Need to know......

[Bob Carriere]

Hi Mike

The event I am trying to recall from Lansdown park was the largest I can remember.... it included vehicles seldom (at the time) seen from the CWM.... remember a French Canadian chap who had brought down a fully refitted half track from Montreal....

The tricky part is during that same time frame I was attending a lot of old tractor and old single cylinder farm engine shows.... and I am not sure if it was a tractor show or the Landsdown event that had the tractor on display.

That tractor has to be arround Ottawa somewhere..... I retired form NRC in July 1995 and I had a particular interest in talking to the older NRC gents that were there to explain the guts of the trailer.... it was large one.... with swing up panels that were opened to display the rows of wires, tubes, etc...... alot of these things were worked on as prototype.... some slept at the back of the Communications grounds near the Connaught rifle range including some large C/F60 cab 13 with enclosed boxes with exhaust vents for inboard mounted generators..... this is dating back to the mid 70s when I was into M37 and scouting for parts.

Even in 1994 .there were some amazing left behind items in buildings of NRC........ such as the largest wartime collection of pictures which is still gradually rotting away today as we speak.
Rumors ran wild of complete Arrow jet engines in containers.... never materialize....... crates of firearms.... handguns, rifles some complete others just the firing components, aircraft machine guns, etc... a lot of them from other countries for testing/assessments or prototype models.... when that lot was discovered, the CWM was contacted to examine the lot before destruction..... to my best recollection they had a cursory glanced at the well preserved greasy lot and possibly took a few.... they rest were cut up under guard at a local junk yard.

That darn radar trailer is somewhere........ I know for a fact that some armored vehicles used to test communication equipment were donated to the Science and Tech Museum.... they were 6x6 British Saladins if I am correct.... with almost new no mileage RR 6 cyl. engines...... they were stored outside on St Laurent for the longest time.....

Ok enough rambling about the old days....

Bob C.