raid on Jersey a couple on Guernsey,. Code named Hardtack
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  2593. Violence feeding violence. The Black & Tans came about as a response to Nationalist violence, and the whole lot fell off the edge of the catastrophe curve. the end result being both sides 'Causes' being perverted to Organised Crime. Neither side can afford peace.
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  2594.  @williamMcsweeney2024  There had been progress towards Independence.The Great War was a major distraction. The treatment of those of Irish descent that joined the British Army is a story intself. There wasa Group from my Home Jersey that joined and were part of the 7th Royal Irish Rifles.
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  2595.  @user-ys5yv2nz6w  You choose to belive that. I don't.
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  2596.  @user-ys5yv2nz6w  Black market antibiotics in agriculture VAT fraud on agricultural fuel, money laundering, extortion. Lifes to short ot go on.
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  2597. First thought. That's one hell of a hair dryer.
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  2598. So Schmisser never gets the recognition for the gun he did design, whilst most of the world applies his name to one that he nothing to do with.
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  2599. So, considering these pistols led to development of , the extractor, the self contained metal cased cartridge and the lever action and the .22 Rimfire, can you really call them a total failure? Now it would call it Blue Sky Thinking.
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  2600. The Newfoundland Memorial Park is a place of Remeberance. Over the last 101 years there has been a lot of landscape work done on the area. The feilds next to it however, and the Ulster Wood nearby were relitivly untouched. Excavations by the No Man's Land group were done next to the Newfoundland Park, the result is here on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1860jWey9Q
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  2601. I did a theise on Tolkien and the Great War. Then came the films and evreybody 'Knew 'Tolkien. Films etc fail in one important factor. An authour can write about how a person thinks, films can't show that. Also especially in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, there are things out of place. Only if you then search out more do you find why , they are there. The book then reads totally diffrent.
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  2602.  @jic1  At the time .32 ACP was the cartridge, readily available so you had your pistol and carbine in the same calabire.
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  2603. Go to the Britsh Channel Islands, more German WW2 concrete per squre mile than any where in the world. Used to be my playground as a kid. Look where it has led me! :-)
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  2604. Have you tried road bowling ?
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  2605. Juan: You have just summed up the later British tactics, except they wer ecalled Bombs. There was one or two men loaded down with bags of bombs, known not suprisingly as Bombers, the riflemen were back up.
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  2606. It was not a British attitude it was the attitude of a Bolshie bunch of Crapud's ( Jersey bred people) clinging to a Rock constantly hassled by those across the water!, Britsh and French, and the attitude hasn't changed.
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  2607. What holds it together? two steel cables, That run from the A pillar over the doors to the C pilliar.
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  2608. Kid friendly? No kids don't spend money. The idea was to 'Create a space that could be used for Comercial Media Events'. Same happned to IWM.
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  2609. There is a good reason to specify Fine Merino wool. The Staple that is the thickness of the individual fibres is about 22 Microns.The result is that it is finer than than the gap bettween human nerve endings. So when wearing it the finess means that there is none of the scratchyness often asscosiated with natural fibres.
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  2610. Until the battery goes flat. Seriously though I'd doubt it. Trigger feel is subjective, I am quit happy with single stage triggers, as that's what I learnt on, same with cock on close. I used a cock on open rifle of a friend a few weeks back, just couldn't get a smooth action, I was appling pressure in the wrong place.
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  2611.  @kyphe.  Yes, sensible points. But economy was still a strong point, still is.
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  2612. Till they go bang. If you see somthing metallic In Flander's Feilds, walk away quickly and steadily. Qusetion : Which country has the highest stocks of Chemical Weapons? Belgium! and they are still being found. It is estimated there is another hundred years or so to clear all unexpolded munitions.
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  2613. In Falaise in France, where the German Army was trying to cross a ford about 10 foot wide being hammered by the Allies, lots of bits went into the tress and hedges, and got grown through, though a lot of people won't belive you.
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  2614.  @rayg.2431  true. :-)
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  2615.  @TheArgieH  Thank you for a for such a well thought out explination, and Cheers! :-)
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  2616.  @TheArgieH  Ah the joys of youth.
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  2617. A 1956 S1 ex mil 88 reached £29900 at Bonhams last month. I paid £150 for my first Series 1.
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  2618.  @AP.h24  Yes, they are one of the f few vehicles going up in price.
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  2619.  @AP.h24  I have a P38 a Dsico 2 td5 and a Disco V8 with gas conversion. All built from bits of others. Old Landy's never die, they just keep others going. Can you se ethis one doing that?
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  2620. Also some parts of Force 10 From Navarone were filmed there. The Islands at War series was complete rubbish and raised the hackles of a lot of the Islanders who lived through the Occupation.
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  2621.  @clothar23  Prior to The Great War the French Military had pulled itself apart over the loss of the Franco -Prussian War leading to the surrender of Alcase and Lorraine plus the Dreyfus Affair. To many soldiers playing polotics and poloticains palying soldier.
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  2622.  @clothar23  True, we in UK had a remarkable polotician called Paddy Ashdown, he was ex Special Boat Service. Jim Calahan a Labour Prime Minister was a lowly Matleo, British Royal Naval seaman. , but as for your second question? A lot of good men have died for some to try and prove thier strength.
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  2623. For an intresing and funny read on the subject. George McDonald Fraser's - 'Flashman and the Great Game'
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  2624.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  Well, the same concerns over Irish and German Immigrants were raied during the Great War in the US.
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  2625.  @stoneomountain2390  Ever hear of hidden string? :-)
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  2626.  @stoneomountain2390  Not heard of that one! Would be intresting to know though.
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  2627. They all fell out of the family tree and hit every branch on the way down
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  2628. AH! But there is a sub calibre conversion!
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  2629. No he was Scot's. They don't like Britain. They want there indepence back. But we had to put with a Scottish King, James on 24 March 1603. That's why it is the United Kingdom I recently handaled a shilling from his reign marked Never Divide. Ho hum.
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  2630. Or Santa's writing to Ian.
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  2631. Try the Australian film Beneath Hill 60, as for this seen the trailer, enough to make me throw up. There is a diffrence bettween Artistic Licence and plain crap, this has no licence.
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  2632. At least know what you are going to say. You looking down at notes all the time makes this impossible to watch.
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  2633. Weight for accurate shooting isn't nessacarily a disadvantage, The gun sits steadier, moves less with recoil, and with more material the action is stiffer and less prone to bending.
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  2634.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  Not the breadth that worries, it is the taste 😁 Only the US could produce Embalmed Cheese. That particular produict was supplied in tins as part of British army rations, known as Cheese Proccessed, AKA Cheese Poccesed. Rumour had it that it was illegal to feed it to POW's.
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  2635. After watching this again. The Triang mark on the renforcing bolt. That is the trade mark of the Triang Toy company, who were also responsible for the Production Enginnering pahse of the STEN gun.
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  2636. What ever happened to Bugger and bloody? Both common punctuation in English conversation.
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  2637. So very very true.
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  2638.  Ingungumbane  Well it's the Australian's who claim him as thiers.
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  2639.  @aebirkbeck2693  Stirling used the K guns, ex RAF , because there was nothing else.
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  2640.  @aebirkbeck2693  Yes the K gun was a Vickers built gas operated gun, that was totally obsolete , with no spare parts avialble, The Drum magazines were a pain in the backside to operate, and that's all there was available. Striling wanted modern weapons like the Bren. Intially the SAS operated as a infantary force relying on the LRDG for transport,. The drum still only contained 90 rounds. and that rate of fire from a moving vehicle, you'd be lucky to hit the barn from inside.
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  2641. And now as it wa shanded back in 1999 the CCP, are doing thier best to eradicate it.
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  2642. Some actually make sense, you have to get on with neighbours, just I got fed up when the neighbours started to tell me my bed time.
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  2643. Stealth dan: All we hear in UK at the moment is 'Parliment is in Deadlock, there needs to be a change' . Yes, change Parliment! If they can't carry out the clearly stated desire of the Electrorate. Leave the EU. Why should the Republic of Ireland be our problem? That is a democratic state that made it's own decison to join the EU, live with it. If Memebers of Parliment don't like the decison, then leave.
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  2644. Loyal , honest, great carachters, and..As thick as planks... But you got to love Greyhounds, they will embarress you in all sorts of unsual ways. Routine is simple, Eat. sleep, wander about a bit, embarrass owner repeat. 🤣
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  2645. It is possible to get guns listed as Historic on a certificate. Ian and C&Rsenal are very useful to get information from to prove provenace as Historic.
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  2646.  @Felix-dg9rt  Then in UK you come up against a whole load of codswollop called the Violent Crime Reduction Act, and RIF -Realistic Imatioan Firearms. Deactivated firearms which the UK law states 'De-activated firearms are NOT Firearms' has also come under pressure due to Europe.
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  2647.  @viking1236  Yes, but watch this space on that one, after recent events. Word is that pressure is being put for all firearms to be on ticket, though may be a Historic Ticket. You can own and display but not shoot .
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  2648.  @davidmorris1018  My range officer gets a bit upset when I want to fix bayonets and charge! :-) Though it is intresting to shoot with and without them.
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  2649.  @AleksandrStrizhevskiy  Well if its going to go bang, better a load of bolts and semiconductors than a person, so use remote to operate the tools on the robot. .Though can Spot smell or touch? Two out of five wont cut it.
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  2650. Like a larger Gallery Gun. These type of small bore light cheap rifles were very popular for marksmanship training for Cadet and reserve forces in England and Europe. The calibre would be very practical for small game and vermin control.
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  2651. Royal Daffodil, is worth her own story. Built as a train ferry , then used at Zebbrugge , she went on to take part in 'The Second Dunkirk' from St Malo and the Channel Islands , finally she took part in the Dieppe raid , where she was sunk HMS Erebus was also a bombardment ship on D-Day . HMS Terror was sunk in 1940 of Libiya.
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  2652. If it was a bodge job, lead down range middle of cicvil war weapon, I should think anything that went together and wroked was needed.
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  2653. A font of knowledge! Were they possibly refurbished later and kept in reserve? That might explain later marks.
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  2654. Funny enough I have a Vostock .22 target rifle that was just a cheap Russian gun. All the Russian guns I've shot have been enginnered were they needed to be, all are reliable and put up with rough handaling.
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  2655. The German's launched 3 ofensives 1914 Verdun and 1918, om each occasion they suffred losses, manpower they could not afford.
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  2656. OK but as the planning of any large offensive takes months If you are going to commit the resourses you can't start by publicy announcing, hey folks I'm sending you up to die, not to win also war being what it is you may just succed against all the odds. Falkenheim appears to have decided that he would fix the French in one position with the intention of then launching an offensive in sectors weackned to support Verdun. Had this occured and been succesful, his methods would not have been questioned. At the time of planning Falkenhym would have been looking at attrtion as an option. Intresting disscusion by the way. Do you have acces to German records? Off topic a bit, I'd be intrested in hearing your opinion of the German policy of imidiate counter attack,
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  2657. Thank you for an intresting thought provocking answer. As you say, more knowledge more answers, and yet more questions! The joys of Great War history. ,
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  2658. Yes it was, by a memeber of the De Cartret family, a Norman Family based in Jersey.
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  2659.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  There is an uncovered wooden beam on the side of the Pierson, allgedly still pockmarked with musket balls from the battle. And please note : The picture the Death of Pierson wa spainted by an American Artist John Singelton Copley. Futher detail in my other post. Keep up the good work!
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  2660.  @wfp9378  As long as it's Mary Ann! None of your Randall's dishwater.
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  2661.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  This is another bit of Jesrsey's history might intrest you. How many know of it? https://europeremembers.com/destination/memorial-to-us-motor-torpedo-squadron-34/
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  2662. There was a sub calibre version which used the .22 round in a sabot .303 shell . Only the barrel was changed. Extremley rare now, and also under UK law as each sabot is virtually it's own chamber and firing mechanism so has to be individually registered.
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  2663.  @lavitzbass6666  I suppose it wasa mark everyone knew and the organisations shared the same roots.
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  2664.  @lavitzbass6666  What are Australian Proof marks? I presume you have your own proof house
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  2665. Thee bin at the scrumpy then?🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  2666. Point of intrest : Goldbeater's skin, is the intestine of bovines. During the Great War there was so much demand for it for Airships, that German Suasage manufactuer was all but stopped.
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  2667. Don't waste the Scotch , you don't know when youmay be able to get anymore. Forgotten Whisky.
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  2668. Wonder how many are currently being cleaned up?
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  2669. As the Metford rifiling couldn't cope with smokless, originally the British , finnised, Nobel's Ballisite , and melted chambers and rifiling, then , with a bit of legal dancing around Nobel's patent The Committe for the modification of Ballisite, came up with Cordite. Enfeild developed a new rifiling pattern, married it to the Lee action, and decided that with modern ballistics a unviversal rifle intermidate bettween long and carbine would do all the jobs and called it Short.
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  2670.  @PHDarren  Don't forget HMS Gannet at Chatham Dockyard. A sloop of 1878.
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  2671.  @Defective1313  OOh! Walk into Pompey and say that:-) Being one of her Ships Company is one of the most prestigious posting a Matelot can get. My mistake! Since 2012 She has been Flagship First Sea Lord!
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  2672. Gail Halvorsen, the Candy Bomber.
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  2673. Funny enough the Britsh learnt a similar lesson during the Zulu wars, OhBugger who's got the ke......
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  2674. I canb se ethe comments from Traditional Gunsmiths- Good God! If we have to make guns like that, I'd rather we lost the war! Though there was the stratergy of producing cheap weapons to mass drop to resitance movments. That bolt look very P14 ish.
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  2675. Set for five minutes after your alarm. No chance of sleeping on.
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  2676. Give Oh Waht A lovelyy War a look as well. It has what I think is the best short expalanation of why the Great War started.
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  2677. And the Channel Island's own Britiain! The Monarch is Duke or Duchess of Normandie , first! The England , Scotl;and and Wales bit comes way later.
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  2678. All these from a man who told Fiedel, Fridrich and Josef, he wanted nothing to do with self loading pistols?
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  2679. YeP! And the Ordnace Board Coat of Arms, the Cannon is part of thier badge.
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  2680. Used to work there.
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  2681. Another fascinating story re the Britsh at Gallipoli. https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/The-Lost-Sandringhams/
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  2682. You now have to write print, and publish- The Saga of Fredrick four fingers!
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  2683. Its a MEWP Mobile Boom type 3b if you want to be exact,
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  2684.  @ag111ga  I had to but two wheel nuts for my 1944 Dodge WC51. I could get them in America for $1 each. Buy the time they got to UK, £25!
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  2685.  @seanandrew2823  My purview of your asement . Quite right mate!
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  2686. And so does Percy Shaw. . He invented the reflective Cats Eye. In UK the mantra is taught -In dry conditions leave a minimum two second gap bettween vehicles, in wet conditions leave a four second gap. It is taught by the ryhme 'Only a fool breacks the two second rule' and add on in wet 'A bigger fool breacks the four second rule. ' Spocken at normally speed it's actually quite accurate.
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  2687. Funny then that the German cemitires are few, small and multi burials. The locals did not want the bodies of the Occupiers left on thier soil. So much for Chritain forgiveness.
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  2688. Were these guns intended for mountain use? I'm sure that carbine sniping rifles were used in the Spanish Civil War.
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  2689. How do you test fire a single shot disposable weapon? Casually flick pack open bring up to mouth , flick Zippo, and blow your own head off.
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  2690. I'd say less effective than throwing a brick at the target. Shock and Awe, Shock it worked, Awe hell! It missed.
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  2691. The style of Prefect in UK is known as as a Sit Up and Beg, due the the sweep of the front wings looking like a dog with its paws by it's face begging. 1100 cc was was the choice of engine size as Petrol (gas ) rationing post WW2 was in force till well into the 1950's and Vehicle Road Tax was on engine size. Economy counts in Europe. The Land Rover si a 12 seat Series 2 or more probably 2a Safari Staion Wagon, and yes the rear plate will have Station Wagon on it. The Safari Roof works with 4 manual vents in the roof, the idea is air is forced under and into the vehicle. It could have had a straight 6 engine in it , but more likley a 4 cylinder engine.
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  2692. Open wrong end at wrong time, and get sucked through the barrel, OHHHH! Nasty!
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  2693. Might suggest the Russians need a major training review.
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  2694.  @viking1236  Ah I rememeber the old Webleys, damm great grip with a tiny little breech hidden in the middle of it never was fond of them.
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  2695.  Christie Malry  The one I used had simpler grips , but all the wieghts etc. Happy Days.
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  2696.  @badpossum440  That a real mix, but if the basic design can handle it, and the economy is there , why not?
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  2697.  @dave_h_8742  Every Military Highrachy has 'em.
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  2698.  @peterdavy6110  Well you may find this a salutory lesson then :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EZ8CZBlmCQ I had the p;easure od seeing this man live.
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  2699.  @maniac117  How things develop, a lot of people have one good idea, then someone else blends them.
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  2700. That gundeck looks like the gun deck of HMS Warrior
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  2701. OK, just take your tablet and a glass of warm milk, then lie down.
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  2702. There was no saftey catch on British Service revolvers.
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  2703. Son John designedthe round. A family affair.
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  2704. No a lot of the bodies are still there. That opens up a whole new can of worms of Human depravity. Those who raid the sites where remains are found to plunder artifacts. You kill the man twice, removal of such things destroys any hope of indentifying them.
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  2705. Was it me , or did Ian's hair give a definite quiver at the beggining?
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  2706.  @johnmoore9862  Criminal justice act 1967 Any person may use such force as is reasonable in the circumstances in the prevention of crime. Blocking the highway is an offence under the highways act.
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  2707.  @ScottKenny1978  For that period yes. It later went narrowere. And the double strike is 'Sold out ' of service. In theory , if you have property that has only a single mark, you are in possecion of Stolen Property.
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  2708. And Invergordon in 1931
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  2709. In London during the blitz, fragments were a major cause of injuries to Civil Defence workers.
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  2710. Theyt couldn't get out. The only offensive action taken by NAZI forces from the Channel Island's was the Granville Raid on 8/9 March 1944
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  2711. You mean with Cavalary?
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  2712. Total garbage. In one scene a woman is seen strolling alongside a German Battery. As on of my teachers who live dthrough the Occupation said ' If she'd done that, the least she'd have got was a prision sentence for entering a restriced zone'
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  2713. It was a question of bodies. Following the Franco Prussian war in 1870and the French loss of Alsace and Lorraine which is considered to be the first modern European War, and yes I don't like that description but, it is the first war were artillery was speciffically used against civillian population to subdue them for instance, the Fench bogey man was Tois et deux- Two German's for every Frenchman and two marks for arms against two francs. Hence the French all out campaign to ally with Russia and the Entente Cordiale with Britiain. Even so following the invasion of France the British Goverment hesitaited, the French were not well thought of. It was the Defence of Belgium neutrality that was sold to the British public. The result was the the German's then had to face the combined populations of France , Russia and the British Empire. You may be able to build a thousand rifles a day, but it takes around 16 years 9 months plus to make a soldier to carry one. Thier was not the German manpower to to rotate forces.
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  2714. W"oops ! Tyopo! Three for Two Three Germans and Three marks against Two French and Two france.
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  2715. Britsh Army is going soft. What happened to Cheese Pocessed, and Baby's Heads. Biscuits Fuit AB and the inevitable Biscuits Brown AB. With Izal razor bog paper! Mars used to make Wednesday afternoon MOD Mars day, you always knew from the smell of hot sugar around the factory.
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  2716. I'm suprised Ian didn't take advantage of the second part of the sign. This one, and this one, and while I'm here...
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  2717. For 9mm Parabellum ,read necked out Mauser 7.63.
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  2718. Water to the trenches was a severe problem. In the Britsh Army they often reused 1 gallon petrol tins for water. There are incidents where the wrong can was used , and opened in a dug out, lit by candles. Result must have been very nasty, especially given lack of antibiotics at the time.
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  2719. When I were a lad, in the 1960's a vist to the science musuem was a magic event. You could poke things push buttons and bits fell off. Kids like me were ebcouraged to look, touch and learn. More importantly , though I may query that now, considering the time and money it has cost over the years , they inspired curiosity. Who what Where when How and Why?
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  2720. L85 A1 was never a problem on the range, it was loved on the range. It's when it went to the feild the *&^%% thing fell apart.
