New Tobruk movie, cab 12 F60L

[Richard Farrant]

Originally Posted by Keith Webb

They went to soooo much trouble

Pity about the census number.........it is one allocated to an AEC Matador

sounding like a "rivet counter" now

[Keith Webb]

Originally Posted by Richard Farrant

Pity about the census number.........it is one allocated to an AEC Matador

sounding like a "rivet counter" now

Just can't help ourselves, can we?

[Mike K]

That's not a bad effort . Only nerds like us would pick on the detail errors . I'd rather see a truck like that .... than the horrors you see in those 1960's movies .

I was involved in a TV mini series in 1984.. a story set in 1940, The Dunera Boys .I told the props person Jeeps were not around then, especially here in OZ . No, it's in the script she said .. They even had a Land Rover making up the numbers in a few of the long distance convoy scenes ! Some interesting people on the set. John Mellion, Bob Hoskins, Warren Mitchell , Maurie Fields .A few of us from the VMVC supplied vehicles ... I was driving C. Andersons Marmon around a lot.. The director wasn't impressed with me ... they had a scene set up .. 'action' .. the truck ran out of petrol ...if looks could kill ..oh dear .

Mike

[aj.lec]

looks like an extruded grill from a chev too
did any cab 12 fords come out with this type of grill ?

[Dusonn]

Hi there,

I took part on filming of this movie together with 30 other extras from different military history clubs. We spent a month in the desert of Tunisia sleeping in tents, wearing uniforms all the time and enjoying army life even in our free time. The dune pictures are not ment to be from Tobruk but from Agami training camp in Egypt where the Czechoslovak unit had been trained before they were transfered to Tobruk. No need to say that it was our lifetime experience.
There were some other vehicles apart from the F60, such as Bedford MWD, Bedford MW water tank and rare Ford WOT3.
You can check out some more pictures here:

http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/specialy...otogalerie.php

The website is in Czech only. There are pictures from actors physical training, preparations, filming etc. The movie is comming out in September.

[Keith Webb]

Originally Posted by Dusonn

Hi there,

I took part on filming of this movie together with 30 other extras from different military history clubs. We spent a month in the desert of Tunisia sleeping in tents, wearing uniforms all the time and enjoying army life even in our free time. The dune pictures are not ment to be from Tobruk but from Agami training camp in Egypt where the Czechoslovak unit had been trained before they were transfered to Tobruk. No need to say that it was our lifetime experience.
There were some other vehicles apart from the F60, such as Bedford MWD, Bedford MW water tank and rare Ford WOT3.
You can check out some more pictures here:

http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/specialy...otogalerie.php

The website is in Czech only. There are pictures from actors physical training, preparations, filming etc. The movie is comming out in September.

Certainly one to be seen.

Another angle on the F60L - there is something strange about the towing 'D's too. Apologies for being so picky! Oh, and the Div sign is on the wrong side, Ford badge missing, no caunter on canvas... Ooops - there I go again.

I agree with Mike, this is a big improvement on past movies indeed, and who, other than we pedants will ever notice the difference. If the storyline is strong and the storytelling compelling it will be a good movie.

And as for the grille - from surviving examples both types were used on Fords, with the Chev type being more common - sometimes they were even mixed on the same vehicle, possibly because of bonnet swaps.

[Keith Webb]

Oh, Howard...