Early Mk.I* "TL13F", CB180

[Lynn Eades]

Lots of great detail here. I see British throttle linkages and fuel change over valve, but of current interest is the kinked lower hoses that Rob has been talking about in another thread.

I imagine that the many parts that have changed from British to Canadian have done so because of supply and standardization reasons. The (under performing?)SolexCarb and maybe the Lucas generator are two of those items.

Were these early Canadian carriers fitted with the white faced CAV ammeters that the British carriers had?

[eddy8men]

lynn as far as I know the instruments were all british but I didn't know the ammeter had a white face

[eddy8men]

Taking yours to Normandy next June Rick ?

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hi rich

not sure mate, I could really do with taking a year or two out of the hobby and focusing on making some money for a change

[Nech]

Can anyone help me what were those holes good for? Some kind of rifle mounting? I found something similar in the IWM archive.

[Lynn Eades]

The choke cable mounting bracket, mounts on those two holes.
The next two holes take the instruction plate.

[Nech]

Yes. Thank you Lynn.. just found it. Is anybody producing reproduction as I am completely missing the whole thing incl. choke control, instruction plate and the bracket?

[Michael R.]

The image of the crew washing the carrier shows a MK-I mortar carrier, the gunner side bracket on the divisional wall upper angle iron is one of two for mounting a rifle. A Forum search shows a few images posted by others over the past few years.

I believe you will find your carrier has been modified or updated to the standard MK-I* choke control cable routing installed to suit your Zenith carb. The cable conduit has the correct mounting bracket on the driver side engine head. If you follow the conduit back through the divisional wall you see it running along the right lower hull side, without the later retaining plate installed to keep the conduit against the hull wall. The issue here requiring the later retaining plate was the fact the choke control cable conduit does not travel under the cable cover at the driver right side track guard.