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  2721. yes we have, we just don't write it down. Makes life much more interesting.
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  2722. So did the use of the term Hacquenee, French roughly horse for Hire, and the Carriage Office in London that regulates Hackneyy (Black) Cabs! 😁
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  2723. Caseless Ammunition? Been tried many times, HK11 being the latest. So far never enough improvment over cased ammunition to warrant it.
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  2724. As an aside , there is a simple railway goods van number 132, built in 1919. It's claim to fame is the carraige of three heros on thier last journey. Nurse Edith Cavell , Captain Charles Fryatt, and the British Unkown Warrior.
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  2725. It was Empires that caused revoloution and war in the first place. The clarion cry of 'No Taxation without Representation ' comes to mind.
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  2726. You still can't beat aTilley Lamp on a cold winters night! Tilley is a manufactuere still in buissines. The even made a specific Surgeons Lamp used by the Military. Nothing worrying about them, just learn and respect as you do any flame.Tilley have a seperate wick which you soak in Methalayted Spirit (Alcahol, de natured) light then it clips around the central tube.
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  2727. Atomisation is the key. Thats why, to swirl the fuel mix about, you have just below the injeector, a Ricardo chamber. Invented by Harry Ricardo. A modern Direct Injection engine uses the shape of the piston head to get the same efect.
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  2728. Robert Scott  Though at the beggining there was concern wether a war in defence of France could be sold the uk population. Bear in mind the Entente from 1907 was very secrative and not fully disclosed to Parliment at the time. It was the invasion of Belgium and the clear violation of the 1839 Treaty of London by Germany , that settled the matter for the British Parliment. One of the best short explanations for the start of the Great War I know is fromthe film Oh What a Lovley War.
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  2729. Not ment to be a spoiler, but the blooper reel. Order a bucket for Othias to carry the tune in. Seriously, the problems you had. Now imagine trying to fix them under fire, in the wet and cold whilst, tired, hungry, hurting and dealing with a lot of incoming hate. That really gives an idea of what the guns were like in real use.
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  2730.  @bigblue6917  lol
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  2731.  @DawnOfTheDead991  Well on my little rock they are remembered https://www.cios.org.je/news/2015/pt-boats-wreath-laying-ceremony/
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  2732. Funny though they are still in use.
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  2733. Though the Musuems in London such as the V&A, Britsh Musuem and Science Museum, and the IWM were founded and are in law Free. The idea was to eductae.
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  2734. The British Standard grenade launching blank at the time was Ballisite, This was not adopted for General Service as it melted barrels. So Cordite was developed in 1899.
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  2735. When you really have a Pigieon problem. Anyway! What's with the used? The Royal Navy still have some doing the job just fine! Funny though how the Neuterals keep coming up with fantastic weapons.
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  2736. Like that one!
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  2737. Ah the Irish airline with outside toilets comes to mind. 😁 Smoke hoods for all was s popular idea in the 1980's. Never seemed to happen.
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  2738. Silly question: Wouldn't a centre fire revolver also be able to use rimfire ammunition? The primer surley is all across the base of the cartridge.
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  2739.  @Taistelukalkkuna  Enough !!! I'm going to bury me head in the Sands of Time.
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  2740.  @v.e.7236  ha ha ha , Pure BBC I assure you!
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  2741. Another stolen name! Given to you by De Cartret , who hailed form the original Island, and was a Norman , not French or English.
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  2742.  @TheArgieH  Yeah I rememebr them as a kid, looong time ago now.
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  2743. When this gun was designed the term Camoflauge did not exist, they were known as Concealed Battries. After all the only thing available for observation was eyeball mk 1 , maybe with optical assistance from the max height of a tree or maybe a hill. The ballon wa suseful but you still needed a lot of them to cover the front. With the introduction of mobile ariel platforms, the Aeroplane, the whole world changed. The French then introduced the concept of Camouflage, especially with empahses on Aerieal Reconnasence.
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  2744.  @davem2369  Probably from Weedon Stocks?
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  2745. Could be like the Winchester P14 being considered the best of the bunch. I suspect a lot of it was A better maintained machinery, B Better trained staff. Wartime production is so demanding on machinery, raw materials, and workers that tolerances are lowered to the point, it dosen't blow up, the round goes down the barrel, get it out there. Also now a days, when the guns are getting on, Snipers cared for thier rifles, so they have bene better maintained than the average Tommy issue.
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  2746. None of them were Angels.
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  2747. TM: Africa was the last big bit of real estate that the Europeans hadn't didvided up. Everyone wanted abit. Britian thought it had Divine right. Germany wa safter an Empire. The Dutch had settled colonies earlier and the Big Boys had ousted them so they moved on. Even Belgium's King Leopold the 2nd grabbed a large chunck as his private playground, and the Belgian Congo story is really horrific. The indiginous peoples had thier own quarrels to sort out amongst themselves. And then the chance to make MONEY! came into the equation.
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  2748.  @thestonewall8177  The Youtube app wouldn't accept it! :-)
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  2749. The Times of London 1890. If something is not done about pollution in the city, by 1950 the streets will be nine feet deep in horse droppings! 😁 PS 2023, London traffic, no better. To inform traffic on the Thames that a bridge height has been reduced due to work , a bale of Straw, is still lowered over the side of the bridge. UK pattern is Green, Amber only, Red. To move Red , Amber together, then green , at which point as the Highway Code states 'Proceed, If safe to do so'.
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  2750. Annd how many stoppages were caused by Squaddies pulling the forward assist?
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  2751. Take one look at the rifle from a distance and the name that comes to mind is Vostock.Yes, the gun appears simple and crude, yes it's a single stage trigger, but you didn't mention is the barrel free floating and chrome lined. and cold hammered? The trigger is crisp and I'll bet the gun shoots just as accuratley as a high cost glitzzy Anshutz. Communist enginnering, the money is spent were it needs to be.
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  2752.  @ForgottenWeapons  Would be diffrent in UK. He did not have 'Good Title' to the guns as they were obntained by fradulent means. So regardless of any statute of limitaions, the guns would still belong to the libary, and if you paid for them, tough luck! Hand them over. The UK defintion of theft is Unlawful, Appropriation, Of the property of another, With the Intent, to permenantly deprive.
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  2753.  @marcusborderlands6177  I don'tknow US Law. But under UK law He did not have 'Good Title' ie they wern't his . to sell, then anyone purchasing them, whilist not nessacarily guilty of an offence, and you have to prove that, does not have good title either. It may be that any action wouldbe Civil notCriminal, but the Right of Title remains ,until adjudicated by a Court.
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  2754. The French had a saying at the time, rough transalation, Five and Two,- Five marks for every two Francs spent on the military, and Five Germans for every two French men! The other was 'Remember Alsace Lorraine! '
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  2755. Deliberate slow fire pistol target shooting was an English Sport. You had five shots in five minutes at 50 yards. This was a freehand competion, only a single hand grip was allowed, similar to Olympic shooting now. No extranal attachments such as barrel weights were allowed. I learnt to shoot with similar single shot long barrelled .22 rimfire pistols. The training procedure was , and still is in any good club, First : Train you to be safe Second: Train you to be Accurate Third : Train you to speed up. Also the Modern Penthalon, based on the skills a military dispatch rider would need. First ride a horse cross country, second cross country running, third fencing ,sword forth Pistol, military calibre, fifth swimming.
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  2756. Gosh! I am proud! :-) Memory not that bad then (Yet)
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  2757. As an aside. A while back a gentelman in Croydon, South london owned an Abbot. The local council got assey because the by-laws said 'You can't own a tank in the London Bourough of Croydon. His defence? 'It's not a tank', this was backed up by the MOD, The Army and Bovington Tank Museum. Council got a real snit over it . On one glourious occasion he drove it down Whitehall in Central london, painted pink, with four large plastic pigs, each wearing a Policemans helmet, stuck on poles at each corner. The Police outside 10 Downing Street laughed themselves silly. At the traffic lights at the end of Whitehall he came to a halt behind a women in a Vauxhall Astra, a sub-sub- compact car for our US friends. The woman looked in her mirror then spun round in the seat with a look of total shock on her face. I nearly wet myself laughing.
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  2758. A liitle adjunct to the story of the Unkown Warior in Uk, is a simple railvan 'Prototype Parcels & Misseleanious Van No132, built in 1919. Operated by the South East London & Chatham Railway .this van transported the remains of three Britsh Heroes of the Great War. Nurse Edith Cavell , Captain Charles Fryatt MN ,and the Unkown Warrior. The vehicle was restored in 2010 and is now on display.
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  2759.  @Linusgump  You make a 'Yoke' of it? I find that answer a bit scrambled. (I'll get my coat)
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  2760. That ladder being EN131-1 would have a sticker on it with a this way up arrow. Those muppets don't appear to have seen it. 🤣🤣🤣
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  2761.  @lordsummerisle87  There is a Pathe News reel of STEN manufactuer and test firing. ALL the shooters are holding the front of the gun by the barrel shroud.
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  2762. The next panic will be a Cessena flying over 🤣
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  2763. One of the French Officers fighting in the front line at Verdun, was an Albert dreyfus. He'd previously spent some time as a guest of the French Goverment on Devils Island.
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  2764. Another intresting one is Queen Elizabeth's Pocket Pistol at Dover Castle. The biggest calibre ordnace would be the Mallet Motar at 36 inch. That only used an 80kg charge
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  2765. In some parts of Belgium and France yes. At Hill 60 fortifications were used in both wars.
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  2766. Restoring anything, gun , vehicle, left handed widget. You do it for yourself. You may get the cost back, but never the time.
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  2767. Hilair Bellock, though he was half French, The Modern Traveller.
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  2768.  @cwg9238  Also heard it reffered to with horses. So any domesticted work animal of your choice?
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  2769.  @lycaonpictus9662  Thanks.
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  2770. So reason for non firing? RTFM! Read the -- manual. At least it proves that whatever is said about the Chauchat, it's more releiable than the Certain One that we may not speack it's name.
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  2771. No known cure for the problem
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  2772. I belive at one time the troops caled them the Sure S**t.
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  2773. yet you have the SNP?
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  2774. Wonder if this vid was made before or after the Curator's disscussion?
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  2775.  @ForgottenWeapons  Will you now aget a return invitation? :-) The three of you certainly sparked livley disscusion.
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  2776. Not when upteen thousand volts are about. Why fry for a moron?
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  2777.  @stuzworldz  Because anyone using the extingusher would by fried by the shorting power. Why die for a moron who won't bother to look at all the bright shiny warning lables on the machine?
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  2778.  @TheAngler2210  Thanks for the info. I have a set of pre war world two Carl Zeiss binoculars I picked up in a junk sale. I bought a box of mixed stuff for pennies and they were buried at the bottom. I use them in preference to new ones. Funny emough the BRIXIMIS always preffered East German camera lenses.
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  2779.  @TheAngler2210  If I was that lucky twice I'd be winning the lottery and buying the factory! :-) Though at things like boot sales, basically Take a feild and fill up with people selling junk, knowing what you are looking at has got me some nice optics over the years.
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  2780.  @MrPh30  Thanks for info
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  2781. Soon to be banned! So what now for the Royal Amouries ?
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  2782. Ah Hay on Wye, the biggest second hand book shop in the World.
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  2783. The Monument at Beaumont Hamel is inspiring. This may intrest you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQreny7MqmY
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  2784. Or in UK £4.86. ! Less than a portion of Fish and Chips!
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  2785. PT boats didn't have it all thier own way in the Channel-https://www.jerseybunkertours.com/pt509
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  2786. The classic clip from film Carry On Screaming comes to mind when Fenella Feilding languishes on a Chaise Longs and says in a very husky voice 'Do you mind if I smoke?' , promptly get enveloped in a fog. It's an English thing.
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  2787.  @issuma8223  I could never get the taste for it.
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  2788.  @naturalnashuan  SO TIGHT FISTED DIDN'T WANT TO THINK UP THIER OWN. 😄
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  2789. Monitor and Merrimac come to mind. So nice and stelthy , except for Dear Old Eyeball Mark 1. It has to be withing range of a shore target. Well you know exactaly where it's going to be then. Comparing it to Winscon is ridculous. Winsconson is 100 year old technology. Wonder if Zummwalt will be around after that period?
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  2790. The main part of the force was the Island of Jesrsey Militia later the Royal Militia Island of Jersey. First organised in the 13th Century, to defend the Island's against the French. Thay ar ethe oldest organised Britsh military force. You may think conscription was not used inEngland till the two world wars, wrong! servic ein th Militia was compulsory from it's exception. It is not the Senior force as it was disbande during the 1960's though now there is a Feild Squadron Royal Enginners Island of Jersey as part of the British Army Reserve, formely the Territorail Army.
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  2791. There is a book by Peter Scott the wildlife artist, who was a Britsh SGB commander, called The Battle of the Narrow Seas, great history and breathtaking illustrations by the Authur.
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  2792. Knowing your intrest in the Great War, have you seen the Western Front Asscition Channel? I think you'll enjoy it.
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  2793.  @FPInvention  His claim was he 'Legally Punished Her' So there are some in this world
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  2794. San Demitro deserves her own episode. There wa sa film made about her, available on you tube, San Demitro London.
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  2795. DearMr McCullom, re your application to join the A Team, I'm sorry to say that as you can actually hit something with the AC556, you have been unsucsseful at ths time.
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  2796. Remington P17 or SMLE?
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  2797. See also The Royal Naval Patrol Service. Fishing vessels used for same purpose.
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  2798. May well end Tim is my EX husband, he divorced me out of embarresment. 😁
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  2799.  @jic1  They are part of the United Kingdom, in fact as any Crapaud will tell you, we went over to the Mainland with our Duc in 1066, so we own England. The Island is a Bailiwick, which gives the right to raise your own law and taxation.
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  2800. A well known British Historian and educator, often seen on TV , visibly winces every time someone presents him with a bit of metal and says I have this Shrapnel'. :-)
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  2801. Horse are a re-introduction to the America's. Originally escaped Domestic animals brought over by Europeans. If , as most goverment do, you play techinicalities, they are not Indegiounes animals, or even Wild, they are Feral.
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  2802. Be honest. He isn't the only one. 😁 Mind you go one stop West and try Ickenham.
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  2803. It loads and fires. What other reason do you need to fire any firearm?
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  2804. Sten with bugs taken out. So it's cheap and ugly, hell would you stand in front of it? It does what it has to do.
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  2805. The original idea was that as France has less population than Germany the forts would provide an in depth defence with fewest possible men. Did actually work Douamont and one other fort fell, but the rest held and the city was not taken.
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  2806. Or in the case of Jersey , still are. Fishing rights at the moment.
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  2807. There are examples of Live and Let Live all along the Western Front, the 1914 Christmas Truce is probably the most famous. Drove the Generals and Politicians up the wall.
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  2808. Though in England the word Maramalade is said to be connected to Mary Queen of Scots. She would eat it sas a headache cure , and her maids would whisper 'Marie est Maldie'.
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  2809.  @timpauwels3734  Yes one shortsharp answer.
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  2810. In UK the most famous Pineapples are the decorations on the Brighton Pavillion built for George IV , then Prince Regent in 1815 , by John Mash. A lot of statley homes grew Pineapples in Hot Beds, a trench dug in with loads of FYM, (Farm Yard Manure) . As the muck rotted it gave off heat in large quantitys.
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  2811. Curently in UK the goverment opposition Labour Party is coming under scrutiny for Anti Semitism, anmd for the failure of the leadear Jeremy Corbin to unequivecaly condem the Russian nerve agent attack in Sailsbury. The point has ben made that the Extreme Left Wing are so fanatical about thier views they will tolerate such things, if they think it futhers thier cause. Beware of Fanatics, who ever's side thier on.
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  2812. Felling abit 'Let Down now?' (I'll just get my coat)
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  2813. Nielt: Wouldn't we all!
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  2814.  @sixstringedthing  Vickers at the time were amongst if not the biggest armenets producer in the world. They were mainly based at Dartford on the East edge of London, near where the Dartford Crossing is now they even had an airfeild.
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  2815. Point of Order! The parts would fly on a real machine gun- Alll over the place. Though it has to be asked, did they have a wooden bayonet to go with it?
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  2816.  @alexthehun24  Not when you lived and were brought up in place the was Occupied by the Nazis. The people who endured and the sites where things occured where your playground.
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  2817.  @alexthehun24  I agree with you. Every time I hear The Holucast and death camps never happned my question is Are you calling my Teacher's and friends parents who lived through the Occupation of Jersey and saw atrocities liars?
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  2818.  @AlexKS1992  I know I should have made sure I clicked on the idiot above. No insult taken. Keep well.
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  2819. A cocktail section. So that was the inspiration for the 'Chinese Mystery 'then ? :-)
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  2820. There not ment to be,! It's about the only way you can slow the French down.
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  2821. H3Xr45: And the best exported French TV show? The Magic Roundabout! Loved it as kid, even more so as an adult when I can se ethe jokes. :-)
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  2822. Yes but a great show. For a really English take on the show it try Jasper Carrot, the Magic Roundabout song. Got him banned off the BBC.
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  2823. yeah, Bambi and Babe for dinner! The most ethical meat you will ever eat. Live in the wild, bang, dead. No factory farming , no antibiotics , no transport stress, no slaughter house stress.
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  2824. yes, also intresting that Britsh forces allowed Black men to carry arms in combat, a hundred or so years before the Americans
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  2825.  @rodneymaslovsky4756  MP18 Bergmann,built in UK as the Lanchester.
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  2826.  @goodun2974  🤣 Well De Cartret was pirate! Though he'd have said he was a 'Privateer'. And as us on the Little Rock follwed the tradition, you Yanks got the French to invade us in 1781. THG has done the Vid. 😇
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  2827. May make your eyes water if goes off ! That would be the time the SMLE was just starting to go to trails.
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  2828. There are no Lions in English Heraldry. They are Leopards. Two from Normandy , and one from Aquitaine. so they don't even speack English. Oh while your in the area vist 'The slaughter's, The Bow wow, and don't miss Upper Up. Big Ben? That's the bell, you will be lucky to get on that tour. What you see is St Steven's Tower.
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  2829.  @ireallyshouldntbehereltd7814  Don'tdo that . Being from Jersey the only time I can be conscripted is to free the Monarch or to assist the Monarch to regain the throne. There are a lot of old historic odditys for the Channel Island's dating back to 1204 . When the English crown gave up Normandy, the Islands were asked did they revert to French rule or stay with the Duc. Sod being French!
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  2830.  @PieterBreda  The Scots will join with anyone if they have a chance to fight. If you want a good tale, good history and a good laugh, Geroge Mc Donald Fraser (Him of Flashman fame,) The Complete Mc Causlan and Quartered Safe out Here. QSOH is his wartime experience in Burma, the other is semi bigraphical of his post war commision in the Gordon Highlanders.
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  2831.  @notshapedforsportivetricks2912  Na! That'swhy we gave it back.:-)
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  2832. Though you always have first round up the spout.
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  2833. Its raining cats and dogs! Well? Thats better than Hailing Taxis and Buses. (VERYVERY old English joke)
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  2834. The Crown on that Jimmy badge has a dip either side of the top cross. That makes it a Queens' Crown. The Kings' Crown has no dip buts run striaght to the cross.
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  2835.  keith moore  Considering the weight of the old style Mortars, sod carrying that about, Any artilllery pice with a base plate firing over 45 dgress of elevation is a mortar.
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  2836.  keith moore  Point taken,thoug I wonder as we are thinking aloud.WouldaMortar actually repllace a mountain gun? A gun being direct trajectory, would certainly make a more sense to me in mountain terrain, if forno other reason tha I wouldn't fancu firing a mortar under and overhang.
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  2837. Takes three days to reach a climax, by which time you have forgotten why the hell you are there in the first place.
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  2838. The VT Fuse comes to mind- Perfection is the enemy of Good Enough. We need Good Enough.
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  2839. Wasn't there also a story about a dropped camera jamming the controls in Paris?
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  2840. The three down votes are members of the Temperance Leauge. Problems in England at the moment. Marmite and some animal feeds in short supply. Less Beer brewed , less Breawer's Yeast as a waste product. Ah and the EU had to get invloved.
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  2841. the family wer eoriginally fron Normandy, they are still represented in the Island as the Sengieurs of St Quen's Manor
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  2842. At the time, for from a days pay for a soldier to those flashy ones about a weeks pay.
