Ford M8 restoration
Leaking oil seal of the timing gear cover on our GMC CCKW353 ST6 “Ordnance Shop Truck”
March 2016 : the oil seal of the timing gear cover is leaking. After taking down the radiator, the pulley was hard to extract. The woodruff key needed to be replaced and since we could not find the exact same size we had to do some adjustment. The bad surprise came with the timing gear…
Work on our Laffly V15T
In 2001 a lot of maintenance had been done on the vehicle, in particular an overhaul of the distribution. Then the wiring harness was made anew in 2012/2013. Since then, the vehicle was dormant, waiting on a sponsor who would care regularly for it. In 2015, excellent news, a new member fell in love with…
Jeep “Follow Me”
On the crowded airfields, sometimes in bad weather, these Jeep helped the planes find their take off point or else their parking spot. Some planes offered such a poor ground view to the pilot that they needed to crab on the tarmac to better see where they were going. For bigger planes that could not…
Normandy, June 6, 2016
UNIVEM gathered on its camp « Dog Green » about sixty participants and about thirty vehicles, Jeep, Dodge and the two half-tracks of the club. Another club was invited, the « 30th Infantery Division ». They came with a dozen participants, a Scout Car White, an ambulance Dodge and several Jeep. http://30thinfantrydivision.free.fr/Association/association.htm UNIVEM program was as follows : Saturday,…
EUROSATORY 2016
Once again, UNIVEM is present at Eurosatory ! Eurosatory is the leading event in the world dedicated to land & air land Defence and Security. It is organized by COGES. This edition is held in Paris from June 13rd to 17th, 2016. In 2014, Eurosatory gathered 1,507 exhibitors from 59 countries; 55,786 visitors from 143…
Normandy, June 6, 70th commemoration
An event that left its mark on us : it was the last “decade” celebration to which veterans could still participate. UNIVEM had invited two D-Day veterans with their family : Bill Elwood and John Trippon, and a third one, Dough Cahow, Korean veteran but whose brother fell during the Battle of the Bulge in Ardennes,…
70th commemoration of Paris Liberation : UNIVEM invited at the big fair “Foire de Paris”
70 years ago, the Liberation of Paris, UNIVEM invited at the « Foire de Paris » It was a large and beautiful stand which attracted a crowd permanently. With only little means a spectacular setting had been installed around the wreck of a 1938 Peugeot car 201-M. With the Sherman tank M4 A2 “Arcis sur Aube”, an…
60th commemoration of Paris Liberation
It has been a spectacular celebration for which the City of Paris had hired a producer and director. We did several rehearsals at night. Many collectors participated with their vehicles. The finale with a big official parade in front of the President on the town hall place, and a parade on the Champs Elysées made…