Lynx II, hull # 4225

[Peter Duggan]

Weather was poor so I got to spend the day in the garage. It's a cruel world. Got most of the crew compartment cleaned out and removed the front nose armour. Very pleased with the overall condition of the mechanical components.


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[maple_leaf_eh]

I need to echo the advice about plenty of storage totes, and want to add one lesson of my own. Get a stationary supplier's attention and find a hundred or two paper hang tags. Either on strings or wires, when you take something off, put a part name, stock number, condition and source in some form of recognizable shorthand (NOS, TO - Take Off -, used, etc). When I've acquired parts from outsiders, I tend to forget some of the details. With tags, I don't have to remember everything, and I can concentrate on the more important learning.

This is not my slave cable, but it shows a tag that identifies exactly what the piece is.

[Peter Duggan]

Another good day in the garage. Spring and yard work is starting to crimp my time in the garage. Made some nice progress and the more of the drivetrain that I expose, the better it looks.


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[David Dunlop]

Peter:

Terrific project! Enjoy the journey!

Lynx42:

In the overall scheme of things, IHC was probably considered a sub contractor for the Lynx hull assemblies, which would have been delivered to Fords assembly plant for mating with the chassis production. The background row of vehicles in the photo posted by Michael are all completed and on their wheels. That would suggest a compound at the Ford Plant. Hard to tell if the vehicles in the foreground are complete, or just hulls. They are certainly very precisely lined up and very close to each other. If completed vehicles, the Ford Parking Lot Attendants were positively brilliant!

David

[hrpearce]

Originally Posted by David Dunlop

The background row of vehicles in the photo posted by Michael are all completed and on their wheels. That would suggest a compound at the Ford Plant. Hard to tell if the vehicles in the foreground are complete, or just hulls. They are certainly very precisely lined up and very close to each other. If completed vehicles, the Ford Parking Lot Attendants were positively brilliant!

David

When you enlarge the photo wheels are visible on them.

[lynx42]

Originally Posted by David Dunlop

Peter:

Terrific project! Enjoy the journey!

Lynx42:

In the overall scheme of things, IHC was probably considered a sub contractor for the Lynx hull assemblies, which would have been delivered to Fords assembly plant for mating with the chassis production. The background row of vehicles in the photo posted by Michael are all completed and on their wheels. That would suggest a compound at the Ford Plant. Hard to tell if the vehicles in the foreground are complete, or just hulls. They are certainly very precisely lined up and very close to each other. If completed vehicles, the Ford Parking Lot Attendants were positively brilliant!

David

Why David?

Why not take the chassis to the IHC factory. Much easier to move the chassis than completed hulls. If you look at the assembly line photos you will see that the hulls are complete and would not stack very well. The sand channel brackets hang down a bit far for that.

The line up of vehicles are all on wheels so could be at either factory.

The M3A1 White Scout Cars were a similar situation with the chassis shown as complete and moved to a different place for the hulls to be fitted.

Regards Rick.

[Peter Duggan]

Guys,

I'd always assumed that the final assembly took place at the Ford plant. However, Robert Parker, sent me a series of Lynx pictures that he had collected and in the midst of the pictures are a series outside what I think is the International Harvester plant. The logo below the roof peak appears to be the IH logo.

Peter

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[Peter Duggan]

Getting closer to the root of the problem. I am reminded of the old adage - "no matter how large you build your garage, it will never be large enough".

Peter

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