WW2?

[Major Fallout]

There is a gap in my knowledge, can anyone help.

The Americans had the JEEP.

The Germans had the VW stuff, Kuebelwagen thingy.

What did we use?

The landrover had not been invented, I don't think the champ was around.

We must have stolen a few jeeps, but we must have had something first.

[LHD]

Feet.

And trucks.

[hesnotthemessiah]

MX5s

[davepoth]

We used Jeeps, and lots of them.

[Major Fallout]

Oh
So a self made gap in my knowledge then.

I suppose if you are going to move people around, you might as well use a tuck and send some bits as well.

[2slo]

Before the Americans joined in with WW2 they had a policy called 'lease lend'. In effect they gave the allies loads of Military hardware (including jeeps) for free.

[magpie215]

2slo said:

Before the Americans joined in with WW2 they had a policy called 'lease lend'. In effect they gave the allies loads of Military hardware (including jeeps) for free.

Not for free.

iirc we only managed to pay America back for all there help a few years ago.

[Melvin Udall]

Free? They were certainly not free. We've only just finished paying it off! If you call having a house is free, as long as you pay the mortgage.

[EarlOfHazard]

The Bren gun carrier. A lot cooler IMO.

[williamp]

EarlOfHazard said:

The Bren gun carrier. A lot cooler IMO.

if we were using the Bren gun carrier, who was using the Rover?

[Steameh]

EarlOfHazard said:

The Bren gun carrier. A lot cooler IMO.

Funnily enough I found myself reading about the Universal Carrier the other day, the most produced armoured fighting vehicle in history. Wiki told me 113,000 were made.

[selwonk]

This might be of use:

http://www.pistonheads.com/GASSING/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[Jw Vw]

magpie215 said:

iirc we only managed to pay America back for all there help a few years ago.

This.

The suggestion that the Americans gave us Jeep's for free is ridiculous.

[attym3]

Rolls Royces, we were posh you see

Edited by attym3 on Saturday 17th September 20:42

[2slo]

magpie215 said:

2slo said:

Before the Americans joined in with WW2 they had a policy called 'lease lend'. In effect they gave the allies loads of Military hardware (including jeeps) for free.

Not for free.

iirc we only managed to pay America back for all there help a few years ago.

Ok I'll stand corrected. It's a few years since I sat 'O' level history you know!

[AndrewW-G]

attym3 said:

Rolls Royces, we were posh you see

Edited by attym3 on Saturday 17th September 20:42

Cough wrong war, that was WW1 Cough