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The First Battallion The Manchester Regiment: Part 6 - A Convoy On The Tapah / Cameron Highlands Road

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Subject :The First Battallion the Manchester Regiment: Part 6 - A Convoy on the Tapah / Cameron Highlands Road
Published By : None 
Location : Perak
Estimated Year : 1951
Media Type : Photograph
Source : Tom Turnbull & John Harding, Australia
Remark : This series of photographs shows a military convoy from the Manchester Regiment winding its up to Cameron Highlands from Tapah.

From left to right the photographs show:

  • The beginning of the journey.

  • The first two vehicles in the convoy were the armoured personnel carriers nicknamed ‘sweat boxes’ due to the amount of heat radiated inside these vehicles with their thick armour plating.

  • The Manchester’s on a break; the convoy has halted for a short while; note the Ferret Armoured car in the background patrolling the road.

    • To go to Part 1, click here.

    To read an introduction to the Ferret Armoured Car, click here.

    Filename : 20100224-001