Hamster Posted September 11, 2015 Report Share Posted September 11, 2015 It al looks great but you'll probably find the warheads in the back of what looks like a Tesco truck 20 miles ahead! :-) If not a week before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshwarrior Posted September 11, 2015 Report Share Posted September 11, 2015 It al looks great but you'll probably find the warheads in the back of what looks like a Tesco truck 20 miles ahead! :-) +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben0850 Posted September 11, 2015 Report Share Posted September 11, 2015 I once caught up with a nuclear convoy heading north on the A1 through north Yorkshire and followed a sensible distance behind it for a little while out of curiosity, it was absolutely brilliant as the police had cars stationed on every bridge crossing the road and once the convoy passed under they romped ahead to the next one, it was very slick. After a few miles i got bored and decided to overtake and when passing the police were giving it the big hurry up sign so i gave it a bit of welly, they were not in the least interested that i was doing around a ton, they just kept waving to hurry up. I kept the hammer down for a few miles after and was still overtaken a few times by the rozzers moving on to the next bridge over the road. My dad was a chief fire officer in Fife and on the very rare occassion that they moved nuclear weapons to either the naval armament depot just outside Rosyth or to RAF Leauchars that they would phone the local emergency services just before entering the region giving details that a hazardous shipment would be passing through in case of an incident that they had to respond to. As the convoy progressed they would update with precise details of timings, etc. All planned and executed brilliantly. Yep, quite often the convoys called in RAF Leeming as a rest point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VicW Posted September 11, 2015 Report Share Posted September 11, 2015 Before the UK had Trident as a nuclear deterant it had the V Bomber aircraft and all the RAF stations where these aircraft were based had nuclear weapons storage areas. Nuclear weapons convoys were not uncommon then up and down the A1 for Cottesmore and Wittering, in Lincolnshire for Waddington and Scampton and in Norfolk and Suffolk for Marham and Honington. The one at Waddington in Lincolnshire is still visible south of Lincoln and east of the airfield along side the A15. Vic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozzy518 Posted September 11, 2015 Report Share Posted September 11, 2015 I may or may not have worked within a secure area where instant sunshine munitions might have been stored at RAF Honington. We may have had convoys regularly calling in and taking we177 things for a drive. The nuclear deterrent is now the Navy's thing . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted September 11, 2015 Report Share Posted September 11, 2015 I may or may not love this thread! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keg Posted September 11, 2015 Report Share Posted September 11, 2015 I may or may not love this thread! :lol: Why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted September 11, 2015 Report Share Posted September 11, 2015 Simply because I used to work in this field and know what they carry, I love all the conjecture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harnser Posted September 11, 2015 Report Share Posted September 11, 2015 When they bring them into Norfolk a couple of good old boys push them down the A47 in wheel barrows . Harnser Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennett Posted September 11, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 11, 2015 No not any more, they have up graded to massey 135s and an old flat bes trailer. TIGHTCHOKE, I'm only going on what I read on the internet. How close to the mark is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRYAN3 Posted September 11, 2015 Report Share Posted September 11, 2015 When they bring them into Norfolk a couple of good old boys push them down the A47 in wheel barrows . Harnser So they can grip barrow handles with webbed fingers then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keg Posted September 11, 2015 Report Share Posted September 11, 2015 (edited) Simply because I used to work in this field and know what they carry, I love all the conjecture. What?, conjecture on here? Making two and two add up to 694? Surely not on PW? Ted Heath guilty and most of the house of commons has been the best so far...all quiet on that now. It's one of the reasons i love PW No not any more, they have up graded to massey 135s and an old flat bes trailer. TIGHTCHOKE, I'm only going on what I read on the internet. How close to the mark is it? I think on average, 10% on t'web is true. Look at the one of the current threads about the man taped to the tree..... Anyway, i though they were little grey fergies. Edited September 11, 2015 by keg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaun4860 Posted September 11, 2015 Report Share Posted September 11, 2015 Slightly off topic but when I started driving HGV's I noticed a number of battleship grey trailers and tractor units all over the place, Mainly M62 M6 A1 Like this thread my imagination ran riot as to what they were....... I eventually found out when I started working for said company. Warburtons the Bakers They didn't want the general public at the time to know they were shipping bread products all over the country as they were "local" bakers. (small sales vans were in company colours) Eventually some bright spark told the bosses of all the free advertising they were missing out on, Bloomin great orange things all over the place now We live and learn, I was convinced it was something sinister Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keg Posted September 11, 2015 Report Share Posted September 11, 2015 Dayglo orange IIRC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaun4860 Posted September 11, 2015 Report Share Posted September 11, 2015 Dayglo orange IIRC Its a horrible colour yes I know it has a wheel missing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keg Posted September 11, 2015 Report Share Posted September 11, 2015 You couldn't miss em! Weren't Dyno-rod even worse in those days? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OJW Posted September 11, 2015 Report Share Posted September 11, 2015 Haha, we say the Nuke people are sad for following Nuke convoys about... And yet we follow flocks of pigeons about and sit in bushes for hours on end. Pot. Kettle.Black. I was told it was the Marines who guard them, think they also guard some nuclear facilities and call it "going behind the wire" because they can't leave the facility for the length of their deployment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted September 12, 2015 Report Share Posted September 12, 2015 Its a horrible colour &&0 yes I know it has a wheel missing Picture taken in Liverpool? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaun4860 Posted September 12, 2015 Report Share Posted September 12, 2015 Picture taken in Liverpool? Lol M62 Birch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karl_h Posted September 12, 2015 Report Share Posted September 12, 2015 It's funny reading what people think happen. In all honesty it is not that exiting. A lot of stuff on the net from so called experts or people who have been told makes me giggle. They are not that dangerous really, I sleep next to them most nights of the week Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cambsman Posted September 12, 2015 Report Share Posted September 12, 2015 Don't want to **** on anyone's chips but why would we be moving nuke warheads to Marham? Think about it. The UK deterrent is submarine based. Not many of them in Norfolk. We have not had an air launched capability for a good few years. Just saying..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVB Posted September 12, 2015 Report Share Posted September 12, 2015 Don't want to **** on anyone's chips but why would we be moving nuke warheads to Marham? Think about it. The UK deterrent is submarine based. Not many of them in Norfolk. We have not had an air launched capability for a good few years. Just saying..... Don't the Americans though and hence why I mentioned Lakenheath. But would the UK transport US nukes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KFC Posted September 13, 2015 Report Share Posted September 13, 2015 Not many bases left now but, back in my day, they had teams on standby whenever any movement took place in their area in case of an incident. I had a particularly galling episode because I was on one of these teams. I was within three days of demob when we had an excercise kick off. My squadron would disperse to Norway for a week as part of this so it was accepted that I would not go on the detachment and, as soon as all the aircraft had dispersed then I could take my time doing my demob clearance and foxtrot oscar. Well, the aircraft went and we cleared up then I went to see the shift chief to let him know I was off. Oh how I laughed when he told me he'd put me on the movement team so I had to stay on camp and in contact for the next three days. It was a command duty so nobody was allowed to stand in for me. The biggest irony was that he'd stayed behind too because he was getting demobbed the same as me so he'd just put any old names forward because he couldn't be bothered to check. When I left the RAF I settled locally, as did he, and about six months later I saw him in a local pub and we had a good old chat about old times Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twistedsanity Posted September 13, 2015 Report Share Posted September 13, 2015 There is a huge amount of nuclear waste that is transported by rail and passes the bottom of people's gardens without their knowledge on a very regular basis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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