English Mk1 questions

[Lynn Eades]

Hi the McDell boys. Your carrier will be armour plated.
The Australian and N.Z. built carriers are a different type of armour plate. Your carrier is of rivetted construction, and so did not present the difficulties of construction,as would a welded armour plate carrier. Nigel, in his infinite wisdom may be able to advise as to what his carriers plating, looks like.

Must be about time we saw some pictures here of what is happening with your carrier.
Show us your good work!

[McDell Bros]

Will try to get some photos on soon. We are finished with your front armour patterns thanks Lynn, we are just waiting for your hinges & handle to be finished & we will get it all back to you.

[Nigel Watson]

Originally Posted by Lynn Eades

Hi the McDell boys. Your carrier will be armour plated.
The Australian and N.Z. built carriers are a different type of armour plate. Your carrier is of rivetted construction, and so did not present the difficulties of construction,as would a welded armour plate carrier. Nigel, in his infinite wisdom may be able to advise as to what his carriers plating, looks like.

Must be about time we saw some pictures here of what is happening with your carrier.
Show us your good work!

My carrier is rivotted as well and what original armour it has is marked up in the same way as for armour plate. The sides and rear top hull plating have been replaced so isn't original on mine.

Looking forward to seeing the photos McDells!

Nigel

[Nigel Watson]

My apologies, should read rivetted and not rivotted, its the way we say them!!

Nigel

[Lynn Eades]

Was your carrier built in Canada?
The reason for my question is that there are a number of carrier hulls here, that are(I believe)English, and they have no marks on the armour plate.

[Nigel Watson]

No mine is Canadian built as far as I can tell!! It has its markings on the edge armour but they are a bit odd to place which is which. Still trying to match them with contracts etc. On going.

One thing to bear in mind is that not all parts of the carrier shell was made from BP plate, some had MS plate which wouldn't have had the marks on it.

Nigel

[Rob Beale]

One way I was told to identify carrier hulls, is to look at the engine bearers in the rear hull. If the channel has sharp corners, (hot rolled) it is English, and if it has rounded corners (cold rolled) it is Canadian.

Can anyone verify this? It is a quick way to ID a lower hull.

Rob

[Lynn Eades]

The Mc Dell boys carrier is an English Mk1 universal. It, like the remains of 3 or 4 other English Mk1's in the yard, that theirs came from, Has a relatively plain armour plate.
The plating does not have any of the markings like that of Canadian carriers, but it does differ from normal plate steel in that it does have a pattern to it.
To my un qualified eye, I would say there was no mechanical process, in straightening the plate, that left any marks on it,post production.
Obviously a different method of production was used.

[Lynn Eades]

It was me !!The armour plate does too. Isn't it amazing how some things are so obvious, and we know, but we can't add the 2 and 2.