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  2843.  @andersjjensen  Aston Martin radiator £450 .Local Europarts Ford radiator £35 .Guess what else the Ford radiator fits ?:-)
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  2844.  @leeenfield3404  The only even vaguley British make I could think off. Besides wasn't to get at you , just pointing out it's assocoayed with JB.
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  2845. So were you impressed?
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  2846.  @brianroanhorse5274  Anyone owning a TV in UK pays for the BBC wether they like it or not, through the 'Licence Fee'. At least this is something worth watching.
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  2847. A lot were rebarrelled to .22 and then became Rifle No2 . The P14 became Rifle No3.
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  2848. Not needed don't put it on. Less cost , less material, less machine time. In war every second and dollar count.
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  2849.  @causewaykayak  Richard Montgomery
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  2850. Please! Tell me where I can find Peer Reviewed Scientific eviedence about Feminine Brains pushing out Male parts.
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  2851.  @nowaskmehow  AHH! But!! Do Zombies have Gender Problems ? There is degree subject and umpteen grants for someone. to do a multi level research project as 'The Zombies should be portrayed in Vidieo games, showing Gender Carechtersitics that Reflect the General Population, then a law suit aginst the manufacturers...... Try being White Male Hetrosexual and complaing to the British Police that you have had racist remarks made aginst you. Fortunatley I know the Law, so challanged the officer. Nearly got arrested , till his partner saw sense. Though I was told the complaint would be recorded, but go no where as I was white.
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  2852. In Jersey Channel Island's, the German Military were tolerated, to a degree. It was the Organsation Todt men that were despised.
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  2853. Just an odd addition, one French soldier who fought with great honour and was decorated at Verdun was a certain Alfred Drefus. Better known to history as the Man on Devils Island.
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  2854. The German's did breack Allied Ciphers and codes. Codes repeat, Ciphers , shouldn't, . The main question never asked, was how did the Allies get the signals in the first place? Lok up the Y-Service.
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  2855. As far as RA in Leeds go, I head for The Netherlands everytime. Leeds bosts 3.000 odd artifacts, what they don't tell you is most are a collection of bayonets hanging on the wall up the staircase. Very dissapointing The Dutch musuem however I spent a whiole day and regretted it was only a day.
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  2856. Following Reader Trials, all books will be recalled for modification to Mk1* configuration! Was ever thus. :-)
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  2857. So despite the history Napoleon wasn't all bad.
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  2858. Not true. By that time most officers had come up from the ranks, they knew full well what the war was all about. The Soldier's curse-I'm S*it scared don't want to be here, but I can't let my mates down.
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  2859. Both were composite hulls Iron over wood , hence the term 'Clad'.
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  2860.  @smithec1  First Ocean going. Ironcld. The USS Virginia was Iron Clad. . A wood hull and top works 'Clad' in iron
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  2861.  @smithec1  Well I'm glad I wasn't tyhe one who had to put her to the test. HM Warrior , now her I'd take anywhere.
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  2862.  @Brusselpicker  Granted. ::-)
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  2863. I worked around Scunthorpe at this time the British Steel plant was subject to a lot of picketing. I had friends on both sides, some were made redundant, some made a fortune. Now coal is demonised. Mining is an extraction buissnes, it runs out, and had. My own family history is coal mining, and it isn't a happy one. My Farther wa sthe last miner in the family.
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  2864. Will you stop ducking! Bloody target Shows a ten mill if you don't hit the target you scare it to death. NotE : Absolutley no Magnums? Surley a 10mm is roughly the same.
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  2865. The British did have a maddening habit of insisting the all trenches were Regular Construction, so any change from standard , such as a depresion in front of the bags, stood out like a sore thumb. The Triple Alliance deliberatley made the front of trenches haphazard so that the positioning of loopholes etc was less descirnable. In the film Beneath Hill 60 (Which if you havent seen you should) there is a scene, which happned, where a German sniper deliberatley fires at newly placed sandbags to see if they filled with the sub surface grey clay, which would show tunneling.
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  2866. Two weeeks won't scratch the surface. throw a stick in any direction, it will land on some historic spot. Normandy is not only D-day and World War 2, there is alot more. Go on a diet before the trip, The Normon's are very proud of their food , and don't forget the Clavados. Juno and Goldbeach musuem at Ver Sur Mer, also the first place American Transatlantic Air Mail landed. If you haven't seen it , look up the Mulberry Aramonches 360 cgi on you tube. It is amazingly detailed and the countryside truly accurate.
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  2867. Peter: You are thinking of the German K Round, the Mauser 7.92 take bullet out stick in other way. This wa ssupposed to be used against aircraft, thn was found to be effective against early armour plates. A lot of Britsh Soldier's belived German's used Explosive Bullets, in fact the same claim had been made in the 1899/1902 South African war when the Boer's used Mauser's. The reason was the lack of understanding by the average Tommy concerning the power of a smokless proppelant sending a high speed small bore dart as opposed to the injuries caused by Black Powder throwing large bore slow speed bricks. The Germans also claimed at one point the small hole caused by turning over the end of the SMLE magazine cut off was to insert a bullet nose and twist it into a Dum Dum. No sniper is going to mess about with the round that will cause , loss of acuracy or damamge the rifle.
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  2868.  @scarface9617  Something similar in UK, the dog is the 'Property' of the force. So to get a dog retired you have to go through some basic paperwork, yes 'I will look after him, yes I will be responsible for his actions, No I won't sell him, and won't breed from the dog without written permission.
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  2869. The original theory was in a snap shooting scenario you're first shot was likley to go wild, so if you then immidiatly re aquired and followed up your chance of hitting was better. Also with something like .32 ACP or .25, would your first shot incapacitate the target on strike?
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  2870. Gary Johnson  Hopefully others will now see it, enjoy and think about it.
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  2871.  @inspirion5500  I have two 1944 Dodge trucks, plus various OId land Rovers, I belive through a lot of experience, each one is a distinct personality.
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  2872. There are a number of such picies in the Wallace Collection in London , and sooo much more. Each though it may as you say follow a pattern is unique. Even after centuries you just look and gasp.
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  2873. Another reason the French Cavalary needed such a long bayonet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye28n_aJspA
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  2874. That is only the Western End of the European front. Common misconception but the Frontline ran from Neuiport le Bain to Phetterhouse on the Swiss Border. Joy of Google earth , take a look at the diffrences in the envoroment.
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  2875.  @MrJob91  Not that much of a joke in truth. I've been priviliged over the years to dig on the Western Front. The mud around Iperes is known as four inch mud, walk across the feild you are four inches taller. It is totally knackering without any kit on, what the guys must have felt is beyond me. Though in summer it sets like concrete,
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  2876. an iritated dangerous game animal coming at you. More then the rifle will short stoke. I like it says Ian, as his voice goes up an octave.
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  2877. I thought for a minute it was going to come with a replica Capeli bomber! Then you get Ian, two triggers, Mc Cullum playing tunes on it.
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  2878. In 1922 the Irish Free Sate was in the middle of a Civil War. The British wanted, (had,) to show support for Collins. But if Collins had lost? Then the Britsh Army would have been facing the same rifles in Ulster. Don't think they were going to send top grade equipment do you?
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  2879. Talkabout making yourself a hostage to fortune! Best of luck Ian!
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  2880.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  Yes they were expected to , and did ocean escort.
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  2881. That's a bit unfair. They were cheap simple guns designed for Gallery and Cadet units to teach basic markmanship. If they were of poor quality how come they still function after 100+ years ?
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  2882. Have it your way, let's se eif you funtion at all after a hundred odd years.
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  2883. Haig and Rawlinson didn't have much choice. Verdun was hammering the French,. The original plan had been for an August offensive, in conjuction with the French . The Enemy got in the way. The French, who were don't forget, the ultimate commanders of the Allies on the Western Front, the reson being, it was thier country, put a lot of military and political pressure on the British and Empire forces to attack immideatly and take the pressure off the French. The German's didn't get it all there own way, they reffered it as the (And I can't remeebr the German of fhand) as the Munitions Offensive due to the pre attack bombardment.
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  2884.  @ldkbudda4176  Vickers in various guise was the OneStop Shop for the Goverment wanting a Military, suppling eevrything from Small Arms , through Artillery to Naval Warships,branching out into Flying Machines. The 19 th century equivalent of BAE Systems.
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  2885. I wouldn't argue with the crackpot. Now please, take yopur tablets and go outside to play with the trafic, the Adults are taliking.
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  2886. Considering Britian has a Royal Society for the Protection of Animals. Is it not odd that it is only the National Society for the Protection of Children?
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  2887.  @PaulRudd1941  It will take a long time. I have a two CWWG cemietries near me. One about a hundred yards across the rail tracks at St Mary Cray . The other at Orpington. The Orpington one was attached to N0 19 Base Hospital (Canadian) , Noe the Canada Wing of the Orpington wing. The Chief Surgeon at the time was another Mc Crae, brother of John. If you havent seen it , try the Western Front Assocoation Youtube channel. Lots of intresting talks and viewpoints.
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  2888. Is that a BREN tripod? In which case you turn it into an Anti Aircraft mount.
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  2889.  @RichardCranium321  I hope they grow up to know where food comes from, have respect for the land and animals, and care for both. I'm getting wild at the moment as in Uk we have the BREXIT. One thing is Oh the European Uniuon Envoromental Standards. ***&^%%$!!!! I was at agricultural college 45 years ago before we joined. Then it was you plan, your son does the work, your grandchildren benifit. Then along the came the common market (as it then was) you grow it we will buy it, so they were paying to grub hedgerows out! Agriculture became Agribuissness. And who was saying this is wrong? My generation. All we can hope is that some kids remain being brought up with Honsety, Integrity, Impartiality, and Common Sense. Keep well Friend.
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  2890.  @RichardCranium321  Unfortunatley in UK e don't have the space or species to hunt. as you do in the States. The Envorment! is who ever shouts loudest for their idea. How many uses is each square foot of land to be put to? no acceptance that the ,land is, and will give if you are kind to it,. Nice to correspond with someone who respets the land and what it provides.
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  2891. Royal Amouries Leeds, don't bother, really a hype of nothing. Fort Nelson at Portsmouth, the artillery, oh drooool! Hours and hours of metal porn. Traumatic pistols would be covered by Section 5 of the UK Firearms act, as they 'Discharge a noxious substance' . Not wholly true to say the Public cannot own them, but the licence is granted by the Secratary of State, a central goverment authority, not as is usual with Section 1 , rifled barrel firearms or Section 2 Smooth bore firearms which are granted by the Police Authority for the area you live in.
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  2892. http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ref/MG/I/index.html Free to all as mentioned earleir by Ian.
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  2893. That confuses a hell of lot of people in all parts of the UK. Why do Americans describe themselves as something else first? You don't Irish -English or Scots -Welsh. We are what we are what we are , just living in parts of the Island of Britian, or its offshore bits.
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  2894. NO, NO NO!!!! The Union flag should only be reffered to as the Jack , when flown on the Jackstaff on the bow of one of Her Majesty's ships in harbour,
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  2895. It's a Guinea Pig secret conspiracy! Don't for get Suzi has admitted there is the mystery Lewis, masterminding things in the background.
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  2896. Just because you don't have a University Degree , dosen't equal thick. Hands not brains build things.
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  2897. Sorry this is just unwatchable.
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  2898.  @robertwilliams5015  Nope but how many thousand volts still going through the power lines the muppet hot in the first place?
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  2899. Magni: Of course EVERYONE KNOWS you can't operate tanks in wooded country! Eh, yes the German's could.
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  2900. No, the cross has a purpose! It remind shooter, say prayers before attempting to shoot.
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  2901.  @v22058  The Enigma Code?
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  2902.  @ozdavemcgee2079  The Great British 'Shed' tradition Sir! It works, lets 'Improve' it.:-)
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  2903.  @hailexiao2770  But like the 24 hour clock, not a system that existed at the time. Pity the poor sod that had to keep the drawings up to date.
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  2904. It was painted by an American. John Singelto Copley. The black man shooting over Pierson is his man servant Pompey who killed the man who shot Pierson. The group of women and children in the bottonm right are allegedly Pierson's wife, children and maid servant.
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  2905. A large number of Russian POWs ended up in the Channel Island's and the Island of Alderney- the only NAZI concentration camp on Britsh soil building NAZI fortifications. . The stories are dreadful, and the treatment of these prisoners following Liberation, by Russia was as horrific.
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  2906. The next one has to be the Lee Action. I've noticed the Mauser bais you know!
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  2907. Always assuming you can get anywhere near the various memorials. Europe has gone so anal on security with the 'Great and the Good' attending things to be seen doing so, genuine visitors don't stand a chance.
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  2908. In Britsh culture those who support the Britsh Legion campain each November are called 'Poppy Sellers'
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  2909. Lego for men!
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  2910. One problem with evacuation, people won't do what they are told.
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  2911. There is a flying U Boat autogyro, at the Headcorn Musuem in Kent. England.
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  2912. HBogart: do you think the genral public knows or cares wether the instrument used in a Crime is an air gun or a firearm? The term is Gun, eg it is nasty. Try to expalin the diffrence, assuming you can get most people out of thier mobile phone long enough to listen, and they will glaze over in first minute. The Poloticians look Tough and the Police, more intrested in budgets that crime, look Effective. The least Common thing in all this is Common Sense.
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  2913.  @pangolin83  Scotland has its own judicial system. Though we can get into the argument over who pays for all the Scottish frebbies.
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  2914. As usual 100% hindsight. Though essential, it gives anyone else in a similar position that bit more knowledge.
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  2915.  @TheRealFOSFOR  Theres a lot of people in the Grveyard would disagree, Winches are capapable of killing you with out breacking. You see one line go under tension, you will belive!
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  2916.  @kaikart123  Not in every situation. I work where there is a lot of abrasion risk, Dynema is useless there.
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  2917. Who's that knocking at the ...Ah 'Where has the door gone'?
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  2918. Fascinating!
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  2919. I wonder if it was made for somone who didn't have full use of thier hands or restircted movment?
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  2920. Squirrels are deadly at both ends! One got into a place where I worked and peed down the back of a computer monitor. One dead monitor and one extra crispy!
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  2921.  @PORRRIDGE_GUN  Don't need to! When they tried shooting the things in Buck Palace Gardens a few years back, they proved to be bullet proof. Could be why there are so many red haired attackers though.
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  2922.  @isaiahcampbell488  Thanks
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  2923. When they run out of room for * the result is a new mark, or No. I dread to think what the maximum number of * was ever reached. Now the sytem uses numbers and letters, gives the chair riders at MOD Procurment a whole knew toy box.
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  2924. P-Talks- I not sure I'd call Russia a Winner in the Great War. As for the cause of it, ssh! How long have we got? Germany wasn't founded till 1872 ish following the Franco Prussian war. Austria had already been put in there place by Prussia in 1866. It was a time of The Old Order Crumbles. and the newcomer Prussia / Germany throwing thier weight about. What started out' as you say' a spat about some Austrain Prince, who wasn't poular being bumped off in the Balkan's, who having just got rid of the Otterman's wern't going to roll over when the Austrian's jumped in to claim them, was initally treated in England as 'Yawn, not another one'. Though there are a number of instances , especially in North Africa in the early part of the 20th century where Germany went out right to provoke France to war, but these were settled diplomatically. The assasination of Ferdinand, just pushed things over the edge of the catastrophy curve, and incedentally gave Germany the perfect right to claim' We Didn't start it! So at the end we poor people just doing our morale duty to protect our friend's have been dumped on by these wicked aggresors!
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  2925. You do wonder how the human race has survived at times. When are you going to change to Smart Water? That would make going to the local clubs fun for them. Why you glowing all over Dude?
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  2926. Try telling the French and American's that Jersey men wern't pirates. We wern't ! For the honour of our Duc, plus fun and profit, a numner of Jersey ships became Privaters. The aim, to stop the French, interferring as usual, supplying the dammed revolutionaires in America. In order to stop this the French decided to invade the Island on 6th January 1781. They got handed thier backsides on a plate and ran away. As with old good adventurous tales of heroics, the Commander of the Victourious Jersey/English troops Major Pierson died in his moment of triumph, avanged by his balck man servant Pompey. A great gallant picture of the Victory 'The Death of Pierson' wa spaited soon after, by an American artist.
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  2927.  @phalynwilliams4119  In UK they used to be made by an orginisation called REMPLOY, that trained disabled vetrans in new skills.
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  2928. Quick note :May 15th 2021 was the Centernary of the Royal Britsh Legion, they are the ones that organise the Poppy Appeal in uk , The volunteers who do the collection have always been known as 'Poppy Sellers'.
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  2929. Now Now Lance! Don't get you 'Knickers in a Twist'!! 😁Another English classic is N.O.R.W.I C. H. a message sent by a service man to his trues love that he was coming home. . Nickers Off Ready When I Come Home😃
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  2930. Being 'On the Ropes' as an exprssion of being in a poor state is still Britsh Slang, and it dosen't come from Boxing.
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  2931.  @future62  BE Fair! They can occasionally, be right ! 😄
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  2932. In UK this would be a Section 5 , prohibited weapon as it is designed to 'Discharge a noxious liquid'. Regardless of wether it worked or not. Those of a certain age will no doubt have been thinking Daktari!
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  2933. But our heating bills have dropped considerably ! :-)
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  2934.  @machintelligence  Would you cross The Librarian? you are a braver life form than me .He has been known to try and unscrew peoples heads if they don't follow the rules. :-)
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  2935. As a follow up to this, you should Remeber Maureen Sweeny, an Irish woman that the Free World owes a great debt. Eire also has a link to the only part of the UK ever Ocupied by the Nazis. The Royal Militai Island Of Jersey Contigent, during the Great War was attached to the 7th Royal Irish Rifles. During the Occupation , Eire was a solid Neuteral representative for us. A lot of Irishmen ended up in Scottish Regiments, a long standing pice of weirdry.
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  2936. The engines shown , and the chassis being brought in a Dodge 3/4 ton and Dodge T-214 engines. One of mine was rebuilt in Germanny in 1954- She bears the rebuild [plates.
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  2937. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAUdrKG31zE The STEN gun was and is a perfectly viable weapon. It is no worse tha nay of the designs used at the time. The main diference is the requirment that the gun be concelable leading to a straight line layout with no pistol grip means that as the weapon is blowback, if not held firmly the whole gun recoils not just the bolt. Therefore the bolt does not move back enough to eject and chamber a new round.
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  2938.  @bforman1300  Pleasure, keep safe.
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  2939. The other point about these is that for a .22 they are heavy, recoil is virtually nil, so when training it reduces the chance of flinching, sights though are small and bloody awful under most indoor lighting, great fun though as you can play soldier at virtually any range. For Cadet Forces the rifle can also be used to paractice standard drils as it is the service rifle. I also have a MB42a Mossberg which was imported in massive numbers for WW2 training.
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  2940.  @warriorwolf77  Sounds like a plan. You'd not regeret it.
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  2941. @Jordon Carlson Your not wrong there. Though dig any where around the area, you wil come up something. Yes there are regulations, but if things Acidentally end up in the spoil, who is going to know?
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  2942.  @richardsolberg4047  Why waster effort aiming? S&W bring you!.357 & .44 Magnum! First hit every time!
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  2943. The English Cricket team will be in touch shortly!
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  2944. I prefer the Palm.
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  2945. No 4 wasn't quite the standard British WW2 rifle. It wasn't adopted till 1941. If you look pre Dunkirk in Western Europe and all of the Middle and Far East you'll see No1 Mk111. A lot of commonwealth troops also had the No1 for most of the war as that was what their arsenals were geared up to produce. Best thing about No 4 is the sights. The rear apature gives a longer sight base and is much easier to aquire than the mid mounted v sight,
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  2946. Hunt for trophies? I don't know.
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  2947.  @bitfreakazoid  I wouldn't go and shoot a car for the sake of it.
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  2948.  @lougrims  Yeah a bit like saying is the sky blue? A good introduction to the affair, and a good read is Robert Harrais' Officer and a spy. Though worth knowing about as it greatly effcted the French political and social landscape bettween the Franco Prussian war and The Great War.
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  2949. We British are not to be outdone! Good old Back Garden Shed Enginnering! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSQCwaSO6cQ
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  2950. But in Ian's case. There are now 1.2 million of salivating over the thought of visiting the place. Not stupid.
