Singapore Vacation

[Lance]

Off to Singapore this weekend on vacation. Any suggestions for a must visit for an Enfield lover? Wife has most of the vacation planned but I am sure she excluded all the military museums and miltaria shops

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[Mr. Mister]

I have been to Singapore three times, all while in the Navy (US Navy).

What a wonderful, clean, and friendly place.

I wanted to see some of the historical places in relation to WWII while I was there but got caught up doing what sailors do best on leave...

Have a great vacation!

[bradtx]

Lance, You might want to stroll over the the main Singapore Police building and inquire if they have any more No.5s in the basement. (I think they're all gone, tho'.)

Brad

[Bindi2]

singapore is very anti firearms. Have removed originals from view and replaced with poorly made copies. Dont even try to transport firearms through there in your baggage on a non stop flight. Freight is also very difficult.

[Badger]

Have a safe and enjoyable trip Lance ....

Regards,
Doug

[ireload2]

Look in the phone book for a gun shop. You will not find any.
A female engineer there seemed shocked to find out that in the rest of the world it was legal to shoot deer.

There is a very nice restaurant out on top of hill on Sentosa Island.

[Peter Laidler]

Unlawful possession of a firearm was a hanging offence when I was there but you could own them legally

[Mk VII]

It's difficult to find any reminders of the past in Singapore. Most of it has been torn down and built anew, repeatedly. The only thing most people are interested in is making money.

[Peter Laidler]

How things change. When I was there, all we were interested in was SPENDING money! I remember the HUGE (and I mean HUGE Ordnance Vehicle Depot just across the water in Johore Bahru) being full to overflowing with vast amounts of Army vehicles and all the Brits were bringing home were those of strategic value, such as ambulances, Fire Engines, Bedford busses for some reason and the rest was being disposed of, Some were used as targets for the 3.5" M20 Rocket Launchers and 84mm Carl Gustav's at Ashan ranges. The Indians came and purchased all of the Bedford RL's. My girlfriend of sorts dad who was in the Ordnance Corps purchased a brand new, still crated, Mini for peanuts (it was the equivalent of £84) which he immediately shipped back to England.

I don't know how we got to here from Lee Enfields but times were pretty good and I wrote off for myself a pair of consecutively numbered Army Omega wristwatches that I still have.

While talking of Ashan ranges, we regularly used to move old Japanese tank hulks around the impact area as targets as there were no tanks there (there were a few War Reserve Centurions but they went to Australia and thence, to Vietnam) There were also old Bren Gun carrier hulls too

[Devils Own]

Sentosa Island has lots of stuff about WWII and the Japanese invasion. It is pretty good.

Steve