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Available this side of the pond, do you need me to help with this?

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Clive,

excellent, thank you very much.

One would wonder if they would work in a modern 110 or Wolf? One wonders of some of the dimensions are the same

Good day

Bill Callaghan posted these pictures on a group and attributed the use to a Field Ambulance unit in BAOR

It is very well made and quite tidy as a quick way to get stretcher patients to care.

Does anyone know anything more about it please.

All pictures credit to Bill

I am hoping that this thread will be interesting to some of you but also share information and find out answers.

A good number of years ago, a friend Mike Calnan bought what he knew was a significant vehicle from a scrap yard in Moose Creek, Ontario, Canada. His intention was at least to see it saved, period.

It was a Cambridge Carrier, which specific version is up for debate. What is known is that an armoured observation post was trialed here in Canada at one time.

I am, mostly interested in vehicles of  a British lineage or use and hence I was drawn to this vehicle when I saw it at Mike's place and took these photos many years ago. These are the only to that as yet have been digitised from that series I took. I have seen the others recently and hope to get them done at some time to enable me to publish them.

Both Mike and I suffer terribly from Peter Pan syndrome as my lady calls it. We both figure we will never grow up and we will live forever and achieve everything on our plates. Slowly he and I are having to admit that is not so. Mike let the Cambridge Carrier go to a wonderful friend of ours who is younger and very smart and incredibly enthused and has a good piggy bank. Jon Bradshaw also lives in Ontario. 

Jon is being sympathetic but also realistic and very pragmatic. I respect and laud him for that and while I am a bit of a self confessed anorak myself I get his approach. So, with that being understood please do not be too critical about what he is doing as I share with you more in this thread. Jon will likely never post into this thread, it isn't his thing.

The basic approach has been to get the vehicle moving under its own power as a starting point. While it was originally powered by a Rolls Royce engine and some kind of gearbox, they were beyond his scope of refurbishing and so he chose to remove and replace them with a GM diesel that was readily available from the MLVW series of vehicles surplussed from the  Canadian Forces vehicle fleet.

He has also removed the fuel tank and had another one built and installed. He has started also with the obvious cleaning and painting. If you have information about this particular one please don't hesitate to send it to my email or post it in here and I will make sure it gets over to Jon.

We believe that this vehicle may have been an infantry carrier in early life and that is because of the wading screen but as Mike points out it was armoured observation posts that were trialed here in Canada, so we connect the two and with the fact that thicker upper armour was welded on at some stage but then cut off later.

What I am posting as pictures here are as follows. Side views of the vehicle as it sat at Mike's which is untouched from how he bought it. The engine and gearbox as removed and now sitting at my house. The fuel tank as removed. Can anyone help with identifying the gearbox?

Adrian so part of CES for Chieftain then?

Before I throw this out can anyone help me identify for what gun it was for and so which group of owners I should target please?

It measures about 4 3/4" diameter and has the usual coupling that would allow it to be used with the sectional staves with the same fittings

Thanks in advance

AFV I am looking for certain items, can I email you please?

Haynes silicone grease is available in spray and squeezy tube and is food grade and great stuff, available on Amazon. Nothing like it that I have found as yet as I haven't needed to look after I found it.... use it on water systems for o rings and various lubrication issues . My two cents worth.

Likely Canadian but without seeing the CFR stamped into it I can not be sure. I won't spout off on the differences, but there are some obvious ones and civvy add ons in later life it would appear.

Great job there sir, did you happen to buy a Maple Leaf adapter spin on oil filter adapter from REME Depot?

What driveline failure do you anticpate?

teletech I have a Ferret turret with base plate for way less than that and I'm just over the border.

Andy M you can not imagine the depths one goes to to ship and then import vehicles into North America. Canada and the US are different hut neither are a sure thing cake walk every time and I've done Ferret and Fox and Stormer and FV432 and Bedfords and Land Rovers and BV 206s to drop some names. Phytosanitary certifcates and agriculture inspections and haulage disasters over salt laden roads over man, many miles, import licenses and a whole gamut of officials who go off side because it is a green box on tracks with zero weapons or mounts whatsoever. If you have met a "Jobs worth" in the UK they are nothing to people with guns and badges and the power to cost you large with extra washing and storage fees and haulage snafus. Once kit is in the US it therefore has an extra value beyond what the UK will bear.

Again, from a job lot, trying to find a home for five of these

Pressed steel convex with central reflector held by a rolled edge

Having a sort out, came in a job lot of parts. Someone must know what it is.

Trying to find a home for it or it will go in the bin

It might help for you to indicate where in the world you are located and which mark of the trailer you have as per the makers data plate. The buyers of these trailers have the supporting electrical power from the attaching Supacat ATMP. The hydraulic raising is a manual back up in the event the trailer is towed by something other than an ATMP really. How else can I help you?

Good day,

The sand channels you are looking for are getting harder to find, I assume you own a Ferret? If you are in the UK you have the best chance.

There was an almost indistinguishable clone used on the French Eland 90 armoured vehicles.

I bought and stupidly sold the last set I saw advertised in the UK from a chap down Bristol way and had them exported to me. 

I have a friend in the UK who might be able to help you, drop me an email please through this forum.

Good day,

I may be able to helps you somewhat. I was the former operator of one owned privately here in Canada. I own personally, the only operators manual for one of these machines.

As far as I am aware there were only ten of the Mark 2A vehicles made for Canada with trailers and two cranes.

As far as the manual I have states and all I know the whole machine is all 24 volt, this was a contract requirement.

When we did have a couple of problems a number of years ago so we made direct contact with the factory and I dealt with the admin assistant to one of the head engineers and they were very helpful.

Feel free to contact me by email through this forum also.

Yours has not been repainted and still has the Canadian fitted black roll bar assembly.

Happy to help you as much as I can.

Interesting and appealing vehicle owing to the fact it is wheeled so able to driven on streets. Good to see a different type of vehicle in private ownership and interesting design layout

Needs a packet of smokes and a brew to NATO standard, no self respecting squadie passes up a chance and everyone smoked like chimneys but could pass the BFT easily.

I think, knowing you and your skills, if you use the bolt holes where this mounts and the size of the belt that you can fabricate one from dimensions you can gain there that would be fit for purpose, don't under sell you skills.

love them, do you take commissions at all?

Lovely job, I'm sure he will be delighted

Chris,

Welcome to the forum from Canada.

Keeping old vehicles alive by putting parts back into production is such a worthy venture and appreciated by many of us here.Many parts for the bikes that I like are now being reproduced, if only I could afford everything!

I hope you find the answers for what you seek.

Please post often with pictures

I am fairly sure that there was a thread on this subject elsewhere on this forum

Nice and thank you

Thank you on behalf of the rest of us for the work you have done