Leopard 1 Driver Training Cabs in Canada

[James P]

Originally Posted by Grant Bowker

Did the modification to accept the training cab in any way limit the use of the tank in the normal role with the turret? If the (modified) base tank hull was equally usable with either training cab or turret, it is possible that in a burst of enthusiasm it was decided to modify several times as many hulls as there were training cabs so that it would only be necessary to ship the driver training cab and not the entire tank to train in different locations.
This suggestion is made without any actual knowledge of the driver training adaptation of the Leopard to offer a possible explanation of what otherwise sounds illogical.

Sorry for not really understanding your question but swapping out a turret for a cab is not going to call for "modifying" the hull and just made for a lot of work for old Bluebell. Pretty much a plug and play swap. I could be wrong but up to the mid 1990s the only folks with a cabbed tank(s) was/where the Armour School at Gagetown, post mid 90s maybe they (CF) moved a cab tank around but I doubt it. Mileages where always something that was watched and accounted for, the D&M tanks would obviously have more then the Gunnery Sqn tanks that lived a more pampered life.