Hi Lynn,
I agree with all of the above but bare in mind just how desperate the situation was in the UK at that time. There was a huge pressure to not mess with anything that worked and as a result we were behind where we should have been in many fields. Canada and Australia and NZ were tooling up from scratch and so only inherited what we forced on them.
In my view the T16 was by far the best of the WW2 carrier family in terms of its driving and mobility qualities. There were teething troubles but once they got them right they worked well and continued in use post war until that class of vehicle became too small and under protected.
The Windsor in contrast I find under powered and extremely hard work to drive as the track warping phase of the steering just makes it crab as the two bogies move out of line with each other rather than creating a curved track path as in a UC. I am sure the Windsor owners club will disagree but everyone to their own !
David
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