[Mike K]

david,

During the cleaning of parts on My C8 , I found a preserved ink stamp of a steel maker , I think it was 'USS steelworks' in Detroit or similar . It was on the short curved panel next to the grill .

Interesting that they were using U.S. made sheet steel for the panels .

The thermostat was dated too , Jan. 40 from memory .

A soldier, VX 65738 had scratched his name into the instrument panel . I traced him and wrote a letter . He served in the 2/4th armoured regiment as a gunner on Matilda tanks . He was wounded on Bouganville in the Solomons . He unfortunately didn't remember the C8 .... He said at wars end his unit was posted to Bandiana to await demob , where he probably did the vandalism as he called it .