In the RCEME recovery maual from around that period (I think it's 1964 dated) it shows the Bobcat as the Cdn Forces APC; they were that sure they were going to get it.
I talked to Col Murray Johnstone (who was the honourary col for the EME trades for the last couple decades) on the Bobcat subject. He was involved in the project around the time it was cancelled. Apparently it was quite an albatross. With that big flat plate on the front, it's a miracle they didn't just paint a roundel target on there.
There was an army journal out a year or two ago which showed some proposed variations like 105 SP and I'm pretty sure an equipment book from the 60s (I think the title was New Equipment to the Cdn Army, or something along that line) also showed one with some radar gizmo mounted on it.
I'll check the basement library and see what I might have.
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28-09-04, 21:18
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