Ford Lynx Scout car for sale....

[Mike Cecil]

Chris,

The simple answer as far as Australia is concerned is 'yes', due to the small numbers of Lynx scout cars and Fox AC (chassis/running gear only for the Fox ), and no Otters, supplied to Australia during WW2. Therefore many Blitz manuals, few Lynx manuals and even fewer Fox manuals. And just a small number of Otter manuals, though why these were supplied is a mystery. I have seen only one Otter manual in Oz (and it's not there anymore......) Anyone else seen an Otter manual in Australia??

Mike C

[Mike K]

I believe the BCOF had a few Lynx on issue in Japan . The Commonwealth ocupation forces that is .

MIKE

[lynx42]

Originally Posted by Mike Kelly

I believe the BCOF had a few Lynx on issue in Japan . The Commonwealth ocupation forces that is .

MIKE

Mike K, 109 of the 170 Ford Lynx Scout Cars Australia received went to Japan to be used as Policing vehicles with BCOF. The original plan was for Staghounds to do the job but the Japanese roads were not up to carrying the 13 tons of Staghound. So the 109 Lynx Scout Cars were sent to replace them.

Mike C. I have a question for you. Did these 109 Lynx scout cars return to Australia after our commitment ceased with BCOF? Or were there only 61 Lynx's left in Australia after our commitment finished?

I have only been able to track down 14 or 15 in Australia over the past 30 years. Two just recently went to New Zealand and there was one sent years ago to England, so the numbers come down to a dozen or so left in OZ.


Mike C. I have just re read this thread and see in No.29 that you have answered my question about the return to OZ of the ones which went to Japan. Thanks.



Regards Rick.

[David Dunlop]

With regards to a Lynx moving from Australia to Canada in the 1990's, I think that might be one that Jim Fitzgerald and Reg Hodgson purchased up in Edmonton.


David

[Marc Montgomery]

In one of the old Convoy Mags is a picture of a Lynx on a farm, with a large homemade hydraulic scoop attached to it. this If I remember correctly was somewhere in western Canada... it was known to at least one collector...

anyone know what became of it????

[45jim]

Al Nicholson knows all about that converted Lynx, it was located in Cherhill or some place of a similar name.

[Ryan]

Originally Posted by Mike Cecil

Chris,

The simple answer as far as Australia is concerned is 'yes', due to the small numbers of Lynx scout cars and Fox AC (chassis/running gear only for the Fox ), and no Otters, supplied to Australia during WW2. Therefore many Blitz manuals, few Lynx manuals and even fewer Fox manuals. And just a small number of Otter manuals, though why these were supplied is a mystery. I have seen only one Otter manual in Oz (and it's not there anymore......) Anyone else seen an Otter manual in Australia??

Mike C

I have a NOS OTTER RAC-C2 manual in my collection I bought at a clearing sale in Victoria in 2011. I have seen two others for sale in recent years in Australia. One on ebay. I believe there is a seller in Gippsland that may have more, but that is just a hunch.

[Mike Cecil]

Thanks, Ryan, that means that there were a few Otter manuals in Oz at least, but why, I wonder?

Mike Kelly: re BCOF and the use of Lynx SC by 1st AC Sqn in Japan: see my earlier post on this thread for some details regarding this.

Hope you are all having fun at Corowa. Had to fly back to the USA from Oz last Thursday, so missed the fun by just a few days!! As a well-known Toyota add says: BUGG**R!!

Still, off to Arizona and Texas soon, so life is not too bad....

Mike C

[oztankboy]

Hi there! Here are 2 photos of the Australian Lynx in the UK. Photos sent to me by a mate. I cant recall the details other than it was an Aust one. Taken in circa 2003.

Phil...

[lynx42]

Just had a look in the library and found that I have a manual for Car Armoured Canadian G.M.Mark 1, Fox 1.

Interesting though are the blueprints in the back pocket for the 30cwt Electrically Operated Mobile Crane built by the Metropolitan Gas Company

This was an Australian post war conversion of the Fox chassis.

Another use for the Fox chassis, I think, was as a street sweeper. John Bellfield has/had one in his scrapyard.

[Mike Cecil]

Rick,

The METGAS electric crane was wartime. It was the use made of the chassis after the Rhino HAC project folded.

The street sweepers were a post-war civilian use.

See the Rhino chapter in my AMEP Volume 3: 'Aust Scout and Armd cars' for details.

Mike C

[rob love]

So to bring this conversation back to the Lynx, I am working on one located here in the Shilo museum. While replacing all the hydraulics for the brake system, I noted that the brake tubes are all copper. Has anyone seen this on other Lynx? I think this vehicle came from Greece at one time. Perhaps a previous owner did not do the lines properly. They were also only single flared, vice the double flaring which is standard on any brake system I have seen.

Vehicle is now all steel for the brake tubing. Just waiting for the last of the hydraulic parts before re-assembling the wheels.

[lynx42]

Originally Posted by Mike Cecil

Rick,

The METGAS electric crane was wartime. It was the use made of the chassis after the Rhino HAC project folded.

The street sweepers were a post-war civilian use.

See the Rhino chapter in my AMEP Volume 3: 'Aust Scout and Armd cars' for details.

Mike C

Thanks for the correction Mike. There is no date on the blueprints so I wrongly assumed they were post war.
Regards Rick.



Rob,

My brake hydraulic lines were all steel. (Badly rusted so will have to replace.)

Regards Rick.