Thanks, 101 Club
Congratulations on an excellent show at Billing. We had great fun round the off-road course in Bryan's 101 Ambulance; it was a bit tight through some of the trees, but we made it through with no damage and without getting stuck once!
However, I want to say "thank you" to a few people, without whom this year's Billing would not have been so much fun. On the way back to the camp site after our second off-road session, the steering on the 101 let out a few loud bangs, and then gave up completely. A broken steering box was diagnosed.
Bryan bought the ambulance from Craddock last year, so we went and saw David from Craddock's, who, completely by chance, had put a RHD steering box on the auction truck! Many thanks to David for finding it and selling it to us.
The next question was how to fit it - we had a few tools but nothing that would remove the drop arm. A quick chat later and it transpired that the guys from the 101 club had brought their drop arm puller with them, completely by chance! Many, many thanks to Steve and Darren from the 101 club for fitting the new box for us and getting the 101 going again.
The least we could do was to display the ambulance on the club stand for the rest of the show...We'll be back next year!
Andrew Marchant and Bryan Moss (101 FC Ambulance)
* That's the spirit of the show all right!
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Image above scanned from
the October 2001 issue of
Land Rover Enthusiast magazine.
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