Carrier wreck

[Cletracker]

Some more pictures

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Amazing find! Looks like the only needed the drive train components and some flat steel plate, then buried the rest to get rid of it?

Hanno

[tankbarrell]

According to my Chilwell list, it's a No1 Mk II, built by Sentinel on contract M.1532 which covered 619 carriers T.252505 - T.253123.

[Cletracker]

Tankbarrell, what year are we talking about? Sentinal, built in Australia??
/Erik

[tankbarrell]

Originally Posted by Cletracker

Tankbarrell, what year are we talking about? Sentinal, built in Australia??
/Erik

I don't have a year for the contract, is the date stamped into the top armour at the front?

I assume it's Sentinel Waggon Works Ltd. at Shrewsbury in the UK.

[Ben]

British built carriers don't have the armour stamped in the same way as Canadian ones. If there's no ID plate still on the hull then all you have to go by is the T number. In reality, as Adrian has said, that's pretty much all the info you'll need/find. The contract card may tell you more but probably not.

Ben

[Lynn Eades]

Eric, its a Sentinel Wagon (UK) built MkII, 3 inch Mortar carrier, according to Nigel Watsons book.

Adrian, The British carriers weren't stamped in the front armour. The info was only on the gun metal plate riveted to the drivers front guard. The Canadians helped to preserve the info with theirs, by stamping into the armour (after the first 1000 or so)

This will be a late war carrier. It is similar to Petrs carrier, although his is not a Mortar.

[tankbarrell]

Thanks for clarifying Ben and Lynn, I've only ever had a T-16 and a Windsor and they both had it.

[kevin powles]

Nice find, is the radio battery box for sale ?.

Regards Kevin.

[Cletracker]

Kevin, it might be if it was not mounted as standard on my runner.
/Erik