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  2951.  @nicholashodges201  In UK there wcan also be a question of Copyright, though with every person a phone, every phone a camera, how practical that is I don't know. In some cases of linene and and pictures you have light degradation from flash. In the Lourve musuem in Paris they have now introduced 'Book on line' to see the Mona Lisa as people taking selfies has caused so much destruction. (Funny a gun channel , yet we are of fon intresting sideline about musuem ettiqute!)
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  2952. What do you the soldier drink afterwards Never waste Potable water.
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  2953. And used by the German's in WW2.
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  2954.  @oOkenzoOo  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Wall_open-air_museum And in The Great War, if you ever get the chance this place is fantastic. Funny though Belgium wa scarved out as a nation and made Neuteral, specifically to stop people fighting there. It was The Cockpit of Europe
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  2955. Trouble is in papers like this you are often limited to a certain number of words. Makes you think about every one.
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  2956. The way things are going at the moment......Um?
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  2957.  @hugebartlett1884  Can't disagree with you, unfortunatley.
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  2958. The start of a new sport. Police/Protestor skittles. You have made the Met look like a complete bunch of morons. Complain about thier languages and actions. The other forces around London are still laughing . You deserve an apology at least. The White copper ver reacted as he was embarrased, NO! Not an excuse
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  2959. The British Military have developed a lightweight bull pup version. It's called colloquialy. A Brick. There is also a sub compact concelable version called Gravel.
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  2960. it would have it's use on Ducks though! I drive along a road that regularly at this time of year has a couple of hundred ducks being raised by a local estate sitting in the middle of it. You shoo them off , 100 go one way, 99 go the other, and there is one useless bloody bird that can't make it's mind up and skitters around in the middle. Futher along there are the Peacocks! But they are stroppy buggers who have been known to chase motorists down the road. So much fun in the country.
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  2961. The best place to see the Stacked Rifle BSA mark? On a bicycle! It was the headstock sticker of all their production.
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  2962.  @shakerson  Cheap tools cost you three times, First when you buy them, Second when you have to replace them, Third when you have to clean up the mess a cheap tool causes. Learnt that the hard way long ago:-)
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  2963.  @Solidboat123  They didn't want to change to 7.62 SLR.
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  2964. @ Thanks for clarification. Nosy now, do you know where I can find out more about them?
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  2965. Don't push! Punch the shell in. A closed fist keeps fingers!
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  2966.  @christieevans1886  If I remeebr rightly it was stale Woscter Sauce that wa sclaime dto be the base of Maskinlin's paint. I'll have to find the book again.
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  2967. Of course the Ukranian's are going small and fast. Go big and slow, as the Russians have found. Large heavy dollops of Big Bang Ordnance lands on you. Russia seems unable to adapt to agile warfare. Putin keeps quoting Nazism, seems he's addicticted to it. His tactics certainly are.
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  2968. Simple language, none of the modern if you can't dazzle with diamonds , baffle with bullshit.
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  2969.  @ForeLab  Historically, Ancient Rome required each hous eto have fire extingushing apparatus, mosty I suspect the bucket used for -other purposes.
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  2970.  @ernestbywater411  Diffrent name,same promise. The other one we often hear is John Edmunds 1916 line “When you go Home, tell them of us and say, For your Tomorrow, we gave our Today”
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  2971. During the anglo Dutch wars of the 1690's the two countries flags were combined into the Church Pennant so you wern't shot at during prayers. Why not design a Tea Pennant? Those using tea bags and adding milk after the tea has been poured , excepted!
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  2972. A place most people only know in UK from the BBC Shipping forecast! Remarkable.
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  2973. Potten is marvelous , it is why the Irish have such a renowned verbal reputation. It leaves your head clear and your thougts Universal. It's only when you expect your brain to control the rest of you the problems occur :-)
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  2974. The Royal Navy were recruiting Boy Service at the age of fifteen till 1972.
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  2975. A Mutiny resulted I never shall forget the way That Blood upon this awful day Preserved us all from death. He stood upon a little mound, Cast his lethargic eyes around, And said beneath his breath : Whatever happens we have got The Maxim Gun, and they have not." Hilaire Bellock 'The Modern Traveller' 1898
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  2976. You hit the target, what else is a military rifle for? The target 's day has definitley turned bad.
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  2977. There are a lo tmore of us than you think.Except it is difficult to own a full auto since about 1968.Though you can own them legally on what is known as a Section 5 certificate.
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  2978. Such is the feeling over Firearms and private ownership in Europe that Ian and Forgotten Weapons have been dragged into a Political Debate. Pity as we all love the channel for the history and knowledge and Ian's style. Good as it gives us a chance to air the problems and feelings with others who are knowlegable and good mannered. Thanks for the chance, but be careful Ian.
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  2979. Oh so true. ,
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  2980. If he represents Florida, that state has nothing be ashamed off.
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  2981. Consideed a bit out moded now. Almost acceptable.
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  2982. Heres a better idea, don't assume that umpteen thousand volts are not cousrsing through the kit.
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  2983. The argument I've always heard is partly the use prone, and partly feed problems with a lot of rounds moving fast. British guns, Sten and Sterling sem to favour side, MP38/40, of course, and Grease gun, plus most modern SMG favour upwards, Australia, the Owen favoured downwards, and a lot of jokes as a result.
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  2984. And the Lanchester in service with the Royal Navy for many decades.
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  2985. Pass the bucket, me to :-)
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  2986.  Memories to Music  Listen you damm forigner! Can't understand? That's your problem ! Damm colonials! 😁
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  2987.  @lindseykathryn5746  I call her Duc De Normandie.
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  2988. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXQdDmD9AcA
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  2989. In case of charging animal: rapid fire 5 shots. By the time you land from the recoil the animal will have gone underneath you.
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  2990. May I point ot, the painting of the action, and the films at the the troops marching. They are all carrying British weapons.
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  2991.  @tamhunter4035  She is also Duc De Normandy, a title which is far senior to the rest.
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  2992. Shell fish , mainly limpets, seaweed. Like the rest of the Occupation forces towards the end.
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  2993. A Canadian Corvette as part of convoy escort in the North Atlantic storm was seen to fly the following signal: A church Pennant over an Intergatory , over a Course flag. When the Convoy Commodore Queried by light 'What Signal?' The reply he recived was 'Oh God! Where am I?'
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  2994. Having learnt to drive on Land Rovers, and driven them and worked on them for 47 years so far. F**K IT! I'm going to buy a Dacia Duster or a Skoda Yeti.
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  2995. The Zimmerman Telegrams, there were two, is a story worth its own episode. The Britsh staged an eleborate deception so as not to reveal that A They were intercepting American Diplomatic traffic B Had brocken the American Diplomatic codes. The German messages were being sent on American Diplomatic Circuits at Woodrow's behest, in a code the American's could not read. The first offensive action of Britiain in the Great War, was the severing of German cross Atlantic telegrapgh cables.
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  2996. You can't! in UK the light bulb, is banned! Now you have a picie of nasty Neon crap loaded with nasty chemicals, so when it doeas fail you can't even legally throw it away! Has to go to speacialist facilty, I kid you not!
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  2997. Stephen Jackson  Ahh though if you want to be eaxct, and being a Channel Islander I do, The Queens oldest title and therefore the senoir is Duchess of Normandy.
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  2998. Metford was balck powder rifiling, when Cordite came in the Royal Armoury at Enfield developed a new rifiling. The Martini and later Lee actions remained unchanged.
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  2999. Reffered to as Enfilade Fire.
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  3000. Suggestion for Bugs Bunny to aquire to get his retaliation in? I'd say A10 Gatling.
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  3001. There are historic records of such occurances , and threats in English History when the Riot Act was read.
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  3002.  @SnakebitSTI  Ain't it wierd? There were people actually capable of putting three stones together to make a wall before us! Look anywhere you find 'Pre History' sites. They wanted to go forward, now irt seems al that is wanted is to 'Back to the Good Old days' , Nature Rule! As long as we have our Lattes, mobile phones and Witter (Yes, that's what I mean)
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  3003. Yes but the flaming ball of gubbins goes into the sails of the other ship?
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  3004. There are more places than Leeds, try The Wallace Collection in collection, that is just pure art , and especially Fort Nelson at Portsmouth, they have the really Big Boys Toys down there, includding the Mallet Motar.
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  3005. Soory Guys! Wallace collection is in London.
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  3006. What you mean is the collector says isn't it pretty? The Archeologist says 'What can it tell me?
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  3007. So Enfield had another go at designing a revolver later on! And, Webley sued them for patent infringment.
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  3008.  @trashaimgamer7822  How yiou feel dosen't bother me at all. Ans Sunshine I've taken more shit in my life that you can imagine.
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  3009. RAPID FIRE!!! OOPS! It just melted! As for cost why not just fold the money and feed into fire, be a lot safer. The TWO GUN FROM HELL a Zip .22 and a Cobray Terminator.
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  3010. Wheres the balance on the gun? Be intresting to mike the componets compared to standard production. Bet that's hand fitted.
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  3011.  @discerningscoundrel3055  The joys of Google Earth, take a flight from the Western End at Neuiport Le Bain to the Eastern End at Phetterhouse. The envoroments are extremly diverse. The British and American's tend to assocoiate it all with Flander's Feilds, as that's where thier forces deployed.
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  3012. I live near the Queen Elizabeth Hospital at Sidcup, Kent England. The hospital became a world centre of excellence for plastic and reconstructive surgery during and after the Great War. The archive pictures are on line, just not after a big meal.
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  3013.  @VegasCyclingFreak  I knew a very acomplished Jewish Surgeon. He shook me one day by saying 'The biggest crime of the Nazi medical experiments were that they were so badly done'. No proper records and poor techniques' As you can imagine I was dumbstruck! Then he added 'Those people suffered for nothing! Nothing we can use came out of thier deaths it was all pointless, they lost thier lives and left no legacy.' The only ones done right were Luftwaffe Hypothermia experiments, if you are treated for it, or learn techniques to avoid it, or have any cryogenic sugery, give thanks to those unkown victims.
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  3014. That would be the French then. They were the Commander in Chief of the Wesern Front, it was thier country after all.
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  3015.  @futuresonex  Neither Haig nor Rawlinson wanted the attack of the Somme. The original plan wa sfor a joint attack with the French 6 weeks later, to allow for training. The German attack on Verdun meant the French applied pressure to attack to relive the pressure on them.
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  3016.  @rogerjohnson8707  Why always imply the Entente Gerneral's were at fault? The Triple Alliance also ha dit's share of idiots and bad decisions.
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  3017. Fire at Will! What did the poor sod do to attract the emnity of all English sp[eacking armies?
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  3018.  @Kaboomf  There are plenty of Youtubes vidios on historic survey techniques, bloody hard work. The measuring was done with metal chains, 22 yards in UK, for reasons best known to history, and some poor sod had to lug them about.
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  3019. Based on Jersey Under the Jacboot. Incedentally the NAZI's banned potatos being peeled. It wa swasteful and cut the nutrional value.
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  3020. At the time Military Calibre slow fire at 50 yards was a Brtish shooting discipline.
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  3021. @ Thanks for the info.
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  3022. A lot of little drips of Knowledge, leading to a lake of intrest.
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  3023. Forgotten Weapons  The Blakan Question hasn't been settled yet either.
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  3024. marcomalo02  Thanks for that. The polotics of conflict have always fascinated me.
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  3025. marcomalo02  There is a Terry Prattchett Disc World novel of the same name. Life in UK at the moment in overwhemingly Intresting, though the US seems the same. Last one out, turn off the light!
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  3026. Yes very true. Same old arguments only self loading and full auto.
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  3027. A one L -Lama is a preist, a two L LLama is an animal.. But I'll bet a pair of silk pyjama there isn't a three L LLLama! (I'll get my coat)
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  3028.  @someguy3766  Colt opened his London factory to supply a Royal Navy contract.
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  3029. Not a gret deal funnily enough. Such artifacts can be picked up (And I mean that litterally!) quite esaily in the region.
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  3030. Treasure Island was first published in serial form in a magazine.
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  3031. Good job there wasn't a daughter called Bertha, orthe Penny wasn't related to another Penny 'Weapons Designer' That could have been a real blast!
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  3032.  @C2K777  No imagination needed. Keep the faith, and do the job.
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  3033. The ones I've had yes. The engineering is that a brick outhouse, so you may consider them a bit heavy, but they breack clean and brisk.
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  3034. the British Military customaiarly Leased Horses from the railways for the annual excersices. The Railways wer ethe biggest owners of horses in the early 20th Century. In WW2 two fof the Ro Ro train feries weree still operating. One was used for the Second Dunkirk, an evacuation of troops and equipment from St Malo in 1940. The second was lost in action at the Dieppe raid.
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  3035.  @maximilianmustermann5763  I was originally taught to use the point method, ie raise arms and point at traget with both eyes open to check your aligment before even picking up the gun. Good discipline,
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  3036. Martni actions are so strong , and were so cheap, a lot of conversions were done, including to shotgun barrels, a lot are still shooting a couple of hundred years later.
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  3037.  @USSEnterpriseA1701  Oh if the bits are original British Military they were well built. Though quality, especially for export guns was the reason British Proof laws were introduced and are stringent. Bad policy to kill your customers. Any major alteration requires re proof. Ex British Military kit of that time should have the broad Arrow an inverted V on them. If released for disposal there should be a second V on the base forming an X
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  3038.  @mr2mk1g  Hey if it puts shot down the barrel where you want it, it's doing the job. Wonder how many families it has fed in it's day?
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  3039. In 1974 a PPK carried by a DPG officer famously jammed during an attempt to kidnap Princess Anne. It was high profile event and a lot of Walthers were immmdiatley retired. Though other parts of Britsh Military still have some knocking about.
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  3040. A load of recruits , and that is not Dangerous? A quick Google Earth of 110 High Street Boston Lincs. The building is now a recruitment agency, but definitly the era the rifle was built and looks like it was originally a small factory.
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  3041. That argument started on the Western Front in 1919 and is still going on. Is the area Sacred because of the blood spilt on it, or is it where people want to live and have a good life?
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  3042.  @jameshammons2354  Arr! Idon't get this modern Technology.. Thank you.
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  3043. Increases the gas pressure ,so the momentum of the mechanism is faster.
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  3044. Geroge McDonald Fraser, authour of the Flashman series, has a description in his autobiography 'Quarterd Safe out Here' a story of firing one of these at a Japanese barge sailing down a river in Burma. Good read, very funny .
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  3045. Books are highly dangerous! The US Goverment published all sorts of military manuals, and provided an easy opens scource on Ordnance ,booby traps and explosive manufacturer. So you can't have books in museum! They need to be 'Renderd Safe' a certain Mr Hitler comes to mind.
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  3046. A British explosive expert, public speacker and bloody funny man called Dereck (Blaster) Bates. Deascribed firing such a monster from the shoulder as 'Wrap your self round a gate post and fire, your teeth go out and two small lumps appear one behind each ear. You can find his stuff on youtube.
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  3047.  @davidjones332  Almost dead on! It is a known story in Jersey.
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  3048. Try two more modern history books Malta Convoy by Peter Shackland, story of the SS Ohio, the ship that saved Malta, and Malta Spitfire by Raymond Baxter, who flew out of Malta during the Seige. He later went on to be a much respected and loved BBC commentator on Science and enginnering.
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  3049. OOPS ! My fualt , wrong authour. George F Beurling. is the one. Baxter did fly from Malta , but as I read it years ago wrong asocoation. Growing old aint all it's cracked up to be.
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  3050. Don't tell me! It was carrying Corn? :-)
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  3051. More space = more excavation , easier to attack and more material required. Though some of The German tunnels in the Channel Islands, speciffically Jersey at L'Aveal are wide enough once through the entrance to manovere tractors and trailers about.
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  3052. If you are in US, the two reffered to are your problem now. And your welcome to them.
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  3053. Most useful grabbing tool, a one handed Gun Makers Vice. Add a couple of locking surgical clamps.
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  3054. If you visit The Western Front, walk lightly, you don't know who you are treading on.
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  3055. Sounds similar to UK, including Obselete Calbres. Except some A** decided to manufactuer obselete calibre and supply to criminals. So that will be out soon, I'll bet.
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  3056. OK, smart asses . Try these genuine English names, both are in Kent Trottescliffe and Igtham. In Derbyshire you have Kineton, so how is that pronunced? DerbySHUR is the name of an English Shy-ar , easy
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  3057.  @HankD13  You should hear how some sat navs sound names in England. Leominster is a favourits of mine, as is my Mother's hometown Abertillery, though that is in Wales. Amongst my local joys we have Pratt's Bottom .
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  3058. Didn't come to Britiain till 1921, so this is the centenary year.
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  3059. At least in UK if the animal dies of an infectious disease then the carccas must be incinerated. If a cull is needed then at least do it cleanly.
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  3060. French Chickenpox as a British coach driver I know refers to them.
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  3061. Gordon Lawrence  It's in an Australian paper The Melbourne Times, if you care to look. Reminds me of the old Britsh Gile's cartoon style.
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  3062. There are examples in Uk of rifles from the great war with one bullet going up the barrele , meeting another coming down. Ballistic study shows the one going up was .303 (British ) the one going in 7.92 (German)Modern bullet lead is harder than pure lead, so less ductile. If you want fun. The old trick of sending a candle through a door. Load a wax candle into a smooth bore gun, it will go through an oak door. Be intresting to see two of those hit each other. 😁
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  3063. Point of intrest: If you own any armoured military vehicle 'In Preservation' in Germany. The area around the driver must be removed and replaced with a thin metal sheet. So the Police can shoot through it.
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  3064. Ian,as I'm sure you are aware, The C.R.S.are the riot!:-)
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  3065. Electricty could still be live umpteen thousand volts + water = an even worse day.
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  3066. Don't mention the Paris meridian! George Piquat, the man who cleared Alfred Dreyfus taught Topography at the Ecole Militaire before becomeing head of counter intelligence.
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  3067. The BREN had a very effective, if heavy, tripod mount for sustained fire role , that also transformed into an anti aircraft mount. The Vickers K gun, originally designed as a drum mag fed aircraft gun, adapted as both a light and vehicle mount, famously by the SAS on jeeps.
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  3068. There was a drum conversion for AA use.
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  3069.  @abchaplin  As I've been reminded yes before 1910, after they went thier own way.
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  3070. Try Sherlock Holmes Game of Shadows , a gun spotters love fest :-)
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  3071. No the system is that if a minor modification is introduced then rather than a complete new Mk a *is added. So a * can make the manufactuer more complex as much as less, and can be done any time during service life. On the drawings you would have an original 'Sealed Pattern' then as alterations occur the * is the same as marking a footnote in a book, you'd go to that drawing.
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  3072. 5 X.577 hasn't worked! What's plan B? S**t bricks and build a wall!
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  3073. The Wallace Collection in London. Next time across the pond make time to vist. Eevn if they do hav e to sew your pockets before you go in. Take a bucket for the drolling. The second mark like a sweeping H could be two antlers, if so it is similar the brand of the Trcakhener stud, established in East Prussia around the same period , so coulkd be relevant to the area of manufactuer?
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  3074. Its not a musuem its a Venue, we want all the Great and the Good paying a fortune so they can stand around in an intresting place telling The Great and the Good how Great and Good the Great and the Good are.
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  3075. Why recoiless? Force = Mass x Aceleration Newtons second law of motion. So 22 pound weight going , relativley, slowly balanced by light weight gas molecules going humongusly fast. The Britsh versions the 120 mm Wombat and the Mobat (A lot of magnesium parts) used the Bren as a spotter rifle. By the by, wasn't an attempt made during the American Civil War to develop a recoiless gun?
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  3076. Hey giys! I think we owe Ian a breack, he is showing what is in the Auction House, and thanks, otherwise the rest of us wouldn't know it existed. The rest is up to others.
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  3077. Scape Goats of Empire, available fre eon line from Gutenberg Project. The basis of the film Breacker Morant.
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  3078. Pretty sure there is film about the Israeli war of independence, in 1948, possibly called Exdous from the book by Leon Uris? Where they used Bofors in M1 Half tarcks in an anti armour ambush.
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  3079. What about the Erodium seed? I belive that it was researched by NASA and others for it's properties to measure humidity. Does your plant have cells that shrink as the planrt matures , and thus end up in tension?
