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Regulars

• Review! — A round-up of current military-vehicle news, gossip, and products.
• Coming Next — Watch out for these exciting features in next month’s all-colour issue. Don’t miss it!
• It’s Showtime! — A listing of major military-vehicle and militaria events in the UK and around the world.
• The Military-Vehicle Market — Nigel Hay, in collaboration with MILWEB, charts the ups and downs of the market.

Features

• Opening Shot! — Land Rover ACRT, photographed by Paul Hazell.
• Project ACRT: 16 — At last, after 18 months of hard graft, Paul Hazell’s ex-RAF Land Rover ACRT is finally complete and ready for the new show season. Photographs by Paul Hazell and Diana Hawkins.
• Land Rover lite — The ½-ton Rover 1, better known as the Lightweight, was essentially a reduced-fat Land Rover. John Blackman talks to John Wiseman about his example while briefly profiling the type.
• The Beach Armoured Recovery Vehicle — David Fletcher charts the evolution of the BARV.
• Red Ball Express — David Doyle explains how, from 25 August to 16 November 1944, a non-stop conveyor belt of trucks transported 412,000 tons of supplies from Normandy depots to the armies advancing through France.
• Aden call up — Les Freathy guides us through a fascinating collection of photos taken by Frank Waller during National Service in Aden.
• Follow me! — John Blackman takes a look at Mike Pickett’s recreation of an airfield flying-control Jeep.
• Airfield album — In the wake of the feature on Mike Pickett’s “Follow Me” Jeep, we open the archives and take a look at a variety of similar vehicles used on WW2 airfields.
• The Churchill VII AVRE — The post-war conversion of a Churchill Mk VII gun tank into the prototype Mk VII AVRE is described by Ian Stead.
• The Steyr 1500A — The so-called Schell Programme was intended to standardise German military transport prior to WW2. John Blackman profiles one of its few successes, the Steyr 1500A.
• Semi–rare — A decade ago you’d have struggled to find a semi-trailer truck combination on the MV rally scene, but over the past few years several have emerged… here’s one, a Chevy G7113 rig knocked into shape by Kevin Abrahams. John Blackman has the story.
• Readers’ drives: Cheerfully battered — Ruth U’Ren tells us about her father’s Ford GPW.