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09-11-13, 23:03
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Kevin, with ref the ebay auction # 111211420696, maybe it's time I pulled this to the front. The ebay dash panel appears to me to be an AOP panel. Check out mine in this thread. It is wrong for a U.C. carrier because it lacks the bit that holds the gauge at the bottom. Interesting that it carries two part numbers TL 13953 and TL 13954. They had trouble making up their minds.
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09-11-13, 23:51
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I thought that weird too... Do both part numbers refer to dash panels Lynn ?
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10-11-13, 00:18
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Lynn, So an A.O.P. Carrier dash panel, that's rare, not seen a restored one, but is it still not a Universal Carrier?, Do you happen to know why the panel was configured differently to a Brit or Canadian Mk1 standard stowage.
I used to have three of these but gifted two away, also gave a Mk1 Canadian to Richard for his carrier.
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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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10-11-13, 02:42
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Richard, I don't know the answer. I just noticed two different numbers on the one panel. Maybe an earlier one is modified to a later number?
Another number on it has been cancelled. Kevin 79 welded Armoured O.Ps (MkIIIw) came to N.Z., 40 of which were later sent to Tonga. Apart from my one, there is one runner here in N.Z, and two bare rebuildable hulls, that I know of. The only other AOPs that I know of are Nigel Wards MkII here in Australia featured in Nigel Watsons 3rd book (he told me of another Australian MkII) and a late MkIIIw in France also in Nigel Watsons last book. Your panel has a cut out in the left lower corner. I assume these panels are from the later AOPs like the French one. It IS just my assumption. So many un answered questions. 
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10-11-13, 10:40
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10-11-13, 11:06
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On the later panels the left hand side is lower than the standard MK1 panel, this explains why the right hand section doesn't have the seperate drop down section. The notch is to clear the Frame rail that the armour is riveted to.
Kevin could you offer that panel up against a MK1 type to see if the overall height is the same please? this may help in knowing if the left side drops to the height of the MK1 or the right hand side is shorter, or perhaps a bit of both. That style looks a lot easier to make, I assume that's why it change. Last edited by Ben; 10-11-13 at 14:58.
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10-11-13, 12:35
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