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  3080. A lot of places the US invaded later! Humm?
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  3081.  @apodski  Not if it is looked after. Glycerin saddles soap , or if dry a vegtable or animal oil gently appled to the open side of the Leather. One substance used to treat very old leather is single cream, honsetly.
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  3082.  @apodski  I've a side saddle about 120 years old, Built in England 1901 , still in use. Wonder how many people besides me have sat there and cleaned it, and oiled it, and checked sticihing?
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  3083. Oh the wit and Wisdom. Cornflakes for breackfast?
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  3084. Physics don't change the performance of the rounds is the same whatever time period, just the metalurgy and tech to achive it develops.
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  3085. Steve: If the weather or sea state is that bad you can't get a line across easily, go away and start agin. Replinshment at Sea (RAS) is a tricky , stressful operation at the best of times. Due to Venturi efects between hulls close together, leading to low pressure and the action of waves on one side, ships when close have a tendency to want to get closer still.
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  3086.  @shootmcrunfast  Yesthey arebeing stroopy at the momentregardless ofwhere youlive. I do have a rfile on a class1as Historic at the moment.Waiting for the varation to go through to get shooting.
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  3087.  @shootmcrunfast  I'm in the throws of selling the kids to aquire a1897 Winchester that came over in 1914/15. Same here as far as shooting goes, but the local outdoor range has been upgraded so can shoot my P14, sometime, hopefully, maybe Easter?....... Keep Safe.
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  3088. My parents were both from mining families in the area. I lost two cousins at Aberfan. Every time a coal fire spat, one of my parents would say 'A miner has died'.
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  3089. Depends on the No1 you get. Later ones especially Indian and Australian build had better bedding. The Indian ones also had some float at the end of the barrel. I shoot a 1913SMLE Mk 1 No iii has beitiful woodwork and shoots well. Biggest problem is the ammunition, a lot of it available comes from India and consitensty is not the best.
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  3090.  @matthewpoplawski8740  Leon Uris is a forgotten master. Hopefully a few more people will start to read his books.
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  3091.  @matthewpoplawski8740  I belive Exodous was also made into a fil. I remember seeing it before the book.
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  3092.  @matthewpoplawski8740  It was . Made in 1960. Worth watching, very close to book.
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  3093. The real problem with the Sten was lack of pistiol grip , though this was a design requirement from the start that it had to be easily stripped and conceable. Prime stoppages are holding the magazine, leading to feed issues and the not holding the gun firmly, it's blowback! If you don't hold it firm the whole gun recoils and the bolt dosen't recoil far enough. Reasons fro withdrawal, possibly reports from Aussie troops using the British Version, give a gun a bad name.
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  3094. You may find this intresting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu_VBDDcLFY
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  3095. As long as you don't use the laser to sight it.
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  3096. This the Hillman Imp, Renault Dauphine, and most of the rear engine at the time. First thing to do, remove spare wheel, replace with concrete block or bag of sand.
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  3097. Actually, they are old Itilian archetechture. From Genoise forts. They are also built in some numbers around the coast of UK and the Channel Island's to defend them from the French. Known as Palmerston's Forts.
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  3098. Surley you mean a Lambogeni ?
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  3099.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  Pie Mash and Licquor! An East London Favourite. Don't foget the 'Local Delicay' Jellied Eels (Belive me you WON'T forget them)
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  3100. What sounds better than a Spitfire of Hurricane? A Mosquito- Two Merlin engines at the same time.
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  3101. GOOD LORD!! Do you mean to say US SEALS, fight dirty and kill people? Actioning the pistol is louder than the shot on single.
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  3102. Thank you for another fascinating bit of history. Heres a bit of running hare for you, How did the actions of a ship named Alert on 5th August 1914 help lead to the US declaring war on Germany in 1917?
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  3103. Also famous for it's Goal! (Now let our American friends play with that one!)
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  3104. In UK it is a Two second rule, in GOOD visibilty and DRY road surface. For anything else FOUR Seconds is recommended. The rhyme/nemonic is Only a fool breaks the two second rule, and a bigger fool breaks the four second rule
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  3105. Should have gone to LLANTHONY PRIORY, and Read Gerald of Wales. You also missed the fact you were in part of the International Dark Skies Assocation. Just look up on a clear night.
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  3106. @kantenklaus The small aems from the High Seas Fleet are stored in the Musuem of Naval firepower at Portsmouth. they will arrange behind the scenes tours for groups.
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  3107. You wouldn't delay a rapid fire pistol. Dwell time and action time count, you are measuring at 1,000 of a second.
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  3108. The Itatlian's had some good fast boats as well. The British had the Steam Gun Boats, they were just large enough to have individual names , prefixed Grey. Also of intrest were the 4 fast blockade runners built by Britian to transport speial steel and ball bearings from Sweden.
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  3109. Dear God! Can you imagine trying to keep that thing clean and operational in combat? All praise Lewis!
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  3110. The British wanted a Swiss optical anaylaser for photographic reconascanice interprataion. The Swis stold the Nazi's you don't let it through, we don't deal with you. Suprise! The Germans did allow it to be transhipped via Germany.
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  3111. Intrestingly, some of those English Miners, found themselves conscripted into the Boer commandos. Worth watching is the Australian Film Breacker Morant, from the book Scapegoats of Empire. The South African Campaings, as they were known had a sesmic effect on the British and Empire armies, which proved well founded in both World wars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49KxYVEGJZI We apply rule .303
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  3112. I would call it a very generous rifle! One pull of the trgger and everyone gets some.
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  3113. Who now has his own musuem in London.
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  3114. A large number were supplied to the Japanese , and to China as well during the 1850/60's so you may not be wrong.
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  3115.  @MentourPilot  IE: Make it up as you go along. Emergency -Unexpected Event, that can be controlled. Plan: First thing to go wrong in an Emergency.
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  3116. The problem with this question is when it disscused by the two main winning forces of both the Great War and the Second World War, mainly United Kingdom and America. None of you actually had armed invaders walking down your streets within living memory. I come from the only part of the United Kingdom to be Occupied during WW2 , the Channel Island's. I was brought up by parents, friends parents and teachers who had experienced living under Occupation. There is still a bubbling Anti German feeling under the surface of Europe. I have a problem with German's, but it's MY PROBLEM! Hopefully it will die out with my generation. Though the two other things I was taught are Freedom is worth fighting for, and Think for yourself!
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  3117. Nowadays. it#s called Airsoft!
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  3118. And Ian prepares his offering for his 'John Wick ' Cameo.
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  3119. The greatest legacy of Aberfan, is the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. specifically Section 37 If a company commits a Health & Safety offence, then its directors or senior managers can be prosecuted for breaching Section 37, if the offense was due to their consent, connivance or ATTRIBUTABLE TO THEIR NEGLECT.
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  3120. Monmouth was originally a county on the Welsh English border, with a very hazy alligence. At one time the joke was England Wales , Scotland and Monmouth.
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  3121. Nope ! Thier not stupid. In the small print, you brack it you buy it. $90 to 100,000
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  3122. When I was a kid , our neighbour Mrs Neary was a survivor of the Andrea Doria
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  3123.    How does your guide dog feel about it ?:-) The Range Rover Classic was the first vehicle displayed in the Louvre in Paris as the eptomiy of design in automobiles. This one wouldn't get in with a tarpaul;in over it.
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  3124.    Probably run howling. The Old Girls, the ones, were functional, cheap easy to produce and worked, so developed beauty that smoothed gentle in the rest of the Series. The Range Rover Classic had a cool clear style, unclutered and understated. This -THING- looks like it melted in the mould. Like wearing a Barbour Jacket and green wellies in central London.
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  3125.    Cost you £11.50 per day to drive an old Defender around London plus what ever that Bandit in City Hall is putting on Disiels now. Us Country Yokels can't afford that.
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  3126.    Better still, just avoid the place entirlerly, you know you want to. I spent 15 years driving busues around there. I'm expecting a fast track to heaven, I've done my time in hell.
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  3127.    Now that we both agree on! I'm now working around Dartford. The M25 and the crossing can have thier moments as well.
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  3128. Non Non Mosieur! C'est Taxi avec le Marne.
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  3129. Compresed air, fuel, hydralic oil , water .Anything under pressure can hurt! Dosen't seem to be enough saftey broadcast on this nowadays.
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  3130. Peter, you forgot, or maybe avoided, the Metric system is constantaly changing as to what a millimetre , or litre , or kilogram is actually defined as. As is a second . 😁
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  3131. Robot AI, thinks: Damm you fat * go on a diet!
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  3132. I am unsubscribing! How dare you suggest the the Mauser C96 is anything other than a design masterpiece? Oh well , maybe forgive you, once.
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  3133. Did the German's know they would beat Russia? Intially the Russian offensives were succesful causing almost panic in the German High Command. The Eastern front tends to be ignored in America and UK mainly due to the Western Front where 'Our' boys did most of the fighting. Have a quick look at the history of the Great War Eastern Front, it really is a comic opera at times,
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  3134. If your at ground zero, probably an irellivance :-)
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  3135. But don't forget the Maduium A Whippet, powered by two bus engines. The was designed as a Pursuit Tank, the story of Musical Box shows how it was intended to be used.
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  3136. Yes, as a Hacquenee, was an old French term for a Horse for Hire, used for travelling. Also a high actioned horse! Of the type favoured to draw horse drawn cabs. PS if you don't know it the London Bourough of Hackney--- dosen't have the highest of reputations.
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  3137. Why wouldn't the originals take it? They were built for the cartridge, and how many Race Guns will still be working 100 years +
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  3138. Try living in the real world.
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  3139.  @meridiasbeacon7669  So busy with the real world that I can answer brifley.
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  3140. We sail.God and Weather permitting.
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  3141. A vickers version 'The Bigger Hammer'. I've heard of .5 Vickers, on MGB, MTB, SGB and trawlers for years. But never seen one till now.
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  3142. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WdSyRxO-ug
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  3143. Sad to say . As someone in the UK whose adolesence was dominated by reports from Vietanam on nightly news brodcasts, often taken from US scources, the soldiers were not seen as Heroes in thier own country.
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  3144. Around 900 rounds per minute, bear in mind it was designed for aircraft use. Ian has done a vid on the VP dual version.
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  3145.  @G-slinger  We British will steal any good idea. :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izpoexYN1-8
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  3146. Definition of a Camel? A horse designed by a Military Board. Probably stopped adding Stars as the stock wasn't long enough. Another way to know the US model, the tear stains on the woodwork from the poor sods issued with them.
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  3147. Alternatley My Dancing White Horse's, by Alois Podhajsky, Director of the Spanish Riding School at the time There wa salso a Disney film about the rescue. Reason it called the Spanish School, before the Lippazaner became recognised as a breed horses from Andaluthia were used.
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  3148. That and Bloody Blackadder Goes Forth!!
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  3149. Heights of Abraham are at Matlock Derbyshire.
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  3150. Intresing Bernhart was of a Jewish background. she made a point and was much reported in the press for attending the public humiliation of Alfred Dreyfus.
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  3151. Even more imprssive when it went wrong. One on the HMS Thunderer was double charged. Killed 36 men.
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  3152. The problem with that is when the Experts from the Musuems come to us, who have spent our entire lives since childhood doing such things,and then talk down and ignore our knowledge.
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  3153. Yep! Muttley thought so :-) Oh boy ,oh boy ,oh boy,
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  3154. Used for horses as a Duretic.
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  3155. And Austria had aquired Bosnia Hertogvina, and Serbia from the Otterman's. The locals didn't much fancy having yet another occupier and decided to do something about it! So a young man by the name of Gavin Princip.... And War Were Declared.
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  3156.  @RichWhiteUM  Thank you both for the information. I started liking things that go bang as a kid, now the polotics of war fascinates me. Your information adds another side to that.
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  3157. The Dogger Bank incident 21/22 October 1904. Two Britsh fishermen were killed, Six injured. One fishing vessel sunk and five damaged. Russian losses were one sailor and One Orthodox priest on the cruiser Aurora. As none of the fishing vessels were armed, I will leave you to consider whose shells caused that.
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  3158. Now it would be considered that you were beiing turned into a drooling phycopsath'. not that Guns aren't toys.
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  3159. Intersting after the evacuation od Dunkirk in 1940, there wa a second Dunkirk, organised with ships and boats from the Cahnnel Island's to bring back troops from St Malo and the Rance region.
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  3160. In the 1980s it was Ostrich in England, they were going to be the next Super Breed. Same happned large amounts of money followed by a heavy dose of reality. Though Poultry and Pigieon fancys still carry on . My home town has it's own breed The Orpington Buff- A dark bird with black points, supposedly bred to not show the dirt asnd smoke from London.
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  3161. £24.45 delivered to UK from Amazon.
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  3162.  @dzejrid  No, such structures in Europe do have protection under law against demoloition and development
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  3163. Ouch!! That is a shame.
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  3164.  @MagiciansApprentice1  That's part of the problem . Approcah the council say 'I'd like to buy one and do this'. They start getting the vapours. Ohh! its historic.
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  3165. @Bagheera Tilbury Fort on the Thames, there was a propsal a few years back to turn one of the magazines into a Community Space, for exibitions , small shows like the local model rail club, charity events, all of which would have raised income. Great , local fire brigade said no problem ,just need to add one fire door on back wall. Enginnering, record original wall, make hole, cost was about £5,000. Enter new Curator , she got all precious about 'Disturbing the Hostorical Context, banned all Second World War events, as 'Not in keeping with the buildings time frame .?????????!!!!! Result nothing done, all us WW2 re-enactors went elsewhere, large drop in revenue. Place went downhill. These building survive because they gently adapt to needs at the time. Note: REcently featured as back drop in BBC Tv dramas, including SS/GB adaption of Len Deighton's book.
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  3166. Pickles were also served ,lemon was actually the juice of choice.
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  3167. @Alan Hardcastle Depending on the meat. Rabbit meat is alleged to lead to Protien Poisong whilst Bear liver can cause A Vitaminous.
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  3168.  @fuzzynurse  16 precisley timed shots! Thebells that acompany can be anywhere you like.
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  3169. Just a volley sight built in from the start. The SMLE up to Mk3* had seperate volley sights. So did the P14 originally.
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  3170. The Menin Gate Assocoation was formed to sound the Last Post for every name oon the gate. Apart from WW2, and the restart was the night the town was liberated by the Poles, it has bene every night. They expect to finish somewhere about 2041.
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  3171.  @misterthegeoff9767  There was what would now be called a Stop Line right across the downs. The layout is not Martello though. they range from basic blockhouse design within a ditch up to quite eleborate designs such as Halstead.
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  3172. The Finns use a blue swastika as a national marking.
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  3173. Being a Ham Operator, I'll bet he was recuited to Y Service, the service that intercepted the radio messages from the Axis that were sent to Bletchley for breacking. The secrecy about the Service is still in place. They worked out a lot of the methods still used today. They also served in Europe after D-Day,
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  3174.  @jamesgalbreath343  Yes, he was in Y Service. Why would you send Radar Operators beyond Enemy lines? The reason I know is a friend of mine had for many years a 1939 Bedford QL Radio Truck. He's a HAM operator to. He got the truck, which had been modified in 1957 as an Office Body , for the Army Pay. Corp because he wanted a Radio Truck. This was in the 1980's. At one event an elderly gent, got into the back and statrted talikng to Phil, he aske dsome detailed questions about the vehicle and Phil's skill with radios. He then said 'You know this truck shouldn't exist?' He went on to explain he had noticed various small details about the vehicle and that had been a Mobile Y Service interceptor vehiles with 30th corps. Due to ill health and age the truck has ben sold and I have lost track of it. I'm not suprosed Mr Davis never mentioned it , it was on the same sort of classification as the Atomic Bomb. I had an encounter with a Lady in a wheelchair at one event she was in her late 80's. Somethings she mentioned made me ask 'Do you know The Grove?' A RAF listening post outside Cairo in WW2. She looked totally embarreaed and said 'I'm not supposed to talk about that'. Her Daughter who was with her hadn't got a clue what we were talikng about. It's finally coming out so you will find out on line. There is also the Golden Arrow group, microwave comms, and WS10, the first 'Mobile Phone' network all involved or off shoots of Y Service, also look up 'Special Liason Groups' thia was how Ultra information from Bletchley got to the front lines. If he had worked Y Service in Britian, he wa san obvious choice for the US SLG.
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  3175. On the later ones the quick remove is deleted. The end of the lever is fixed by the screw.
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  3176. Problem being you end the World's most frequent traveller from one hemisphere to the next. Plays merry hell with some Sat Navs :-)
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  3177.  @andrewcaicedoortiz3397  Ah the question! When Greater London was formed, some bouroughs came into the remit. So it is Officially The London Bourough of Bromley. Postal wise my address is Bromley, Kent. Still no clearer is it?
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  3178. Standard target rifle type in UK.
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  3179. Very valid points.
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  3180. Your netural, reviewed scources for this claim?
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  3181. Going back over some of your older stuff. At least you know where Wales is now :-) Have a look at the Tonypandy Riots of 1910/11. My Father was a child at the time, both sides of my Family are South Wales Miners, he spat everytime Churchills name was mentioned. If you get over again, vist the Big Pit at Bleanavon, and the Iron Works next door. You will love that. One thing you do do, the comments after each episode are almost invariably intliegent , entertaing and humourous. Thanks to all for the enjoyment.
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  3182. Seems so. 🤣
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  3183.  @patrickvosloo8217  You are making a lot of assumptions about someone you don't know. As it happens my parents were peanalised by the British Establishment, my Mother was punished in school for using her native language. They were Welsh by the way.
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  3184. He was on a Dutch bus. Surley then he was with Cheeseheads?
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  3185.  @ForgottenWeapons  And in WW2 the Britsh bought thousands of Mossbergs for the same reason. I have one by the way, still shoots.
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  3186. You can't hide behind an e book. The batterys don't go flat on a printed book. You can't easily flick back and forward on an e book. its difficult to have three or four e books open at deiffernt pages on the desk. you cant have big pictures in most e books. Very importrantly! You can't go mooching around a used E book store. I'll stick to print.
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  3187.  @jakesmith1267  Then I wish you luck! :-)
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  3188. Just standard practice. Check out Elanor of Aquitaine ,about 100 years before. Thank God for the English Channel.
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  3189. Ah Ma Boy! If you don Laike it, you know where the Mail Boat is 'A
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  3190.  @awo1fman  In the RN Medical Officers (Doctors) are always officers.The Distingushing mark is a red band alongside the usual gold bands of rank.
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  3191. At tha ime they did not know the American's would commit combat troops, let alone how long it would take to get them into the frontline. The planning for 1916 began in 1915, you conjure up a major offensive overnight.
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  3192. Geistheller: Propoganda, came of age in the Great War, and they were good at it, as you stay it sticks now 100 years on.
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  3193. Revisonist? Every new piece of historical information from the stone age to now makes a chnage in how things are viewed. So it is constant revision.
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  3194. The Sherman, yes a tank. The Second one, not sure exactaly which marque it is , but! And intense legal battles over ownership and use in UK have been fought over the matter, is a SPG. (Self Propeled Gun)😁
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  3195. I wish I could buy cars they way he buys tanks! :-)
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  3196. The Cloth Hall in Iperes took till 1964 to finish rebuilding. Both the Menein Gate and the Thiepval Monument , along with CWWG Commision cemetries were respcted, though some bear battle scars from WW2.
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  3197. Back half a century ago, I was taught to shoot with single shot .22 pistols. Every action had to be done correctly, no blasting off multiple shots, take time to get the sights properly aligned. They make a lot of sense for training good habits from the start.
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  3198. By 1917 the Allied Blockade was in full effect. German civillians were starving, and of course news got to the front . Would you be happy facing the whole bloody world when your family were desperate?
