Circa 1988/89 MT photos

[Roy W]

I have found my old photo albums whilst packing to move house.

I have sent some photos to Morpheus for uploading.

The first batch where the riders are wearing orange tabbards are from a 1988 Motorcycle Instructors course at the Army School of Mech Transport at Leconsfield. The photos are all over the north including Grimsby (I can still smell the fish!)









The second off road batch are from a learners course I ran in 1989 at Ripon North Yorks.
The students rode Can Ams or MT 500's. This was the off road stage. Some had only been riding for three weeks at this stage and were all atill learners.

The photos are at a training area called Ellington Banks, Ripon.















The last photo is taken in the MT hanger at 51 Fd Sqn, RE Ripon, the two sprogs tied to the trailer racks have been painted in Corps Colours as a welcome to MT Troop. There are a couple of MT's in teh foreground.



Oh Happy Days !

Roy

[ralph]

great photos

[Kruimeltje1966]

Hi Roy,

Nice pics!!

I hope You can place a picture with battle dress uniform and how You drove on the bike.

Many Thanks

Adrie

[bth2bth2]

great pics.

ive just had a greenhouse delivered yesterday and had a good chat with the driver.he was telling me that he past his bike test in the army on an mt.he was extolling the pain and pleasures of salisbury plain.it certainly stuck in his memory.

brian

[Roy W]

These photos show the issued two piece black barbour outfit issued to dispatch riders. The green open faced Cromwell helmets had a wrap around visor which attached with three press studs onto the helmet.

Boots were normally normal issue Combat High boots, although there were calf length DR boots abvailable.

Gloves were either 'yellow leather' gauntlets or black issue Northern Ireland gloves.

Roy

[danswankie]

i wonder where these bikes are now ?? mabee they belong to some member of the club ? who knows

[arceye]

Fantastic pics
Reminds me of my time in the Engineers. My initiation was being hung on the back of a tank and being greased up.
It stopped me squeaking but i had to throw my cloths in the bin.
We had a few can-ams in our unit but no MTs.
Are those Nortons the ones with a rotary engine ?

[Green Goblin]

Excellent photos Roy. Well done for posting them. Have you any more?

[Roy W]

Might have somewhere, it's just a case of finding which loft box they are in!

[Roy W]

Fantastic pics
Reminds me of my time in the Engineers. My initiation was being hung on the back of a tank and being greased up.
It stopped me squeaking but i had to throw my cloths in the bin.
We had a few can-ams in our unit but no MTs.
Are those Nortons the ones with a rotary engine ?

Were we at Munsterlager by any chance?

Yes, they were Norton Interpols with the Wankel Rotary engine. The instructors at Leconsfield used them because they wanted something faster than the 'instructor' students. They also wanted to look like Police Bikes I think!

It was a cracking course, 4 weeks of blatting around North England on Armstrongs in between lesson planning and off roading. Once qualified I spent 6 months doing nothing but courses back at Ripon. Surprising how popular you become with Officers who can't get to grips with the part 1 test on a 500 (the old part 1). The figure of 8 cones were a laugh!