Oil Cooler - Aus Carrier

[JackM]

Pedr,

The Carrier we restored for the Army Museum of WA, had one of these guards on the oil cooler pipes. Hull # was 5174 and interestingly on the outside gusset behind the driver (from memory), there was a stamping of 'WA 98'. This was repeated on the front glacis plate lifting hook - RHS I think.

I always thought it indicated the number of these carriers made in WA. So 5174 was the 98th made. However if you deduct 98 from 5174, you end up with an unusual number from which to start a batch of 100 !

Has your WA carrier got any stampings in the places I mentioned ?

I think I remember getting a letter from Col Anderson in which he said his WA carrier had a similar stamping of WA 32.


Jack