NEW THIS WEEK – MONDAY 5 APRIL 2010

Welcome to this week’s newsletter of what we’ve been up to at Miliblog. Well last week/this week has been the Easter holidays with Monday being a national holiday here in the UK. But in typical British style it has been cold and wet ! The show season kicked off over the holiday with the first local Midlands one being held at Weston Park, a stately home in South Shropshire. Famous for it’s rally stages in the old Lombard RAC Rally in the late 1970′s and 1980′s, it’s a lovely location with acres of open parkland.

Here we attended the Festival of Transport which included many different types of classic vehicles, from classic cars, tractors, buses, classic caravans and our particular favourite, the green machines. With the wet and cold weather, I think the attendance was down from last year, with many empty spaces. In fact we only saw four military vehicles, namely three Land Rovers and a Bedford RL Green Goddess fire engine. There was a fifth vehicle, but as we were walking over to the MV section, the owner was just driving off. It was a nicely turned out Austin Champ complete with side screens all fastened up, keeping the crew nice and snug inside.

Still it wasn’t without success as I found a nice 1940 dated WD fuel can on one stand and for £7 I thought it was a real bargain. I’ll add some photos of it soon when we start the military equipment section in the future. There were some other jerrycans, dated 1951 and 1952, but at £20 and not in very condition, they remained on their stands.

So after our venture out it’s back to the trusty scanner and the boxes of photographs.

Have agreat week !

Cheerio !

Simon 

Bedford RL Green Goddess (SYH 102)

Land Rover 101 GS (SOH 53 R)

Land Rover 110 Defender (40 KF 04)

Land Rover Series 1 80 (86 BR 33)