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Back in the 70's, Airfix Magazine did an extensive series on the whole Carrier Caper, from the early "concept" through the "Carden-Lloyd" variants and through to the end, including Oz and Kiwi variants.
Sadly, I lost virtually my entire collection of those mags in a very nasty storm here in Brisbane back in the mid eighties.
Any forummers familiar with these articles?
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Found some more details on the magazine articles here:
Aeroflight 1960s Contents Listing
Vol.10 No.11, July 1969 contained the first installation of the saga.
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My pal, another REME reservist Officer worked as the resident Engineer at the distilleries right up in the North of Jockland. Up until the early 70's the Electricity boards and game keepers used to use Bren Gun carriers as the means of transporting equipment up the mountains. The remains of some are still (?) there, painted in da-glo colours. The favourite ones to be used were the flame thrower versions due to their greater load space so he tells me
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German carriers
Pushing the envelope a bit further:
I just scored an interesting publication, well, two, actually.
They are little "guide books' published by "Bellona Publications", a division of Model and Allied Publications in the UK, circa 1968-ish.
"A Summary of the Self-Propelled Weapons of the German Army, 1939-45.
Part 2 is: "Weapons on Foreign Built Fully Tracked Chassis".
Along with the Czech, French, Russian etc. stuff, is a small entry on "recycled" British vehicles: Matilda tanks and Bren / Universal Carriers. The allies lost about 60 THOUSAND vehicles of all types up to and including the evacuation of Dunkirk. Many of these and a LOT of (2500) artillery pieces, were destroyed by the retreating army. However, it is not surprising that enough of them found "new employment" to be given official German designations.
A Carrier with a snow-plough for the Luftwaffe is not something you see every day. The "new" designation was apparently: Schneeschaufel auf Schlepper 'Bren' (e).
Small pic in the booklet; may not scan too well, but I'll give it a whirl.
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My dad did a lot of work on carriers when he was stationed out in Hong Kong during the Korean unpleasantness. The carriers wouldn't run for very long in the hot climate without cutting out. My dad hit on the idea of moving the coil to a position near the air intake so that the air flow cooled it. The mod was adopted and the carriers ran much better. I think, if I rummaged around in his loft I could find some pams or notebooks on the T16 variant.
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