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Originally posted by Neil Ashley
Hopefully others will comment, but very few if any T16's saw service with the British Army in North West Europe.
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This corresponds with what little facts I have.
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If we assume that all the Canadian vehicles stayed on the continent, that only leaves stocks in UK Depots. Some were used for a short period for training in the UK after WW2, but most must have been surplused. I have a Sales Catalogue some where at home which lists T16's in a post war sale. The Pounds Scrap Yard vehicles were also I believe realeased duruing the 50's.
Quite if the Swiss vehicles came from WD or dealer stocks I will leave to others to comment on.
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A likely scenario would be that surplus T16 stocks were bought by dealers off the UK MoD, stored for a few years, and then sold off to the Swiss (probably at the point where they seriously considered scrapping them!). It would be interesting to know if these were really still "in the crate", which is not at all impossible seeing that a small number crated of Universal Carriers (not T16s) came up for sale in the 1980s. Wasn't it in a Wheels & Tracks ad by the Crooks Borthers?
H.
09-05-06, 14:50
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