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Old 26-11-08, 22:50
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Default LVT-1 "Three Runger"

The LVT three runger in question is in the Swords and Ploughshares Museum near Ottawa. It was instantly recognisable due to the dent in the handrail over the driver's compartment.

As I understand it, it was recovered as an exercise by the local air cadet squadron and flown to Ottawa in a Herc that had delivered supplies to Yellowknife. It went into the CWM but was too big (and had no real Canadian connection) to fit into the the new CWM. It was traded to the S&P Museum as part of a deal that saw two Rams go from the S&P in exchange for a number of bits from the CWM.

We have sand blasted it, painted it, replaced the windows with lexan and are about to weld patches over the various openings so it can become a gate guard for the Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders in Cornwall, Ontario. I believe that they used LVT 2 and 3 during their landings at Juno beach and the Rhine Crossing and wanted something 'amphibious' to replace their M113.5 Lynx gate guard that has no connection to fine Highland regiment whatsoever.

The engine bay is one solid lump of rust, unrestorable in my mind unless the pocket book is bottomless... I have tackled some difficult projects but this one made me whimper when I crawled in there! The hull is badly cracked and holed (big holes three feet long!) and it is re-enforced underneath with several 10X10 timbers.

We say it all the time; but if only it could talk!

Mike

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