Le Pas-de-Calais Libéré | Haillicourt | 2-5 September 2021

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Who's going to this event this year? I will be there, albeit without vehicle, and would like to meet up with MLU members and see some Commonwealth vehicles.

Full name of this event is "Il était une fois le Pas-de-Calais Libéré" and may be better known by the names of the towns "Bethune" and "Souchez" where the event was held in the past.

http://www.ville-haillicourt.fr/Il-e...-de-Calais,607
https://www.armes-ufa.com/spip.php?article1898

For the full programme see: http://www.ville-haillicourt.fr/IMG/...me2021-web.pdf

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Some pics of this event with a nice, laid back atmosphere. There were not so many participants as in previous years, especially the number of British participants was much much smaller than usual.

Most interesting vehicle from a Commonwealth point of view was this Morris-Commercial from France:

[Hanno Spoelstra]

A Loyd Carrier:



The ex-Lang Kidby Chevrolet Panel Van:



Ford car in US Army livery:



Pre-WW2 Citroën Traction Avant in German Army livery:



Another TA. There were quite some civilian cars acting as vehicles from the Forces françaises de l'intérieur (FFI, French resistance), but most of these are postwar vehicles.



(Not my pictures, except for the last one.)