ciphers
Number of posts: 163
Age: 76
Localisation: Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada
Cap Badge: Royal Signals
Places Served: Catterick - BAOR (Herford - Bunde - Munster) - Japan (Kure) - Korea (Pusan - Seoul) - Cyprus (Nicosia) - Suez Op (1st Guards Brigade) - UK (63 Sigs Regt TA, Southampton)
Registration date: 2008-06-30
 |  Subject: Re: Armoured Command Vehicle  Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:14 pm | |
| I'm not sure, I left BAOR in 1954 for the Far East, Korea and Japan, we certainly did not have any of the AEC's out there .. I have a feeling they were phased out by the late 60's. I know that AEC did have one previously called the Matador but never actually saw one and Morris had a similar type. Ciphers |
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Andrew
Number of posts: 72
Cap Badge: RAOC
Places Served: Bicester-Soltau-Canada-Kineton-Paderborn-Osnabruck-Donnington-Civy Strasse.
Registration date: 2008-10-22
| | Subject: Re: Armoured Command Vehicle Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:34 pm | |
| Carrying on from what Locator said... Some vehicles were indeed indicators. During the first Gulf war I was attatched to 23 Engr Regt who were the breech regiment for 4 Armd Bde. The breech commander decided his sultan decorated with assorted antenna would identify him as a hot target so a couple of days before "G" hour he aquired a 432 and used that as a command vehicle instead. A sensible decision? well due to the amount of American armour that was pouring through it probably didn't make a lot of difference but it's easy to be philosophical after the event. |
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