New D-Day vehicles for the Canadian army

[peter simundson]

In a few posts Vet's (which we are supposed to love and respect) have been called liars and unreliable sources, a uniform I've got on the rack doesnt exist in a canadian pattern and colour and a British maker's name, even though the guy who says it doesn't has never seen it, Clive, who has done a great job publishing a series of informative Canadian books calls himself a "coffee table" book publisher,(coffee table books are 99 cents at the remainder sale at bookstores and you all know what they are) and, a guy I've never met says I don't know what I've got here and it's all fake.
Boys the fakes are on E Bay and they turn up all the time. The crap is at the Militaria Shows and it's "original" ss uniforms and Canadian battledress jackets that a month ago had no flashes and now is 3rd div. original d day. It's kangaroo badges aged with a blowtorch or whatever.
I'll give up annoying all you experts now. No more posts. I've had three phone calls asking me what's going on.
Who is this Bruce Parker guy anyway??? Seems to me someone said he had a perfectly restored Fox (all covered with red fur?) and carrier. Both ground up Museum quality. Bruce I see a complete original list of WW2 Tac sign markings in your future.

Simundson

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

May I just pick-up the reference to wool for uniforms? The Ministry of Supply acquired the whole Australian wool clip in 1939, thus frustrating as a coincidence, German plans to exchange wool for Opel cars and possibly trucks. I assume that as the war dragged on the availability of spare wool not required for the AEF etc. and shipping problems meant that the supply sagged? Excuse pun!

Reference to coffee table books reminds that I co-authored one: it was designed to be landscape format so as to sit nicely on tables! Regrettably only a handful of Canadian vehicle photos though. Of course, the discovery of 220 professional photos in a tin box that had survived unscathed was a miracle. It did however provide irrefutable evidence where relevant!

[malcolm erik bogaert]

this is what makes the MLU furum best in the world....it gets down to the nitty gritty....best regards from a rather wet north-northumberland . malcolm

[Ed Storey]

Peter, please reread my posts. Nowhere did I say that Veterans were liars, that is your wordiong and your take on what was posted. As for using Veterans as sources, they are but one source, a human source.

With respect to Peter, I always find it strange that when people are challenged to support their statements and theories with some form of tangable proof, ie documents or at times even photographs they start with a 'smoke screen' in this case you work at the QOR Museum and then also fall back on how many years collecting they have. Both of those credentials are great, but where are the facts? Once the 'smoke screen' thins and they still cannot provide any supporting proff then it is the old story, of not ever going to post agian because the 'experts' are giving me a hard time. Peter, you work at the QOR Museum, you are sitting on what could potentially be a huge resource of information, mine it, find the answers and post them, don't run off.

[Ed Storey]

Damn I forgot to run it through spell check before posting, disregard the typos...

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

I work for a very large organization. Our head office routinely sends out directives, instructions and records the activities of the branch offices. In practice, 10% of it is followed, and even less of what goes on is recorded. Should someone want to study and analyze my employer's organization 60 years from now, and relied on the written record, they would get a woefully distorted picture of how things are today. There's a theory that says to understand the past, look to the forces that drive the present.

In my line of work, we rely on 'best evidence' when original evidence is not forthcoming. There's also a 'priority of evidence' rule: physical evidence is most reliable, followed by secondary evidence that reasonably dates to a time when original evidence existed and last, oddly enough, written records. The thinking is that you rely on those things humans are least likely to mistake. I haven't been fired yet so I must be doing something right.

And I don't think it's running off. It's more selecting where you choose to share your knowledge.

[servicepub (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Bruce Parker

I haven't been fired yet so I must be doing something right.

Actually, you just haven't been caught yet