Wanted: Looking for a Carrier No3 for WS19

[Chris Suslowicz]

Originally Posted by Jordan Baker

Hanno or another admin, can you please change my title to reflect that it should be Carrier No23 I'm after. Thanks.

There's no actual difference (although later carriers tended to be painted). They simply renumbered the carriers (No.1 became No.21, No.2 became No.22, No.3 became No.23, and No.25 was always No.25). I think it was to avoid confusion with carriers for earlier sets, like the WS11 and WS12.

(Pause for rummage)

WO12211 Carriers, Set, Various has illustrations and component lists but is useless from a reproduction point of view because no dimensions are given.

Carrier No.1 appears to be for the WS12 and/or R107 type of set.
Carrier No.4 is for the WS22 (single strap with big spring holding set and PSU. (This one appears not to have been renumbered.)
Carrier No.21 - WS19 and supply unit in standard AFV mount. (Was No.1)
Carrier No.22 - WS19 with supply unit on top (e.g: Sexton, Universal Carrier.) (Was No.2)
Carrier No.23 - WS19 truck & ground station wooden board carrier. (Was No.3)
Carrier No.25 - WS19 demountable station (all metal carrier with top-mounted ancillaries)

The manual is from 1957 and gets up to Carrier, Set No.84 - into the early Larkspur era as C11 and C42 are mentioned.

Chris.
(The wire from the crocodile clip to the spring terminal on my No.23 carrier is wrong, and needs to come off at some point - this will involve dismantling the terminal as someone took it to bits to fit a very substantial battery lug to it! I still need to find my bag of assorted braid straps to see if one has a slotted lug to fit the spring terminal.)