M113 Lynx photos needed for book project

[Peter Phillips]

Originally Posted by Peter Phillips

I believe I have a pic of a CH-147 (Chinook) lifting a disabled Lynx while on excercise in Chilcotin, BC, Jan 1987. I'll scan and post it if I can locate it. FWIW I backed a Lynx into a M-113 Queen Mary when off loading from my flat deck breaking a headlight on the 113 with the toboggan rack on the Lynx (remember those contraptions?). They were peppy little suckers compared to a 113. One of those oops moments

Sorry my memory is slipping. I did witness a Chinook lifting a Lynx in B.C. and distinctly remember the rotors bending up trying to get it out of the snow. Here's the pic I must have taken; a chinook lifting an Iltis jeep and of a queen mary command post M113. I did smash two armoured vehicles together though; got the extra duties to prove it, lol.

[Mike Cecil]

Doug,

I think you will find that the Grant in question was modified for the Australian Malkara missile tests, rather than for the British Nuclear tests.

Mike

[Douglas Greville]

Mike

Ok, thanks. Another case of being fed wrong information. It came from a military source, so I did not have reason to doubt it.

Regards
Doug

Originally Posted by Mike Cecil

Doug,

I think you will find that the Grant in question was modified for the Australian Malkara missile tests, rather than for the British Nuclear tests.

Mike

[Mike Cecil]

Probably the same source that informed me of the same thing a few years ago: when it arrived at its new home, I was contacted via the Tank Museum and asked if I knew anything about the 'Grant modified for the atomic tests' (since I'd written about the tests in relation to Centurion).

On being shown an image, it was obvious it was the Malkara observation platform, the provision of which was covered in the Malkara papers at NAA, and is the vehicle visible in several images of the Malkara testing at Woomera.

We have all heard (and to my sham, believed!) 'furphies', Doug: a forum like this does help to dispel them.

Regards

Mike

[Douglas Greville]

Whilst on the subject of furphies, I have seen on the web that the Lynx did not use an M113A1 power pack.

This doesn't seem right to me.

Granted the Lynx did not have any hydraulics, so did not need the hydraulic pump that is normally on the 113 power pack, but other than that, I would be really surprised if FMC especially made a different version only for the Lynx.

From what I have seen, the Lynx pack lacks the hydraulic pump, has a step added above the transfer box engagement lever and that is about it.

See pics (hopefully), they are from Anthony Seward's walkaround set which can be found several places on the internet.

Regards
Doug

[rob love]

Originally Posted by Peter Phillips

Sorry my memory is slipping. I did witness a Chinook lifting a Lynx in B.C. and distinctly remember the rotors bending up trying to get it out of the snow. Here's the pic I must have taken; a chinook lifting an Iltis jeep and of a queen mary command post M113. I did smash two armoured vehicles together though; got the extra duties to prove it, lol.

Queen Mary's model number is M577A1. There were upgrded here in Canada to A2 and I believe a small number are now upgraded to A3.