The joy of my job - getting paid to work on carriers

shaun · #1 11-02-11, 23:39

As a museum consulatant i hold contracts with some of our national military museums, i get called in to move guns, soft skins and armour . Over the last few days my team and i have been working in a storage building for one of the biggest Army museums in the country.
One of the vehicles we were moving was a British MK 2 carrier. Its never been rusty just well robbed and a mish mash of bits. It was last worked on in the mid 70s by some one who did not really know carriers. here are some photos (oh and yes it has the lingage cover behind the drivers seat)

RichardT10829 · #2 12-02-11, 00:34

Argh you suck ! so enveous matey

Niels V · #3 12-02-11, 22:06

Nice carrier, but also some nice vehicles in the back ground....

martyn · #4 12-02-11, 23:08

you meen this cover ?

RichardT10829 · #5 13-02-11, 00:08

Yarp. thats some serious period carpet there martyn

shaun · #6 13-02-11, 00:41

thats the cover - about 5 feet forward of the speedo drive.

RichardT10829 · #7 13-02-11, 16:17

what an interesting job though....do you have to maintain and service too or is it a re location type service you guys do ?

carrierbarry · #8 13-02-11, 19:53

Shaun,
Was that carrier the one that was in the National Army museum at Beverley?

Regards

Barry

P.s Spent two hours today in the rain searching some woods for the remains of a carrier or mil vehicle. Found nothing. Why do we do this?

RichardT10829 · #9 13-02-11, 20:02

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Originally Posted by carrierbarry

Shaun,
P.s Spent two hours today in the rain searching some woods for the remains of a carrier or mil vehicle. Found nothing. Why do we do this?

because we rock and are in no way sad geek types..

call it an appreciation for fine things bud.

rob love · #10 13-02-11, 20:38

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Originally Posted by shaun

thats the cover - about 5 feet forward of the speedo drive.

My Cdn mk1 also has this cover. I have worked on a number of carriers over the years and this is the first time I saw one. Were these only on the early carriers, or something that was discarded over time?

shaun · #11 13-02-11, 20:43

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Originally Posted by carrierbarry

Shaun,
Was that carrier the one that was in the National Army museum at Beverley?

Regards

Barry

P.s Spent two hours today in the rain searching some woods for the remains of a carrier or mil vehicle. Found nothing. Why do we do this?

Yes Barry, a lot of the old Beverly collection has been thined out to different museum , the NAM hold a small selection of vehicles at a secure store facilaty.

Richard, we do every thing to do with Weapons - Artillery- soft skin vehicles - Armour. We move them, build displays, value, repair , , deactivate, restore, write condition reports , dispose of and find eqipment as well as broker deals for museums.

It beats going to work for a living.

Keep looking Barry - its out there somewhere !