Carrier Part Question

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Charlie
I think that item you identified as a shovel handle bracket is actually the bracket on the engine cover which holds one of the brass AA stem mounts. The shovel bracket has slots to allow for adjustment for some slight variations in shovel lengths.
If only the army had continued the use of such adjustable brackets; in all my years in the Cdn army, I don't think I ever got issued a shovel that actually fit into the brackets on either the M38A1s or the MLVWs. You had to disassemble the shovel and shorten the handles yourself.

Brad
As to the re-numbering of the lifting bar bracket, it makes sense to me. Supply techs were only good at matching numbers, and many weren't even good at that. They generally do not have the technical knowledge to know what a part actually is, so it is far easier to re-number the part than to heve to re-demand it a bunch of times.
Over the years in the Cdn army, I have received everything from life rafts to dental X-ray machines, to old reel to reel tape recorder parts, to a naval 3.50 gun turret mechanism, when what I was ordering was vehicle parts.