Early Mk.I* "TL13F", CB180

[kevin powles]

Thanks Rob, Have sent them an email. I will certainly mark it back up correctly, the carrier has been grit blasted now.
here's a short cut to a bren carrier with number which looks like 41.1.680 on there website.

http://www.canadianscottishregiment....php?LIMIT7=48#

kevin.

[rob love]

Originally Posted by kevin powles

Thanks Rob, Have sent them an email. I will certainly mark it back up correctly, the carrier has been grit blasted now.
here's a short cut to a bren carrier with number which looks like 41.1.680 on there website.

http://www.canadianscottishregiment....php?LIMIT7=48#

kevin.

I had to go through your link to find the photo. If it is the one I think you are talking about there are two carriers. It looks like the other carrier is 41.1.679. Note that they are at Debert by that time, which is on the Eastern coast, several thousand miles away from BC where the unit was originally, so the carrier numbers and markings on the carrier in this photo will differ from your carrier. Units will not have dragged their equipment across the country with them, and Debert may have been a bit of a training depot, so the carriers may not get any markings beyond the DND number.

Anyway, we are really getting off track from the TL13 thread. Perhaps this discussion could be moved to it's own thread.

[Wayne Hingley]

Debert was a training camp near Truro, Nova Scotia. Soldiers from across Canada arrived in Debert by rail, for essentially "basic training" and weapons training prior to departing from Halifax to Europe.

[Nech]

Another details of the current condition, engine compartment.

[Nech]

..and another.

[Lynn Eades]

Lots of great detail here. I see British throttle linkages and fuel change over valve, but of current interest is the kinked lower hoses that Rob has been talking about in another thread.

I imagine that the many parts that have changed from British to Canadian have done so because of supply and standardization reasons. The (under performing?)SolexCarb and maybe the Lucas generator are two of those items.

Were these early Canadian carriers fitted with the white faced CAV ammeters that the British carriers had?

[eddy8men]

lynn as far as I know the instruments were all british but I didn't know the ammeter had a white face

[eddy8men]

Taking yours to Normandy next June Rick ?

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hi rich

not sure mate, I could really do with taking a year or two out of the hobby and focusing on making some money for a change