Leopard 1 Driver Training Cabs in Canada

[Ian Johns]

I know the old owner of the one on the right and if I remember correctly I remember seeing 2 or 3 training cabs in his yard. I'll check the next time I'm there.

Originally Posted by strat1

July 1978 ,9 Leopard C1’s issued to Royal Canadian Armoured School. They were divided between Gunnery and Driving and Maintenance squadrons. The turrets were taken off, placed on turret stands, the hulls were fitted with an Instructors cabin for driving training.

More might have been purchased, but no records show this, or the number of 37 cabins. To convert a gun tank to driver instructor was a plug and play affair with quick disconnects.

23 Leo 1 hulls were sold off, all were to be de-milled with armour sections taken out of upper/lower front hull areas. a few have made it back to Canada , the Ontario Regiment Museum bought 2 which were movie props, the vismod movie turrets have been taken off, and vismod C1 looking turrets added, but they used the CFB Borden German Leo 1A4 for measurements to build the new turrets, so they are actually 1A4's, not our 1A3 turret versions.

Cheers

Anthony

[BradB]

Found this on F-Book today - not sure how pertinent it is, but it is a Training Cab Leo!

Sorry - in detail, group photo from a 1981 Advanced Driver and Maintenance Course in Gagetown.

Brad

[Dan Martel]

Originally Posted by BradB

...group photo from a 1981 Advanced Driver and Maintenance Course in Gagetown.

Brad,

Why so many infantrymen on an advanced driver and maintenance course?

Cheers,
Dan.

[James P]

The attached Infantry types would do the "common" portion of the course of wheels and tracks but not the tank unless they where seconded to the school. There was even a Engineer teaching D&M (as they have the Leo bridge layer), the idea was the Armour school being the self touted centre of excellence that instructors going through there would rise the level of D&M instruction for outside units................I am hardly convinced it ever rose to that ideal.