17-12-2007, 10:21 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1   | Sir John Rix RIP Not just the men on the front-lines who helped win the war. Chairman of Vosper Thornycroft who when turned down for the Navy had resolved to build warships instead. Obituaries - Telegraph MTB 102 Motor Torpedo Boat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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17-12-2007, 11:35 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3  | Another interesting life of one in the background.
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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17-12-2007, 12:01 PM
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You're Top Poster: #12 | To this sites credit, it has already shown that the people who backed up those in the front lines are given the space on here that they surely deserve. Good on ya! Regards Hugh
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Haven't looked into surviving MTBs too much, if at all, so it's pleasing to see one in such great condition. Thornycroft is better known to me as a truck builder. Not a man to be stopped by the looks of it. Love this bit: On one occasion he was on board an MTB of the Felixstowe and Yarmouth Squadron, part of the RNVR, when it was ordered at short notice to intercept some German E-boats which were on a raiding mission. Much to his delight, Rix spent the night at sea with his RNVR colleagues, successfully protecting a convoy of merchant ships from the enemy.
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp  Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. Last edited by Antipodean Andy; 17-12-2007 at 12:06 PM.. |
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You're Top Poster: #10 | Quote:
Trucks were a sideline of theirs. They have been building Torpedo boats since the 1880s. (But I know trucks are a speciality of yours!) | |
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19-12-2007, 01:00 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Speciality/obsession - yeah. Heck of a side line! I had an order for a book about an MTB and her crew, forget the title now, but the seller hasn't delievered it yet. They were contacting the publishers to hunt it down but I haven't been charged yet (five months now) so I suspect they haven't found it!
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