----- Original Message -----
From: "John Werner" <jmwerner@mindspring.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 11:46 PM
Subject: [MV] FW: Wheels and Tracks
> For those of you, like myself, who enjoy Wheels and Tracks Magazine, here
is
> what I received from the editor. It seems we will lose not only a great
> individual, and expert MV person, but another fine publication too.
> Regards, John Werner, MVCC/MVPA, Mountain View, California.
>
> ------------------------------------------
>
> "Sadly the Editor Bart Vanderveen is terminally ill with cancer. There
> really is no one else with his breadth of knowledge or who possess such
> a huge archive built up over 50 years' study of military vheicles. After
> considering all the options, it is Bart's wish that the magazine dies
> with him."
>
> Winston G. Ramsey, Editor-in-Chief, Wheels & Tracks
>
This really is the end of an era and its sad to see the only truly
all-encompassing periodical disappear, indeed no one has yet approached Bart
in his scale and scope of knowledge with the drive to run such a magazine
and attract contributions from the respected specialist authors worldwide.
We are saddened to hear that we will loose Bart himself but its totally
understandable that the final issues of W&T be completed whilst he can to
the always expected and always achieved standard.
The now much valued collections of copies from Issue 1 which we and many use
as reference material may perhaps stand as testimony to a fine person
together with those three gems of the Vanderveen "Bibles" known as The
Observers Military Vehicles Directory; To 1940, WWII and From 1945, but
perhaps better known to us here as The Old Testament, The New Testament and
Revelations.
Our thoughts and wishes are with Bart and his family.
A million thanks for W&T and the "Bibles", those who didn't take W&T are
missing a knowledge explosion.
Richard
Southampton - England
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