Re: SER1 1948 (sic.) Land Rover for sale

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Mike

The vehicle history would be the A-ARN and chassis number, however if the
vehicle didn't go to Vietnam the engine may well have.  I guess there was a
bit of swapping around of the engines - some vehicles would have a higher
priority for repair than others so would get the first engine repaired or
they may salvage an engine from a damaged vehicle.  It's unfortunate, but my
house-mates deceased grandfather was the Brigadier for RAEME (Royal
Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers) at the time of your vehicles
transfer.  He would have been able to get the Australian records where ever
they were held.

Cheers
Diana
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "M & J Smith" <stanfields@xxxx.xx.xx>
To: <series1@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: SER1 1948 (sic.) Land Rover for sale


Hi Diana
Have checked the REMLR site before, numbers are close, esp the eng.#'s for
the 109"s sent to NZ. There is a bit of an 'air of mystery' with regards to
the Skippy's history.

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Diana Alan" <dianaa@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xx>
To: <series1@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 9:14 PM
Subject: Re: SER1 1948 (sic.) Land Rover for sale


> Mike
>
> All is not lost - if you have the chassis number the Australian Army
> records
> still exist.  I believe that you can even find out if your Skippy went to
> Vietnam.  However I have a feeling that only 109" LR were taken to
> Vietnam.
> The people to contact are the Register of Ex-Military Land Rovers REMLR.
> You may already know about them.  the Website for vehicle data is
> http://remlr.150m.com/ARNseries2.html unfortunately no help with the
> history
> in the East Islands of the long white cloud.  However your Skippy is a
> true
> ANZAC!
>
> Cheers
> Diana
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "M & J Smith"
>
> G'Day Allan
> I learnt to fly on my fathers MkV Auster, ex RNZAF, he reckoned if you
> could
> fly one of these you could fly just about anything. I saw the Temora
> documentary on Sky the other day, love those Dragonflies.
> Land Rover content... I'm restoring an ex NZ Army S2a 88" 'GS' (called
> "Skippys" over here), rumoured to have been used by the Australian Army in
> Vietnam.
>
> Mike
> NZ



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