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July 2017
Frontlines
The Falklands Remembered
It’s been
35 years since the Falklands
War ended, a war in which many lives
were lost.
It seems hard to believe now
but, in 1982, while I was doing
inconsequential, final exams at a
northern polytechnic, half a world
away, British forces were engaged in
military actions in the Falkland Isles.
The reports on the nightly TV news
were rarely good - five British ships
sunk in May alone. In Merseyside,
where ships sail in our subconscious,
this was particularly terrible. I’ll never
forget the moment when, as news
broke of the second loss - HMS
Ardent - clear as day, I saw the pain
in my dad’s eyes. It was the pain of
someone who had heard such terrible
things 40 years before when the
Battle of the Atlantic raged. The news
didn’t get much better; a sixth ship
was lost, the Marines, the Paras, the
Welsh Guards and others suffered
casualties that were hard to fathom. It
later transpired that a guy from school
HMS Antelope was a Type 21 frigate lost in the Falklands on May 24 1982 after an Argentinian bombing raid
had been lost on HMS Coventry.
As names like Goose Green, Longdon
and Tumbledown entered the history
books, the British triumphed even
though it was, as Major-General
John Jeremy Moore, Commander of
the British land forces, put it: “A very
close-run thing.”
The nature of the Falklands terrain
and the loss of some ships’ cargoes
meant that there weren’t as
many vehicles used as in other
conflicts - largely Lightweight Land
Rovers and Hagglunds BV202 as
well as some Mercedes G-Wagens
that were captured from the
Argentinians, but that doesn’t stop
us from remembering, in this issue,
the conflict and the lives it had cost
by the time it ended, 35 years ago, in
June 1982.
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JOHN CARROLL
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Life in the Old Dog Yet
Ahead of Their Time
Rattle and Hum
Small but perfectly formed
Can-Do Can-Am 
An American Icon
Dogs of War
T
Commer lorries and their innovative pre-selector gearboxes were a hit
with World War One troops
A young cavalryman rescues a sadly neglected
Daimler Dingo
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heir Tim
ad of T
‘Desperate for
trucks of all
sorts the War
Department
impressed all
models of
Commer then
available’
words
Tim Gosling
pictures
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‘Commer Car’ left in August of the same year.
The heart of the Commer Car was
Linleys pre-selector gearbox which was
incredibly advanced for its time. The
gears remained constantly in mesh with
the selected gear being engaged by the
means of a spring-operated dog clutch.
When the revs were reduced, the gear
would change automatically, or it could be
forced to take place if the clutch pedal was
depressed.
Commer argued that this system prevented
the driver from causing damage to the gearbox
and allowed for quieter gear changes although
it is apparent that a certain element of practice
to obtain the correct amount of revs to achieve
this was required. The controls were quite
straightforward, the driver only had a brake-
The British War Department supplied the Belgian
army with Commer lorries to replace those lost to
the invading Germans early in the war
SPECIFICATIONS
Make
Commer
Model
RC
Nationality
Great Britain
Year
1914
Used by
Great Britain, Belgium,
United States.
Production Run
1911-1928
Engine
Commer
Type
Four-cylinder
Fuel
Petrol
Displacement
5,322cc
Power
40.6bhp
Transmission
Lindley pre-selector
Type
Manual
Gears
Three forward, one reverse
Suspension
Leaf springs front and rear
Brakes
Drums rear
Wheels
Steel disc, metal spoke,
wooden spoke
Tyres
920 X 110. Twins on rear
Crew/seats
Three
Dimensions
(overall)
Length
20ft 9in
Width
7ft 3in
Wheelbase
13ft 3in
Weight
55 cwt
Commer lorries and their innovative pre-selector
gearboxes were a hit with World War One troops
he Company of Commercial Cars Ltd (or
Commer as it is more commonly known)
was formed in September 1905 with
the objective of building a commercial vehicle
that would be easy to drive and therefore have
greater appeal to businesses making the transi-
tion from horse to horsepower.
Engineer Charles Linley had designed a very
effective pre-selector gearbox to make gear
changes easier and smoother and he and the
entrepreneur Julian Halford, with the support
of financial backers, established a workshop in
Clapham, South London. They built on the suc-
cess of their 1903 prototype, making Commer
the first company to specialise in the manu-
facture of commercial vehicles with an internal
combustion engine.
