From: James Shanks (n1vbn@bit-net.com)
Date: Mon Feb 25 2002 - 22:38:13 PST
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Notton" <Richard@fv623.demon.co.uk>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 5:33 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Call me stupid! (CMS) acronyms
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nigel Hay" <Nigel@milweb.net>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 10:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [MV] Call me stupid! (CMS) acronyms
>
>
> > NOS -New Old Stock (Never on Sundays)
> > Jeep - Just Enough Essential Parts
> > Bottom - Back Over to the owners manual
> > SABENA ( Belgian airline) Same Awful Bloody Experience Never Again
> >
> We've been here before but what the hell. . . . . . . . .
>
> OLNA. (MV connection, in-service RN supply ship) Oh Lord, Never Again.
> Of course the old chestnuts like:
> FORD. Fix or repair daily/Found on road, dead.
Found On Russian Dock.
James Shanks
MVPA 23128
1998 IMZ 8.103 Russian OD paint job right from the Factory. (Built in the
original plant in Irbit, Siberia, Russia. Comes complete with sidecar.
www.ural.com
1984 HD FLHT-C
> LOTUS. Lots of trouble, usually serious.
>
> Some long extinct UK motor cycle trade names (bit unfair to the Americans)
> DOT
> DMW
> JAP
> AJS
> (translations intentionally omitted, awaiting a reply)
>
> And of course the Japanese motorcycle makers cannot resist an acronym for
every
> gizmo going and applying same to the vehicle bodywork.
> Famously YPVS (US unfair too, a screaming stroker) which popularly became
the
> bike name to this day.
> RD, LC, KIPS, ATAC, EXUP, AVDS, FAIS, BALLS (having realised they'd
dropped one,
> they dropped the acronym sharpish too), plus many, many more.
>
> Richard
> Southampton - England
> -Solent Area MVT-
> http://www.solentmvt.co.uk
>
>
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