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19-08-10, 20:47
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19-08-10, 22:26
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Clive, yes of course. Please do. Excellent Book on Motorcycles BTW. Many thanks. Scotty
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20-08-10, 06:06
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Interesting that we used the British registration number as the serial number rather than the actual hull serial numbers.
I note there are a few gaps in the CFRs. 4 are missing from the 57X range.
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20-08-10, 13:35
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I missed those other CFR's. According to EDR, there were 118, but i'd imagine if any were BER'd prior to the 70's, they wouldn't have been listed. Scotty
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29-08-10, 23:25
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Very interesting!
I have to see where I put the photos of my "Fieldmouse" Mk -1 and check the Reg number....My Ferret is stored 600 miles away so I can't just go out and look..... It does have a large circle with three sections painted on it that says "Combined Arms School" or "Combat Arms School" (can't remember which). The British Reg numbers such as 35BA57 would have been stamped on a large data plate on the right side of the hull just below the top of the side armor..on the inside. It appears that the Canadians removed these plates as all the CDN Mk-1's I have seen just have a small plate of steel with numbers/letters stamped in. Where was the serial number stamped on the CDN Ferret? Jim Gilmore Jim Thorpe, PA
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29-08-10, 23:30
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On second thought.....
Why would CDN Ferrets have British Reg. numbers? Were they bought directly or did they come from the British MOD? Seems that if they were bought by Canada on a direct contract from the Mfg. they would not have had British Reg numbers..... If they were gotten through the MOD then perhaps Bovington would have the histories on them as it did on my Saladin..... Jim Gilmore Jim Thorpe, PA.
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30-08-10, 04:30
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They did have British registration numbers apparently. On the website "Ferret Heaven" it listed all the contracts for ferret production showing both hull and registration numbers. It seems the earliest production ferrets were primarily export sales to Australia and Canada.
Somewhere I have seen a photo of a Cdn ferret with the Brit registration number on it, but I can't locate it right now. Or they may have shown a photo of a brit ferret in the article. If I can find it, the registration listings given by Scotty would confirm if it's Cdn. I am not so sure ours had those large aluminum plates in them. I do not see any marks from where the studs would have been welded into the hull to mount it. I believe we only had the small plates with the serial numbers on them, in roughly the same location as the big plates should have been. Hard to say why the gaps are in the CFRs listed. I passed a full listing of all the 123 Cdn ferrets and their final dispositions to Colin Stevens in BC. He has them listed on his website.
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