Matt McMahon

Only three  original Dozers left that I know of ....somebody got one hiding  in their shed ?

What happened to the AEC pack , I remember them trying to sell it quite a few years ago ?.. would be extremely rare . I have only seen one other and it may have been scrapped !

Original running gear. although this is an AEC Hull it is fitted with Leyland E170 series motors . I know of no Matilda's in Australia, if not the world running on AEC packs . Yes Richard, we are making progress, currently doing the suspension ...my goodness !

Hi all, I've been missing in action for some time, we have been working on our Matilda Dozer conversion .Yep, long way to go yet but we are at the driving stage after 45 years...

Hi Richard, 

Its hard to get  Neil in front of the Camera !

Some Photos from Jonathon's Visit  for your pleasure 

Did You guys not respond to the CMV subscriber survey.....I told Key publishing that they had stuffed a once great magazine Completely ...I recommended they get hold of some old issues and have a read through them !.

The blade assembly's were made "Britstand" and supplied as kits that were fitted in the field, mainly in the pacific. the first 6 were cable operated with a jeep engine used to power the winch, the next 6 used the same jeep motor but were hydraulic and the last 6 of which 3 survive including ours are hydraulic been driven off the main engine pack.

We have been sitting on this for some time, we have most of the bits, Australia had 18 dozer conversions however I only have the WDN numbers for eleven of them, WDN 6940, 7352, 7384, 7386, 10277, 17359, 18766, 18771, 27732, 37159 and ours 46101. 3 were sold at public auction in the 1950s complete with the blades. we really don't have any intention to do anything with it apart from operate it when we can along with our other vehicles.

Hi everyone

In 1999 I acquired this vehicle and for some time its been sitting in the shed, Now we are working on it. Attached are some of our photos to date

Kind regards

Matt

What an extraordinary find !!! Do you have both sides ?

Kind Regards

Matt

Glad you enjoyed the video, New engine pack is running well Richard, we re calibrated the Pumps because we felt a little under power following the rebuild and now we are just a little over ideal and we blow a bit of black smoke under load but we feel its ok.

Richard, we still haven't fitted the new engine pack to the Dozer but its getting close.....

Please see attached a link to a 7minute video of one of our Matilda's running around the farm..

Kind regards

Matt

And another for your interest Cost.pdf

cent costs.pdf

News paper clippings from the time,

Kind regards

Total cost of war machines.pdf

Out for a Sunday drive

Yes its our best Matilda, MkIIa. did you know that of the 2987 made only 146 were MkII's... We are working on our next one at the moment and hope to be mobile by Christmas. Richard, I hear you are living it up in Sydney at the moment...Drop in for a yarn if your passing by

Kind regards

Matt

Hi Guys

I collect Lots of Stuff....

Thanks for the welcome every one, G'day Richard, Very cold at the moment however if we can keep the fuel up to the heater in the shed the engine pack for the matilda dozer is making good progress.

kind regards

Matt

My name is Matt McMahon and I live in Oberon, Australia. I have a varied collection of goodies but I realy like Matilda Tanks and they consume most of my time acording to my wife !

I have been a HMVF lurker for some time and have often thought about joining in on this wounderfull discussion and knowledge base. My involvement with military vehicles started when I was a child with my father owning an Indian cheif with side car, a Jeep and in the early 70's he bought a Matilda tank with a blade to assist with clearing trees and digging dams on our family property, so began my passion with tracked armour.

Hoping to learn something !

Kind regards

Matt