40 years ago I was in the British Royal Engineers in Germany, driving and teaching others to drive the Alvis Stalwart 6x6 High Mobility Load Carrier (HMLC).
In 2013 I joined the HMLC group on Facebook, and have helped admin the group for some years.
During Lockdown 1 of Covid in 2020, I was put on Furlough to stay home. I do not own a Stalwart, but started to gather all the British army Workshop and User manuals. These manuals have been declassified by the Ministry Of Defence (MOD), and are free to down load. This was done to help keep the remaining Stalwarts out of the breaker yards. It’s taken me 3 years, but I now have all the Workshop manuals, and most of the User manuals.
I then set up a cheap webpage, to freely share these manuals outside of Facebook.
At the same time that I started gathering manuals, I also started researching the Stalwart’s history and story.
I got fed up with correcting the incorrect information on Wikipedia, and their editors deleting my corrections because they wouldn’t read the manuals. So I created new web pages for the Stalwart, to record its history. This also expanded to cover the Bedford trucks, the BV202, and British army field cooking equipment.
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