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Old 20-12-12, 07:44
Lynn Eades Lynn Eades is offline
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Looking great Lew. It must be a good stage of the project, because you would feel like your nearly there.

Colin, they were built here to prints supplied by the AFV section, Australia.
We used the Australian manuals, but there is a page stuck in the front of my book which covers the differences.
It appears the use of mufflers and the muffler fittings, were the main mod.
to cover the other things that may have varied;
Ours all used the 1941 V8 Mercury motor.
We had modified sprockets to suit the Canadian made cast steel track links (no idea whats different) (If I recall from Jeff Plowmans book, over a million track links were made in North America (probably Canada)
The spare track adjuster wheels were all steel (no rubber tyre) but could only be used on the adjusting plate.
All the spare track adjusters were cast steel ( the original ones were fabricated)
The couplings were all the VR type (Victoria Railways??)
TL78044 to TL78243 (last 200 carriers) had the mufflers.
All carriers had 3 brush generators.
All had the batteries fitted positive to earth.
Any modifications (official Australian) were duplicated with reference to spares.
All this is roughly copied from that page.
How much of that is different from Australian built LP2As?
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