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  3199. First things first young whipper snapper! Rifles , pistoils and machine guns using small bore ammunition are reffered to as Small ARms. You will find in a lot of British and Empire reports the abreviation SAA- Small Arms Ammunition. Guns are crew served Artillery, Artillery never carry colours, the Guns are the Colours and treated as such, hence such a fus sif you loose one to the enemy. Guns fire from depression - Below horizontal to plus 25* Howitzers fire from 25* to 45* elevation. Above 45* they are Mortars. If you really want to impres sthe Teachers, read JRR Tolkien Lord of the Rings, and study his service in the Great War, it will make you look at the book in a whole new light. By the way try this site http://greatwar.nl/
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  3200.  @commissarblitz9480  Pleasure but be warned! Once you start researching- There is no known cure! :-)
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  3201. Why a front locking action is faster to put rounds down range is that due to the short throw the rifle can be actioned with the gun on your shoulder. However, as Otis mentioned the sight radius on all the early marks is not the best for quick aquisition, though Mauser was the same. The Mk1 No III, in the 1920 renamed the No1 Mk111, was also used a lot in WW2, especially outside Europe, and the design keeps coming back.
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  3202.  @christianhoffmann8607  Often the simple is the answer. I did my time in the RN, and have had the privilige of talking to vetrans of the Second world war. I know in my case it was part adventure, and doing exciting things. but if someone threatens you and yours, or you truly belive that you and yours are under threat, regardles of how that threat is presented, you fight for yours because it is right.
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  3203. Bettween the Islands and France you have the Race of Alderney, leading down to the Baie De Sant Malo. Turn West and you have three thousand odd miles of Atlantic and landfall on the East Coast of America. They are still waters you treat with the Utmost Respect.
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  3204. That's reinventing the wheel. After all stripper clips worked for years, and are cheap!
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  3205. The Islands sit in the Atlantic, go West you have thre thousand od miles to the East Coast of America. Bettween the Islands and the Coetin Pennisula is the Race of Alderney, this leads down to the Baie De St Malo. You treat these waters with a great deal of respect.
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  3206. Joel Atwater  Great ! :-)
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  3207. It seems the Peaseants are not revoloting, they are to busy trying to stay alive. It is the priviliged, that have the time to start revolutions. The Peseants are just the cannon fodder.
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  3208.  @leszekkadelski9569  And at a good price! :-)
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  3209.  @leszekkadelski9569  I think that's what is being counted on :-)
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  3210. Most of the time a bayonet gets used or everything except fighting. How do you open a tin, chop firewood, clean mud out your boot cleats, dig a hole to crap in? One of the British Squaddie's complaints on issue of the Pig Sticker for the No 4 SMLE, was 'What bloody use is it? We can't even cut string with it.
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  3211. We wern't Pirates! We were and are loyal subjects of our Duke or Duchess, who also has the part time job of King or Queen of England, fighting for our Lord's intrests , for fun and profit of course.
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  3212. Don't know why Ukraine bothered to recapture Snake Island. The Russians would have sunk it in a couple of weeks.
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  3213. It's a well known story on Jersey. The Lufftwaffe were never keen on Jersey airport. Despite being one of the most advanced airfields of its day, the Lufftwaffe had a lot of accidents on the grass field. They never figured out that the grass was about 1/8 inch to short! The care and maitience was done by a local man. He'd lower the cutter a couple of turns after it had been set, then wind it up at the end. The German's did build a large wooden hangar on the East side of the airport, later used by BEA (You had traffic lights on the Airport Road to allow planes to be towed across. Then by Falle's Hire Cars up till 1980's.
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  3214. Be nice if you got your Channel Island facts straight. The pictures of bomb damage are of the German Raid on St Helier 28th June 1940
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  3215. Have you seen the size of French Flys?
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  3216. Yes, I learnt on a .22 converted Martini action as well. Still had the arrow and Victoria Cypher on it.
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  3217. @Matheus Falango The reality of war is when everything goes pear shaped, it the ones on the ground with what they can carry and the thoughts in thier head that are left to sort it out.
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  3218. Looks great, until you have to service it . The old Series 3, when it was the new Series 3, was sold that you could, and I have, strip it down and repair most things with the supplied tool kit.
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  3219. The German Siege artillery the Big Bertha's at 420mm and Skoda pices at 305 mm. In UK it is still common to hear that Paris Gun called incorrectly Big Bertha. I belive two of them ended up at Aberdeen Proving Ground, being used to test ariel bomb casings.
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  3220. In the British case, with Machine guns of beltf fed varieties, ie the Vikers in the Great War it did go full circle. The Belft Fed gun became, again, looked upon as in Support, the Lewis did the Offensive role
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  3221. What about Eben Emale? Got to be the most famous fortress in history as far as us nerds are concerned.
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  3222. ******!! *******!! *******!! I have just SEEN a number of those today ta the Kent Battle Of Britain Museum at Hawkinge!! Thought they were brens but couldn't workout the butt. The name could come from the BESA tank machine gun.
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  3223. What struck me the first time on the Somme battlefeild around Beaumont Hamel, was Christ! the area is so small , how did everyone fit? To clarify, I meant the area of No mans land at BH.
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  3224. Now a clip on the cock ups diffrent calanders have caused?
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  3225. The large round ball , black , with a burning fuse and BOMB on it you mean? That's now obsolete. What does a IED look like? 'what should be there , What shouldn't be there? is it in context? A flashing thing with wires on a bridge, shouldn't be there. Better you think I'm a fool for checking, than me proved a fool for not.
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  3226. Meant at that time. I have a set of pre war Proper Zeiss Jena prismatics and a set of graticuled Grodenstock dieristglas so do know how good they are.
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  3227. Howard: I wouldny go anywhwere near Whale Island saying the Andrew lacked gunnery practice. :-)
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  3228. Right up till the time something goes bang. Though having lived through Boston finaced terroist attacks in London, I'll admit to be biased in favour of caution.
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  3229. Please do more research into Fleming in WW2. To start with he was not a Royal Naval Officer. He was Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve . At the time the substanive rank shown in the Wavy Navy was two below. So Fleming was a Substantive Sub Lieuitenant. Basic rank for him to be on an Admiral's Staff as lot of signals were 'Officer Only',
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  3230. Lost the bloody plot I think.
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  3231. Was standard RAVC equipment, they are still in use and very effective.
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  3232. Question? The British version of the bayonets for the P14 had two vertical channels in the hilt. To distinguish it from SMLE bayonet. Does your's have that?
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  3233.  @victosaure5930  Sounds right. there should also be a manufactuers name or mark on it.
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  3234.  @victosaure5930  sounds right! May have been extra British production. should have a manufactuers name , and may have the British Broad Arrow.
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  3235. In 1922 following Independence wasn't there a Civil War? Depending on who's side you were on the rifles were a blessing or a curse.
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  3236.  @bigjuicypotato1482  The Germans were selling and giving rifles to all sides .
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  3237. The original idea was Naval, those pesky little small fast Torpedo boats. You need something handy with a high rate of fire to stop them. And to mount them a whole new classification of Warship! The Torpedo Boat Destroyer.
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  3238. Aren't there stories of WW1 SMLE carbines? Not pleasent to shoot I suspect.
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  3239. Minute man: Didn't it also have a number of railway locomotives stored in Shoebury at that time? Proving was originally done on the Woolwich Marshes. then moved to Shoebury. The dockyard was established in 1512 by Henry Viii the Gun wharf a few years late rand became the Royal Arsenal in 1805 .
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  3240. Your welcome. Thnaks.
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  3241. No Name according to the magic box calculator there are 907decimal 1847 kilos to 2000 lbs weight.
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  3242. ME WANT! OK you think you have right of way? Wrong buddy , very wrong! Very clever simple system.
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  3243. Yes, It's called a Creeping Barrage. Problems ocur when the ground is so wet you can't move the guns, The enemy is also throwing stuff back at you, and in the case of the British in 1915, you don't have enough shells to chuck about at the enemy anyway.
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  3244. So yet again 'We Sail! God ,weather and tide permitting. :-)
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  3245. Got to be asked 'Did I fire 99 or 100? Do you feel lucky? (I'll fetch my coat)
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  3246. That would have been the Krupp Big Bertha . There wre also a number of 305mm Skoda heavy howitzers used.
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  3247. My Boss in England has a passion for Malta Buses, he has two of them , one started life as 1939 Beford QL truck.
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  3248. What position are you in the team ? The Plumber :-)
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  3249. Daveid Pliskin  https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-sound-of-a-wars-end-visualized-1691328753
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  3250. Badlaama Urukehu  Unfortunatley the same old faces in same old places.
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  3251. Except, be honest, brave loyal etc, and as thick as a plank, not to mention capable of embarrassing you in so many intresting ways! Got to love 'em.
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  3252. Aah, pollution in th city. In 1850's TThe Times London, AKA The Thunderer proclaimed. If nothing is done about pollution by 1953 Lodon will be tweleve feet deep in horse droppings!' and we complain about the air now!! ;_)
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  3253. Should have it there. Who made it? There were local variations.
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  3254.  @AtheistOrphan  As old as the hills mate :-)
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  3255. There have ben a few Sawn Off SMLE, mostly feild adaptions from rifles that were otherwise unsevicable. Tunnellers used a few in the Great War. A friend in Belgium lit a bonfire in his feild one night in celebration of the end of an event. We were all standing around toasting succes, when all hell broke loose , bangs and flashes and whining bullets , we all hit the ground. The fire on later examniation was found to have been started over what was left of a SMLE.
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  3256. Cono Feroz  Bear in mind 100 years has passed and the landscape is a lot diffrent now.
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  3257. If your enemy is willing to die for thier cause. Be happy to assist them.
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  3258. They weree using S&W Revolvers, after the Webleys finally wore out. Now on Glock self loaders and H&K's.
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  3259. The Carechter was invented by E W Hornung, brother in law of Conan Doyle. Raphels, Gentleman Thief, served in the British Army in the First south African War. Worth a read good stories.
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  3260. He's still Butchering Oriemtated. Either that or Ian, don'tyou think this hunting is going a liiitle to far?
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  3261. That gun is so quiet! Is it suppresed?
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  3262. Courage has a cost.
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  3263. The Britsh twenty five pounder was 6 to 8 rounds per minute sustained, ten rounds per minute for three minutes emergency rate. Though as an old gunner said to me 'When your in North Africa and a load of Panzers are bearing down , those numbers go out the bleeding window'.
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  3264. When your on the incoming side, rate of fire is a technical irrelevance, but in the case of Denmark, whose King wanted them with a passion, his Chancellor said No, at the rate of fire and ammo cost the country would be bankrupt in half an hour.
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  3265. A Classic result of an Elephant, a Mouse to Military Specification. To be honest , you don't need a stealth helicopter, the trees and ground scatter hide you very effectivley. The things you need are quietness and speed.
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  3266. The Garands Ping, is just that a hard sharp sound, which our ears can pin point . The soft Phut of the H&K makes it difficult to distingush were the fire is coming from. Frequency matters as sound is just a pressure wave.
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  3267. Another Great War film worthy of comment. The Australian film, Benath Hill 60.
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  3268.  @tonywhite2596  There are now controls. I'm on a stuf called Adulimumab. A mono clonal antibody. Inject twice month, scale free. Mind you, in UK we have the National Health Service thankfully. It costs about £740 a shot.
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  3269. Now we just lump such stories unde rthe heading 'Media'.
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  3270. My parents were from Coal Mining families in the South Wales Valleys. Every time a coal fire spat both of them said 'A miner has Died'.
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  3271. Wasn't it Churchill and Nancy Mitford- Mitford said 'If you were a dog I'd poision you '. He replied Madam if i was your dog I'd take it'.
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  3272.  @johnallen7807  Just checked it was Lady Astor he said it to apprently.
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  3273. Feel sorry for the people he put in danger because of his stupidity.
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  3274. You are so right! Everyone of those pices has a story!! And as Mark woul dsay 'That's why you do the maintanice!'
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  3275. If you mean BRIXMIS, the aggrement was they were never armed from day one.
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  3276. Problem is it's only open a few times a year. Let's start the Freind's of Forgotten Weapons UK and organise a trip? That way you get a guided group tour, and a lot of fun and conversation and arguments,
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  3277. Othias is,(Thankfully) would you rather have some overhyped Celebrity with the knowledg of a peanut, 'Presenting!' something they have * all practical knowledge or interst, or a genuine set of people who are doing what they do for those who care about the subject? Though Crozier deserves his chance! All a secret Guinea pig conspiracy really! ( I read it on the internet must be true!)
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  3278. And stupidly, in those colours if you lugged it around in Britiain, due to our stupid Violent Crime Reduction Act. This would be taken to be a toy.
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  3279. Also you had the French, in overall command, pressuring the British to attack and take the prssure off them 100% hind sight is a luxury. There you are with a ton of information coming in, often garbaled, you are under pressure from your own side, possibly you loathe the people your supposed to be working with, now make a cool calm decision. Then transmit it to the ones who have to carry out, who have thier own problems, and the Enemy just won't co-operate. Welcome to the Planning Staff.
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  3280. Calvados, Mon V, Calvados!
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  3281. Ah Mon V! The French are still sulking over 1781, 'A.
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  3282. Meriono Wool AKA The Golden Fleece. Ha sthe intresting property that the staple, (Fibre), of the wool is so fine you cannnot actually feel it. also retains about 80% of its insulation value when wet.
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  3283. Lance I know you are American, but IBM and others built on the work of a working man, that of a British GPO (Genral Post Office) enginner who built the first 'Supercomputer' Collossus. Due to use of Collosus to breack the German Lorenz , not ENIGMA, cypher in WW2 , the man never recived the honours he is due. His name- Tommy Flowers. Or, that the William's Tube the first computer memory storage was developed at Manchester University UK.
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  3284.    Actually THG might look at an episode on Tiger Bay. To make amends
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  3285.  @freespeech8030  Don't try saying that in South Wales! The Tonypandy Riots of 1910. My Farther was a child at the time. The family is South Wales miners on both sides. He spat when he heard Churchill's name.
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  3286. This sort of thing does happen in England. Grandad's loft produces.... The answer here is contact either a registered Gun Dealer or the Police. They do understand and you will not get into trouble.
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  3287. Ever tried getting payment out of any Goverment? :-)
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  3288. Dragging back into the memory, the Indian guns used a diffrent bedding pattern to the English ones.
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  3289. It would work like an expensive one at two thousands bucks. Russian weapons have the money spent where it is needed. I have Vostocks and Baikals , rifles and shotguns, cheap to buy, great to shoot and hard to breack.
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  3290.  @davidbrennan660  Spoiler !! The Emu's won! :-)
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  3291. Yes, been done for decades, also aero engines. Some new ideas please?
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  3292.  Min Tin  When the wole world is against you, don't fight fair, you'll be the only one stupid enough to be doing so. SIGINT started the first time someone used symbols to pass a messeage, the other side wanted to know what it said.
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  3293. there is some evidence of feathers on large dinasouars. Think of The Mc Donald's Party size! Drumsticks! Nah, maybe not a good idea.
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  3294. Southend? Resort? 🤣🤣
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  3295. Why not just , as in UK, if you are stopped at any time, for a moving traffic offence, you are required to give a breath sample. Failure to do so is an offence. Done by a breath test
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  3296. Interesting cylinder movement, half cycle on recoil second half as it goes back in battery. That must have been a job to get correct.
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  3297. More please Ian! Facsinating and educational.
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  3298. Actually , I learnt to shoot using a Browning Hi Power, that was made in FN Belgium, and had Waffen SS markings.
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  3299. The gun is in a place that was occupied. A lot of equipment you'd droll over was liberated, including two three wheel Enigma machines.
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  3300.  @marshaul  Th problem is you enginner it, then Finace goes 'Who will buy it?' How do we get those with most money, you have to attach some half wit celebrity with no tech knowledge to the project so we can use the name. The result is the death of the KISS principle. Design over operation. Make it flashy, dosen't matter if it works , just make it flashy.
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  3301. In London it is Salmon that supposedly could only be fed to Apprentices three times a week, mind you, Oysters were considerd poor mans food. In Ireleand I have still heard shell fish reffered to as Famine Food.
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  3302. There are 16 cannon blasts in the 1812, so a very quick reload needed, AH! We have the speed loader!
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  3303. Wraith is supposed to be Scottish, origin unkown acording to the Cambridge Dictionary.
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  3304.  keith moore  Which one? :-) Historically the name Crozier was the family name of a of band of 16th C Anglo Scottish Border Reivers. A right bunch of thiveing , nasty .......
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  3305.  @509Gman  Wish ill on that Crozier? Oh nasty.
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  3306. Apart as mentioned becuse of the metal's low radioactivity. The Small Arms collected from the ships are in the Musuem of Naval Gunfire at Portsmouth. All in perfet condition.what should be added is that Germany was using naval provoccation, in the Morroco incidents with the French. And who won Jutland? Britiain lost more ships, but the High Seas fleet never sailed again. Pick you side and argue.
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  3307.  @gavinmclaren9416  Not to mention the way Beatty handled his ships. Though the importnat point was the Royal Navy still had a viable fleet at the end of the day.
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  3308. Vice Admiril Friedrich Huffmier, ardent NAZI appointed in late 1944 as Hitler considered the previous commander Von Schemttow wa sto soft on civillians. He'd previously commanded Scharnhorst in Operation Cerberus.
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  3309. They were? Really? Ouch! Not so much scraping the bottom of the barrel as going through the bottom. Never seen them mentioned though.
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  3310. What! You want sanity? From the Putin regime?
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  3311. What do you like to shoot? For me .22 is easy to find a place to shoot, so I go for military training rifles in.22 , they are also quite cheap to get so you don't worry about shooting them.
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  3312. Work at Height: Any distance from which a fall could cause injury. That thing is about 30 feet of the ground. That qualifies.
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  3313. What makes you think we have swopped to Metric now?
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  3314. Did happen. A similar gun was fitted to the Royal Navy's first turret ship, HMS Thunderer. A gun was double shotted and blew up killing 36 men.
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  3315. Robert: Not to doubt you. The Webley style didn't change that much throughout production so easy to mix up. The .38/200 became standard British Army pistol calibre , and police use throughout the Commonwealth post Great War. The resoning being .455 was a brute to shoot, and the pistol was to big. This resulted in the Webley MkIV The Royal Amoury at Enfeild copied Webley's design so closley that the company sued for patent infringment, and those two are often confused. The cylindeer removal looses the quick relaease action and is now held by screw and washer at the end. I'm looking at one now as I write this.
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  3316. Pleasure, proves you right and adds to the story. Those pistols were in Police use well into the 1970's in UK. Classic pistol of the old Black and White 1950's British Films,
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  3317. We were defending our Dukes intrests! (For fun and profit)
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  3318. Though they are known in Britsh culture as 'Poppy Sellers' for the Royal British Legion.
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  3319. Could be, with NIGHT being an image intensifier, they were very popular around that time.
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  3320.  @keithskelhorne3993  LMAO.
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  3321. At this time they didn't know what a SMG was.
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  3322. two complimentary channesl. For an overall intrest watch Ian, for in depth specific period pices, Othais and Mae. For fun and practical knowledge Mark! Who needs Netflix or TV?
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  3323. Daft thing is in UK this would have to be registered as a firearm. The maximum power for an unlicensed air rifle is 12 pound /foot.
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  3324. Just Exptionally Expensive Parts- The best 4x4 around now are the Dacia Duster and the Skoda Yeti, cheap effecient and go where you want when you want over whtever you want.
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  3325. No it's a relief.
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  3326. A lot of surplus American MRE (AKA politley as Meals Rejected by Everyone) came on the European market a few years back. The large tins of cakes were very good though. Everyone had a small bottle of Tobasco Sauce, if all else failed.
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  3327. Stress, genuine stress at work, can be life changing. I was in a safety critical industry, and the stress ended up with me off work for a year, and I will have to take medication for the rest of life. I was putting people at risk, but the feeling I had was I WILL do the job! Regardless! Eventually i woke up to it. Afterwards others said to me 'We thought you were stressed , but didn't want to say anything'. For the love of all if you think a work colleage is under stress, talk to them! Or go to a manager! You may save peoples lives. Now I train people for safety critical work, and always emphasis my case as an example.
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  3328. If there was a .22 LR version, that could be owned in UK. (Please!)
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  3329. Get the alignment of the bayonet lug wrong. Ready , FIRE! Whoops!
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  3330. We wernt Pirates! We were loyal subjects defending the intrests of our Duke (For fun and profit)
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  3331. A UK Imperial yard is 36 inches. A meter is 39,36 inches. Any Balasticions out there? The L8 became the Enfield Enforcer. Some changes to woodwork and a Police Sniping system.
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  3332. No end of fun, mooching about in second hand book shops.
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  3333. A lot of voltage + Hydraulic oil used to move things
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  3334.  @MrDXRamirez  Hopefullly a sensible one.
