Featured Rocket Bye Bye Cerberus

I always had long hair, but son, grandson, brother, nephew of professional military. And yes we all respect each others.

 

If asked your number and you used letter o instead of 0 you were told ‘There are no letters in numbers in the Army’.
And here we are now with 2 Service numbers with letters in them.
Is it/was it just the Army that didn’t have letters, or, was it done to prevent numbers becoming toooooo long?
Ken.

 

Really don't know mate, but all the lads that joined the Navy at the same intake as me had similar letters/numbers.

 

I am not sure for army or royal navy numbers but RAF the position of the letter determined if you were non-comissioned or comissioned rank.

think navy had letters to determine branch and comission status and army just had numbers.

 

24147460

 

That Tiger will certainly be more usable than the Rocket.
The Rocket is the bike I'd choose to cross America on, mile after mile of relatively straight Interstate/highway but a bit on the unwieldy side for our A's and B's. It's a numbers bike really. If a big Harley and a Boss Hoss had a love child, this would be it. Everyone to his/her own of course but my logic is, on a bike with such power you're going to want to use it, which means going very fast, which necessitates a full fairing IMO. Hence my love affair with a ZZR1400.
Enjoy the Tiggy, Dilli!

 

Only 1/4 mil behind mine Wessa, musta been mid 60s?
Ken.

 

1968 mate

 

Too expensive for you Kenbro

 

Very very nice indeed dilli.

 

The handling will be shite with a front wheel that shape mate.

 

I'm just not sure that there was any need to drag up a post from 4 years ago, it wasn't particularly helpful or even really relevant to the discussion at the time.

 

Very wise mate.....

 

Ditto,

 

Dilli, are you having the full package on your bike including all the crash bars. lights ect ect

 

Nice, happy for you mate

 

D176280A
Navy numbers corresponded with when you joined. So D175 would be before me until they ran out of numbers and it goes onto the next. Mine was back in 1979 so God knows what they are on now. Will find out in Feb when my son joins

 

Sorry @dilligaf I must have missed it mate in amongst all the other random stuff on here......when do you do the change over?