Evening Hanno:
Hope by now you are well into the excellent Dutch Bols Geneever Gin and are almost ready to celebrate the New Year. Matter of fact, I just went downstairs to my liquor cabinet and lo and behold I still have about 1/4 litre of that exact brand left over. It was part of my household effects that were stored in Sweden when we spent a couple of years in Peru and eventually ended up in Canada that were kindly shipped to us in Toronto on Volvo's kronor. That would make it now 30 years old at least. Wonder if Bols gets better with age?? Since my employees gave me a bottle of Johnny Walker Black for Christmas I don't think I will try it tonight
As to "Links", the Web never ceases to amaze me. The two photos of the India Pattern vehicle were, of course, the same ones from the same source I just discovered and reported here.
It amazes me how we come upon these sites, especially you getting a heads up on this one as it is not what you would call a very common one. I am adding maybe 5-10 new sites a day to my "favorite places" file as AOL calls it and it is maddening sometimes to keep track of all of them. Just added that Swedish one "Photo Gallery of WW II" a minute ago. Luckily I am pretty fluent in Swedish so can get a lot out of it.
As a point of interest, I wonder if you share my feeling that there is rather a sad lack of books being published nowadays on the subject of WW II vehicles, both armour and soft skins. I started in this field of interest around 1966 and for the better part of 30 years, there were new books and magazines coming out all the time. My collection now numbers in the hundreds but with rather little new stuff published since the late 90's. I suppose it may be that many feel the field has been covered or maybe even over-covered but the existence of such forums as MLU would seem to put the lie to that as we are researching a lot deeper and making amazing discoveries of new photos and data almost weekly.
Speaking from the ripe old age of soon to be 64, I hope the younger chaps on this forum and others like it keep up the search for more and more information. All this stuff I have collected is supposed to be what I will be reading, organizing and enjoying when I retire and then hopefully pass on to others.
I will let it go for tonight. Please keep on passing on the links, they are invaluable. I will try to do the same even if there is some duplication of info from time to time.
Bill