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Title: Tilts on lorries
Post by: Sunray on 08 June 2017, 09:43:20 AM
I see Ian at Irregular has belatedly added a tilt to his Open Blitz lorry - perhaps he was inspired by my scratch build attempts ? ;D
The Opel without a tilt is also available.

A tilt makes a lorry useful on the table as its load of troops are hidden. - and you can play games like deploying a troop of empty or half full lorries to a flank or area as a bluff.  I always get suspicious of lorries/APCs who infantry don't debuss.

Can we lobby for a tilt on MDV22 - the Zil 151??
Title: Re: Tilts on lorries
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 08 June 2017, 10:03:42 AM
Misread that thread title!  ;)
Title: Re: Tilts on lorries
Post by: Ithoriel on 08 June 2017, 10:08:33 AM
Quote from: mad lemmey on 08 June 2017, 10:03:42 AM
Misread that thread title!  ;)

Not JUST me then :D
Title: Re: Tilts on lorries
Post by: Wulf on 08 June 2017, 10:12:20 AM
No, not just you...  =)
Title: Re: Tilts on lorries
Post by: petercooman on 08 June 2017, 12:57:12 PM
Yes really not the only one!  ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Tilts on lorries
Post by: Techno on 08 June 2017, 01:27:21 PM
You smut obsessed oiks.

(I didn't misread it.  :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o)

Shall we all get our own coats ?

Cheers - Phil

Title: Re: Tilts on lorries
Post by: d_Guy on 08 June 2017, 01:51:02 PM
As a Yank - doubly confused! Thought it dealt with some relationship to the perpendicular. Oh wait - dang! - and did I say "Yank"!?  :o

Does this actually have something to do about adding a trailer?
Title: Re: Tilts on lorries
Post by: Wulf on 08 June 2017, 01:53:07 PM
Nope, a canvas top cover.
Title: Re: Tilts on lorries
Post by: Sunray on 08 June 2017, 02:00:37 PM
A few right tilts on this forum!  ;D
Title: Re: Tilts on lorries
Post by: fsn on 08 June 2017, 02:06:41 PM
Canvas tilt. What do they call them on the sinister side of the Atlantic?
(http://c7.alamy.com/comp/E8YFWD/a-1914-ww1-locomobile-war-department-wd-lorry-with-wooden-wheels-and-E8YFWD.jpg)
Title: Re: Tilts on lorries
Post by: d_Guy on 08 June 2017, 02:16:19 PM
Quote from: Wulf on 08 June 2017, 01:53:07 PM
Nope, a canvas top cover.
Thanks - so much for the efficacy of google search  :)


Quote from: fsn on 08 June 2017, 02:06:41 PM
Canvas tilt. What do they call them on the sinister side of the Atlantic?

I don't get out much - possible somewhere in the States they are called "tilts". Around here we call them "tarps" or "covers". Old timers (80+) some times call them "bonnets" which may add to the confusion.
Title: Re: Tilts on lorries
Post by: petercooman on 08 June 2017, 03:08:05 PM
We call them the 'basje' in dialect with a 'j' like in 'Japan'   :P
Title: Re: Tilts on lorries
Post by: Sunray on 08 June 2017, 03:49:52 PM
There you are- Pendraken Forum does more to educate men of a certain age than Open University  :o
Title: Re: Tilts on lorries
Post by: d_Guy on 08 June 2017, 03:58:48 PM
Or Heidi Fleiss, apparently.

Incidently, I think by now Sunray has earned a tilt on at least the MVD22  :)
Title: Re: Tilts on lorries
Post by: Techno on 08 June 2017, 04:07:15 PM
Quote from: Sunray on 08 June 2017, 02:00:37 PM
A few right tilts on this forum!  ;D

Definitely.  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil