RIP Motto

[Lang]

Dave was a real quietly spoken gentleman with a huge fund of knowledge. He solved a couple of sticky problems for me by thinking out of the box.

A big loss to the vehicle movement.

I can remember him driving his Lend Lease Chevrolet 3-tonner on our Istanbul to Normandy trip. We were leaving a port in Crete when a couple of illegal immigrants tried to leap into the back of his truck by sprinting along behind when he slowed for traffic. One made it but was soon evicted. Dave saw the second one in the mirror running flat out behind so he slammed on the brakes which unfortunately were a lot better than the runners brakes. Needless to say number two never got on board.

[Jacques Reed]

I was very saddened to hear of his passage a fortnight ago.

He was a true gentleman and was one of the first people I met when I joined the VMVC in 1991. He immediately got me interested to learn as much about my vehicle as I could, starting with explaining to me why US 16" military tyres do not fit British wheels. I never stop trying to learn as much as I can, because he lit the spark.