By 1906 it was realised that the Clapham prem-
ises would not be big enough so the company
relocated to a purpose-built factory in Luton
from where its first
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The rather stylish cab
indicates that this was a charabanc which has had the
body removed. The Commer behind it also appears to
have been impressed
Test driving the Quarter-ton 4x4 truck - Willys Overland
Model MB and Ford Model GPW
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Can-Do
Can-Am
words
Louise Limb
pictures
Garry Stuart
Eric Bryan looks at the Carden-Loyd Tankette, a British
design that went worldwide
A Canadian firm, Bombardier produced
the motorcycle that followed the BSA B40 and the
Can-Am is still a capable off-road performer
B
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TOP:
Some Can-Ams were assembled at the BSA factory
ABOVE:
The steering damper seen at the neck of the
duplex cradle frame was part of a firm suspension and
steering arrangement suited to off road riding
ABOVE MIDDLE:
The overall style of the military Can-Am
was based largely on the successful Track ‘n’ Trail
( TNT) model
A Canadian built Can-Am motorcycle that followed the
BSA B40 is still a capable off-road performer
in Coventry from Canadian and locally-sourced parts;
Karl Edmondson’s bike features unusual paintwork
BELOW:
The Can-Am began to replace the BSA B40 for
convoy control duties from 1979
y the late 1970s, it was becoming appar-
ent that for convoy marshalling and des-
patch riding duties, Britain’s Armed Forces
were relying on the BSA B40, a motorcycle that
had originally been designed in the late 1950s.
It was launched in 1960 for civilian use as
utilitarian, road-going machine and adapted for
military service in the middle of that decade.
Given off-road tyres and a few tweaks to give
it more torque, the ubiquitous BSA B40, though
durable, dependable and easy to maintain in the
field, was out-dated and the British company
that built it was in rapid decline. A lightweight,
lively motorcycle, modified from a highly suc-
cessful trail bike, the Can-Am was the answer.
Bombardier, an innovative and ambitious
Canadian firm, was used to designing rugged
vehicles for challenging environments. Founded
in 1942 by Joseph-Armand Bombardier, the
Quebec company began designing half-tracks
for the war effort and fully-tracked wilderness
trucks that could take on the worst the Cana-
dian winter could summon up. The continuous
rubber tracks Bombardier pioneered could
be adapted to smaller vehicles and led to the
invention of the snowmobile, launched on the
market in 1959 as the Ski-Doo. Motorcycles
would figure during a relatively short span of
the company’s history, during the 1970s and
early 1980s.
With ambition, a flair for diversification and
by the end of the 1960s, 90 per cent of the
snowmobile market, it’s not surprising that in
1970 Bombardier acquired equally-innovative
Austrian engine manufacturer, Lohner Rotax. In
the same year, Bombardier took on retired Brit-
ish motocross world champion Jeff Smith, one-
time BSA works rider and winner of eight gold
medals in the International Six Days Enduro.
Jeff would help develop and launch Bombar-
dier’s latest venture, the Can-Am motorcycle,
bringing them success in the 1973 International
Six Days Trial (ISDT) with a silver medal on a
175cc Track ‘N’ Trail enduro machine; gold and
bronze also going to Can-Am.
Jeff went on to win gold at the Isle of man
ISDT in 1975 and as director of engineering
saw the Can-Am project through until its end
in 1987. With a proven track-record in tough
enduro competition and the mainstream British
motorcycle industry in its twilight years, the
scene was set for the Can-Am to take the place
of the BSA B40.
A machine was modified to suit military
requirements and took many elements of
the enduro model, the Can-Am TNT (Track ‘n’
Trail) and parts from the early competition
motorcycles, the MX series. The result was a
lightweight, well-balanced and manoeuvrable
machine with 9in of ground clearance and an
approximate range of 140-157miles.
Sitting within a strong frame featuring a dou-
ble loop cradle, typical of 1970s off-road motor-
cycles and key to performance was the Rotax
single-cylinder two-stroke engine. A rotary valve
design helps prevent reverse flow back into
the intake port during the compression stroke,
improving efficiency and performance. Given a
choice of engine capacities from 125cc through
to 370cc, only the 247cc model ever went into
production, the engine detuned from the com-
petition winning 35bhp of the almost unrideable
MX-3 and the more modest 29bhp of the TNT
to a more manageable 26bhp at 7,200 rpm.
Teledraulic front suspension with 6.5in travel,
ground clearance of 9in, a fording depth of
Around 5,000 Can-Ams were in service to NATO
countries until the mid-1980s though many were
disposed of with very low mileage
‘The Can-Am was fitted
with a rear carrying rack
and frame which hung
over the rear wheel at
each side’
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Dutch MD/M38A1 Jeeps are a fairly common sight in
Britain, but Simon Bromley’s was made in America
Collectable Books
On the Shelf
The Red and Green
The Falkands War
Life Machine
The Full Story
welded over the swimming pools on
board the liners that are to act a troop
transport and medical ships and Jolly
and his team are assessing where
they can establish operating theatres.
As the ships sail south, preparations
continue in many ways from training
for the Paras about ‘rectal transfu-
transfu
sions’ with predictable bawdy jokes
in response. Jolly is at the briefing
where Brigadier Julian Thompson
famously said that the campaign
‘would be no picnic.’
However it is when the medical
teams are ashore that the book
becomes breathtaking. With
flashes of humour, Jolly details
establishing the ‘Red and Green
Life Machine’ in an abandoned
shed in Ajax Bay near San Carlos,
the scene of the landings. Red is
the Paras and Green the Marines
as they pool their medical resources
In a calm and measured way, Jolly
talks about an unexploded bomb that
gets lodged it the building’s roof and
the complicated medical procedures
on wounded soldiers - from both
sides. He continues to use the same
calm tone as he describes the bu-
reaucracy of transferring casualties
to the SS Uganda hospital ship,
about gas gangrene and removing a
7.62mm bullet from a casualty’s leg.