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  3335. Ian, in all this you have forgotten one .22 traing rifle used in great numbers by the British military. The Mossberg Mb42a
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  3336. Duc De Normandie is still the oldest title attached to the English Crown. And still hold the Chgannel Islands under that title.
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  3337.  @charlesm127  Try these Leominister- Trottescliffe- and to really confuse the issue- Kineton- same spelling for two places, pronunced diffrently. 😁
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  3338. try C J Sansom's Shardlake series, you will find it fascinating.
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  3339. Hi Point engineer where it needed. The guns put rounds down the barrel.
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  3340. The main road at the Fort is called Penny Way after William Penny. At one stage the place was a Boy Scout camp.
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  3341. Part of the reason for the wieght. Now hold at arms legth and take ten shots over a course of ten minutes.
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  3342. No, trade it for a Cobray Terminator, you know it makes sense.
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  3343. But most paintings still show Ensigns streaming backwards, hey folks ! On a sailing ship the wind normally comes from behind, so which way will the rag blow?
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  3344. The other responsobility is the International commitment to SOLAS- Saftey Of Life At sea.
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  3345.  @SteamCrane  Ideal way to get a bit of peace. Take a grease gun m, and tell everyone 'Go away I'm busy'. Then specd an hour or so 'Just Checking'. The places mine hve opned to me , and the people I've met through them, well worth the time and effort.
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  3346.  @zelpyzelp  I never suggested that.
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  3347.  @zelpyzelp  I'd like to see modern vehicles running in 77 years. Buy a modern car and list the faults. You have your view, I have mine.
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  3348. That's to keep us Jersey Crapaud's out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXQdDmD9AcA
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  3349.  @donttalkcrap  You are a case of mind over matter, I don't mind you don't matter.
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  3350.  @warbler1984  To your valid point Colm. The people Ireland, other than the North, were fighting for freedom through the Ballot Box. Given the Great War put a whole skew on things it may well have lead to an all Ireland settelment. Though if you going to fight at least be old enough to make an informed decision.
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  3351. Britain did consider the Winchester P14 to be the cream of the crop. As I'm lucky enough to have one, I won't argue. Not really suprising as Winchester had the production line, and good reputation, take the design on and develop.
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  3352. I have one of the orginal SMLE trails rifles that was rebarreled for just the same purpose. Finally pinned down what is was thanks to Ian.
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  3353.  @tomheptinstall  Are if not re proofed.
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  3354. Question being , what is Bugs going to arm himself with to come after Ian?
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  3355. There were 110lb RBL Rifled Brech Loaders on HMS Warrior and other fortifications. Coal house Fort down from Tilbury had 9.2 inch RBL's. The guns were not that good Obduration problems, espcially in enclosed Caponas, so were retro fiteed with RML.
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  3356.  @Sacto1654  "The Tudor was built like a battleship. It was noisy, I had no confidence in its engines and its systems were hopeless. The Americans were fifty years ahead of us in systems engineering. All the hydraulics, the air conditioning equipment and the recircling [sic] fans were crammed together underneath the floor without any thought. There were fuel-burning heaters that would never work; we had the floorboards up in flight again and again. Gordon Stone, BSAA Chief Pilot.
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  3357. Mentioning Coastal Motor Boats, (CMB) the forerunner of the Motor Torpedo Boat. You may well find this intresting https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=cmb+russia+agar
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  3358. There was a lot of political backroom arguments at the time over the 'e'. In English the word is Concord-Aggrement, harmony. In French it means the same, but! is spelt with the 'e'. That particular point lead to a lot of disharmony😁
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  3359. Especially as she's talking about the Crabs! The Nuclear Detterent is the Andrew's job!
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  3360.  @davethorstry6700  first thing in fight. Don't fight fair, you will be the only one stupid enough to do so.
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  3361.  @hisnibs1121  There is a better on. A Doctor's Occupation by John Lewis. He live dthrough the Occupation , not some academic with smug ideas.
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  3362. Would be nice if you showed the groups. After all any firearm is only there to put the projectile down range.
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  3363. As you say Paul, considering the mortar and rifle grenade had already proved adequate , cheap , and easy to manouvere in most practical Infantary roles. As for the gun keepeing up with an advance, I doubt it. How many men would it take to drag it, pack animals or motor transport defeat the object of a quick easy movement and would be hindered by any sort of obsticale.
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  3364. There is a Classic Irishism' Well, I wouldn't start from here'.
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  3365. Except THG checks his facts. Felton makes some blinding errors.
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  3366. Oh hells Bells! With the amount of Bul*hit and B*llocks posted on you tube with half wits (Probvaly being genrous on IQ level there) doing stupid dangerous things with vehicles and chemicals, and they winge about a genuine educational channel? The way to prevent acidents with firearms and atrocitys is to educate. I am in the UK were ownership of firearms is a privilige not a right, and I respect and work hard to keep that privilige. However I and all UK gun owners are and have been subject to whims of media and poloticians, they know where to find us and know we are law abiding, otherwise we wouldn't have the firearms. Illigal firearms are the problem. The only rescourse open to us is reasoned argument, albeit half the people we are trying to talk to are unreasonable, but why should we lower ourselves to thier level?
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  3367. Firearms made in Britian have had to be proof marked since 1637. In 19813 the Gun Barrel Proof Act took this from a Royal Warrant to Staute legislation. Then in 1855 the act was again ammended to include any firearm , sold , traded or given in the UK, regardless of manufacturer. Which is the case today. Originally the intention was to stop the sale of inferior foriegn firearms.There are two proof houses. London and Birmingham. The marks will tell you where and when it was proofed. Be intresting to see them. If London marks, then could have been Colt, London manufactuer. Birmingham would suggest import,or possible licence built by a British company. Futher as each chamber of the cylinder is a 'Pressure Bearing ' part, each will have its individual proofmarks.
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  3368.  @charlesmichaels6648  Yes, the main salesmen were Marconi and the German Telefunken. I'll not get into the argument 'Who invented Wireless Telegraphy' , lifes to short. But Marconi took a lot of other peoples ideas and sold a Package, equipment, training, and maintinece. In civillian ships it was a leasing system, you went to Marconi's, they gave you a full set of equipment plus the operators. You paid for the system , plus' Messages at normal call rate' :-) When I were lad! There was an old guy, probably in his late 80's - He had been a Marconi Operator and swore WT was to save lives. As I lived on the coast and was always in and out of boats, as soon as he thought any of us were old enough he would teach us how to make an SOS call. I was about 9 or 10 at the time.
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  3369. And you need a Southern Hemisphere compass. Where I live near Greenwhich, I can cross the 0 meridian a dozen times a day. One shop in Greenwhich has half in the west and half in the East.
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  3370. Funny how Poloticians appeal that they are With the People! Right up until the minute after the votes are counted and they are on the gravy train.
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  3371. Fanatisisim and Eugenics Mk 1. So religions were tearing themselves and other groups apart from the word go. Roll on universal athiesim.
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  3372. Eeleanor-of-aquitaine try this lady.
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  3373.  @ForgottenWeapons  Hides embarresment, catches tears and muffles explietives?
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  3374.  @samcoupland  I agree,
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  3375. Cartridge dosen't know how old it is. Stills puts lead down range when you want where you want. Look at .22 rimfire the oldest and still must be the most used.
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  3376.  morton christie  They will still be shooting somewhere.
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  3377. You say from scratch, but did you plant and grow the wheat, mill it to flour Etc. Etc. Modern life depends on the avilability of prepared food stuffs.
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  3378.  @thetowndrunk988  No you don't ,you have no knowledge how the grain was grown or proccesed, or any other ingredient. What addatives have been put in, how they were manufactured. What I'm pointing out is like it or not, modern society couldn't exist with out commercially processed food.
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  3379.  @thetowndrunk988  Never said anything about a high speed life. If you have the time to grow all your own food go for it.
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  3380.  @thetowndrunk988  Exactaly, a basis of settled society is some produce the food and others can then develop tools , art, music. The downside is it does lead to vunerabilities in society. But I wouldstill stay you are starting with a seperate pile of ingredients, bought or aquired as individual componets,where as if you buy a Cake mix, your getting it in a single use kit. No difference.
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  3381. I remember watching a black and white film on Hurricane Hunters, the old Constellations, cracking film . Anyone know what it was called?
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  3382. Hurricanes are notorious in UK for the October 1987 Great Storm. A well loved BBC Weather man Micheal Fish made the statement on the lunchtime weather broadcast 'Earlier today a woman phoned the BBC asking about a hurricane. Don't worry '. OOps! Wrong in a very big way :-) Are you familiar with Robert Fitzroy? Captain of HMS Beagle and pionner Meterologist? We also has a Hercules W Mk2 XV208 AKA Snoopy ,now sadly retired.
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  3383.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  Could have been Slatterys Hurricane. Now I'm going to spend an evening watching it to see if it is. :-)
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  3384. I know you have an intrest insmall Naval Vessels in the Pacific in WW2. Have you heard ofthe action of HMIS (His Majastys Indian Ship) Bengaland the accompaniying Diutch Tanker Ondina,on November 11th 1942? It does deserve to be remebered.
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  3385.  @kreeperface397  Similar, though not as damming critisim, of 'Co-Operation' were and are still be raised about the States (Goverments) and Baillifs of the Channel Islands.The only British ,UK, territory Occupied by the Nazi Regime. As in the current Covid crisis, I'm glad I don't have to make the decisions, there will always be someone to snipe at you. This does not dismiss your view. My French is not good enough to read scource info, so I appreciate your points.
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  3386. Look up Western Approches Tactical school. Where an experienced Submariner RN Captain didn't belive they were of any use. He was invited to join a wargame, and got beaten three times, once driven off , two sunk. He demanded to know who his opponet was. They introduced him to an 18 year old girl. After that he was great supporter.
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  3387. Well they dont like the idea of any freedom, a sthe current attitude to Hink Kong, despite International Treatys shows.
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  3388. Did you say PG17 at the beggining?
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  3389.  @wanemergency3591  Apologies.
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  3390. MRE''s are known Meals Ready to eat, only by US Goverment. Everyone one else has diffrent names. Meals Rejected by Everyone is a polite one. :-) An English company Caley's produce a Marching Chocalate, originally recipe was from the Great War. The other favoured treat is Kendal Mint Cake, nearly pure Glucose.
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  3391. Mortars are designed to fire at a trajectory of +45 degrees. So no carriage is viable, therefore you have a Base Plate , direct contact with surface to absorb recoil. Two Bomb Ketchs, which wer ethe last of there type, had second very famous carrers , speciffically because of thier heavy build, they wer eused for polar exploration HMS Erebus and HMS Terror.
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  3392. You realaise that a lot of the rest of the World is looking at this current US farce agast. Dosen't know wether to laugh or cry. You know the problem with Democracy? You don't always get the answer you particullaly want.
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  3393.  @clivecowlard7098  Thank you,never knew that.
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  3394.  @Seelenschmiede  Oh stuff does fall of fthings, but you better have a damm good excuse!:-)
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  3395. Example at Portsmouth Submarine Museum.
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  3396. To which I take grave exception! We were not Pirates! We were and are loyal subjects of our Duke, who also goes by the title of King or Queen of England, fighting for the intrests of our Lord (For fun and profit of course)
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  3397. My Mother isnsited that I , her son, learn to cook. Has stood me in good stead over the years. Nothing fancy , but I can feed myself, and when I get time I find it relaxing.
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  3398. Milk should go in first! If you intend to adulterate good tea with milk anyway (SUGAR!! Food of the Devil), The original idea was the china used in tea cups was subjet to thermal shock and cracked. So the milk cooled it. That's why you Warm the Pot. A friend of mine on his first day as an Aprentice, decided to clean all his workmates Tea Mugs of the thick dark residue. He was made to stand outside in the rain for an hour! You must gently breack in your favourite mug.
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  3399. So , who , what , where , when and for God's sake WHY? Ian don't know. Neither did the person by the look of it. Scary thoigh there might be 9 more of them about.
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  3400. A Royal Marine requires, the Speed of Racehorse, The Strength of Cart horse and the brains of a Rocking Horse! Give a Royal Marine an anvil and a feather, he'll breack the anvile with the feather. To any ex Bottioes, I was in the Andrew , live with it!
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  3401. Just as long as the English rememr who owns them. Ca Va Mon V!
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  3402. Oh Boy! Ian shooting it and Mark fixing it? Two good vidioes on the way then.
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  3403. The London Fire Brigade, also known as London Fire Rescue Service has many links with the Royal Navy and Port of London. Sailors were considered as prime recruits, being stong fit and able to operate equipment at height from experience of rigged sailing ships. The use of Watches, to describe the crews and coulours to distingush them, also slang such as Nutty, to describe sweets and choclate. The Metroploitian Police force first use of Firearms is recorded at Keston Mark , on the South East Edge of London, where a Constable fired over the roof of a local pub, to try and wake the occupants as there was a fire. A pub survived on the site up to about twenty years ago, Brave men and women all, who put themsselves at risk for others.
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  3404. Whos that knocking at the door? Now chidren pay attention to the blackboard. This will be intresting.
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  3405. The Island's were declared 'Open'
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  3406. What have you got against the STEN? $5000 to throw a 9 mm down range, against a dollar or so to do the same thing. As you said the Furrer is overcomplicated and liable to jam in feild conditions. The STEN is simple and cheap and works. There were and are a lot more people copying the STEN than the Furrer
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  3407. The first pilot hijacked was Byron Richards in 1931, By chance , he was also the first pilot hijacked twice. I did shoot some Sky Marshall loads some years back. The projectile was like a squishy gum drop. Not a lot of pentration but driven by a part load .38 at fifteen feet, it would knock a steel plate over.
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  3408. Stength of a light bulb?:
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  3409. Officer is wrongly dressed for 1916! It was only in 1917 that the choice of officers to wear rank on sleeves or shoulders was granted. Before that the rank was denoted on the sleeve.
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  3410. Except whn you try to educate people on the real Great War. It's a fictioonal beloody comedy show!
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  3411. So, I'm in the Musuem of the WILD WEST, USA-There are lots of American guns, -And I just happned to find a French one. Yeah , OK mate. :-) Though depending on the balance, the bayonet on the musketon, actually replaces the cavalary lance.
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  3412.  @ianb4801  A number of British servicemen in both wars, and US were executed, by firing squad or hanging for crimes that would have at the time had the death penalty under civil law. In Morant and the other two's case, it was as you say, Abuse of Process. Edward Witton's book , published following his pardon, exposed the matter. Even with attitudes at the time it was considered a total scandal.
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  3413.  @HalfLife-hq8eu  No you can own firearms in UK. But thye have to be licsenced. Not that difficult to own a shotgun, but rifled barrels you need to show Good Reason, easy way , join a shooting club.
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  3414.  @mattandrews8528  6lb foot for an air pistol. Below 12 lbft for an air rifle. Above thos efirgures they are Section 1 FAC.
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  3415. So the old question: Which comes first ammunition or the gun?
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  3416. So ,:-) Brains trust, who then decides the rounds ballistic properties?
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  3417.  @highpath4776  Our Duc should never have bothered with 1066, life may well ahve been simpler.
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  3418. I'll bet the troops just loved the rifle, up a mountain at midnight in winter. First thought on that dust cover is an ideal way to shove muck into the acton .
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  3419. No country is going to conscript all the males and use them in human wave attacks? Er, the Ukranian's may beg to differ!
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  3420. On the other hand in a two way range, do you care ? As long as you are dissuading the other side that's what matters. Given the mindset (Still) of Cavalary, you are the upper echelon and an aristcratic officer class, most of them would have been on the White side. St Petersburg at the time wa sdefinitly Red. Any long arm on a horse is usless anyway, Cavalary weapons were sabre and lance. Old joke: Waht do you calll Cavalary that have lost thier horses? Infantary.
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  3421. RFC parachutes. Bull%%T. One the aircraft couldn't carry the extra weight. Two there was no reliable parachutes. No Russian victories? So what about, The Battle of Galacia, Operation Sarikamisy, the Ekzurum offensive and the Barislov Offensive? at least do some basic research.
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  3422. Mostly now to short.
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  3423. Ha-Ha sunken ditch used to provide a vertical barrier whilst not obstructing the view. The whole area ids dotted with various fortifications, was know at one time as Vaubin's Playground.
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  3424. paul manson  Be my guest:-) An experssion that Can be used in company, that's the beauty of it!
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  3425. fazole  Ddin't know the economic side of it, thanks for telling me. Definitly adds another quirk to the story.
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  3426. Translation 20 Shillings sign/- make one pound £ so 105?- is £1 5?- or 1 1/4 pounds Sterling 115/- is £1 15 /- or 1 3/4 pounds Sterling . So by comparision with the day, about a months to two months wages.
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  3427. But he didn't know it wasn't go to work! The problems came when he tried to find out.
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  3428. Took till 1939 for the SMLE to get rear mounted apature sights in the No4. Even then it wa smainly a European Front weapon. If you look at pictures from The Midle and Far East thetres, still the N1 Mk3 . That's what the Arsenals in Australia and India were producing. The loss of these rifles following Dunkirk happned at about the time the No4 was to be adopted so they were built as replacements. Any No1 left in inventory were still used for Home Gaurd and second line though.
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  3429. So there we was me heartys! I wuz in the fighting top with me Nock Volley gun, them dam Colonials has they's Chambers ! And we faced each other nose to nose and fired! Both bloody boats fell over!
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  3430.  @skepticalbadger  What's a K amongst friends? :-) Done
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  3431. You know , the rest the world does wonder when a machine gun is described as 'Fun' .
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  3432. Mmost gun makers are wary. Chapuis, we Know we are good! Come and let us prove it to you!
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  3433. How do you know the power lines are stilll not live? Add water is not a good way to find out.
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  3434.  @pohakumana  There is a phenomon caled ARC. You don't have to go all the ways to the line ,. The electricity will come to you.
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  3435.  @Nightcrawlerfive  Worth reading up on why and how the US decleared war in 1917. The story has spys, femme fetales, even pirates!
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  3436. Watch the Australian film Beneath Hill 60, it's the best Great War movie I know. Only trouble is that in 90 minutes the film can't go into depth, but it will shake you up.
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  3437. Good call.
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  3438.  @thenobleamerican7872  Acording to our experts if your 6 foot and over 12 stone, , thats about 168 lb , your obese! So most UK health freacks need weight in the pockets to stop from blowing away in a strong breeze.
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  3439. Stricly speacking the Flaklands are a protectarte , the Channel Islands are fully fledged Bailiwicks, able to raise thier own taxation and pass laws, an as an aside own the rest of the United Kingdom. The Lieutenat Governor is the Representative of the Monarch , the Head of State in Jersey is the Bailliff. In the Sates Chamber , which has it's own Mace like Westminster and the grant of Royal Seal the LG sits below the Bailliff. The Reigning Monarch is supreme.
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  3440. No HAN-son cabs. a two wheeled horse drawn veichle to patent by a Mr Hanson. Though in London associated with being drawn by a single Hackney horse. 😁
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  3441. The English Description of the Guilded Age would be ; Fur coat, no drawers. :-)
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  3442. The Western World is jumping up and down about recycling, yet constantly making demands on such things as air quality that requires we all buy new gadgets. Dosen't make any sense at all. I run two 75 year old Dodge trucks in UK, they owe nothing to the enviroment! The CO2 debt was paid off years ago, and , I am able to repair them. In London thanks to political demands Low Emission, from engine exhaust, buses are now the norm. Problem is software failures are leading to accidents as the driver has no mechanical control over the transmissions and braking system, all electronic. Answer blame the driver with a new piece of Bu88shit called 'Pedal Confusion'. Must be the drivers fault they pushed the wrong pedal. Funny? Never been a problem up to now.
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  3443. Captain Charles Fryatt became a national hero after the German's executed him for attempting to ram a U Boat in 1915.
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  3444. When Hadrian's Wall came down?
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  3445.  @tommy-er6hh  Notonly parachutes. Silk Escape maps. I know of one , it is about A4 size and will wrap to the size of a postage stamp.
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  3446. First question with EX advisers, what have they got to gain? There will be a lot of thinking in Russia , Putin's got's to go! How can I use this to my advantage?
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  3447. Further to this there is a wartime propoganda film Target For Tonight, Wellington bombers though, showingthe use of flare guns, just bog standard type.
