Abandoned Gs
Anyone know the story on this? I guess there are a few of abandoned Gs in the Falklands.
The Argies leased these by the score soon after the invasion and when they left them all behind afterwards, they stopped paying the installments. Well, wouldn't you? The problem for the German firm that had leased them was that they had broken German law by so doing and so they appealed to the British to give them back.
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I was talking to a squady last month about just that subject (We have aload of them in Dover as there is a huge barracks here) He liked my G and came over to me in a carpark.
He said.. While he was in the Falklands he drove them around all the time BUT they dug huge pits and buried them when the war was over as no one could afford to bring them home although a couple of officers managed to get one or two on a hercules plane.
He said that the argy leased them but never paid for them. and MB disowned them as they shouldnt have leased them to the argys during the war anyway
During my last years in the British Army I had the job of evaluating all kinds of vehicles for NATO, I had at one time 5 Gs issued to me by the BW for battlefield evaluation. After general use evaluation on Bordon & Salisbury ranges,they were taken to live firing tank ranges in Wales and shot at by a variety of armoured vehicles and used as targets for a mortar platoon, they lasted a lot longer than the Land Rovers and the various other vehicles on test, but like all the vehicles tested, all the bits had to be returned to the origin.
All armies follow the same strange code, even if its in a million pieces it has to be accounted for and the paper work done to dispose of it.
Bill Moss
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