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Well thats it at last.Sorry if I used up too much memory or whatever fuels this cyber thingie.
I can hear people saying we must save these or as much of them as we can but many have tried over the years. The park police are adamant that they can't be dragged or have vehicles driven to them and access to them has now been totally banned.
Murray

Park Carriers
 

Hello Murray
Excellent research material, especially with the location. I had all these recorded from an old database by Ian Hall but with sparse detail. Now I can fill in some holes. Carrier 6 I believe is #1990 as this was recorded by Ian. There is no record of #1965.
Thank you - Bob

Some pics from ANOTHER FORUM where you posted these, Murray.

First one shows the type of range target damage sustained:

This shows how lucky a range target can be, it appears fairly straight and complete:

And lastly, how the hull number has survived on the side. I would read that as 3259, but you say it's actually 3209?

Funny, too, how the Nat Pk people have reacted. We have a large Munitions depot near here that has been disposing of time-expired ordnance for the best part of 60 years. The State Forest behind it has also been extensively used for Mil Ex's for probably just as long. It is still quite possible to find all kind or spent ordnance all through the place, but there are no restrictions throughout the SF at all. It's off limits to the Bush Firefighters during a fire, though, as the firefront sweeps through and it sounds like a Chinese New Year. A couple of years ago, a dump of 25pdr shells and 20mm AA were found that had been buried in a trench, but a nearby creek had eroded it's banks and moved, exposing them. Don't think I'd like to be near that in a fire!

carriers
 

Great photos. I notice that all have been stripped of their entire drive line.

Enough to warm the heart of any Gunner, and fill the drawers of us "normal" people! :D

BTW, don't bitch about the way these have been 'disposed'... beats hell out of dumping them overboard in deep water, which was one of our favourite pastimes, along with burial after the dozers had crushed what they could. The murricuns were especially good at the latter with regards brand new aircraft sitting parked on Pacific islands - I've seen pictures. :bang:

Having spoken with one of the then Reserve soldiers (Harvey from the Artillery Society for those in Perth) who took the carriers from Perth to the park, it seems all the engines/gearboxes were removed along with the tracks and they were flat towed the 60 or so kilometers behind Diamond T wreckers.
Murray

Am on a local VBFB up here at gero, we watched what we thought was a power transformer or something start arcing up about 30m from our 3.4 heavey truck behind some smoke, We didnt think it sounded right and we realised there were no powerlines in that direction, the next noise we herd sounded like 100 of those american mini chain guns going off and we saw the ground slowley rise up. ever seen a eight ton fire truck do a donut and spin its wheeles! Gero had 2 armd divisions during 42 to 44, civil population about 4500. dont want to know what else is there!

Please keep the photos of the repro panzer II coming. It looks great!

LP2/Panzer2
 

Hi Jack,
Would like to know/see the progress on this vehicle. Has it made it's public debut yet?

Yes it has - back in March this year.

I'm not able to access my photos at the moment, but I'll see if I can alert MurrayC and he should be able to post some quality photos for you.


Jack

The two photos we can find which were taken at the Brookton (WA) Old Time Motor Show this year, are attached

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3051/...b281639e64.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3290/...6a620d0494.jpg

It is easy to forget that a Carrier was the starting point for this vehicle - the workmanship and technical expertise, are second to none.


Jack

I agree with Jack. The workmanship is very good on this vehicle and alot of time and effort has gone into 'getting it right' given the vehicle they started with. With the crew dressed in period uniforms, it wasn't too difficult to imagine you were back in 1939.

Here are some photos I took.

http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q...m/IMG_1152.jpg

http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q...m/IMG_1157.jpg

http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q...IMG_1155-1.jpg

Pictures
 

Thank you both for the great pictures. A truly remarkable effort and an outstanding result.

I wonder if it's on Youtube?