AKA Cambridge carrier

[charlie fitton]

Where was this recovered from?

[rob love]

Always nice to see the teamwork within this forum.

Congrats to Jon.

[Robin Craig]

In my humbe view that vehicle has some historic significance and I can only hope that something good gets done by Jon with it, I realise there may be a slight interval between acquisition and start of work.

Here is the thread over on HMVF which is worth reading

http://hmvf.co.uk/topic/12460-where-...comment-427578

[Peter Duggan]

Charlie,

Should have included that in my thread. The FV402 came from Mike Calnan’s ‘Sword and Ploughshares’ museum near Kar, ON.

Rob,

You are quite right, the camadarie and Team work within our MV community is it’s strength.

Peter

[Jon Bradshaw]

As Peter said the recovery was a success. We brought every thing we thought could possibly be needed. A lot of the items we brought were used. The carrier will be put back to "original" or as close as I can make it to a copy of the one at Bovington.
Is there a person on here who is the contact commonly used at the Bovington collection? If not then is there someone who can point me to the collection's contact? I expect there are people who live near Bovington and have the ability to visit at will. Has anyone seen or do they have pictures of it that are not already posted?
Detailed interior layout pictures are going to be very important to me as well as detailed pictures of the roof and the layout of the side bins.
If this is truly one of only two in the world then I will do my best to bring it back to life.

Jonathan

[David Herbert]

Jon,
You may well find that the manuals and parts list are relatively available. Generally these British '50s vehicles are not very glamorous so people don't aspire to them, and often have never even heard of them, so there is little general demand. One place to try would be Bovington library archive though they can be expensive. UK ebay is always worth keeping an eye on, recently some FV421 books were on there - a much more obscure vehicle than the Cambridge. I would be happy to forward books from the UK to you if posting is a problem to a vendor here.

Incidentaly I assume you have seen just how close the family relationship is between FV400, FV420 and FV430 series. Each was developed directly from the one before.

Do you have the Hull number (possibly on a little plate about 3x2cm welded on the back somewhere like FV430s) or its army Reg number?

Regards, David

[Jon Bradshaw]

David- I have not looked at the hull for a number but that will happen soon.

I have sent an email to Bovington to see who answers and how forthcoming they are going to be with info and pictures.

I have attached the pic that I could find of the Bovington Barn and you can just see it in the back (top right corner). Last in line behind the Oxford.

The one at Bovington I assume is the later variant with a roof, the earlier? seems to have a flat roof of a three sided type as seen in pic #2.

According to the attached doc the only two surviving ones are the one at Bovington and mine (formerly from the swords and plowshares collection)

Does anyone have info on any other examples of this carrier? Seems some went to the ranges never to be seen again.