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Old 29-08-13, 17:24
Bob Carriere Bob Carriere is offline
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Default Shoe box syndrome.

Why is it that most museum feel the need to gut the inside of historical vehicles..?

That is like saving all the shoe boxes of all the shoes I bought over the years but keep only the last pair of shoes I actually wear.

The Churchill bridge layer at the CWM suffered the same fate. They gutted all the inside, they only have the shell left. When I inquired about the power train, firing mechanism, etc. they denied they ever had them. I know better I was there when it was recovered in 1972 and crawled all over it and inside it..... it was a complete tank.

Hoping they never find out about the balloon inflatable tank decoys or they might want to replace them all with light weight copies.

I can just see a cartoon in the editorial section of the Ottawa Citizen showing a cleaning lady lifting a Sherman by the gun barrell while dust moping underneath.

The engine was a marvel by itself and worthy of its own display. They mated 2 Bedford 6 cyl. engine into a pancake 12 cyl. ....but it was not Canadian so off it went to become Honda bumpers.

Ha! for the good old days.

Bob C
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