Odd UC Modification

[David Dunlop]

I was chatting with an elderly neighbour down the lane on the weekend, who had noticed the departure of my M38 a couple of years ago. Thought it was an MB from the distance.

Anyway, turns out he drove carriers during the war with the Canadian Army. He recalled their unit on a road move in late 1944 in Europe and being halted at a crossroad by MP's while another convoy was allowed through. He was intrigued to see several UC's in the passing convoy which had the armour extended, he thought roughly doubled in height from the driver's right side cutout all the way around to the corresponding cutout at the left side of the vehicle. If I understood him correctly, the heightened armour ran all the way around the vehicle from the vertical front plate assembly. He never saw them again after that and no one else in his unit recognized them.

Thought I'd pass it along in case it means anything to anyone.