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02-09-13, 18:54
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The Great Manitoba Carrier Recovery Part 4
Once we had confirmed the legend of the buried carriers to be true, the last task of this recce trip was to carefully rebury what we had uncovered and put the sod back in place.
We thanked the property manager for the time and assistance given to us and then the negotiations started regarding when and how best to attempt recovery of these great machines. That story is now well known and a number of 'new' Mk I* carriers are happily running around various parts of Canada today. The number we uncovered was a little lower than our information over the years had led us to believe, however. As it turned out, the gentleman we had hired with a front end loader to recover the carriers turned out to be the son of the gentleman who had been hired in the 1950's to dig the stabilizing trench and bury the carriers. As a small boy he had come out to watch it all happening and he told us one carrier had been kept as a runabout at the lodge and the remaining ones had been used as fill under the access road to the lodge. Sadly, that road today is a Provincial Highway and those last few carriers will be going nowhere anytime soon. Hope you found this moment of discovery interesting! Cheers for now, David 
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02-09-13, 19:12
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Very interesting indeed! It was more than a few years ago when I first read about this dis- & recovery (I think the internet still had to be invented  )It proves that "tanks" were buried more often than not, indeed an easy way to get rid of them. But what surprises me is that back in those days "scrap" carriers were apparently cheaper than concrete or other aggregate suitable for landfilling  Glad to hear most were saved, though  Hanno
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02-09-13, 23:10
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David, that was great. Is there a thread to the actual recovery and resto of the carriers. Well done.
Colin.
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02-09-13, 23:42
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the 50's
Buried all that time, but someone still managed to make off with the rad cap?
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03-09-13, 00:45
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David, how many carriers were actually recovered ?, I have one recovered one safe here in the uk, now blasted and preserved, only needed minimal work to the floor areas.
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2pdr Tank Hunter Universal Carrier 1942 registered 11/11/2008. 3" Mortar Universal Carrier 1943 registered 06/06/2009. 1941 Standard Mk1 stowage Carrier, Caunter camo. 1941 Standard Mk1 stowage Carrier, light stone. 10 cwt wartime mortar trailer. 1943 Mk2 Daimler Dingo. 1943 Willys MB. 1936 Vickers MG carrier No1 Mk1 CMM 985.
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03-09-13, 00:48
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Carrier preserved, restoration underway.
Kevin.
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2pdr Tank Hunter Universal Carrier 1942 registered 11/11/2008. 3" Mortar Universal Carrier 1943 registered 06/06/2009. 1941 Standard Mk1 stowage Carrier, Caunter camo. 1941 Standard Mk1 stowage Carrier, light stone. 10 cwt wartime mortar trailer. 1943 Mk2 Daimler Dingo. 1943 Willys MB. 1936 Vickers MG carrier No1 Mk1 CMM 985.
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04-09-13, 05:54
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Cool, I can ad that info when telling people about where my carrier came from
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