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Originally Posted by chrisgrove
Clive
Can't answer that one. As I said, I joined the resident battalion (2 Queens) about 3 months before they came back after a 2 year tour. The Bedfords were that colour too, with apple green (fireproofed) tilts with windows and an elevated (about a foot) centre bar on the tilt frame intended to get molotov cocktail ingredients to run off the sides. Have some pics of them too. Can't remember what colour the Rovers were. The point is that all those vehicles had been there some time, not imported from BAOR, but I have no idea when the brown bits were painted on, Tac signs were interesting too - red squares with 39/9 in white (39 Brigade), plus callsigns all round.
Chris
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the Queens(diehards) where in residence at palace Barracks when I was at 39Bde & Inf Sqd at Lisburn...I seem to recall they alweays hammered us at the rugby! as the resident signal Sqn our 39 Bde sign was a green square with 39 on it..all our vehicles and those of NI Command HQ where standard landrover bottle green..never seen any brown althought the vehicles of the B Specials where a type of light blue I think...hope this helps...by the way the B Specials where still using the 19 sets and our FOS and techs used to repair same! best regards malcolm
