Grizzly Firefly

[Frank v R]

Hi Guys, I have been through the inside of this vehicle and it is in very good condition and complete , no engine, it does have the ammo bin in the bow gunner's position, last time I looked was about 6-7 years ago , the school that had it did manage to do some damage to the vehicle ,( sand shield brackets at the rear), other than that I'm sure some small bits went missing , I wish Borden would stop sand blasting these vehicles without looking for markings in the layers of paint and losing all the history , ie the Panther now in Ottawa, great job but no unit history , somewhere there should be a test report file for this vehicle with photos as I'm sure there would have been files for all the items that Farley Mowat gathered and were shipped back for testing,

[David Dunlop]

Check for new thread on the Borden Panther.


David

[David Dunlop]

To my knowledge, the only printed information from this conference was the package Bill Gregg and Peter Ford mailed out to attendees that outlined the weekends events.

The seminars/discussions were videotaped, but the audio quality of some of those tapes is suspect. I think there was a thread earlier this year in which Peter Ford's son advised he may have originals of those tapes still in his Dad's collection. I took a quick look but could not relocate that thread to see how it ended.

Nothing was ever formally recorded/documented at the evening BBQ at Bill's home or during the various field trips to my knowledge. I do know I very much enjoyed chatting with Bart at Bill's home. Bart's family certainly had an interesting time in Holland during the war. Bart told me of a Canadian soldier he met at a camp not far from his home, who gave him a CMP manual. This same soldier I believe later dropped by their home and gave them all candies and other food items, which were very much appreciated. Bart's one curse from the war, he said, was that he smoked far too much.

And now that I think of it, Bill Gregg had tracked down that soldier and he was going to take Bart out to his place for a visit/reunion after the conference.

Bart had also mentioned his daughter collected thimbles and I was able to find a few from Canada and post them off to him some time later.

Cheers for now,


David

[rob love]

I have that video buried in the collection somewhere. Not sure I have a working VCR anymore though.