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Yes Alex & Ed, I’m very happy to get such a complete carrier. It’s getting harder to find original parts nowadays and expensive as you all know!
Like I said, my carrier that was dug out of the ground has a great story to it but looking over Dave’s carrier that has no pitted metal retains all of its markings where as my top armour pitting erased the serial number losing that part of its history. And I’m way further ahead of a more complete carrier now.
An interesting development yesterday when I was looking over both carriers is my carriers hull number is 3828, Dave’s carrier is 3819! They were both together on the assembly line 82 years ago! I believe there was a discussion somewhere on hull numbers and serial numbers not necessarily matching up like one would expect. Still interesting they’re only 9 numbers out from one another.