BFG petrol coupons

KJH,

Quite a cheap journey, your 800 miles. Cost a bit more today. Ha! Ha!

Jimsigs1

Jimsigs many thanks this brought back fantastic memories of my first BFG car SS 28 B a 1950s Opel Olympia Rekord P1 bought very used in 1967 and it made it from Verden-Aller to Taunton Somerset but the clutch failed...no parts available in UK and made clips with coppar wire fixed it and got back to Verden-Aller and one of my fellow ED mates wrote it off against the cookhouse wall of Shiel Barracks...
Best regards
Steve

Hi Steve,

Ah! the old Opel Olympia. That also brings back memories when I was at 7 Signals 1963-6 where there were quite a few dotted around. You either bought an old local car or timed it right and bought a new one. We had a WO2 Foreman who bought a Citroen DS and picked it up in Paris. Another guy next door to me had one of those little Simca 1000's.
Don't suppose you were at 7 Sigs in your time.

Jimsigs1

jimsigs1 wrote:

Hi Steve,

Ah! the old Opel Olympia. That also brings back memories when I was at 7 Signals 1963-6 where there were quite a few dotted around. You either bought an old local car or timed it right and bought a new one. We had a WO2 Foreman who bought a Citroen DS and picked it up in Paris. Another guy next door to me had one of those little Simca 1000's.
Don't suppose you were at 7 Sigs in your time.

Jimsigs1

Did not get to 7 Sigs understand it was the biggest regiment in the British Army...from Junior Leaders Regiment Denbury straight to 1 Div Verden-Aller B Tp 3 Sqn then 14 Sigs Worcester B Tp (formally 645) 1 Sqn got my knees brown on exercise RAF Gan in 1970 then HQ Sqn MT then 40 years ago this month to 3 Div Carter Barracks to join the new 3 Inf Bde HQ & Sig Sqn to train for Ulster to Horseshoe Barracks Shoeburyness Oct 71 to Kitchen Hill aka Nicker Factory Lurgan for a 2 year tour...Brum knows the place...that was my last Royal Signals posting regards Steve

[Horseshoe Barracks Shoeburyness Oct 71 to Kitchen Hill aka Nicker Factory Lurgan for a 2 year tour...Brum knows the place...that was my last Royal Signals posting regards Steve[/quote]

Ah, the Knicker factory. What about ye lads ?

Pull up a sandbag and swing the lamp !

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Did not get to 7 Sigs understand it was the biggest regiment in the British Army

It was and it was also the biggest

Did not get to 7 Sigs understand it was the biggest regiment in the British Army...


Until the late '70s the RA was the biggest regiment in the army.

After a few cuts the distinction fell to the REME.

Moin Brum...meaning the biggest single unit in the British Army and Gordon is correct!

steve wrote:

Moin Brum...meaning the biggest single unit in the British Army and Gordon is correct!

Cheers Steve.

It's OK, I just thought I'd give the Old Caledonian a prod that's all !

Talking about PETROL, the price here is around AU$1.40 per litre. That is about 90p?

What about in UK.

Quite a bit more than you are paying, in the North East it is about £1.33/ litre.

Bob

The Cheapest in West Lothian is £1.32.9
The dearest is £1.37.9

Re petrol, crikey, a little pricey, will have to rent a moped when I am in the UK next May.

Weather permitting (tic)

Gordon. wrote:

Weather permitting (tic)

Don't you get a 'brollie' with the moped. Maybe a VW golf with a sun roof from Thrifty - Southampton?

I noted last time in the UK many motors have sun roofs, not in OZ, one could get sun stroke.

Shelldrake wrote:

Galahad, are you thinking of Zeebrugge - the biggest Jerry can "Storage area" in Western Europe?

Indeed, added to it meself...

Update no more fuel coupons - BFG Registered vehicle owners get an ARAL Fuel card and using that card the registered owner gets his fuel at an Aral Fuel point and is charged a price withoiut fuel duty. Who will accept an ARAL* Card: (ARAL is a member of the BP Group!)

https://www.aral-fuelcard.com/stationsfinder?

Online like this - no need for the BFG Fuel Map

Fuel pumps on camp are also digitised /computerised and automatically demand replen - and fuel issues are recorded against the MoD Veh Regn.

*The American advance in to Germany (1945) was so rapid, the frequently raided ARAL petrol stations to grab more maps to identify where they had been for the After Action Reports.