IN 1992, ram raiders caused thousands of pounds worth of damage to businesses in Swindon and surrounding villages. The inventive crooks went to extraordinary lengths – even attaching huge iron poles to a stolen recovery truck in an effort to drag an ATM from the wall of a Gorse Hill branch of Lloyds. The Adver picture archive records three ram raids in the summer, autumn and winter of 1992. The town centre spree In June 1992, a ram raid gang went on an extraordinary spree in Swindon town centre. The gang stole a high-powered green Rover from the Brown Jack pub in Wroughton on June 8 before heading into town.