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Post by william on Jan 13, 2010 17:11:23 GMT 1
If you ever get to visit Oslo then the Norwegian defence museum in Akershus fortress has on of these displayed outside along with an M60 Patton and M24 Chaffee.
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Post by william on Jan 3, 2010 22:20:02 GMT 1
This place might be useful to anybody restoring old German stuff. I've use him for many parts for my old Soviet stuff. Reliable but occasionally a bit expensive, at least for us cheapskates that have old Soviet stuff. www.oldtimergarage.eu/store/
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Post by william on Jan 3, 2010 21:52:47 GMT 1
Some fair points. Britain is pretty industrialised so vehicle factories were spread all over the country, even in peace time. The companies came from both sides of the border. Off the top of my head John Brown & Co used to build Mk4 Male tanks during the Great War. I understand your point about this being a site about military vehicles but English is just plain inaccurate!
OK that's enough this has gone way to far.
German stuff is my main interest too. I would like to own a Zundapp KS750 one day - when I'm rich.
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Post by william on Jan 2, 2010 23:13:13 GMT 1
Hello Rolf and everybody else.
Just a short intro. I've been fascinated with military vehicle since I was a boy. Now I have Soviet and Chinese motorbikes and sidecars with military roots. What I really wanted was a Zundapp KS750.
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Post by william on Jan 2, 2010 22:44:24 GMT 1
Interesting, What do folk from the Netherlands refer to their selves as? I've always wondered.
I think Calling a Scotsman is probably akin to calling you German and worse than calling a Norwegian a Swede. Scotland is part of the United Kingdom (After the union of the parliaments in 1715 or there abouts) along with Wales and Northern Ireland but we still have our own legal system, local governmental system, currency, educational system plus others. We are rather proud of our Identity so being called English rather than British tends to iritate.
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Post by william on Jan 2, 2010 9:34:50 GMT 1
Rolf Sigurd, could you be so kind as to re-label this bit of the forum. It iritates those of us from other parts of the British Isles to be called English.
Thank you.
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Post by william on Jan 1, 2010 21:09:59 GMT 1
New here - Hello. I've got one of these bikes with the sidevalve engine. They are based on the BMW R71. The generally accepted history of these bikes is that the Soviets got the licence plus tooling for the BMW R71 under the Molotov/Von Ribentrop pact in 1939 and produced it as the M72 up to about 1957. Most of the Soviet heavy 4 stroke bikes are descended from this Model. The Ural factory in Siberia transferred the tooling to Red China who then produced it in the Nanking Aircraft factory up to about 1996. The picture shows the Chinese developed OHC model called the M1S. My bike us under restoration and tuning at the moment and will be finnished in feltgrau. I have a friend who has one in unrestored in PLA green. They are no less reliable than an old BMW and cheaper to fix. Same goes for Soviet bikes, of which I have 3. WW2 Renactors use these as a replacement for the BMW R12 although only a few requisitioned R71s were used by the whermacht. I have one downloaded picture of an R71 used by the German mountain troops in north Norway. Attachments:
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