Ferret CFR List

[Robin Craig]

Jim, I think I know you from the old Ferret Heaven, anyway here goes.

British made military vehicles usually had either an "MS" military sales designation registration or a conventional British Army style, so either lets say 01 MS 88 or 21 BA 35. Somewhere in the anals of officialdom there is a cross reference between all of these.

Anyhow, I have no clue why you refer to your vehicle as a "Fieldmouse", im presuming you have some rare prototype that I didnt know about obviously.

As fas as the "used" vehicle status you mention, I find that an interesting idea. The reason I say that is this, Colin mentions in his book that Canadian vehicles had square side hatches, yet one of mine, C/S 31, has sloped hatches but is such an obvious Canadian vehicle for many other reasons.

I suspect that somewhere along the timeline of production of Ferrets the side hatch changed from square to sloped and I think that the Canadian order was filled with vehicles of both types and at the time it was not a big deal to those at the factory so no special mention was made of it.

See what I mean?

Robin