Ex CF M113 in RCMP use

[Robin Craig]

I am cleaning up and throwing out, as I do every winter it seems. Sorting through boxes stowed years ago.

I bin way more than I save but I open everything.

Today I found these gems from a visit to the back end of the Technical and Protective Operational Facility (TPOF) at the former LETE site at the east end of what is now Ottawa and was once Gloucester.

I thought these might get a few comments and be useful for any of the scale model makers who bimble in here.

I have later pictures with an hydraulic barricade fitted that extends sideways and some AVGP and some Lynx vehicles, but I will have to find them.

I can not put a definitive date to these as yet. Just to be clear, these are mine, please ASK before you plaster them elsewhere.

[Don Dingwall]

These photos are fairly dated Robin.
The latest batch bear almost no resemblance except for the slab side.
Even the tracks are different.
Don

[Bruce MacMillan]

I wonder if the value of the 9 APCs borrowed for the Gustafsen Lake standoff prompted them to aquire their own?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustafsen_Lake_Standoff

[rob love]

The Soucey rubber track will date it some time after about 2004 at a minimum. The carrier itself is a M113A2 with external fuel tanks, so they could still be found until the majority were destroyed around 2012 or so?


Something tells me the cost and logistics of keeping a M113 running, along with the logistics of transporting it around took the shine off using them.

[Michael R.]

Originally Posted by Robin Craig

Just to be clear, these are mine, please ASK before you plaster them elsewhere.

You have already lost control of these images to Google.

[Ed Storey]

That is why I plaster a huge watermark across everything I now post.