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LAND ROVER DEFENDER BUYING GUIDE
ISSUE 187
DECEMBER 2016
incorporating
Austin’s military
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IT’S CHAMP!
Atkinson
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Alligator
MV market
news & prices
SCISSORS BRIDGELAYER
CIVVIES IN ACTION
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Contents
December 2016
NUMBER 187
OPENING SHOT!
04
We bet you’ve never seen one of these before!
Page
12 – profiling the
relatively unsuccessful
but technically advanced
Austin champ
FRONT
COVER
06
REVIEW
news and reviews from the
The latest
military-vehicle world.
COVER STORY
12
AUSTIN CHAMP
We profile the marque, tell you what to look
for when buying one and get to meet a
Champ owner.
38
BEDFORD QLC RESTORATION
tanker saved
The story of a once derelict WW2
by the Ulster Aviation Society.
COVER STORY
4
42
GET YOUR CIVVIES ON!
Les Freathy delves through his photo archive to
reveal the various uses civilian vehicles were
put to during WW2.
COVER STORY
4
48
DEFENDER BUYING GUIDE
20
BUILDING BRIDGES
COVER STORY
Land Rover expert has some essential tips on
buying one of these increasingly collectable
military workhorses.
David Fletcher looks at the clever and versatile
WW2 scissors bridgelayer and the tanks that
carried them.
5
We report
ABOUT
54
OUT AND
from this year’s Wicksteed at War.
26
SEE YOU LATER, ALLIGATOR
COVER STORY
6
COMING NEXT
60
Find out what’s in store in next month’s issue.
SHOWTIME
69
A round-up of forthcoming military events
and fairs.
A barn find Atkinson Alligator restored to its
former glory.
COVER STORY
32
PLAYING WITH FIRE
72
MARKET NEWS
COVER STORY
Pat Ware takes a look at the development
of the Ronson and Wasp ‘transportable’
flamethrower.
Nigel Hay reveals the latest military-vehicle
movers and shakers.
COVER STORY
74
MV PRICES
Our listing of current vehicle values.
8
A tailback with a difference.
82
ECHOES OF WAR
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CLASSIC MILITARY VEHICLE
December 2016
C
VEHICLE
3
OPE N I NG
SHOT
Visitors at this year’s War and Peace Revival will have inevitably been left doing
some head scratching at the sight of this hard-as-nails-looking tractor unit,
made by Wolverhampton-based Guy Motors. It’s a Quad-Ant, and is thought to
date from 1938. It’s an iconic WW2 vehicle, which served on most fronts, towing
a 25 pounder field gun and limber. Despite this, only a handful survive – which is
probably why most people have never seen one. Having served as a breakdown
truck after the war, this example was abandoned in an outbuilding and is thought
never to have been road registered. It had undergone some restoration work in
the 1980s and was being offered for sale (at £20,000) with a hoard of hard to get
spares for anyone interested in bringing it back to its former glory.
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CLASSIC MILITARY VEHICLE
December 2016
BEAUTY IS
IN THE EYE…
CLASSIC MILITARY VEHICLE
December 2016
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