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Utter Rubbish it seems to me, fourteen hundred trucks off the road? seems like the entire British three tonner fleet. Use you logic, 1400 off the road? Where do they get these ideas from?
AS to the truck? It was the Standard British army Bedford three tonner. As far as I know, the only mainstay truck,
Thinking about it, it seems to me that that truck could be first for the success story of WW2.
I can say this hand on heart. Not once anywhere, did we have one break down. When we moved to the lowlands, to supply everything we needed, it was not only RASC drivers, but anyone that could drive! and doubled up, so that one of the two could get some rest.
Not only that, but the trucks were running on "Overload" heavily overloaded to keep us going. It was a long way from the beaches of Normandy to the Belgium and Holland. Yet I have in my papers a report on the remarkable operation to supply from the beach loading, to Holland. (the red ball route)
The report states from all those long journeys, there was only one minor traffic incident, and no break downs.
Where do these people get these ideas from? I repeat...not once did we have a mechanical breakdown.
So where do they get these fantasies from? Like many others I read..I suppose ...imagination.
Sapper
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