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Old 21-11-15, 19:13
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The one we have here in Shilo (ex-Gregg of course) has the driver seat mounted to the floor. It raises and lowers in a similar fashion to the bren carrier.

The co-driver's seat is on a spring loaded tube. It was missing when I first started to work on the lynx, and I stumbled on it in a triwall of picture frames in another building.

A fellow in Winnipeg related an interesting story from a veteran whom he has recorded his stories from WW2. The veteran operated a lynx, and broke the rear axle. When he took it to exchange it at the vehicle dump, they offered him a 50BMG recovered form aircraft. He has the armourers dress it up for ground use, and installed it on top of the lynx in place of the Bren. He later replaced the larger co-drivers seat with a tube with a bicycle seat so he could have more room for the boxes of BMG ammo. While it would not turn the lynx into a fighting vehicle, (they were for reconnaissance) it would at least allow for engagements with targets of opportunity at far greater distance and devastation than the Bren would have provided.
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