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14-05-11, 23:26
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get on to CMV and every military forum infact Lads you can cut and paste this link to any other forum you may be on.... unfortunately other than the bluebird K7 forum, this is all iam on these days.... i would go in to all the scrap metal dealers in the area with a photo....
the only other thing....which you may not want to hear is the carrier may have been mistaken for tracked plant.... 99% of stolen plant in the UK is exported to Eastern Europe... and there is a frightening amount going out on a weekly basis
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14-05-11, 23:37
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Really sorry to hear this news, the scary thing is scrap was £200 a ton around christmas time. I would be really shocked it was a collector. I will spead the word in the museum circles.
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14-05-11, 23:45
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Carrier stolen
Thanks Shaun. Its not just the fact that its my carrier.....even after ten yrs of ownership was still exciting taking off the tarpaulin every weekend when i took her out......its the destruction of our history!!!
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15-05-11, 09:31
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Hi All
That was not good news, but I suggest it would have been someone who has been on the property before and knew the owners movements. All I hope is it was not someone known in the MLU fraternity. There are some real low lifes out there!!! I hope the carrier turns soon and the cuprits caught. Tony 
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15-05-11, 11:48
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hi rob sorry to hear the news but if it's any consolation i doubt it's been stolen for scrap, there's not enough weight to make it worth while but that means it's possibly been stolen to order for a collector and most probably a european one as i doubt anyone would be stupid enough to keep it in the uk. if it were me i'd put a pic of it on the classified section of milweb with a brief description and see if anything comes of it.
just another thought but why did the farmer let someone he'd never seen before take the carrier without word from yourself, sounds a bit fishy. good luck with your search and put up a pic and some details on here so we can keep our eyes peeled. eddy
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15-05-11, 14:25
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aye i would be having the farm hand arrested conspiracy to steal... he would have contacted you surely before allowing expensive machinery to be removed !
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15-05-11, 18:05
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That's sure bad luck, I use a farm to store all my parts and the two wrecks, but the farmer is a friend so I doubt he would let anyone touch anything without my say so.... he is one for tight security, it can be a pain, but after hearing this it is probably a small price to pay.
The trouble is it was taken such a long time ago (my Dad found his stollen company truck just 36 hours after it was stollen and it already had every number cut out or ground off), it will be long gone by now.... even so I would contact the local BBC news, they would love a story like that, and it may jog peoples memory for the time around christmas. It does sound like it was taken to order, think of all the trouble to organise a low loader or a 10 tonner to take it away, even then, driving away / across the country it would stick out like a sore thumb. Try contacting Jack Beckett at HMVF, may get it in the news section of Pathfinder, etc...
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