What Does This Come From?

Bob Moseley (RIP) · #1 09-10-10, 16:41

Hi guys - thanks for your suggestions to date.

Tim - do yours have taps?

Tony - nothing to indicate a country of origin. The scripting you see on the images is as good as it gets.

Phill - I think we all agree, armoured water container. Big question, from what.

Bob

tankbarrell · #2 09-10-10, 19:42

It's definately British, the Centaur and Cromwell drinking water tanks also have an MC prefix part number. It would have had a tap originally.

It's not Daimler AC or Coventry, Matilda possibly? It's not shown in the instruction book and I don't have a parts list.

Bob Moseley (RIP) · #3 10-10-10, 04:21

Hi all - been trawling an extensive modelling site, Armorama, that show the complete kit componants for their models. Did the Matilda, Centaur, Cromwell, Coventry and Stuart, but no cans of this shape came to light.

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Bob

Dave Page · #4 10-10-10, 04:47

Hi Guys,
having a read it says AUST after some numbers, therefore a, water? container of Australian origin. Interestingly it has what appears to be Melbourne on there and WT, weight? Perhaps it is from an aircraft?
Cheers,
Dave

Scrivo18 · #5 10-10-10, 14:23

Hi Bob

I will check mine this week and see if a tap is present... Got mine on ebay and was sold as being for stuart, the seller had two Stuarts at one time.

Tim

Bob Moseley (RIP) · #6 18-10-10, 08:14

Hi all - well popular belief suggests this is a crew water supply can out of a Stuart Tank. If everybody is happy we will leave that as the result.

Bob

Stuart Kirkham · #7 18-10-10, 12:13

I found this object sitting in a Saracen. Looks very similar although it does appear to hold cables of some type. This may give a clue to it's origin.