Tanks in Town Mons (BE), Aug. 29/30 2009

[Alex van de Wetering]

We had lot of fun at Tanks in Town, as always. I caught up with Swiss Chris and Hanno and met Maurice. Attached you will find a few pictures I took.

My buddy Tim took the picture of Hanno and me in front of the Dutch Army Sexton. MLU member Maurice Donkers is standing in the Sexton, which he restored years ago. Maurice, it was nice meeting you in person!

Regarding Hanno's challenge.....the picture of the Sexton driving past, gives a slight hint....Hanno, I still think someone from MLU was involved!

Alex

[Alex van de Wetering]

Oh, by the way. The terrain was a bit rough sometimes, so some vehicles lost stowage along the way. When Chris and I were catching up, A Belgian Harley owner lost a set of goggles. He was very happy when I returned them during the break at Mesvin. But, when Tim and I returned to our car, a Czech Harley owner past us and he lost some stuff as well. He was long gone when we picked the things up from the woods.

Any of our Czech MLU members aware which Czech WLA owner this might have been? I would like to return his tools and parts.

Alex

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Alex van de Wetering

Regarding Hanno's challenge.....the picture of the Sexton driving past, gives a slight hint....Hanno, I still think someone from MLU was involved!

Anyone dares to take a guess?!?

Originally Posted by Alex van de Wetering

Hanno, I still think someone from MLU was involved!

Do you? I thought it was my sharply trained CMP spotting eagle eye!

H.

[zemsi]

... a hint for the riddle. Hanno was pointing out to something on the back of the Sexton. Who finds it?

[Bob McNeill]

I thought all sextons had the observer seat out the back !!

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Bob McNeill

I thought all sextons had the observer seat out the back !!

Bob, bingo!

While we were driving through the woods, we had to stop several times for other vehicles to make turns etc. So, we were standing for a couple of minutes in an area of what used to be a mining area. I was looking around and saw things like a rusted-out water tank and a crumbling shed. Suddenly my eye struck a familiar shape and I jumped off the Sexton and ran over to grab it. It was indeed a CMP seat! It is rusty and quite mangled, but any CMP thing is worth slinging on the back of the Sexton.

The puzzling thing was that there were no other parts around, it was just sitting there. Apart from a half-track chassis, no truck remains were to be seen on the entire grounds. It will probably remain a mistery how it got there, although it could be labelled a "battle field relic"

Hanno