CT 163097 Purchase

Brad Mills · #1 24-06-09, 14:42

Picked up another carrier. Interesting to note on this mk I that most of the drilled holes in the Armor for items such as the rear antenna mount, smoke discharger, bren stem mounts ect have been factory riveted to plug them up. Must have been late in the production cycle of mk I's. I have never noticed this before on mk I carriers.

Brad Mills · #2 24-06-09, 14:44

Any idea what these brackets are for?
(the small bracket on the right fan shroud sheet metal and the larger one below the armored air intake)

Brad Mills · #3 24-06-09, 14:48

More photos...

Brad Mills · #4 24-06-09, 14:51

Last for now. Will get some photos of all the spare bits that came with her...

Came with a complete mk II spare road wheel mount as well.

Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP) · #5 24-06-09, 15:36

Oustanding, Brad!

Jordan Baker · #6 24-06-09, 18:08

Nice find

About the sheet metal strap under the air intake. Charlie Fitton was always going on about some brackte that heald the machete there. We could never find any pictures or reference in the parts manual. Perhaps that is what it is for

Bruce Parker (RIP) · #7 24-06-09, 18:42

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Originally Posted by BMills

Picked up another carrier. Interesting to note on this mk I that most of the drilled holes in the Armor for items such as the rear antenna mount, smoke discharger, bren stem mounts ect have been factory riveted to plug them up. Must have been late in the production cycle of mk I's. I have never noticed this before on mk I carriers.

Brad, does your new beast have a data plate? If it does, I bet it says it's a Mk.II (not a Mk.II* though). "Mk.II" was the name given to mortar carriers and all the ones I've seen have Mk.1* armour with the extra holes riveted shut as per yours. That might explain the extra brackets too.

kevin powles · #8 24-06-09, 18:56

Hi Brad, Thats a 3" mortar carrier for sure.

Brad Mills · #9 24-06-09, 20:34

Well thats something. Never thought it was a mortar carrier, that would explain some of the stranger brackets that came with her as well as all the extra rivets in the hull. Even the holes for the wooden shooting rests are rivited (most of them it seems). The holes in the rear fenders are there for the radio mounting tray though.

Sadly it is missing its data plate on the hull behind the driver.

So basically its a complete mk I* (upper and lower) but modified by riveting the essential mk I* holes to make it a mk II ?

I will have to do some more sorting tonight when I get home.

ron · #10 25-06-09, 01:06

Hi Brad,
What a nice find, congratulations, it will be interesting to watch your progress with this one , well done,
Regards Ron.

greg anderson (RIP) · #11 25-06-09, 04:17

My mortar carrier has these holes riveted including those for antenna bracket -seems mortar carrier was not intended to carry a radio -the mortar is mounted on the back armor -no space for battery box there -also there would be holes for mounting the tripod and base plate -they had brackets on inside fenders to hold mortar bombs -Greg