Chockster

Chockster

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Hello all.
Wondering if anyone on here can interpret my merlin report for me or shed any light on where my series 3 has spent her MOD career. she only has 10k on the clock and chassis is completely solid so thinking she was somewhere warm or just in storage her whole life. any way here is the report...
Merlin Report.JPG

I also happen to know she was painted army/nato green disruptive camo Infa red reflective.
Could this be a hint at a warmer climate? and what is cast date?
 
Cast date is the date the MOD got rid of it.

camo Green doesn’t mean a thing tbh, It’s just the colour it’s been painted, sand colour would indicate use in desert environs though.

RLC = Royal Logistics Corp
2 RRF = 2nd battalion Royal Regt of Fusilliers

57 logistic support squadron RLC veh TP - I *think* this was in Northern Ireland

http://british-army-units1945on.co.uk/royal-logistics-corps/squadrons-41-to-60.html

so looks like your trailer was sent to stores in NI, was issued and used by the 2RRF (you can look up dates to see what the 2RRF was doing in 1993) and then returned to stores before being reissued out to a TA engineering unit for the remainder of its service life.

http://www.sappers.co.uk/squadrons/ta-218-fd-sqn-v

so my bet is it spent a while in a motor park then just trundled round Belfast for a while before seeing out its days parked at a TA barracks. But you need to research the various units to work it out properly, this is just my supposition
 
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Also if it went in to service in 83 how come it wasn't used until 88? would it have been sat somewhere for 5 years or is there a gap in the merlin history?
 
Chockster said:
Also if it went in to service in 83 how come it wasn't used until 88? would it have been sat somewhere for 5 years or is there a gap in the merlin history?
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probably sat somewhere in a storage depot.
My 90 sat for 2 years before it was issued out to a unit
 
Great stuff! so I've been doing some digging and found out pretty much it spent its life stood in a yard for 5 years, in NI in a couple of different barracks for 6 years, and in Bury st Edmund's for 4 years on an RAF base until she was got rid of in 97. Now here is something else... Why was she not registered on the road with the DVLA till 2001?
Is there a lengthy process when the MOD "cast" the old vehicles???
 
If it spent time with the Engineers it wont have been driven as they are always too drunk. Ask @gemsdad . Apart from that they are too numb to pass even an army driving test.
 
wireman said:
They may well have been based at Honington, 216 ADR were based up the road at RAF Marham.
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From what I found, or thought i found, They were based at waterbeach which i think closed in the 80's and then transferred to Honington.
Its great to know where the vehicle has been and what its done (although slightly less glamorous than I had imagined, was thinking more Bravo 2 Zero)
 
Chockster said:
Great stuff! so I've been doing some digging and found out pretty much it spent its life stood in a yard for 5 years, in NI in a couple of different barracks for 6 years, and in Bury st Edmund's for 4 years on an RAF base until she was got rid of in 97. Now here is something else... Why was she not registered on the road with the DVLA till 2001?
Is there a lengthy process when the MOD "cast" the old vehicles???
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could easily have stood around waiting to be sold. When I went to withams to get mine in 2012 there were literally hundreds and hundreds of landrovers sitting around. I imagine some of them took a while to sell simply because there was so many. Same story with your I suspect tbh
 
The way the army manage vehicles is disgraceful... we had a "new vehicle " issued - developed major braking problems- we took it to local civ dealer as instructed and they wouldn't touch it as it was 2 years outside its warranty! It had been stood for 3 years.
 
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