Ex-Mil Series - Many left?

Just wondering how many fields remain full of ex-mil Series Landies waiting
to be filtered in to the market. Or have then now moved on mainly to Coil
sprung ones? I see alot of the Ex-mil suppliers do Coiled stuff but it
doesn't seem the same amount of fields full exist or is it just my
perception.

Lee D

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"Lee_D" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Just wondering how many fields remain full of ex-mil Series Landies waiting
> to be filtered in to the market. Or have then now moved on mainly to Coil
> sprung ones? I see alot of the Ex-mil suppliers do Coiled stuff but it
> doesn't seem the same amount of fields full exist or is it just my
> perception.
>
> Lee D
>
>

The fields full of Series III's was due to the army selling
off their remaining leaf sprung motors when the Wolf contract
was delivered. Pre-Wolf Defenders were cascaded down to TA units
etc.

Doubtless there will be some unit somewhere that still has a
Series motor for some reason, but officially they are no longer
in service.

The aforementioned fields full may still be there to an extent,
but I'd suspect that it would be difficult to find a vehicle
anywhere near complete - not least as very many of then were
not even complete when released. Plus the vast majority were
109's, which are getting very difficult to shift and so will
probably be canabalised before being scrapped. I managed
to get two from one of the fields that finished up with
Rainbow Rovers, but even 5 years ago finding one complete was
difficult (a lot of then had aluminium door tops, which
were inevitably missing).

Richard

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On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 09:20:57 +0100, beamendsltd
<[email protected]> wrote:

>The fields full of Series III's was due to the army selling
>off their remaining leaf sprung motors when the Wolf contract
>was delivered. Pre-Wolf Defenders were cascaded down to TA units
>etc.
>
>Doubtless there will be some unit somewhere that still has a
>Series motor for some reason, but officially they are no longer
>in service.
>
>The aforementioned fields full may still be there to an extent,
>but I'd suspect that it would be difficult to find a vehicle
>anywhere near complete - not least as very many of then were
>not even complete when released. Plus the vast majority were
>109's, which are getting very difficult to shift and so will
>probably be canabalised before being scrapped. I managed
>to get two from one of the fields that finished up with
>Rainbow Rovers, but even 5 years ago finding one complete was
>difficult (a lot of then had aluminium door tops, which
>were inevitably missing).

is there not likely to be a big surge in the number of ex-mil landies
availabe when they finish doing all this stupid fighting in
iraq/afganistan?

I was after some military lights for the 101 and the guy at hinstock
(ex-mil supplier) said 'come back when theyre done in iraq and i'll
have been able to get some more in!'

Tom Woods wrote:

|| is there not likely to be a big surge in the number of ex-mil landies
|| availabe when they finish doing all this stupid fighting in
|| iraq/afganistan?

Hmmm. The term "project" rather than "daily driver" comes to mind.

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On 2006-09-24, Tom Woods <[email protected]> wrote:

> I was after some military lights for the 101 and the guy at hinstock
> (ex-mil supplier) said 'come back when theyre done in iraq and i'll
> have been able to get some more in!'

I think this may be another way of saying "When hell freezes over"..

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"Tom Woods" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 09:20:57 +0100, beamendsltd
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>The fields full of Series III's was due to the army selling
>>off their remaining leaf sprung motors when the Wolf contract
>>was delivered. Pre-Wolf Defenders were cascaded down to TA units
>>etc.
>>
>>Doubtless there will be some unit somewhere that still has a
>>Series motor for some reason, but officially they are no longer
>>in service.
>>
>>The aforementioned fields full may still be there to an extent,
>>but I'd suspect that it would be difficult to find a vehicle
>>anywhere near complete - not least as very many of then were
>>not even complete when released. Plus the vast majority were
>>109's, which are getting very difficult to shift and so will
>>probably be canabalised before being scrapped. I managed
>>to get two from one of the fields that finished up with
>>Rainbow Rovers, but even 5 years ago finding one complete was
>>difficult (a lot of then had aluminium door tops, which
>>were inevitably missing).
>
> is there not likely to be a big surge in the number of ex-mil landies
> availabe when they finish doing all this stupid fighting in
> iraq/afganistan?
>
> I was after some military lights for the 101 and the guy at hinstock
> (ex-mil supplier) said 'come back when theyre done in iraq and i'll
> have been able to get some more in!'

there's lenses on fleabay #260034354098 and the usual
http://www.anchorsupplies.com/accesspries.htm not many complete units
about tho'
http://motors.search.ebay.co.uk/mil...efZC12QQfromZR40QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ1QQsacatZ14239
Derek

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Tom Woods <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 09:20:57 +0100, beamendsltd
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >The fields full of Series III's was due to the army selling
> >off their remaining leaf sprung motors when the Wolf contract
> >was delivered. Pre-Wolf Defenders were cascaded down to TA units
> >etc.
> >
> >Doubtless there will be some unit somewhere that still has a
> >Series motor for some reason, but officially they are no longer
> >in service.
> >
> >The aforementioned fields full may still be there to an extent,
> >but I'd suspect that it would be difficult to find a vehicle
> >anywhere near complete - not least as very many of then were
> >not even complete when released. Plus the vast majority were
> >109's, which are getting very difficult to shift and so will
> >probably be canabalised before being scrapped. I managed
> >to get two from one of the fields that finished up with
> >Rainbow Rovers, but even 5 years ago finding one complete was
> >difficult (a lot of then had aluminium door tops, which
> >were inevitably missing).
>
> is there not likely to be a big surge in the number of ex-mil landies
> availabe when they finish doing all this stupid fighting in
> iraq/afganistan?

I wouldn't expect so, on 2 counts:

1. The Wofl's are intended to give 15 years service.

2. No one's ever got out of Afganistan[1], except by giving up.

[1] And we should know, it's the only country the British Empire could
never pacify.

>
> I was after some military lights for the 101 and the guy at hinstock
> (ex-mil supplier) said 'come back when theyre done in iraq and i'll
> have been able to get some more in!'

Richard
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Ian Rawlings <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2006-09-24, Tom Woods <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I was after some military lights for the 101 and the guy at hinstock
> > (ex-mil supplier) said 'come back when theyre done in iraq and i'll
> > have been able to get some more in!'
>
> I think this may be another way of saying "When hell freezes over"..
>

Ah! Soon them, since The Eagles have just toured......

Richard
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