Hi again, Bienvenue, Wilkommen, Ciao to you fellow military vehicle enthusiasts !

Well here we are again with a resume of what’s been added to Miliblog this week. First, we have added 

many more Diamond T 980 M20 prime movers and T 969 heavy wreckers. The prime movers are all included in the section USA, WW2, heavy weights while wreckers are under USA, WW2, recovery. Even after many years of collecting these photographs It still gives me a buzz to get them out of their albums and study not only the vehicle but also what’s in the photograph as well. See if you can find the Dizzy T 980 with the railway diesel engine on its trailer !!! Also have a look at some of the fashions in the photo, for example have a look at the two trendy dudes siting inside the Humber 1 Ton below – Just click on the photo to enlarge it and zoom in ! If you are out there and still own the Humber, then drop me an email and tell us all about it !

Also added this week have been some Army and RAF fire engines which I hope will be of interest. It’s often not a sector of our hobby that is covered but of course they are military vehicles and should be included.

Added this week are three photos of a lovely old Ford F30 30cwt LAA Tractor that my wife and I found while on holiday in Cornwall, UK in July 1988. As tempted as I was to give it a good home, we’d only been married a couple of years and so couldn’t really afford to make them an offer. However I wonder who did rescue the old girl ? When I popped the photos on the website, after all these years I just noticed that the number plate JUO 51 was in the same batch of numbers also on Ford F30 30cwt LAA Tractors, namely JUO 53 and JUO 54. Was there ever a JUO 52 ? I’ve shown them at the bottom of the page here as I think it just sums up the stages of our hobby. Preowned earning a living as a rescue vehicle, in a ‘please save me’ form and finally in the finished version full revervated. Maybe ‘Royal Blue’, who I think were coach operators in the 1950′s and 1960′s, bought a whole fleet of these Canadian trucks to use at various depots. Can anyone out there help ?

So I hope you all have a great week ahead and with the first day of Spring here this week and the show season ahead, I will say cheerio. Don’t forget, if there are any particular vehicles you are waiting to see arrive on the website, then drop me an email ! There are quite a few more albums yet to add.

Keep on enjoying !