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Old 30-05-13, 23:35
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Michael. Your picture makes me wonder if the "rypa" wasn't a training device but was more for a gun platform in the turret. I had been told by the lady at special collections for the library that the turret or part of it had to be ordered from a company in Toronto. When looking at the pictures that small turret appears to be a different construction then the rest of the vehicle.

I'm just tossing ideas out to everyone here trying to figure this vehicle out.
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Default RYPA at Camp Borden

Used for training zipper heads who were assigned to the Renault tanks at Borden. The article appears in the January, 1941 edition of Popular Science, pages 76-80.
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@Michael - yes, I remember that picture from period publications. Unfortunately , it is the range but not the actual device.

Added URL for the picture above. http://books.google.ca/books?id=NicD...page&q&f=false
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@Michael - yes, I remember that picture from period publications. Unfortunately , it is the range but not the actual device.
The device is in the lower left.
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Newspaper article and photo
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Just noticed while looking over the pictures again, how similar the RYPA turret is to what was build for the truck. Another reason why Im leaning towards the idea that what they bought were actual turrets from the company in Toronto.
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Old 23-11-13, 16:08
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speaking of unusual armoured trucks... in one of the early Convoy mags is an oddball big truck (5-10t?) in a "Whatizit" section...
Alas I dont have easy access to my Convoy remainders..
I wonder if anyone still has their old mags and can look it up, scan and post it?

BTW- good research work Jordan!!
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Jordan,

These may be of interest to you; http://www.ebay.ca/itm/371001712336

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Yes I saw those and I have my eyes on them.
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