Recent content by Peg Leg Pom

Back to my speculation or Ireland, how would the Government reacted to someone in Carson's UVF with connections to Harland and Wolf converting a handful or armoured cars in 1912-14.

Well considering the alternative at the time was often the noose for even petty theft it wasn't that bad a deal for the convicts. Seven years (or fourteen) work followed by a chance to start a new life in the colonies is a lot better than three weeks prison followed by dangling at the end of a...

As far as I know Mary Tudor (Bloody Mary) was still Mary Tudor even though she was married to Phillip II of Spain, and Mary Stuart (Queen of Scots) was still Mary Stuart even though she was married to the King of France

It didn't help that the officers in charge of the Gallipoli operation weren't the first team, who were busy in France and the North Sea.

Britain COULD have invested in armoured cars for security in an increasingly tense Ireland that was on the brink of Civil War.

Some should have anyway, they were the ones blocking the transfer of food from other Indian provinces to Bengal.

From what I understand (and I could be wrong) what really upset the Indian politicians wasn't so much that India was involved but that the Viceroy declared war on Germany without even having the curtesy to inform them first, let alone actually consult with them before doing it. With an extra 20...

Not when you consider that the alternative is the horse. While the horse can achieve a higher top speed it can't sustain it for very long. A tracked vehicle able to sustain 6-8 mph (Like the Whippet of 1918) for several hours at a time will soon outpace horse patrols.

Put a Rolls Royce Armoured Car body on the running gear of a Hornsby Artillery Tractor. Job done. However you're not going to get massed ranks of the things in 1914. At most you'd get a company per division for scouting and support. These things are expensive and as yet untested.

You might want a title that sounds less like a porn film.

I'm just speculating on what if. I personally think it's far too open to abuse to work.

At which point the British Government gets off fairly lightly with the British population. They'll be saying at every chance "It's France and Russia that were beaten not Britain. Our armies were still building up and not in a position to do more than save themselves by withdrawing to the...

That's not going to fool anyone, particularly the British who looked at the same idea.

And in this system the abuse is not who get's to take part or not as the laws would specifically prevent that. Rather as the individual would have little choice as to what role they have to fill, who gets the most dangerous jobs with the highest risks to life and limb and who gets to sit in a...

Every political system that's ever been tried has proved to be open to abuse.