[Steve Guthrie]

Hi there

It was part of a farm-cum-scrapyard auction just west of Peterborough in the summer of 2003.

I went because it was listed as a 'Former US Army half-tracked vehicle'.

It's not, but it seems the farmer bought it years ago after it was converted into a log skidder. He apparently bought it for the engine, but never got around to doing anything with it. There was nobody that remembered the thing arriving or why the left hand suspension unit was mounted the way it was. There were literally hundreds of items to be auctioned so I couldn't hang around to see what happened to the carrier, but when I ran into the auctioneer later, he did say it was sold and not for scrap, unlike a lot of the other vehicles in the sale.

The only other carrier I know about in the area is at Harold Carlaw's museum in Campbellford.



Steve