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Old 17-09-13, 01:33
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Default "MilArt" an on-line magazine

A few weeks ago I started an on-line magazine for articles on Canadian military subjects - specifically materiel-culture related. To date the articles have dealt with uniforms, insignia and headdress.

Tonight I posted the first article in the "Vehicles" section, on the Canadian -made Rota-trailer. Please feel free to visit the site, comment, share and follow.

The article can be seen at www.servicepub.wordpress.com

Cheers,
Clive

A more direct URL is http://wp.me/p3QxcD-7z
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Old 30-08-14, 21:26
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Default MilArt on-line Canadian Militaria Magazine

Over 60 articles have been posted to MilArt, in half a dozen categories, including vehicles.
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Old 07-09-14, 23:42
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Default New vehcile articles on MilArt...

...by our very own Mark Tonner and Roger Lucy.
http://servicepub.wordpress.com/category/vehicles/
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Default Wonderful pictures and article.

Were all the vehicle Left Hand drive except the one going up the long hill ...... or could that picture been reversed.....?

Could not help but laugh when they failed for having limited access for maintenance. I take it the design engineers could not remember the Cab 11 layout.

Overall the design does look similar to some later Russian models.

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Old 08-09-14, 04:50
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Default On closer look.....

On the pciture showing the 6x6 towing the 25 pdr MARS gun...... is it possible that the tires on the gun are the experimental wooden segment wheels being tested due to rubber shortages???

Just love enlarging and examining these old pictures.

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Old 15-09-14, 09:50
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Some of the imperial to metric conversions leave a lot to be desired. in the article "Staghound Rocket Launcher" the conversions are well out.

3,000 yards does not equal 2,000 metres, it is 2,743.2metres so that measurement is almost 3/4 of a kilometre out. That's not a small amount.

Having said that, I am enjoying the vehicles category listings.

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Old 15-09-14, 22:45
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Default Metric Conversions

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Some of the imperial to metric conversions leave a lot to be desired. in the article "Staghound Rocket Launcher" the conversions are well out.

3,000 yards does not equal 2,000 metres, it is 2,743.2metres so that measurement is almost 3/4 of a kilometre out. That's not a small amount.

Having said that, I am enjoying the vehicles category listings.

Regards Rick.
Rick,
Thanks for the correction. something went seriously amiss with my mental arithmetic there, however, it does reinforce the next sentence
"Accuracy (particularly in terms of range) was wanting,"
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Old 15-09-14, 23:39
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Roger,
That made me laugh. A good read though.
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3,000 yards does not equal 2,000 metres, it is 2,743.2metres so that measurement is almost 3/4 of a kilometre out. That's not a small amount.

Regards Rick.
Corrected. Thanks for driving 45 visitors to that post.
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Old 16-08-15, 18:59
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Default A new Service Publications MilArt article

A new Service Publications MilArt article entitled “Applications of unit serial numbers on vehicles of the Canadian Army Overseas, 1943-45,” was published yesterday evening and is located here:

https://servicepub.wordpress.com/201...rseas-1943-45/

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Default Another interesting site

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