Leopard 1 Driver Training Cabs in Canada

[John Genereux]

Originally Posted by Lance Wiebe

I got in a lot of trouble at one point. I had one turret in Gunnery that was so worn, it was almost impossible to use on the ranges. When one of the D&M tanks had to go for rebuild, I did a swap. Instead of putting its IMR turret on it, I put the worn out turret on it. Apparently, the ECC for the turret and hull did not match, so my gunnery tank obviously had not been modified for the driver cab. Ottawa was not pleased at all.

I would assume, (just guessing) that some tanks going for rebuild were slated for the School in Gagetown, and were modified to accept the cab.

Most of the extra hulls were sent to 25 CFSD in Montreal to be stripped and used for spare parts. A few (three or four, I can't remember exactly) were used to replace the C Sqn worn out hulls, and adopted the original CFR.

Those hulls were sent to 25 CFSD, but the stripping of them was done at 202 Workshop Depot. I was here when a bunch of the hulls arrived for " re-supplying specific parts " that were critically low. I remember that one part that was not on the list was final drives. We must have scrapped about 10-15 sets of them. Some parts that were not required by the supply system were squirreled away in the shop to be used on future leo's coming through here.