Title:MVEE VEHICLES AND EQUIPMENT FOR BAOR [Allocated Title]
Film Number:DEG 114
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Summary: Compilation of sequences illustrating main armoured fighting vehicles and equipment in use by the British Army of the Rhine during the 1970s.
Description: Brief demonstration by the following vehicles at various locations: a Chieftain fitted with mine plough, a Chieftain ARV, Spartan and Scorpion in snow conditions, recovery of Scorpion by a Spartan in the snow, a Samaritan. An SP70 being unloaded from ship and loaded on to 60 tonne semi-trailer, a Foden 10 ton 155mm howizter tractor. Unloading ammo pallets from 10 tonne Foden limber then winching a Leyland Crusader Recovery Tractor, a Bedford 8 ton truck and trailer, a Foden 16 ton tanker (22500 litres) being recovered by Leyland Crusader, a Scammell Commander and 60 tonne semi-trailer. A Combat Engineer Tractor swimming and then using its rocket propelled earth anchor.
