MkI* U.C. (Canadian) rear panel holes

[RichardT10829]

Lynn, you not just want to graft the holes on the original armour, or is it pretty corroded ?

[Lynn Eades]

Hi Richard, I have borrowed this original plate as well as the left side plate. I have my own right side pattern, but will be making up all three from new mild steel. Ya does what ya can, wid what ya got! (I've just chewed though about 15 cut off discs)
I picked up a part lower hull with a cut floor that came with a T number, T53043
It's frame no. is 4291. my frame no. is 4282 only 9 different. Counting back, it is likely my lower hull came from T53034. No decision yet. The days of finding a complete usable hull in this country are possibly gone.
It will be a very original carrier. (some of it 2018 model) (is there an icon for "tongue in cheek"?) but I have many of the original bits that I gathered while trying to get my Bren carrier together.
Cutting out a new div. plate is next........

[Rob Beale]

Hi Lynn

The upper and lower numbers don't match. I have 4200 lower and 4193 upper.

I suggest the upper and lower hull hulls were assembled separately then united as a complete hull at Hamilton Bridge Co. When they arrived at the Ford plant stacked two high on rail flats they would not have been sorted to enter the factory sequentially and the T number was probably painted in the order that they went out the door! (Michael R's pics of the milestone carriers show them inside the factory).

A, B and the two below them could be flame cut in the field for a bracket?

14 and 18 could be for the re-positioned starting handle brackets of a mortar carrier. (There is another bracket on the POL can holder).

Rob