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Ariel WNG Bedford Armadillo & Bicycles

Another new picture, not sure what the formation sign is?

Rob

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email (option): robmiller11(a)yahoo.co.uk

Re: Ariel WNG Bedford Armadillo & Bicycles

Hi Rob,

I was wondering if it was ok to use a photo to put onto another site? Didn't want to do it without permission.

Cheers,
Dave

email (option): jeepfinger@blueyonder.co.uk

Re: Ariel WNG Bedford Armadillo & Bicycles

Hi Dave

I am happy that my images get shared anywhere as long as its not for profit, in this case this image also appears on the Imperial War Museum archive, if my image is from the same wartime printing batch as theirs it was not created by them they don't have copyright.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205483215

For interest which site are you planning to repost it on?

Rob

email (option): robmiller11(a)yahoo.co.uk

Re: Ariel WNG Bedford Armadillo & Bicycles

Thanks Rob.

No not for profit. Its not the bikes, but the Bedford. I was going to post it in The Bedford MW Facebook page. I don't think that I have ever seen one. Is that the type, Armadillo?

Cheers,
Dave

EDIT, the details on the IWM photo, called them Bisons.

email (option): jeepfinger@blueyonder.co.uk

Re: Ariel WNG Bedford Armadillo & Bicycles

Bison was the concrete pillbox on a truck chassis, if you google Bedford Armadillo this steel type and the wooden pebble filled versions appear. Was there a wheels and tracks article on them years ago?

Rob

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Re: Ariel WNG Bedford Armadillo & Bicycles

Thanks Rob,

Just what I saw on the photo. Should have known, as Bison used to be known for concrete floors. Not too sure about the W&T article, should do though, seen as I have all of them.

Dave

email (option): jeepfinger@blueyonder.co.uk

Re: Ariel WNG Bedford Armadillo & Bicycles

Here's the Bison at the Tank Museum. I can't remember if both parts or just one part is fiberglass? Ron
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Re: Ariel WNG Bedford Armadillo & Bicycles

That shows how desperate and ill prepared we were....It would have taken a week to get near the fighting with all that concrete on board....and I should think an attempted emergency stop would end in tears...:laughing: ...

It would have given the Germans a good laugh though, as they walked away from it....Ian

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Re: Ariel WNG Bedford Armadillo & Bicycles

I don't think these could ever have been considered a fighting vehicle Ian. Merely a mobile pill box, to compliment the lines of permanent pill boxes already in place......The Germans might still have laughed though! Ron

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Re: Ariel WNG Bedford Armadillo & Bicycles


Surely they needed to strengthing the chassis with all that weight!!

email (option): jeepfinger@blueyonder.co.uk

Re: Ariel WNG Bedford Armadillo & Bicycles

Well it is a 6 wheel lorry Dave and the concrete pill box and cab are probably not much more that it's payload anyway. Imagine it loaded with the same weight of bricks, would only be 5-6 courses high?

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Re: Ariel WNG Bedford Armadillo & Bicycles

Yeh Ron, around that many courses of enginering bricks:joy:

email (option): jeepfinger@blueyonder.co.uk

Re: Ariel WNG Bedford Armadillo & Bicycles

When I worked on building sites as a skinny 9 stone yoof in the 60's, Invariably the lorry from "London Bricks" would turn up on site just as we were about to knock off and already knackered. They all had to be manhandle off and always had a hampering layer of straw between each course.........Thems were the days!:angry: Ron

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Re: Ariel WNG Bedford Armadillo & Bicycles

It looks like a prop from a Monty Python movie .:grinning:
Emblem on truck could be a scorpion ?
WNG : central speedo, rubbers on tank, gearlever and footrests, a early model.

Re: Ariel WNG Bedford Armadillo & Bicycles

I reckon it's a hand painted version of the "Hampshire Hog" Ron

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Re: Ariel WNG Bedford Armadillo & Bicycles

VMCC Founder Titch Allen was involved with one of these Bedford mobile pillboxes in his DR days, it was probably in one of his MCS articles where he relates how awful they were, I think he lost control of one on a hill and ended up in a field.

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