KIeler sprotten
WOII
Number of posts : 80
Age : 85
Localisation : Derbyshire
Cap Badge : 13/18 ROYAL HUSSARS QMO
Places Served : Carlisle, NEUMUNSTER , Piddlehinton, Bovington
Registration date : 2011-09-04
 | Subject: Old Times in 1956.  24/1/2016, 18:15 | |
| Was thinking back to the days of my service and how outdated our our vehicles were, the Daimler Armoured car Was our main AFV. I was Radio op / Gunner . To calibrate the two pounder main armament to the telescopic gun sight Was very simple-: Place the fine string in the cuts in the end of the Barrel That then formed a cross, The string was held with a smear of grease . Sight this cross on The corner of a truck Parked at the other side of the parade ground, then turn the screws on the telescopic sight that aligned the cross hair patter onto the same corner of the truck. And it worked. Any one else have such out dated equipment? | |
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JPW
Let Gen
Number of posts : 1119
Age : 81
Localisation : Berkshire
Cap Badge : REME
Places Served : Rotenburg Ploen Lippstadt Hamm Wetter Minden Munster Bielefeldt Dusseldorf
Registration date : 2008-11-09
| | Subject: Re: Old Times in 1956. 24/1/2016, 19:24 | |
| The KISS Method, sure it would have worked if 4 Guards Shock Army had ever ventured over the border at Helmstedt. Mind you a lot of REME ECEs would have been redundant in later years | |
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