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  3448. Depends wether he wants to sell it. We all know people who say its For Sale, then quote a ludicrous priceand refuse to drop. Maybe its his thing.
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  3449.  @allanbland5300  Oh yes! Safety First!
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  3450. Oh Lord ! Ian's on the Porridge Guns! 🦕( Royal Navy slang for Bagpipes) Please Ian, the Tank use is a Chestnut. Double Action only became the doctrine, no real liink.
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  3451. Absolutley correct Sir! After the Blenders have worked long and hard to make the perfect belnd, then YOU ADULTERATE it with milk! Let alone Sugar. Incedentally I got that habit from my Farthe, who was from a Welsh Mining family. Cold tea was taken down the mine in bottles, the milk in that state, A spoilt the taste, and B was to expensive.
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  3452.  @maynardcarmer3148  Thousands got converted to .22 rimfire as training rifles, in regular use after 100 years.
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  3453. Ian, wasn't the Lewis drum later used on the Vicker's K gun?
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  3454.  @alun7006  Soon to be sold out? :-)
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  3455. So you don't want Internet, easy communication and such like? Oh by the way, global warming? That was confiremd by sattillite s.
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  3456. There are a couple of kids birthday candles knocking about in the bottom of my range bag. They are actually very useful.
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  3457. A lot of these actions were stuck on .22 barrels and served for many years as target cadet rifles.
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  3458. Or France if he didn't like the Germans, still.
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  3459. Something to chuck into the conversation the next time the pests are on the doorstep. :-)
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  3460.  Aussie Cockatoo  What's the details?
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  3461. In this case the Original Jersey was involved.
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  3462. Try shooting from a mobile vehicle which has total autonmus control , with no stabilisation. To hit the sky is a miracle.
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  3463. What do you mean KIDS? I'm 64 and was fussing about with them asking all sorts of silly questions :-) Mary Rose musuem does the same. The new audio visuals are superb as well, they bring her to life.
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  3464.  @sixstringedthing  The London Musuems wer eestablished and chartered as Free Institutions speciffically to encourage the Great Unwashed to come in and be educated.
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  3465.  @englishoakrecruit  I agree, the kids learn from books and internet and vidio games, but for them to actually feel the wieght, and the smell , brings it home.
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  3466.  @JonathanFergusonRoyalArmouries  As long as the Coperate Sponsor isn't holding a very posh wine and cheese party in the Venue. then the public are definitly not wanted.
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  3467.  @TheAmazingAnonymator  I know :-) But the fascination of learning should never end. And a good musuem is a place of wonder. I particulally like the Wallace Collection in London, if you have never been there the Weapons Gallery is something to droll over, take a bucket, you will need it. The rest of the place is equally enchanting.
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  3468.  @michelguevara151  I know, I first went for the guns, then ended up like a kid in sweet shop. What's behind this cover? :-)
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  3469. Wonder how many gunners were wounded in the Derrier becasue of that?
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  3470. Chris: Point taken.
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  3471. Heading from Cherbourg to Jersey. If he'd got disorintated and ended up on a reciprocal course, you'd end up in the Lewes area.
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  3472. You said yourself, to far from London.
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  3473. Like all these Americans who insist of putting some other ancsertry before American?
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  3474.  @clumsycommissar5260  In my day we called it cowboys and Indians (Or Gang Warfare)
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  3475. But Douamont was part of a layered defence, so whilist it fell and one other, the rest held.
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  3476. If 12 rounds rapid of buckshot, and the target is still standing. Sod reloading! Run Away!
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  3477. Always assume your cable will breack! Winches take no prisoners.
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  3478.  @chase7143  Pads on steel cables are just another piece of flying debriy.
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  3479.  @chase7143  Better still,stand well back metal dosen't fee lpain and is easier to fix. I do wonder why more people don't use a remote control? Amongst other things you have it , no one else can operate the winch.
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  3480.  @Alpostpone  It is a laugh to see it at the shows. Why build it? Why not?
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  3481. A britsh 18ib shell cost £6 at the time a 60lb Howitzer shell £36 . Pay of a British Private soldier about 1/6 a day or just over 1/20 of pound sterling.
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  3482. Good or bad plans , nobody got a chance to find out what Ferdinad would do because a sixteen year old radicalised hot head. The result a hundred years later, a lot of Youtube channels and not a lot of diffrence in the political make up of the area.
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  3483. Bad Tempered Bas.. sorry Batman- Figure ?
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  3484. Qustion is , even if you did, would you trust your life to firing it? Better where they are how they are. Amongst other things, the arcehologist in me says 'Oh! How have they rusted?'
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  3485.  @clothar23  Hunt the thimble? Bits falling off everywhere.
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  3486. Damm! You have to waste time sleeping! So much to see.
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  3487.  @jic1  The original Lee system, with black powder used a rifiling designed by Metford. When smokless came in the action was kept, but needed a new barrel and rifiling, designed at Royal Amouries Enfeild Lock. AKA Enfeild. , so designated Lee-Enfeild. Then the design was shortned and a magazine added so Short , Magazine, Lee, Enfeild.
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  3488. The Army & Navy C-Operative was based in Victoria , a posh part of London, till 2005. It was a one stop mail order or visit and purchase for the Military , and became de rigeur for the upper classes. They sold everything for your outdoor , campain needs, including furniture. Now part of the House of Fraser Group. I used to get a lot of Barbour and Burberry kit from them.
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  3489. given the state things in Uk are, the upside down flag is very appropriate
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  3490. Even if it misfires , that would be no problem! :-)
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  3491. Some of the Outstaions such as Fort Nelson are far better.
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  3492. The old destroyers , which became known as Four Stackers were used for Coastal Escorts, though they did have their moments.. Two were Escorts for Oeperation Tiger in April 1944 at Slapton Sands. Another the former USS Buchanan, wa srenamed HMS Cambeltown.
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  3493. Let's get it adopted lads! Look who we have for neighbours. :-)
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  3494.  @ewhartiii  Right thanks guys! Now I know what to read on the long dark, locked down winter nights.
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  3495. Just started reading this. Definitley of its time! Bringing a smile to my face. Thanks a lot for the recommendation.
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  3496. So now we have two Experts opnions. Dosen't get much better than that! As for the Enfields, and I assume you mean P14 and M1917, then as Otis said, the three companies never achived standardisation, so a Winchester bolt would not be a good idea in a Remington or Eddystone. My P14 is a Winchester (T) Mk1, and as it was owned by an EX British Army Armourer who is also an official at Bisley, I have no problem shooting it (The problem is when the bullets come out the barrel they NEVER go where I want! :-) )
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  3497. So when he said 'Go Home'! The answer was 'Yes Sir, right away Sir, Godniggght!
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  3498. Led by a loony Irishman and scared off by a group of Welsh Women? Did about as well as the French then. :-)
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  3499. the Italian campaign was also struck with these problems.
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  3500.  @Quartzkensai  Thank you! That's something that has bugged me for a long time. I was thinking, flint or percussion lock.
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  3501. There is a very old , very relevant saying for such situations. 'I'd sooner be thought a fool for checking, than proved a fool by not'.
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  3502. And after, the Invergordon Mutiny was 1931.
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  3503.  @douglasparkinson4123  You mean the Barclay Brothers?
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  3504. Following WW2 the Britsh also had a lot of Mossberg MB 42 rifles, and they have stayed in odd places till now.
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  3505.  @christophernewman5027  And there you have the conflict that still dogs the Western Front, and started in 1919. Is it an area sacred to the memory of those who died, or just were we live and want to make an income from the tourist's?
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  3506. There was one at NAM Chelsea. The ExMilitary vehicle I'd love to get hold of.
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  3507. Start shipping them back! Worth around £400 Sterling now.
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  3508.  @chrisstephens6673  Yes, but those who know..:-)
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  3509.  @chrisstephens6673  I have to admit, I have in my care a pair of 1944 Dodge 3/4 ton vehicles. A WC51 weapons Carrier and WC54 Ambulance.
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  3510.  @chrisstephens6673  I know mate! I spent 15 years driving buses around London. :-) As for the Dodges, well, got to have something to pass on to the kids and grandkids! Though , yes, both have very personal stories for me, and have allowed me to do some very memorable things and meet some very memorable people.
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  3511.  @ScottKenny1978  Mine spent thier post war life in Norway.Both came to England in the 1980's.
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  3512.  @chrisstephens6673  My classic one for that ,I was in Whitehall when a pink painted Abbot came steaming down. A large plastic pig wearing policemans helmet on each corner. It screeched to a halt at the lights behind a litttle Vauxhall Nova car. The look on the womans face who was driving the car. LMAO
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  3513.  @chrisstephens6673  Absolutley true! It was the mad guy from Croydon, John Gladden'. If you remember the Council told him he couldn't park a tank on the street.He pointed out an Abbot is not a tank and the MOD backed him up. He also had the fish sticking out of his roof.:-)
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  3514.  @chrisstephens6673  Weeell, I did try Sanity once. Wasn't impressed:-)There is the British tradition of Men In Sheds,making and breacking things .A classic representation is the Last of The Summer Wine, Edie (Thora Hurd) and her Mechanic husband Wesley (Gordon Wharmby) big shoes to fill for the next generation of young British males!
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  3515.  @chrisstephens6673  LOL.Certainly Sir!
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  3516.  @Motologist95  He could confirm what TV means!
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  3517. And not ignoreit if an alarmgoes off.
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  3518.  @gavinmiller2590  What!!! Have you no compassion? Some happy carfree little creature having to die to make shoes!!
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  3519. Britsh Military equivalent Biscuits Brown AB, ditto! :-)
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  3520. Genuine query: Why do Americans say 'It Fit' not it Fits. It Fits if it is Fitted.
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  3521. Have you ever seen the poster for the Film The Young Churchill? One was geaffited with a spech balloon 'Now for those bloody Miners'! As my father was a child in Tonypandy at the time of the riots , I didn't know wehter to laugh or cry.
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  3522. AK: At the time it would have been under the charge of The RGA-The Royal Garrison Artillery. There is a lot on the net about aiming procedures.
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  3523.  @zach7193  The whole story is intresting look at how you solve a problem . Weather reports were often the way into the ENIGMA codes. You have to transmit prescise information in a set way at set times for them tobe any good. The same information is then passed along nemouros routes.
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  3524. France still has the hump that Greenwhich is the Prime Meridian. So they were given the Leap Second to keep them from throwing all the toys out of the pram.
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  3525. Look Guys! A hat wearing an Ian!
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  3526.  @joescummer150  The Island's were declared Open, wether this was before or afte rthe Luftwaffe bombing raids is still abone of contention. Another little known epsiode of history is the 'Second Dunkirk' carried out by ships from the Island's to St Malo
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  3527. Got one!
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  3528. I volunter! Give me a couple of thousand rounds , and a few months. :-)
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  3529. Be careful Musk is setting himself up for a presidential canidate in four years time.
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  3530. At least he manages to hit a target. Remember the A Team? The whole area has thousands diying of lead poluttion, but none actually being hit.
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  3531. Waterloo is a landscaped battlefeild, much altered. Even Wellington on a return visit is reputed the have said 'Good God! What have they done to my battlefield?'
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  3532. I agree nothing like your boot on the ground to understnd how the written history works. My first time to Beaumont Hamel was just before the 90th anniversary of the first day of the Somme. What struck me , was how peaceful the area was that evening, and how small it was! Christ ! They must have been waiting thier turn to fall down. You do really need to stand and see.
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  3533.  @michaelrizea3108  So stay in the warm and invent wierd things?
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  3534.  @michaelrizea3108  And now the complaint is of 'Light Pollution'. People are never satisfied :-)
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  3535.  @chaz8758  I worked at a site where we had SUSAT stored on there own. And that was the rule.
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  3536. We Wern't Pirates. We were loyal subjects of our Duke,( he was also King of England, but that was only his part time job. ) Defending his intrests , for fun and profit of course.
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  3537. How far back do you want to go! :-) Every bunch through history seem to have fought in the Belgium / Somme region. Hence Vaubin's Playground and the Cockpit of Europe, designations. Belgium was originally formed as a Neutral Country with the idea of stopping it.
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  3538. Proper test though! How often would you get time to clean it in combat? Working in poor conditions is a prime military requirment.
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  3539. The men and women, faced with a credible threat, would be hoping they WOULD go back to thier Families and friends.
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  3540. Payres  I know, I said it is my problem. That's why I hope it will end with the current generation. A lot of the problems of the world are caused by one generation carrying on their point of view to next. I could give you examples ranging from the Middle East to the current US Supreme Court hearings.
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  3541. OOH Bexhill on Sea, you little rebel you! Sometimes known as The waiting Room to Eternity.
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  3542. Though with some cyclist I can se the argument.
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  3543. In UK they are used in packs from horseback to hunt a Clean Boot, that's the local fitness fanatic pulling a drag. Our driven shoots are normally to overgrown for such a big dog. In fact one of the best dogs I know for that is a Jack Russell terrier.
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  3544. Especially if your Jersey bred.
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  3545. Stop guessing at cause! all you do is confuse the eveidence.
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  3546. A failure can tell you as much as a succes.
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  3547. Long reach is a design concept! It's more useful as a club.
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  3548. Try that now and its likley 'War were Declared'.
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  3549. Everybody wants the Luger! Now,no one uses the toggle action on a pistol. What's 'I told you so in' Danish?
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  3550.  @mtdnspirit  Thank you! :-)
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  3551. Had a run in with Met Pol over de activated firearms a few years back. They were taken from my house, after Met had attended because I'd been brocken into and attacked. No statement taken over burglary, just grabbed de ac's, under C of P guidelines. Took weeks and the proof house intervention to explain to the ...force.. that De Activated firearm are not firearms. and get them back. Incidentally I have exemptions from RIF.
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  3552.  @Mishn0  I like Stratford on Avon, but have never been into Shakespere. Still say Morning to him when I go over the bridge though.
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  3553. I didn't even know it was Shakespere till I checked the origin a few minutes ago! It's a phrase I've used for years.:-)
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  3554. That is a really nice working gun.
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  3555. When at work leave sense of humour at home. If for no other reason you'd be constantly in hysterics over passenger stupidity.
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  3556. You use an Amonnia Rich Liquid to free the fouling. ON a Five Foot Barrel ? Man, they were big guys! :-)
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  3557. Allegedally Maxim was told if you want to make money design a way for the Europeans to kill themselves more efficiently. Thank God for the English Channel.
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  3558. Talking of divers. This is a man who deserves rembering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Walker_(diver)
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  3559. Like the Galalian sight Ian mentioned, a lot of the effectiveness of these types of scope was at dawn and dusk, they had light gathering properties that made the target clearer. It wasn't that they were bad, it was that better came along.
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  3560. In England there are Bloodhound packs, they are hunted on horse back. The quarry is a Clean Boot, the local fitness fanatic pulling a drag. They aren't the fastest , but they are relentless.
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  3561. Simple, me not having fun, me no work. No animal will work out of fear.
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  3562. Did any of the enginners go on to work for Cobray by any chance?
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  3563. The book Scapegoats of Empire is available free at Gutenberg Press. The film is fantastic.
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  3564.  @henryvandeventer2457  Understood. My father was about ten at the time of the Tonypndy riots , and lived there at the time. He always spat at the name of Churchill as a result. Yet Churchill didn't 'Order the troops in'. He was asked by the Chief Consatable to put troops at HIS disposal, which was the convention at the time.He orderd them in , despite the CO's objections. As a result in such cases now the civil Police must , in writing, hand control to the military, who then make their own decisions. it's the shouting and propoganda lives in the memory. as for Britsh Polotics. No, my blood pressure is high enough.
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  3565.  @jonathanferguson1211  Though can be held on an FAC as a Historic Firearm, if your FAC team are kind.
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  3566. Stop worrying boys! With an AK at this range, they couldn't hit an Elep.......
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  3567. As Ian is described as 'The Gun Jesus' A miricale! The gun exploded with joy at being in the presence.
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  3568.  @jeffmcface5848  Godforsaken place, has always given me the horror's . Went in once as a kid , (itwas 6d entrance) never again!
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  3569. So British arms procurment has a history then? A couple of hundred years later enter L85A1.
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  3570. Bet Ian would make you sew your pockets though. Sorry ! It just sort of slid in whilst I was n't looking, Honest!
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  3571. Does happen.In UK a number of companies have given back support payments they had been given for Covid 19. Mind you! Browning set the example.
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  3572. So have you. If someone is polite and no threat you are the same. Agrresive behaviour towards you , you react the same.
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  3573.  @danialyousaf6456  Not when used as they were supossed to with a Spider Web site for AA use. You dont See the gun as such
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  3574.  @danialyousaf6456  Fuuny enough, there are still a couple in preservation on vehicles in Uk, they look as if they will do the job intended. See the you tube cllip I've posted, The film was a skit on post war National Service.
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  3575.  @danialyousaf6456  Um , don't the neighbours still go big on SMLE? :-)
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  3576.  @danialyousaf6456  Very diplomatic LOL.
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  3577. Kenya, 5.56 won't take down an Elephant. Guess what poachers carry?
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  3578. Punches are used for hitting things. Podges are used to align holes.
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  3579. Substantial recoil? More like a Flintlock Rocket pack, point at floor and lift off! Ye Guuunne Dawg Dummie Layncher!
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  3580. Two thousand pounds of education. Drops to a ten-rupee jezail. Rudyard Kipling Arithmatic of the frontier.
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  3581. Aded to which, things like mortars and Panzerfaust, a whole hell of a lot cheaper and easier to manufactuer.
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  3582. Though the Great War showed that troops entrenched could stand up to direct fire quite adequatley, you just ducked! Plunging fire from a mortar was the answer that was come up with.
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  3583. Eever tried Potten? Wonderful stuff, leaves you totally clear headed. Its just get that head to communicate with the rest of you is the problem.
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  3584. Brian Reddeman  Alternately point at map and say very loudly in your native language 'I want to go there!' :-)
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  3585. After D-Day the garrison could not evacuated. Hitler has a fascination with Island's. His intention wa spost war they would become a Strength through joy holiday paradise. He also poured a lot into the defenses, but so as not to spoil the athstics of such Island Landmarks as Mot Orguille castle, the fortifications were faced with local granite.
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  3586. Lawns- And Golf Courses- Green deserts - monoculture , very little bio diversity, a scource of pollution from chemicals and as stated heavy on water. The original park lawns were intended to show that the owner was so rich he could neglect to cultivate large areas for food.
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  3587. Hasler : Yes it does -http://www.exercisetigermemorial.co.uk/
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  3588. No it is the name of De Beirs, ot RTZM
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  3589. Keine I can see the sense of restircting magazines for hunting, if you can't get the quarry in one shot, don't take it. Also it at least reduces the chance of lead flying indiscriminatley. The devil of any law is the detail, and 99% of people just see the headline.
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  3590. Right up until some enthusiastic porter goes 'Carry you bag Sir?.............Opps!
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  3591. So in addition to everything else, you are praying they used good glue on the stock.
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  3592. A fun one near me. Check the net it DOES exist A sign for the 'Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker.'
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  3593. yes.
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  3594. Weapons and stuff: Why not, get a Martini action barreled for .22! They are still quite a number about dirt cheap,
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  3595. MrTangolised: In UK a CS discharger would come under Section 5 of the Firearms act, prohibited as it discharges a Noxious Substance. You can own one legally but would require a Section 5 licence, which is issued by the UK Goverment Home Office, not as is usually the case by your local Police Force.
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  3596. If the lead goes where you want when you want it's a good gun! :-)
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  3597. Is this the mueum at Overloon? If so , book at least two days, and you wouldn't get bored after two weeks.
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  3598.  @Ezekiel_Allium  The odd facts are often the best:-) Especiallly as the manpower of Highland Regiments had a lot of Irish descent. The Highland Light Infantary, that recruited a lot in Liverpool were known as the Paddy's Own.
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  3599. Shortening of Enemy War Motorboat
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  3600.  @paulbruna3649  There is a lot of unpleasant history over maps bettween the British Ordnance Survey and French map makers. Including France 'Shrinking' due to poor surveys and the Paris Meridian. Worth have a nose if have a spare minute.
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  3601. Coastal Motor boats (CMB) wae the term at the time. One spy Agar had dealings with was Sidney Riely. A person of somewhat dubious carachter, possibly involved in the killing of Rasputin.
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