RamTank.ca

[Bill Miller]

No idea what this photo is about but it reminds me of a cartoon from the April 1942 issue of the "Tank"...

Must be difficult climbing around on the equipment in heels!

[Hanno Spoelstra]

See Ordnance Museum Data Plates #2: British & Canadian at the AFV News forum.

The data plate of Ram II WD No CT160162 / TKC 1691 / DND 76-133 has surfaced at the U.S. Army Ordnance Museum. This tank was present at Aberdeen Proving Ground, in Aberdeen, Maryland, USA, until at least December 1946 when the photograph below was taken. Now long gone, probably since the Korean War scrap drive, but luckily the data plate survives.

Pictures courtesy of Neil Baumgardner.

HTH,
Hanno

[Brian Gough]

Hi Hanno,

The data plate from Canadian Ram Rank 2, serial # CT159625 just sold on eBay for US$201.50 (ended Sept 28, 2010).

Picture here:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=290478552815


Brian

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Brian Gough

The data plate from Canadian Ram Rank 2, serial # CT159625 just sold on eBay for US$201.50 (ended Sept 28, 2010).

Brian,

Thanks for the heads up! At least we can record remains of another Ram. Last entry at www.ramtank.ca for serial number CT159625 is in June 1943, "retained in Canada for training purposes". Who can read the DND number? 56-569?

Regards,
Hanno

Manufacturers Data Plate from Canadian Ram Tank
Removed from a Canadian Ram 2 tank dated 1943. Cast bronze or brass plate measuring 6"x4". Made by the Montreal Locomotive Works Ltd.

[servicepub (RIP)]

Thnx guys, I will add these when I get home this weekend.

Clive

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Clive,

Here´s another picture of DND number 70-938. You already have a picture of it, listed under CT39929. Still with T&S (Training) Wing, A33, Cdn Armoured Corps, but the WE-210 tracks have been replaced with the later T54E1 track type, so I presume this picture was taken at a later date.

Click on the picture to go to the source, there are some other Ram pictures as well.

HTH,
Hanno

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

This is a Ram II with 75-mm gun in use by the Royal Netherlands Army as a molotov cocktail training aid:

Here are some more pictures of what I think is the same Ram tank:
http://proxy.handle.net/10648/920c8f...d-cac687f8410b


http://proxy.handle.net/10648/a273d7...6-9fafa47ee4cf


H.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Classic shot of Dutch Ram with 75-mm gun:
http://proxy.handle.net/10648/69ef4e...0-44528df02627

[marco]

Found this photo from CT 160077 on the website from the National Army Museum in London.
http://www.nam.ac.uk

Marco

[Hanno Spoelstra]

http://www.ramtank.ca/ seems to be down....

Who is in contact with Clive's family, please? MLU could offer server space to host the website.

Please contact me if you can help.

Thanks in advance!
Hanno

[maple_leaf_eh]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

http://www.ramtank.ca/ seems to be down....

Who is in contact with Clive's family, please? MLU could offer server space to host the website.

Please contact me if you can help.

Thanks in advance!
Hanno

I'll let Richard know there is a problem.

[Bill Alexander]

Mark Tonner has some information.

[Mark W. Tonner]

Hanno - RamTank.ca is now located here: https://web.archive.org/web/20170623...ramtank.ca:80/

Cheers

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Mark W. Tonner

Hanno - RamTank.ca is now located here: https://web.archive.org/web/20170623...ramtank.ca:80/

Thanks Mark,

The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is indeed a vital resource to save valuable information once published on the internet, and of which the original webpages are no longer accessible.

See https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.ramtank.ca for the full backup of this site, which along with its owner and publisher, Clive Law, has passed away.
One will need to search to see if the individual pages of which this website consisted, were all saved. The Wayback Machine only saves pages, not complete websites per se.

Regards,
Hanno

[rob love]

Hanno

Any chance MLU could import his pages? With his families approval of course. He had a lot of valuable information on them....shame if they got dumped by the wayback one day.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by rob love

Hanno

Any chance MLU could import his pages? With his families approval of course. He had a lot of valuable information on them....shame if they got dumped by the wayback one day.

Hello Rob,

Sure, see above:

Who is in contact with Clive's family, please? MLU could offer server space to host the website.

With his family's consent and help, we would need the files from Clive's computer so we can put them on our internet server.

Regards,
Hanno

[Mark W. Tonner]

Hanno - I'm in contact with Clive's family - I'll get back to you.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Mark W. Tonner

Hanno - I'm in contact with Clive's family - I'll get back to you.

Thanks Mark!