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BRILLIANT

Great memories from an age long gone, love it, more please 🙂

😂 brilliant

My husband did his national service in R.E.M.E working on many of theses vehicles having great fun !!

All the glory goes to the weekend soldier! Yes, Leonidas exposes the fact that he's firstly a potter. But the Corinthian turns out. The TA para Connolly would have given the Soviets one hell of a fight.

The Shadows, Mountains of the moon. Very appropriate 👍🏻😁

Drove the Scammel in Aden then in Germany with REME.

Reminds me of Russia 🇷🇺 Lol 😳😂🤣😂🤣♥️

Lol. Few TA lads never came home for tea in Afghanistan.

He's ex PARA REG. Respect

Legend, ⚡⚡great thought provoking song 🌟

My dad owns the scammell explorer he’s doing it up and I would like to own one as well

My dad still has his foot of that album from the 80s. That and "Live from the Albert Hall" we're the first comedy albums I listened to.

For the Russians out there🤣🤣🤣

Joined in Dec.57, first intake in 58 and we were raided by the IRA one of our guys got hammered. Reccy in Germany, Paderborn 4 years then to Kenya Gil Gil and sent to Kuwait when the Iraq`s torched the northern oil fields I think it was 2 para dug in on the border. Aden, Bahrain but I never served in the UK. I am in Australian now and miss my buddies. Arte et marte

No Antar ? ....No Diamond T ?

Bloody heroes the REME boys, got us out of so many problems I love every greasy one of them!

Last four ones: Two German, one Swedish, one American: the sad end of British automotive industry...

X reccy mech here was a leyland 6x6 loved it big heavy and arms like pop eye . Also AEC and Crusader loved my scammer EKA all in 1985-1989

Great song. We adapted it to fit our Regiment and the Cdn reserves. Still a crowd pleaser.

missing is "samson" 430 series tracked recovery vehicle also ARV and BARVE.

In the early 60s I was stationed in Celle, West Germany with 94 Locating Regiment R.A. Workshops. Each night one of us had to sleep in the Workshop Office to answer the phone. One night I got a call saying that the M.O's driver had reversed his Hillman Husky into some building foundations and was stuck could I send out a recovery vehicle. I got hold of the duty Recovery Driver and told him the problem. He said fine and he would take out the One Tonner and pull him out. About three quarters of an hour later he returned. I asked him was the job complete? No he said, he had come back for the Leyland Recovery vehicle (replacement for the Scammel) Why I asked? Germans build cellars in their houses.

Billy Connolly for prime minister!

My grandad was in REME but it was Airborne and he was in TA drove scammell pioneer and explorer out in Cyprus in 63 they were desert coloured they were they had Bedford rl breakdown parked up but they never used it my grandad towed dyson trailer with a Fowler bulldozer on back and recovered a compressor and a series 2 Land Rover green jackets crashed and pioneer had cloth doors 39 model they left it on mountain by orders of Captain as it was a wreck.

Too much variation, too many spares packages. The REME should have maintained its own Design Office and developed and evolved its own trucks and trailers. Done right there would have been useful Commonwealth sales.

A TA camp after I'd left the Regs whole Bn singing this in the NAAFI ex Regs TA lads

Funniest man on the planet,,,,,, Michael Parkinson words not mine but total agreement 👍

My Auntie lived in Aberdeenshire I loved it didn’t want to come home. Nothing worse going home to a place where you don’t wanna be. Never forget all memories we shared Loved My dad so much even to this day I miss him. Took me everywhere last holiday was Newquay just love Beaches here I am in Liverpool. Where I came when I was 8 years old.

Amazing! What's the name of the tune?

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By skill by fighting

I am sure I was the Dinger Bell at 7 armoured Skully lawson

"I wanna stay with me pals!"

Rec mech from 1957 to 1963 Germany and Libya are 6x4 6x6 cent are diamond t half -track good days in reme

Love the Scammell Explorer, I had a Corgi one

Very nice.

My dad used to drive a scammell in the marines. Be the best be an air tech Arte et Marte

Bless you Billy i wish you could live forever

Always found the name "Recovery Mechanic" odd given that they never repaired anything and just recover stuff to be fixed by a real mechanic. Why not call them Recovery Specialist.

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When I was driving back from Warminster in the 70’s I came upon an “Antar and trailer” just off the roundabout, the driver was sitting on the bonnet filling out what I assume was an accident report (FMT3) . He’d come down the hill, obviously too fast for the roundabout at the bottom and he’d tipped his load... 1 Chieftain MBT was hanging off the trailer and the 2nd one was upside down on the other side of the roundabout, almost in a field.. I had a bit of a chuckle...

My dad(REME)loved his Scammell 6x6..He said he got out of many scraps in it .Wish he was here to tell me more.🇬🇧

Was a TA REME reccy mech back in the day.... remember passing my HGV 2 the day before picking up a (brand new) 1950s Scammell 6x6 petrol-powered Explorer Heavy Recovery that was unmothballed specifically for Exercise Crusader in 1980. Drove it all the way to Germany at 30mph, filling up hourly from jerry cans on the back. Don't know how we made it without smashing the crash gearbox to pieces. It took a while to master the art of changing gear. Wonderful memories.

I served with jock McFadden in Aden and before at Borden a happy go lucky good lad proud to say I was in the honour guard at his funeral wee jock

RIP brothers. Arte et Marte

Priceless back in 1982 exercise Lionheart. 18.bedt days of my life.