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Show Weiner?
I have a question.
I was at a car show in St. Mary's Ontario this Sunday afternoon. The show staff came around near the end and presented me with an award for the "Most Gawked At Award - 2004". Were they making fun of me? Stewart |
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Friends
I was with my pals Tommy Allen of London with his 15cwt welder truck - just like the one he took to Ortona to fix tanks in WW2; and John Hotson who has not only the 30cwt truck but a barn full of treasures - Carrier bits, 30cwt with the Timken trailing axel 6x6, etc.
These 2 have been fooling with CMP for 30 years - but I guess I should have gotten into it then also... Stewart |
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Re: Show Weiner?
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Personal note...find your pic album from CC3? No joy this end, sorry.
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Stewart's St Mary's Show
Hey...I just noticed after I posted...whereinhell did the Vickers on the UC come from?
Fluted, straight, what barrel...CA, full, de-ac...c'mon Stewart, details, please.
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Gawked at...
...Way to go Stew. The Vickers looks GRRRRRREAT! Goes to show what years of obsession and garbage bags full of money and hours spent away from the lovely wife will get you.
Sean
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I was happy to get first pick of the new shipment at Collector's Source in Acton. I am sure that Fred and Al were quite sick of me calling them every week to find out when the 'stuff' was coming in. The whole story of how this gun got to Canada would be funny, if you were not the guys who had paid for them all in the UK, only to have them held up by every Customs guy from Halifax to Southampton for more than a year. The gun that I selected was one of a pile of mid-1940's Australian made guns and tripods. My tastefully deactivated gun was made near the end of the production ( if I can believe the web page about Vickers MMG ) with a smooth water jacket. Prior to getting a pin welded through the firing chamber it was a .303 shooter. You know my feelings on the Draconian gun laws in Canada - so I won't bore anyone with my rantings about that subject. I have seen that some folks in Nevada are taking Australian Vickers dewats and converting them to semi-auto. The gun importers that I spoke with recently were split - either they were illegal to get into Canada, or they were far too expensive a toy ( even for me , Sean! ). I had been collecting Vickers bits for a while, and all of the ammo carriers, flash suppresors and extra sights fit like a glove. The deactivation allows the top covers free to open to show all of the splendid bits and parts of the workings of a true engineering marvel. It's too bad that I will never get to fire this extraordinary part of history. Stewart |
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Lookin' Good...
...now, where's all the kit that's supposed to be hangin' off it?
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Perplexed Mounting
Brad,
My Vickers gun is a dewat that bears a serial number in the 800X range. I selected a tripod that bears a date stamp 1943. Both were in super condition. The deactivation was tastefully done, and I would recommend the services of Fred and Al at Collectors Source for anybody looking for any articles of this type. I had been researching the Vickers mount on the Universal Carrier platform for some time, and had been frustrated by my inability to locate good war time pictures, nor any drawings. The few pictures that I did locate did not show what I needed to show to enable me to reproduce a mount. Following a tip from G W-B last year, I contacted a Canadian CANLOAN veteran in New Brunswick, who had recently released a book about the CANLOAN experience of which he was a decorated participant. Mr. Fendick also lamented the fact that he was unable to locate an example of the part during his documentary effort – even after visits to the museums in London and Bovington in the UK. He indicated that the mount was a travel or temporary mount, and not nearly as elaborate as the tripod used for indirect fires. The mount that I have employed is indeed the tripod, lashed to the Bren tripod mount and the radio antennae mounting bracket on the radiator armoured cover. It looks as if my plan has worked as I had intended – by taking low shots, you can barely see that I have done this . The travel mount did not use any elevation gear, but the set up is very handy for leaving on the Carrier while I drop the Vickers into its crate and load my trailer for the trip to and from shows. I wonder if anybody out there has a real mount that they would be willing to share with us ? Stewart . |
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Wait a Minute ...
Geoff,
Would those pix you make reference to have been given to you, by me, some years ago? If they are, then I already have them. They were the best shots that I have seen on the subject. Nice try tho'. I like the sounds of the beer, so we should get together to discuss. The parade this weekend is at Fort Malden near Amherstburg ( near Windsor, Ontario ) for a historical timeline. I will be meeting the HLIoC gang down there, as they let me hang with them ( when I bring my Carrier ). Then I am off to Maryland for the whole of next week. Stewart |
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Tell Us More
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I have not had much to do with that simfire stuff - it sounds like it would be fun to scare the stuffing out of the cats tho! Did you do the conversion yourself? How many shots do you get from the bottles hidden in your ammo can? Where does the combustion take place? Stewart |
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Are we going to get a chance to vote for you at Coe Hill the 4-5th of September..?? I hope to see you there.. I'm making the annual pilgrimage this year. I missed CC-3 because my daughter was moving that weekend but will be at Coe Hill. Hope too see John Skag and Bob Carrier there too.. A great event. It is getting bigger every year.
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