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30-05-13, 14:32
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I started scanning the minutes of the Hamilton Auxiliary Defense force last night. I'll post up the relevant ones once I get them done. Briefly it does mention the truck was sent to Camp Borden for testing in August of 1940. The other interesting item in the minutes was that a scale model had been made and was sent to Ottawa along with some documents on it. I wonder what ever happened to them? Would it be stored away in he archives or war museum?
Interesting about what the Rypa was. Makes perfect sense that an elevator company would be contracted for making something like that. The elevator control boxes they where making then wouldn't have been all the different.
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30-05-13, 16:53
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I agree....Jordan does have the makings of a booklet/ book here...
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30-05-13, 19:43
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Those who live by the sword will be shot by those of us who have progressed. - M38A1, 67-07800, ex LETE
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30-05-13, 21:56
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a stable shooting platform
A stable shooting platform? At least the Thompson would be more flexible than the aircraft Vickers of a few years earlier shown here training at Camp Borden ranges, Ontario, Canada. Not to get off topic ...
Commenting on the Thompson gun at $353.00 each, as compared with the shotgun at $8.32 each.
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30-05-13, 23:35
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Michael. Your picture makes me wonder if the "rypa" wasn't a training device but was more for a gun platform in the turret. I had been told by the lady at special collections for the library that the turret or part of it had to be ordered from a company in Toronto. When looking at the pictures that small turret appears to be a different construction then the rest of the vehicle.
I'm just tossing ideas out to everyone here trying to figure this vehicle out.
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31-05-13, 04:25
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RYPA at Camp Borden
Used for training zipper heads who were assigned to the Renault tanks at Borden. The article appears in the January, 1941 edition of Popular Science, pages 76-80.
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01-06-13, 02:16
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@Michael - yes, I remember that picture from period publications. Unfortunately , it is the range but not the actual device.
Added URL for the picture above. http://books.google.ca/books?id=NicD...page&q&f=false
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