Long Service Life

[Bob Carriere]

Why is it that most museum feel the need to gut the inside of historical vehicles..?

That is like saving all the shoe boxes of all the shoes I bought over the years but keep only the last pair of shoes I actually wear.

The Churchill bridge layer at the CWM suffered the same fate. They gutted all the inside, they only have the shell left. When I inquired about the power train, firing mechanism, etc. they denied they ever had them. I know better I was there when it was recovered in 1972 and crawled all over it and inside it..... it was a complete tank.

Hoping they never find out about the balloon inflatable tank decoys or they might want to replace them all with light weight copies.

I can just see a cartoon in the editorial section of the Ottawa Citizen showing a cleaning lady lifting a Sherman by the gun barrell while dust moping underneath.

The engine was a marvel by itself and worthy of its own display. They mated 2 Bedford 6 cyl. engine into a pancake 12 cyl. ....but it was not Canadian so off it went to become Honda bumpers.

Ha! for the good old days.

Bob C