Mother ........

On or around Fri, 3 Feb 2006 10:00:03 -0000, "Paul - xxx" enlightened us thusly:

The 2 rear axles are a bit too far apart, really, and the suspension isn't quite right, but overall, it works quite well apart from a lot of tyre scrub in tight bends.

I had the oportunity to look round one at length, and see it in action.

Admittedly it was very-definately-military version, but four things stood out (and were commented upon by the testers):

1. Handy in deserts - bugger all use in Bosnia (way too wide)
2. rather surprisingly, no more room for the crew and equipment than a "SAS" type 110 - there's alawys something in the way and it's all bonnet and no cab.
3. There were no drain holes in the floor - it filled up with water when it rained, and it couldn't wade because it floated! (at least when it wasn't raining)
4. It can't be reduced in profile without a hacksaw.

On the civvy front.....

I was followed around by one (a proper one, not one of the clones that are around) last winter in the snow up in "them thar hills" (the Peaks).

Last time I saw it it was being very nervous about using a "single track road with passing places", which was a pity as I was heading for a nice narrow gateway.... :-)

Richard

Technicolor? It's the trademark, not a word which should be different in UK and US English as "colour" is.

Acherly no, the Trademarked name is Merkin, hence no U!

Well, the term really refers back to early cinematic colour film process(es). Being developed in America that is spelt "technicolor".

Anyway, lets not fall out over U?

From what we can see in the paint strata our Ambi was painted UN white while out in Bosnia.

Lizzy

The Queensland local prison managers bought some Humvees as armoured patrol vehicles. They added so much armour that the vehicles became hopelessly unreliable, having had several tonnes of weight added to a standard transmission & chassis. They were scrap after a little over a year, offered for auction and no takers.

Karen

As against Pantechnicolor which is reserved solely for large vans :)

so there we are perhaps that should be the description on the V5 and let them write quibble about the U.

in article snipped-for-privacy@individual.net, Lee_D at snipped-for-privacy@NOSPAMlrproject.com wrote on 2/2/06 7:16 pm:

No sign of Zippy, Bungle and George though!

beamendsltd came up with the following;:

I thought there was less room in it ... bloody awful ergonomics.

LOL, never had chance to do either ...

LOL, cruel streak coming out ?

Hmmmmm Shorter ? yes , but not by much Hardly worth the effort in my opinion

.............................Smurf

Its a 18th century affectation in English English, when it became fashionable to adopt a French spelling - hence colour, programme etc.

Melvyn Bragg has written an excellent book on the history of English and the derivatives, like Aussie, Singlish, American English etc.

Steve

maybe not strictly cammo but it looks white to me pass the blue helmet chaps

Technicolor . noun trademark 1 a process of colour cinematography using synchronized monochrome films, each of a different colour, to produce a colour print. 2 (technicolor or Brit. also technicolour) informal vivid colour. - DERIVATIVES technicolored (Brit. also technicoloured) adjective

From the Compact Oxford English Dictionary of Current English

So you is both correct!

Nigel

On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 20:17:28 +0000, Alex scribbled the following nonsense:

Dunno, purple dont look too bad!

No, i'm not allowing UN white.

Alex

I'm not sure it's was an affectation, most of our language is made up of French, German, some Itallian and a lot of Latin derrived words.

Colour without the U would, to me anyway, be pronounced "co-lor", the O sounding like an O rather than sort-of U-ish, i.e. the U softens the O sound.

For example, every English speaker actually knows an awful lot of French words; take practically any word ending in "able" and change the pronunciation to "arble" and hey presto, you know a lot of French words!

Just my 2p's worth....

Richard

On or around Fri, 3 Feb 2006 10:59:02 +0000 (UTC), beamendsltd enlightened us thusly:

I'm not sure a narrow gateway would bother it too much...

I gather they're tank-width, which means they can drive along tank tracks.