centurian tanks and variants

Les Freathy · #1 10-07-06, 22:52

Did a search on this tank and was surprised to find no dedicated thread on this vehicle, considering its universal appeal prehaps its time to start one. Now as some of you will be aware armour is not one of my strong points,OK ican identify the many types with no problem but defining all the marks and various mods is for me best left to others so i have included a batch of Cents which i am sure will bring comments to the thread. I have a fair number of photos on the tank but am sure there must be a lot more lurking out there
Les

Les Freathy · #2 10-07-06, 22:53

Two in the Korean conflict

Les Freathy · #3 10-07-06, 22:55

IN need of recovery by a D8 tractor

Les Freathy · #4 10-07-06, 22:57

Not sure where this is, could be Aden but they normally had bold black camo or could be in Egypt. May be an ex service member can recognise the building in the background

Mark W. Tonner · #5 10-07-06, 23:45

Photo No.: BF 10299

Collection Title: MINISTRY OF DEFENCE POST 1945 OFFICIAL COLLECTION

Collection No.: 5600-01

Description: THE KOREAN WAR 1950 - 1953
Centurion tanks of the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars wait with troops of the 1st Commonwealth Division to cross a pontoon bridge over the Imjin River. - June 1951:

Mark W. Tonner · #6 10-07-06, 23:57

In Israeli service:

phoenix · #7 11-07-06, 01:31

Plenty of info on all the aussie centurions here

http://members.tripod.com/~steel-thunder/index.htm

more pics and info here

http://anzacsteel.hobbyvista.com/Arm...turionph_1.htm

and info on a cent ARV

http://anzacsteel.hobbyvista.com/Arm...zacarvph_1.htm

Les Freathy · #8 18-11-06, 19:20

More cents in the Korean war

Les Freathy · #9 18-11-06, 19:22

And i am informed unloading Cents in Hong Kong harbour

Roddy de Normann · #10 25-11-06, 16:30

Ref this Cent thread...I would be most interested in acquiring details of all the T-series numbers assigned to the earlier variants before all numbers changed to the VRN system..

Many thanks

Roddy

cletrac (RIP) · #11 25-11-06, 17:47

Here's one on display at the base at Wainwright, Alberta.

Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP) · #12 25-11-06, 18:17

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Originally posted by cletrac
Here's one on display at the base at Wainwright, Alberta.

Is the one outside the gate at Meaford still there? I haven't been there in ages...

Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP) · #13 25-11-06, 18:20

...and what's the status of the two at Oshawa? Last I saw it was, I think, summer of '05, and they had it basically stripped out. At least, I'd been in it in that state several years previously.

sapper740 · #14 26-11-06, 07:13

Quote:

Originally posted by Les Freathy
Did a search on this tank and was surprised to find no dedicated thread on this vehicle, considering its universal appeal prehaps its time to start one. Now as some of you will be aware armour is not one of my strong points,OK ican identify the many types with no problem but defining all the marks and various mods is for me best left to others so i have included a batch of Cents which i am sure will bring comments to the thread. I have a fair number of photos on the tank but am sure there must be a lot more lurking out there
Les

Les, It's been a few years (1998) since I was last at CFB Borden but I'm sure there was a Centurian ARV parked outside of CFSEME. Any ReeMee types out there remember seeing or have pictures of the ARV outside the school? Whatever the ARV was, I took some pictures of it and I'll try to sift through my thousands of prints to find it.

MurrayC · #15 26-11-06, 10:09

Below (hopefully) is the ARV crewed by 1Armd Regt LAD in Vietnam in 1969. I've seen them change a motor/gearbox in the field in just over a day.

MurrayC · #16 26-11-06, 10:19

I'll try again. Apparantly the photo was too large

MurrayC · #17 26-11-06, 10:27

Australian centurian in Vietnam 1969

MurrayC · #18 26-11-06, 10:29

And another, with Australian Infantry

alvin5182 · #19 29-11-06, 03:10

Gents:

Here are some photos of Centurions at CFB Borden, Meaford and Pettawawa. I have some photos of the Centurion ARV at Borden but I can't seem to upload them onto Photobucket at present. The pictures I have of the ARV are at Worthington Park at Borden.

Borden Centurion 2004

Meaford Centurion

Al Davis

alvin5182 · #20 29-11-06, 03:15

Gents:

The Petawawa Centurion.

Al Davis

zemsi · #21 29-11-06, 20:20

... and don't forget the Swiss Centurions. They were the backbone of your tank platoons for nearly 30 odd years.

Picture is taken 1 month ago at a Swiss Army Parade in Thun. More pics at wheelsandtracks.com

zemsi · #22 29-11-06, 20:28

... and a Centurion A41 from the other side of the world. Pic taken Dec. 10, 2005, in Waimoura NZ, during my well know Down-Under journey.

zemsi · #23 29-11-06, 20:29

... here the story about the Kiwi Cents

John McGillivray · #24 30-11-06, 01:25

Cent at the Canadian War Museum.

alvin5182 · #25 30-11-06, 02:09

Gents:

Finally got these to upload. Two views of the Centurion ARV at Borden. Worthington Park at the time.

Al Davis

John McGillivray · #26 30-11-06, 03:31

Here’s one in Longue Pointe in East end Montreal.

Les Freathy · #27 09-06-07, 22:00

Cent with prototype wading equipment

Les Freathy · #28 09-06-07, 22:01

And removal of the mantlet prior to a barrel change

Darrell Zinck · #29 10-06-07, 01:47

Al wrote:

Quote:

The Petawawa Centurion.

Yup, that was her in 2003 and here she is after we re-painted her in 2005 as a Fort Garry Horse vehicle.

regards
Darrell

zemsi · #30 10-06-07, 16:11

... I visited yesterday the 2nd Military Vehicle Meeting in Full-Reuenthal, Switzerland.

They took out a lot of tanks like this Centurion and drove around in the mud. I also took a small video