Lynx II, hull # 4225

[Mike Cecil]

Peter,

This is an image sent to me many years ago by Bill Gregg. If I remember correctly, it is of the three Lynx before they departed from Greece, or soon after they arrived in Canada - don't remember which it was. You or another CDN forum member may be able to recognise the background, perhaps, which would place the image geographically.

Anyway, one for your album.

Mike

[Russ Gregg]

Those look a lot like the residence buildings at CFB Borden in the background, that might be the workshops down near the southend of the airfield. I'm sure there are others on here that will know if that is how they entered Canada.

[David Dunlop]

This is an interesting photo. The centre Lynx has a standard bin on the front of it and it looks as if the Lynx just poking into the right side of the frame also has the same style bin. But the left hand Lynx seems to have a huge bin mounted on the front of it. It seems to run right up to the front face of the POW holder on the top of it's left front fender. Either that or the lighting in the shot is throwing some very strange shadows.

David

[Peter Duggan]

Mike,

Thanks for the great picture. Every picture adds to our collective knowledge, and generates more debate, which in turn provides more information.

Peter

[Lynn Eades]

David, te bin looks like it has taken a hit with the front squashed and the back of the bin has ridden up the front of the lynx as it was pushed back....or that's how it seems to me

[James Gosling]

Hi Peter,

Here are some pictures of the seat. I am in the process of replacing the height cable as it snapped recently!

[James Gosling]

And some more

[Jason Ginn]

Originally Posted by David Dunlop

This is an interesting photo. The centre Lynx has a standard bin on the front of it and it looks as if the Lynx just poking into the right side of the frame also has the same style bin. But the left hand Lynx seems to have a huge bin mounted on the front of it. It seems to run right up to the front face of the POW holder on the top of it's left front fender. Either that or the lighting in the shot is throwing some very strange shadows.

David

I would say that there is a good chance that the Lynx on the left , with the flattend bin, is the one that went to the CWM.

When we updated the restoration work done in the late 80's we had to have a new front bin and rear fender top bins made. The replacement made during the first restoration for the front was a bit inaccurate and made from galvanized ducting. The rears were missing all together.

It's a little interesting that the motor in the CWM Lynx has a Greek rebuild tag on it from the late 60's iirc and it had a steering wheel from an M3 Scout Car with Greek graffiti cut into it. Both are still on it as part of its history.

[Peter Duggan]

Jason,
Thanks for the information on the CWM Lynx. I hope that their front bin was a faithful reproduction since it will most likely provide all the dimensions for my front bin when I get around to it. The same goes for the bins that are mounted on the rear fenders. Peter

[marco]

Photo from the Lynx at the RCA Museum at Shilo.

[Jason Ginn]

Originally Posted by Peter Duggan

Jason,
Thanks for the information on the CWM Lynx. I hope that their front bin was a faithful reproduction since it will most likely provide all the dimensions for my front bin when I get around to it. The same goes for the bins that are mounted on the rear fenders. Peter

PETER I don't say that the parts we built in 2010 are 100% accurate as we had nothing to go by but Don Dingwall and I did the spec for them based on the original mounting points, photos and Drawings. I've always trusted Don as a master model maker with a very sharp eye for proportion and detail.

I hope they can serve as some form of refrence for you but take the info with a grain of salt as they aren't of the period.

RICK- I never found the Lynx "fun" to drive it seemed I was always short on space but the steering wheel wasn't horrible. It did take a considerable Ammount of heaving to turn it when stopped, basically you couldn't, but you didn't rack your knuckles on everything in the compartment. You can really see why the Ferret wheel is on a reverse angle tho!

Here is a pic of the CWM one on a cold wet day in 2010. Don D. Is driving and I'm the very wet commander.

[Peter Duggan]

Jason, Sorry that I didn't make the connection between you and the CWM Lynx earlier. I dug through my CMP magazines and found #56 which has some great pictures of you, Don and the Lynx. It is great that there are people such as yourself and Don that have helped keep our history alive.

Marco and Rick, Thanks again for the Lynx pictures. Every one helps.

Peter

[lynx42]

The Lynx on the left in that photo has the original lid slightly open. The lid opens from the vehicle outwards and has a welded lip along the Lynx hull to stop bits falling behind the bin. I do not think that the left Lynx bin is damaged at all, only open at about 30 degrees.

The fitting of an M3A1 White Scout Car steering wheel would make it a mongrel to drive as the Lynx steering wheel is a lot smaller in diameter, you would bark your knuckles on some sharp edges on the inside of the front armour. (I know that because I have both an M3A1 and a Lynx.)

Regards Rick.

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Originally Posted by Jason Ginn

I would say that there is a good chance that the Lynx on the left , with the flattend bin, is the one that went to the CWM.

When we updated the restoration work done in the late 80's we had to have a new front bin and rear fender top bins made. The replacement made during the first restoration for the front was a bit inaccurate and made from galvanized ducting. The rears were missing all together.

It's a little interesting that the motor in the CWM Lynx has a Greek rebuild tag on it from the late 60's iirc and it had a steering wheel from an M3 Scout Car with Greek graffiti cut into it. Both are still on it as part of its history.