The armoured vehicles that run on the rails fascinate me!
Here is a pic on this forum of a Land Rover so converted in the UK. I have pic also of one converted thus in Kenya for use during the Emergency.
http://www.friendsoftherail.com/phpBB2/ ... over#p9237
North of the border I travelled a few times around Rutenga Junction using an armored rail vehicle - very top heavy and unstable at speed! An Ojay - based on a Kudu armored vehicle.
The museum at Bulawayo also had a couple of examples of other armored rail vehicles.
Stefan - your mention of armored Land Rover there could do both rail and road is very interesting as I never such a vehicle or heard of one in Rhodesia, at that time. The conversions were all straight rail conversions (with kits) and could only be reverted to road by reversing the conversion - which had to be done at workshops.
This would mean that the vehicle you refer to is unique and certainly generally unknown. I can find also no reference of such a vehicle used by the BSAP or INTAF or Guard Force or RR, or any of my other records, and I have also called a couple of other people with the same negative results.
Does your cousin have further details and photos? If so I would like to contact him off line so we can record the info historically before it is lost (I am also assisting with a new publication re this era).
