Aussie Centurion 169091

[Clark308]

Well done, truly outstanding!!

[PScott]

A few pics of the Fighting compartment , which will eventually be stripped and re finished..







































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Some pics of Some of the NEW gunnery spares i have purchased..... Elevation and Traverse amps/ Metadyne/AC Generators and Power packs.

[browningautorifle]

I had forgotten about the door into the driver's compartment. Meant to access an injured or trapped driver. I'm standard NATO size four, but I couldn't imagine trying to go through that access.

[jimmybob9]

My old man shuttered when I showed him the pics of your centurion. As an old Nasho RAEME at Pucka / Bandiana for the duration he has fond memories of the beast in action on the range and them going to recover them when the turret heads broke them.



Excellent work keeping the Cent going.

[Peter Laidler]

e didn't have those long levers to cock the maxifort operated .50 ranging gun and co-ax M1919's in our gun tank turrets. We had lengths of chain fixed to the cocking handles and you'd just yank this to cock the guns. But the tank crews were usually shortarses and some just couldn't manage to get their weight behind the chain to cock the big 50's in the cramped turrets. CXan you just imagine the stench inside the fighting compartment in the heat of the summer............ Sweating tank crews wearing just shorts, cordite from the guns, heat from the zillions of spent cases and the extra stench from last nights slops dished up by the cooks............ Nowhere to pee except in an old empty pop bottle............. And the poor commander tring to listen to the radio.......... They were like furnaces, especially on a lock-down shoot

One day I'll send Badger a long winded story about these sodding Brownings in our gun tanks and how we managed to 'loose' one. I say 'loose' one in a loose sense, but if you have 5 spare BRownings at Tidworth and you are one short at Castlemartin - it doesn't help calm tempers! Maybe he'll find space to publish it in this thread!

Are you game Badger?

[RCEMERalf]

Go for it!

[Peter Laidler]

As a matter of interest, the 34 Central Workshops REME label (last photo) was at YORK. And that traversing amplifer control box was overhauled in the Control Equipment Section there. There was a trade called Control Equipment Technicians then but they don't exist any more. All taken over by industry. Mind you, they never seemed to be over-employed when we had them!

[alpaca andy]

Thats incredible. I see you skipped the med armor ie half-track like mine and went straight to tank lol. Thats my next step. I keep telling myself little steps lol

[PScott]

Well , some small but very tricky items installed..

New convoy lights stripped and re finished and mounted front and rear.......new armoured wiring looms fitted, this was a a "bigger than Ben Hur" job! The looms run from the front storage boxes to a junction point on the hull side, they then go through the hull and to the internal junction box. The left hand side loom is in "behind" the wine rack( ammo storage) ...to access it requires alot of neck twisting and sore elbows and skinned knuckles!!!

New external fire extinguisher activation cables were also installed....not quite as nasty as the wiring looms, but still not fun....

A few snaps of the "innocent" looking items..

Paul.

[Peter Laidler]

What about this Scotty........

Next time you get it out, what about a really nice big high definition 3/4 front photo that we can download and use as a screen saver. Centurion - the gentle giant with the heart of an ox.

Two Alpha...... Two Alpha, - Zero over.

Hello Zero. This is Two Alpha - Go ahead, over