MILITANT

After Garry Stewart had rebuilt and used BHH 34J for many years, it was sold on to a new owner Andy, so it headed south to Horsham, in West Sussex. It wasn’t long when in October 2013, it was off north again to live with Nick Williamson in Derbyshire, by which time quite a few mechanical issues had started to appear and the green colour scheme had begun to take on that colour all military vehicle owners fear, the camouflage colour of green mixed with brown rust! Nick had driven the Militant all the way up from Horsham back to his home near Derby and immediately started on the onerous job of going over the bodywork with a needle gun and gallons of red oxide. While in its new, matt red, Nick took the Militant up for a run to its Army ‘birthplace’ – at least, the first place it could call home – the massive military vehicle logistics depot at Hilton. This