abandoned U/C carrier

[Gordons]

Originally Posted by Mike Timoshyk

Was that Marsden Matting I saw in one of the pictures....sure looks like...I would loveto get my hands on a couple of lengths of that stuff.

Mike you are correct this is Marsden matting, approx 20 pieces some in very good condition

[king of obsolete]

in your pictures there is a square timber which is actually a winter freighting sleigh bunk. the odds are this machine was pulling a sleigh and when they ran in to bad ice they drove it to shore. 50 years later it is still there because over the years parts were borrowed to keep other machine running.
hope you can drag it home.

thansk
KoO
Published Author

[king of obsolete]

also those welds on the gear box are very impressive for the time frame of using a buzz box on AC current. the water has gotten in and expaned causing the spliting (ok when it freezes). the box can be save, i have rewelded a few.

thansk
KoO
Published Author

[RichardT10829]

I would give my right arm if someone would go retrieve the armour off this for mine ! i cant believe its just sat there mokking me ! Living in the UK sucks big time !

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally Posted by RichardT10829

I would give my right arm if someone would go retrieve the armour off this for mine ! i cant believe its just sat there mokking me ! Living in the UK sucks big time !

Richard,

First of all, welcome to MLU! You've come to the right place for carriers and everything related.

That project you've embarked upon is one hell of a job, especially if you're a first-timer. What I would suggest is that you get hold of Nigel Watson (one of our members, a personal friend and a published expert on the subject of carriers) and see if he or one of his many contacts throughout the UK (Nigel himself is in Scotland) can come up with something a little easier to start with. Carriers aren't for everybody, and they ARE out there - you just have to find the right one for you.

Good luck and keep us posted.

[RichardT10829]

Thanks for that Geoff i have sent him a message. that carrier was offered exceptionally cheap mind, it is located in Fergus Ontario, the vendor lives 7 hours from it so getting lists and pics is problematic, i have been advised most bits are there for it, just not the armour and the engine is seized from standing. I prefer a mk1 if i can get one as this is what my grandfather drove. My budget to get one for resto is $4000 problem I have is if i spend that full amount I will have to store it for a long period over there until i can folk out a further 2k on shipping thats why it eats me to see ones like above just sitting there its gutting !

[Gunner]

The LVT three runger in question is in the Swords and Ploughshares Museum near Ottawa. It was instantly recognisable due to the dent in the handrail over the driver's compartment.

As I understand it, it was recovered as an exercise by the local air cadet squadron and flown to Ottawa in a Herc that had delivered supplies to Yellowknife. It went into the CWM but was too big (and had no real Canadian connection) to fit into the the new CWM. It was traded to the S&P Museum as part of a deal that saw two Rams go from the S&P in exchange for a number of bits from the CWM.

We have sand blasted it, painted it, replaced the windows with lexan and are about to weld patches over the various openings so it can become a gate guard for the Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders in Cornwall, Ontario. I believe that they used LVT 2 and 3 during their landings at Juno beach and the Rhine Crossing and wanted something 'amphibious' to replace their M113.5 Lynx gate guard that has no connection to fine Highland regiment whatsoever.

The engine bay is one solid lump of rust, unrestorable in my mind unless the pocket book is bottomless... I have tackled some difficult projects but this one made me whimper when I crawled in there! The hull is badly cracked and holed (big holes three feet long!) and it is re-enforced underneath with several 10X10 timbers.

We say it all the time; but if only it could talk!

Mike

[Gordons]

Finally family and friends where able to pick up the U/C Mk-1 and a final drive for the LVT-1 Aligator, along with all the Marston Matting good trip, 12 hrs, 17 kilometers -21 today and sunny used a Nodwell, snow cat, Bobcat on tracks and 2 skimmers. This is a New Westminster Regiment U/C.

[maple_leaf_eh]

Some projects have long lead times, but FIVE YEARS?

[Hans Mulder]

If you have time, I'd love to chat to you about this carrier. I recently completed a gate guard carrier for the Westies, and I have my carrier marked to the Westies as well.

[eddy8men]

well done for saving another carrier

[Gordons]

Originally Posted by maple_leaf_eh

Some projects have long lead times, but FIVE YEARS?

Very difficult place to get to, have looked at it for 40 years, I know only 17 kilometers from home ! But almost impossible to get to, has been sitting there since 1947 a bit stripped missing engine, drive line, rear diff with sprockets are there, some of tracks, wheels, a lot of good parts and body and hull uncut, ammo boxes and trays still in place, gas tanks gone, but all the little things that go missing are there, rad cap,

[cletrac (RIP)]

Can we say a bit remote?That's most of the island in the second picture.