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Tough Truck - Aust Army Land Rovers 1949-2012
« on: June 23, 2020, 02:20:27 AM »
Finished ... now at the printers ....  :)

https://www.trackpadpublishing.com/product-page/tough-truck-australian-army-land-rover-1949-to-2012

Hard back, 276 pages, A4 size, LOTS of images ....

Includes chapters on the FV1801, M274, XF4, and Land Cruiser as well.

Mike



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Re: Tough Truck - Aust Army Land Rovers 1949-2012
« Reply #1 on: June 23, 2020, 05:34:22 PM »
Hello Mike,

That looks like an interesting book,  I do have one question, are most of the pictures in it unpublished. Really liked the ones that I hadn’t seen before in your Battle group Leopard book.

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Re: Tough Truck - Aust Army Land Rovers 1949-2012
« Reply #2 on: June 24, 2020, 01:29:06 AM »
Hi Justin,

Yes, the vast majority of the images you will not have seen before.There are some that have popped up on the internet, and a few that have been seen in articles, but the majority of the circa 1,000 images have not been published previously. Of course, there is also the 87,000 words of information as well, not just images. :)  **Edit: I should also say that a few - not many - of the BGL images, which were first published in 1996, are in this book as well, as they illustrated a certain point I wanted to make ***

If you want to check out some sample pages, they can be seen on the publisher's FB page:

 https://www.facebook.com/trackpadpublishing/

I'm told that Ronnel's Hobbies in Australia have placed an order, so anyone interested may wish to contact that store.

https://www.facebook.com/RonnelsHobbies/


Mike

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Re: Tough Truck - Aust Army Land Rovers 1949-2012
« Reply #3 on: June 24, 2020, 03:06:47 PM »
Looking forward to getting hold of a copy Mike.

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Re: Tough Truck - Aust Army Land Rovers 1949-2012
« Reply #4 on: June 24, 2020, 07:35:39 PM »
Hi Mike,

Great to hear about your up coming book, especially given the world been turned on its head. A good book on Military Land Rovers will be just the tonic to I need to see me thru.

Good luck with the sale numbers.

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Mick

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Re: Tough Truck - Aust Army Land Rovers 1949-2012
« Reply #5 on: June 25, 2020, 08:03:18 AM »
Looks great Thanks Mike, of course I’ll enjoy reading it to, Appreciate the enormous amount of work that would go into a book like this.   8)

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Re: Tough Truck - Aust Army Land Rovers 1949-2012
« Reply #6 on: July 03, 2021, 10:51:58 PM »
An excellent book, picked up a copy at the Tank museum up in Cairns.  Congratulations on the publication very informative  :)
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Re: Tough Truck - Aust Army Land Rovers 1949-2012
« Reply #7 on: July 04, 2021, 12:07:00 AM »
Thank you Clive.

Mike