Tank AA, 20 mm Quad, Skink

[peter simundson]

Having served in QOR D Coy I can confirm the Company Room and sign were still in University Armouries in 1958.

[Roger Lucy]

The CNE Skink photos has DND number 62-728. According to the DND file, that was the Skink that went to the Ottawa Vehicle Proving Ground. The Borden Skink (Pilot I) was DND62-727.
There is a long list on the file with the DND numbers of all the Grizzlys destined for Skinkdom, unfortunately, I don't believe it gives the CT numbers.
Roger

[servicepub (RIP)]

Originally posted by Roger Lucy
The CNE Skink photos has DND number 62-728. According to the DND file, that was the Skink that went to the Ottawa Vehicle Proving Ground. The Borden Skink (Pilot I) was DND62-727.
There is a long list on the file with the DND numbers of all the Grizzlys destined for Skinkdom, unfortunately, I don't believe it gives the CT numbers.
Roger

Any chance of a copy of that list?

[Roger Lucy]

I did not take a copy but I believe it's on RG 24 vol.9370

[servicepub (RIP)]

Roger,

Are you going to Grace O'Maley's pub tonight? It is on Ogilvie Rd in the same strip mall where we had Chinese Brunch some weeks back.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally posted by servicepub
This Skink is shown at a 1946 "Army Days" exhibit held at the University Avenue Armouries, note the Queen's Own Rifles "D" Company sign over the doorway. Among the equipment on show was a tracked jeep and an armoured snowmobile. Even better, this example is sporting both a DND number (DND62-728) and a WD number (C-T-163932) !

Great find, thanks!

Of interest is the fact that this Skink is fitted with US steel chevron tracks, instead of Canadian Dry Pin (CDP) tracks. This could fuel the debate whether or not all CDP tracks were not fitted duing manufacture, but during a post-war retrofit.

Any pics of the Armoured Snowmobile you could share with us?

Thanks,
Hanno

[servicepub (RIP)]

Originally posted by Hanno Spoelstra
Any pics of the Armoured Snowmobile you could share with us?

I think that I have some. Did you get my e-mail with the attachment a couple of days ago? I never heard back and will resend if it didn't get through.
CML

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Orginally posted by Roger Lucy on AFV News Discussion Board:

The records indicate that all three completed Skinks were built on Grizzly hulls. Pilot No.1 with the welded turret and HS guns (it was later refitted with a cast Polsten turret and sent to Borden) was according to one DND file on hull 62-918.

Pilot No. 2, with a cast turret, was installed on Grizzly hull 62-727 (CT 163931) and sent to the UK for evaluation. It served in field trials in NW Europe in early 1945, after which it was returned to the UK - title was transferred to the UK account on 2 August 1945. It's fate is unknown.

Pilot No.3 on Grizzly hull 62-728 (CT 163932) was sent to No.1 Proving Ground in Ottawa, it was photgraphed at the CNE in 1946. The eight completed but unmounted turrets were sent to Longue Pointe Ordnance Depot (LPOD), the last mention I have found of their existence was in 1947.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Jordan Baker wrote: "I located the CMHQ file on the Skink AA tank. It goes from pages 4-300. Page 249 confirms that Skink marked SKC1001 was sent to NWE for field combat trials. A new unit was formed called the No.1 Canadian Tank Demonstration Unit."

https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/o...80/249?r=0&s=2

This is SKC1001. Note it has been fitted with CDP tracks:

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[Chris Johnson]

Can anyone hazard a guess as to what the script says on the turret?

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Chris Johnson

Can anyone hazard a guess as to what the script says on the turret?

Could they be shipping dimensions and weights?

[Jordan Baker]

Courtesy of Mark Tonner.

The War Diaries of No.1 Tank Demonstration Unit, CAC.

[Jordan Baker]

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