Carrier grave yards

[shaun]

Originally Posted by George McKenzie

One thing is that if all this stuff servived the thing s you have now wouldn't be worth as much .I have collected for over 50 years ,putting over 250 machines in a museum .When you first get the bug of collecting You hear a rumor about a vehicle ,the excitment sets in , Then the looking for it starts .My first carrier that I went to look for turned out to be a snow tractor .So you don't give up till you are firmly convinced that it is just a rumor There has been many times the thing I went to look for turned out to be a better thing than what I was looking for .I just bought a M38 Jeep that was sitting 10 miles from me on a fence line for 25 years and I never knew it was there . I can't get over how things rust in the UK and Europe .In western Canada it can sit out for a 100 years and still be ok .

Thats very true George, I had been following the rumors for about 5 years the day i found the carrier in the farm scrap yard back in 1984, i had actually given up looking for them that day as i had been told about a German half track laying in a hedge, it turned out to be a 1940 GMC with a lime spreading body on the back. its was originally destined for France but got diverted to the UK as France had fallen, the lime body was a post war conversion. It was recovered and has been restored. Anyway while searching for the "half track" i need to stop for the call of nature (to much tea) , so i stopped the car and dived behind the hedge and found my self face to face with a T16. You must always follow up a rumor as you just never know !