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22-05-11, 13:24
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Radar Trailer
One of my mates has two of these parked in his yard, thought they were Radar, now we know for sure!!. Both of them have singles on the front and duals on the rear. No legs though, or data plates. I wonder what happened to the "House" off all of these??. Perhaps turned into a store room on a farm.
Look forward to some photo's, then we can clean up one of them and get it on display in the Museum.
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22-05-11, 14:53
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Nov 24, 2010 we had three threads active on radar trailers. I found one link but the other links within that one didn't go anywhere for me this morning.
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08-01-12, 11:23
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GL III(c) gunlaying radar
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Cheers Brian Last edited by alamotex; 09-01-12 at 13:36.
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08-01-12, 11:53
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The last picture in the last post by "alamotex" has me thinking.
I know I have seen that trailer around here, somewhere, in the last 2 years but cant figure out where, now I'm kicking myself. I am, by my own admission, not a WW2 buff but do recognise odd things. Now I will have to fire up the Mk1 brain memory and think if I can track where I was. R
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08-01-12, 17:07
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Robin I note your address as Kingston, ON ? Would be most interested if your recollection of seeing a ZPI trailer, turns out to be close to home. The folks at the C and E Museum have never mentioned it. In my post #23 I incorrectly refer to the Australian War Museum..that should be the Australian War Memorial.
Cheers Brian
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08-01-12, 17:20
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I have had the benefit of a small nap since my last post.
I am now absatively posalutely sure I have seen one of these. It is being used somewhere to house a generator. I'm fairly sure it was in a quarry and had to be mobile, and give weather cover, which it does. I think I saw it in the last 2 years. It may take me while to figure it out but leave that to me now, but don't hold your breath as it wont be that soon! R
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11-01-12, 04:58
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Wow! This HAS been a fascinating series of posts! And who would have thought that our - sorry, that should probably be 'their' -own Sir Tony of Ganmain would be the initiator? I say, well done, Sir Tony!
 Now for my 'tuppence-h'penny worth', to coin a pre-decimal phrase. All the Canadian Radar trailers sent to Oz that I have found record of, and the prime movers and support vehicles, fall within the ARN range 145959 to 146058, and 147737 to 147761. (There are none in the range 123801 to 123960: these are mostly CDN Lynx Scout cars). I have not counted them as yet, but will do so once the update is done (see below). When I originally extracted the info, it didn't mean a lot other than to be 'unusual' and include some Chev CMPs which were my prime interest in that datablock. The radar sets were a pain to 'decipher' as they were described and registered simply as 'Trailer, Radar A' and 'Trailer, Radar B', so I didn't really have a clue what they were. But now, thanks to this post, I can put the 'A' and 'B' against the actual type. As the manufacturer was also recorded at the time, it nails each one down nicely: I think an update to the database is now needed, which will give me a total of each item. Excellent work, gents, and I have to agree: the knowledge base on this forum is outstanding!  Mike C
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