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shaun and co:

--- Quote ---Last time I was down there, the ex-mil guy in Stourton (Leeds) had a couple for sale.
Pete.
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gave them a ring yesterday and the woman said they didn't do "stuff like that".

gtomo2:

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--- Quote from: "hobbit" ---Make sure to keep an eye on the brakes, they dont go that fast and they dont stop that fast either
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beat me to it. iirc they are built on the 101 chassic and the brakes were never upgraded. Had the plesure of being in the back of one with a wounderd mate heading down to ebrington barracks, londonderry. with the driver blasting the horn as we could not stop
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Surely these things were in use in NI well before the 101 was even in production? From the late 60's early 70's?
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Yeah - nothing to do with the 101.

I was speaking to the 101 club spares guy the other day and he said he had been working on a humber pig earlier that day.
I was under the impression that they were similar/based on landies too but he assured they were not!
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I stand corected. just shows you how good the reme are.   :roll:  :oops:

Litch:
The pig was an armoured version of the Humber 1-ton built in the 1950's (the original truck was a lovely, purposeful looking vehicle). The fact is was originally built as a light truck with a 1-ton payload and was then rebuilt as an APC with lots of (heavy) armour plate was the reason the brakes were never up to much.
In civy life it was very common for some of the plate to be cut out to save weight, I believe the floor was usually the first to go as it had no visual effect.

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