Leopard tanks for free ?

[Tony Smith]

Originally posted by Mike Kelly
Hi Tony ,

I may be incorrect on this , but from memory the winning bid for the Cents was from a consortium , made up of three individuals ...

I recall reading about it , while in Tasmania in 1989 ..

Mike

I also don't have first hand knowledge, but I think you're more or less right. I understand that some brothers mortgaged their families' farms for several Mil, I believe. Their tender was the only one for the complete fleet (there were others for lesser numbers of tanks, or for some spares).

While the particular details of that tender are not exactly relevant to the current issue of Leopards, I think that person sometimes comes on the forum and may clarify the point, although he need not. The point I was making was that there wasn't a public auction of many individual lots sold to the highest bidders, it was a closed tender sold at a price and method best suited to the Gov'ts interest.