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Old 17-04-20, 13:25
Jakko Westerbeke Jakko Westerbeke is offline
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Originally Posted by David Herbert View Post
I suppose that the guy that dismantled the tractor may have come back for the remaining bits the next day - he may not have had the ability to recover the tractor in one piece given that the tanks and tractors could not move on that beach.
It looks like the winch was left on the beach:

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This is a photo from 31 July 1947, and the cab and winch are there but the arm isn’t. It still surprised me that the tractor would still have been operational, but maybe the winch wasn’t and so it was left behind, while the blade was salvaged for re-attaching to the tractor?
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