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Originally Posted by John McGillivray
The original Sexton I was built to fill a British order..
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Actually the Sexton was developed to meet a March 1942 request from McNaughton for an SP for Canadian armoured divisions. When it was demonstrated in the UK in early 1943, the Brits were so impressed by it, that they dropped their order for 300 US T51s (M7 Priests armed with a 25-pdr) and placed an order with MLW for the same number of Sextons. See Canada's Pride page 115.
Roger