Part No LV1/LD BC65036 Pad Head Assy Aux Gunners Comp

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Part No LV1/LD BC65036 Pad Head Assy Aux Gunners Comp

 

Can anyone enlighten me as to which vehicle this part is for? It is a brown rexine covered pad. I have two of them in nearly new condition. Sadly some plank has attached tape to one of them in the past and it has removed part of the surface finish.

 

Curious as to what vehicle they are intended for.

 

Cheers

 

Paul

[Richard Farrant]

Part No LV1/LD BC65036 Pad Head Assy Aux Gunners Comp

 

 

 

Paul,

 

I think that is a Leyland tank part number, possibly Centaur, Cromwell, Comet (?) without checking, could be proved wrong.

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Richard,

 

Thanks for the swift reply. If that is the case I can think of a couple of people who might need them! They were incorrectly fitted to my Daimler turret, the two pads side by side, but the Daimler has a single large pad.

 

Thanks again for the reply.

 

Regards

 

Paul

[Adrian Barrell]

Richard is correct, it is LD for leyland, the BC6**** means it is likely to be Comet, Centaur and Cromwell generally being BC3**** and BC4****. I have a few of those, Chris Wilkinson had several......

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I have a Chilwell catalogue of 1946 & defines LV1 as Cruiser & Infantry Tanks. At that time LV1/LD referred to Centaur & Comet. The next catalogue I have of 1967 now allocates LV1/LD to Centurion. I don't have any clues on the BC element I'm afraid.

 

Cromwell was LV1/BRC

 

There are quite a few other examples of the VAOS Section where the role is the same but the actual vehicles change eg:

 

LV1/ARV Churchill, Cavalier, Sherman ARVs(1946)

LV1/ARV Centurion ARV (1967)

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Ta chaps,

 

I thought they were most likely post war looking at them, so maybe Comet. Definitely not rexine in a Daimler, only Vaumol dear boy.....

 

Cheers

 

Paul