He talks of the tragedies suffered
including the SAS men killed in a hel-
icopter crash, the 2 Para casualties
from Goose Green and numerous fu-
nerals after he’d certified the deaths.
As the news emerges that the RFA
Sir Galahad has been hit - there’s
Am
casualties among 16 Field Am-
bulance and numerous badly
burned Welsh Guardsmen
to tend to - it’s Jolly’s team
that helps first. Obstructive
bureaucracy from London half
a world away shows that the
scale of the disaster hasn’t
been understand. By the time,
Jolly gets to June 14, he’s
recording details of Scots
Guards and 2 Para casualties
from Tumbledown and Mount Long-
don respectively.
In the book, Rick Jolly quotes the
Duke of Wellington in saying that the
campaign was ‘a close run thing,’ and
this book shows just how close.
(The book was originally published in
hardback in 1983 by Century, shown
is the 1984 Corgi paperback, and it
was republished in 2007 by Maritime
Books. An updated version - Doctor for
Friend and Foe was published in 2012)
Author
The Sunday Times
Insight Team
Publisher
Sphere
Year
1982
ISBN 0-7221-8282-1
Language
English
Binding
soft-back
Pages
278
Size
131x197mm
(5.25x7.75in)
Price
£2+
(secondhand)
www.abebooks.co.uk
As this issue marks the 35th
anniversary of the Faklands War of
1982, I decided to blow the dust off
two books about the conflict that
have been on my shelves since the
1980s. This first one was published
in the same year of the war. It was
authored by Paul Edddy, Magnus
Linklater and Peter Gillman, a team
of journalists who had been report-
ing on the war in the pages of The
Sunday Times and who pooled their
resources and contacts to produce
this authoritative book.
It is no ‘Boy’s Own’ account with
a lurid cover but a considered and
comprehensive narrative of the
slide towards military action, the
diplomacy that involved Argentina,
the UK, the UN, the EEC, the USA
and more that reverberated around
the world. It touches on Argentina’s
domestic politics and decision to
invade the Falklands. As a result,
it is no one-sided, jingoistic tome
but, from what I can tell, is written
from a neutral standpoint. It, of
course, also details the fighting and,
perhaps inadvertently because of
its matter-of-fact style, further rein-
forces the reputation of the Royal
Marines and others.
The book, illustrated with a
number of black and white images,
describes the first hours of the Ar-
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The despatch rider or ‘Dog Roger’ was a crucial part of the
British Army during World War Two
Author
Rick Jolly
Publisher
Century/Corgi
Year
1983/1984
ISBN
0-552-99068-X
Language
English
Binding
Soft-back
Pages
162
Size
127x197mm (5x7.75in)
Price
£5+ (secondhand)
www.abebooks.co.uk
It’s hard to imagine someone’s desk
diary becoming a gripping, ‘read-every-
line’ war story but that is exactly what
this book is. The author, Surgeon
Commander Rick Jolly, was the Royal
Marines’ senior medic for the Falkands
campaign and, by his own admission
in its opening lines, this book came
gentinian invasion when the Royal
Marines of Naval Party 8901 had
little idea of what was unfolding
before them but, despite being
massively outnumbered, put up a
fierce resistance that could have
seen them all killed. In the event,
they all lived to tell the tale. Later
chapters detail the task force’s
journey south, the sunken ships of
both sides, the helicopter crashes,
the landings, the many battles and
the sheer willpower of the British
soldiers marching huge distances
in wet, winter conditions to displace
the invaders.
I bought this book in 1982,
trying to understand the conflict
I’d watched on the BBC news, I
re-read it for the purposes of this
review and can confirm that it has
stood the test of time. Its authority
shines through and, in my opinion,
it remains one of the best books
about the Falklands War.
JC
from his 1982 diary. Perhaps because
of that, its concise style and economy
of language has the effect of trans-
porting the reader straight to the South
Atlantic winter. Each ‘chapter’ is a day,
some are pages long, others a couple
of paragraphs.
The book starts as preparations, to a
tight timetable, are being made to get
the British Task Force to sea and the
realisation that it is all really happen-
ing; helicopter landing platforms being
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A brief round up military vehicle news from across the
globe plus correspondence we’ve received
On the Shelf
Museum of the Month
Centrespread
Echoes of War
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Military Vehicle Market
Collectable Kit
Calendar Listings
Collectable Books
Highlighting four military books of interest
Looking at what is available to buy, the location & price
Going Down Under - Exploring the Australian Armour
and Artillery Museum, Cairns
Another fine mess - haute cuisine the British Army way
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Supporting event organisers and helping you decide
what events to attend this year
Transport in Port Stanley shortly after the
Argentine surrender
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Two collectable books read and reviewed
Disbanding An Army following the surrender of
Argentina in the Falklands War
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