The LRDG operated so far back into the Sea of Sand , that there is a fair chance that they were and still are the only people to have moved over much of that territory .
That was the point of long range patrolling , to appear out of nowhere on the coastal plain , cause havoc , and then ,
just disappear.
The 'nomads' if they ever went off the beaten track and came across the truck , would have had no use for truck parts .
Camels are put together differently
horrible kids.
Leave the kids alone , nothing wrong with the climbing all over the truck .
Kids playing around won't hurt the old gal in the desert, but
the least the museum staff could do is inflate the tires of
their display truck - it doesn't take that much effort.
This bothers me a whole lot more.........
Regards,
Steve.
The same thought crossed my mind when I first saw that museum photo .
The museum left it as it was found. Flat tires and all.
I'm sure when I first saw it displayed it was in a big sandbox.
Pete
The buggas , it puts us Kiwi in a bad light eh , our truck having a flat tyre
Very cool truck!! Is the tire flat or just low on air pressure??? Those of us that live in a desert and play in the sand know that when the powder gets deep, Just take some air out of your tires and away you go!!!!!!
Semper Fi
Phil
35 lbs seems to be what they went with
One of the difficulties with these was tyre pressures. If pressure were high, there was a strain on the engine and sticking in the sand. If lowered, they ran more freely but developed punctures in the rocky places. 35 lbs was found to be a good average pressure. Patches put on with solution came unstuck with the heat, and vulcanised ones were hardly any more successful.
The SDF Kufra Convoys (Frameset)
Those tires are as hard as a rock and dry rotted. Any air would turn the to powder. Rubber + desert, UV and time = new geology.
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