Cars owned whilst in BAOR

Iolso had a Borgward Isabella T.S.1500 blue acquired by taking over the repayments from somebody who was being posted out. a good purchase as it came to England in the middle of the winter of 1962 no problem .kept it till my posting then scrapped it in 1965.reg no .MZ 17 B . HAPPY DAYS.

Many Thanks for the assistance Len (Ciphers) just don't understand why some things have to be more complicated, hey ho thats life

Hi Keith,

Borgward - Great car for the time and trouble free. Did you ever have a problems with your car ? thought they looked great with bags of chrome etc. Would have preferred a four door to have made it easy with the kids etc.

Hey Les,

You must have had some complicated machinery in the RCT (RASC in my day), what with the craft you were operating out of Marchwood. !!

Yes Jimsigs I suppose some of it was, however when I went to Marchwood it was to train as heavy crane op, I didn't fancy that so had a word with the OC and arranged a change to Movements, hence I left Marchwood and moved to Longmoor, most complicated I came across was Telex

Les

Jimsigs, I built my first Computer in the days before Windows, had to do everything with DOS, it's just now and again you just get these odd things thrown in

ciphers wrote:

Its really quite simple Shelldrake, once you have uploaded it to Photo Bucket and follow the SAVE instruction .. then choose ALBUM .. you will see the photo you have uploaded .. click on the picture and a drop down menu appears .. choose the HTML code .. click on it to copy .. then paste it into the message window on the relevant BAOR forum.


Len (Ciphers)

I have posted this before this may be of some help

I know how you feel. My first computer was a Sinclair ZX81, went on from there with a Sharp MZ80K, then an Apple and finally built my first one running on 'Basic' operating system. Loads of computer parts shops along the Edgware Road in London, where I lived.

jerry wrote:

ciphers wrote:

Its really quite simple Shelldrake, once you have uploaded it to Photo Bucket and follow the SAVE instruction .. then choose ALBUM .. you will see the photo you have uploaded .. click on the picture and a drop down menu appears .. choose the HTML code .. click on it to copy .. then paste it into the message window on the relevant BAOR forum.


Len (Ciphers)

I have posted this before this may be of some help

Thanks Jerry, I'll have another go when the Wife gives me my next 72!

Many thanks Jerry/Shelldrake your assistance is much appreciated and once used a couple of times I'm sure will prove to be ok

Les Pattenden wrote:

Many thanks Jerry/Shelldrake your assistance is much appreciated and once used a couple of times I'm sure will prove to be ok

Look lads, when you have computer problems just take the easy route,

ask a ten year-old !

Brum, I know what you say is true but I daren't do that I will lose all street cred with the Grandchildren

Les,

I noticed your avatar but how about this one :

Yes Jimsigs, this is just another of the three that I have seen, have been doing my family tree (taken over from one of my brothers) in all about 30yrs I have over 9000 people on it and trying to keep up is almost impossible, these coats of arms seem to be plentiful, don't know which if any are correct, my family used to be yeomen at Arundel Castle (back to the services again lol)

When I think about it that probably would have been a better Avatar to use, better motto

Back to cars again, sorry that I wandered off the subject. We had a national serviceman who owned an old post was Mercedes 170VA. Presume that's all he could afford. Anyway, I remember he being the last NS we had in 6 Brigade (Munster), being given a huge sendoff complete with this car. If you happen to read this Nobby, have a good laugh over the occasion you had when you went home on leave with three mates and buried a couple of jerrycans of petrol somewhere in Belgium and couldn't find them on the return journey. You got 'X marks the spot' wrong. Wonder if it is still cruising the streets of Bolton. Perhaps its in Fred Dibnah's back yard. Anyway, he is a picture of that model.

Hi! Jimsigs 1, ,Back to BORGWORD,S Never had any trouble with my Borgward ,that is unless you can count the time a certain Scotsman put a brick through the rear window on his way back to camp after a night out in Osnabrucke.

Eureka!!


Thanks all.

Not strictly BAOR but worth the wait anyway!!

Shelldrake

More like 'GonNoRhea' me thinks !!!

Les Pattenden wrote:

Yes it was NSU shame it had so many torque problems, seriously good idea just not carried on enough, I am surprised that with computers making things easier, that someone hasn't started on it again

Mazda RX8 ?

Often seen on the B68, Paderborn to Osanbrück. lol

Great car BigJock, What model was that ? also when was that taken ?

I think it was a 180 but not sure, it was a long time ago, 1968/69

We had a Cpl in HQ BAOR Signals Regt, Herford 1952 who had an old Opel Admiral but never saw it move. It was like this one :