English Mk1 questions

[Nigel Watson]

No mine is Canadian built as far as I can tell!! It has its markings on the edge armour but they are a bit odd to place which is which. Still trying to match them with contracts etc. On going.

One thing to bear in mind is that not all parts of the carrier shell was made from BP plate, some had MS plate which wouldn't have had the marks on it.

Nigel

[Rob Beale]

One way I was told to identify carrier hulls, is to look at the engine bearers in the rear hull. If the channel has sharp corners, (hot rolled) it is English, and if it has rounded corners (cold rolled) it is Canadian.

Can anyone verify this? It is a quick way to ID a lower hull.

Rob

[Lynn Eades]

The Mc Dell boys carrier is an English Mk1 universal. It, like the remains of 3 or 4 other English Mk1's in the yard, that theirs came from, Has a relatively plain armour plate.
The plating does not have any of the markings like that of Canadian carriers, but it does differ from normal plate steel in that it does have a pattern to it.
To my un qualified eye, I would say there was no mechanical process, in straightening the plate, that left any marks on it,post production.
Obviously a different method of production was used.

[Lynn Eades]

It was me !!The armour plate does too. Isn't it amazing how some things are so obvious, and we know, but we can't add the 2 and 2.