My first Carrier

[Doug Lavoie]

I have purchased a carrier in Ontario that I have recently found on Kijiji (of all places). I could not pass it up!

Now comes the battle to get it home to Beaumont, Alberta. I know little about it, other than the pictures that the previous owner has sent me.

A short time ago, while on a visit, I had run into a carrier owned by my friend in Picton. That planted the seed for my wanting a carrier. Thoes of you who own one or want one will understand.

Right now my friends near Picton, Ontartio are making arrangements to pick it up, and move it to one of their yards. From there, I have to figure out how to get it home.

I would like to post the pictures of it so that I might get some feed back from the forum. I intend to restore it, and will need some help from the group in the way of information, buying missing parts, manuals, etc. If someone could tell me how to post thumbnail pictures I will give it a try.

Thanks,
Doug

[RichardT10829]

welome to the carrier family, if you need a hosting site to post images i can recomend www.photobucket.com

spares are slim pickins and you may find that you will be reproducing parts. service mannuals etc are no prob`s and most on here have hard copies and software PDF's (myself included) You may want to go buy Nigel Watson`s carrier books Vol.1 and Vol.2 as they are both great wealth`s of info and considered by many as the carrier bible's

Nigel is an MLU regular he has his own website to purchase the books direct.


cheers


Richie

[BCBlitz]

greetings from BC, Doug

and congrats on the Carrier ......... now that you have one you need this DVD
as in my post below yours as its a great one !, I got it from Keith webb down under to watch, but I dont own a carrier but you might like it.

Hi All

Does anyone in north America want a DVD year of the carrier from Corowa Australia 2005 ?, its in the north american format NTSC anmd is 60 min long.

Ive watched it twice or so very good video done by keith Webb down under ,but dont own a carrier so if anyone needs it pls contact me.

BCBlitz
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Terry
British Columbia , Canada

1942ish F15441-M

[Doug Lavoie]

This is my first attemp at posting pictures of my carrier. I will try to get the sizes down in future posts.

[Doug Lavoie]

More pictures of my carrier. As you can see, it needs a lot of TLC.

[Doug Lavoie]

The remainder of the pictures.

[Justin Pollard]

Welcome to the world of carriers Doug,
Thats a good solid base you have there.
Look forward to seeing it progress.

Justin.

[Doug Lavoie]

This is the recovery of my Mk1 carrier, and start of move to my friends place near Picton, Ont.

[Doug Lavoie]

Now safe at Pete`s place near picton. Next step was the clean out.

[Ledsel]

Good show there Doug. Well at least you have the lower hull no. It's on that angle iron on the rear of the carrier. The no. is on the left end rite over the fender. Looks like that is the only no. you have but it will give you an idea as to the year and time of build if you compare it to other peoples carriers. It will be nice to see it some day. Good luck. Buy the way that's pretty fancy with that hydraulic system there.

[Doug Lavoie]

Some more more pictures, plus the clean out of the carrier to see what was there!
Found on the angle iron, left side rear at the back of the carrier -
?8156. Where the first digit should be, is a welding scab that my friend did not want to remove. he said that I could do the honors, just incase it was damaged in the process. Any suggestions, guesses as to id/history of carrier, based on what numbers there is?
Thanks,
Doug

[RichardT10829]

excelent pictures Doug welcome to the mad......i mean fun house....

you are pretty much in the same boat as myself and George Mckenzie we are both doing carriers in the same condition as yours.. mine is a tad worse in some respects...... you have an excelent basis for a fantastic carrier buddy, if you do a search on the this forum you will find schematics for armour... i have a set of DXF's for side armor and the center bulkhead but to be homest i would leave yours in and add the little skillets of steel back in.

i am in the process of communicating with ford Canada regarding my hull and georges hull, pending on how it works out i will forward the contact to you.

the only other way to date it all be it not fool proof is to get the date stamps off the components, i used my seat brackets and gear stick assembly the latter is more accurate in my humble opinion as it was least likely to have been changed later. the component will have a part number and something like FMCO 42 (ie 1942 in my case)

hope this helps.

i would advise leaving all the frame rails in situ and blowing out the rivets from the outside with an oxy torch and a punch, this worked best for me and was a clean way to remove armor segments left behind........ unless this has been done of course.

and my last tip from my experiences photo everything as it is removed and pop it in a plastic box i then taped the pictures of the bits onto the box lid.... works for my little pea brain you see.


cheers

Richie

[George McKenzie]

Great find Doug You have the good things The rest you can make . Go see the carrier that Reg Hodgson has in St Albert .It is a MK2 but is all complete .Another fellow to see is Jim Debock .at Darwell .Jim did a great job on his and is building a Windsor now .I can give you info to get a hold of them ,but they are in the phone book .I know of about 40 carriers in AB and yet they are still comming out of the back yards .There is alot of very knowledgable guys on this site that will help you .Good luck George