Levy Auto Parts

[Jason Ginn]

Here are some aerials from the city of Toronto showing property in 1953, 56 and 1975.It is truly impressive how large the property is!

I have included some detail of the back of the property where the bank washed the M5A1 tanks into the Humber in 1954. you can see the changes and what appears to be at least one Stuart at the bottom of the bank.

[Frank v R]

the '75 photo shows how much stuff was scraped during the Seaway Corp. time , all the M-24's went , Approx. 200 ex US Air Force M-37's , Reo's, and some Sherman's , DUKW's , Diamond T's nd anything else that was at the back of the yard, Levy's also buried a ton of stuff in the yard, the M-37 wheels with tires were still in the ground by the rear gate in the 90's,

[Jason Ginn]

M-24's Eh? Frank do you recall at all if they were from the US or the Canadian ones?

[Frank v R]

I do not recall any of the tanks having stars on them M-24 or M4 , so my bet would be they were Cdn,

[Jason Ginn]

interesting!

Do you recall how many there were?

[Perry Kitson]

In the late '70's/early 80's Levy's were in hot water over the sale of Continental AVDS-1790 engines to South Africa, as well as surplus Canadian Centurions that were reportedly going to India.
The engines were filed on export paperwork stating they were to be used in "coal trucks". Authorities were slow to realize these are the engines used to upgrade the Cents in South African service to Oliphant.
The Cents that were supposedly sent to India, long after they were buying Vickers MBT's and license building them as Vijayanta.

Perry

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Originally Posted by Perry Kitson

In the late '70's/early 80's Levy's were in hot water over the sale of Continental AVDS-1790 engines to South Africa, as well as surplus Canadian Centurions that were reportedly going to India.
The engines were filed on export paperwork stating they were to be used in "coal trucks". Authorities were slow to realize these are the engines used to upgrade the Cents in South African service to Oliphant.
The Cents that were supposedly sent to India, long after they were buying Vickers MBT's and license building them as Vijayanta.

Perry

The rumours for their disposal also included being shipped to Israel in ship's hold covered in grain.