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Old 04-04-09, 05:44
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No idea what this photo is about but it reminds me of a cartoon from the April 1942 issue of the "Tank"...

Must be difficult climbing around on the equipment in heels!
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Old 28-09-10, 14:08
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See Ordnance Museum Data Plates #2: British & Canadian at the AFV News forum.

The data plate of Ram II WD No CT160162 / TKC 1691 / DND 76-133 has surfaced at the U.S. Army Ordnance Museum. This tank was present at Aberdeen Proving Ground, in Aberdeen, Maryland, USA, until at least December 1946 when the photograph below was taken. Now long gone, probably since the Korean War scrap drive, but luckily the data plate survives.

Pictures courtesy of Neil Baumgardner.

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Old 29-09-10, 23:37
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Hi Hanno,

The data plate from Canadian Ram Rank 2, serial # CT159625 just sold on eBay for US$201.50 (ended Sept 28, 2010).

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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=290478552815


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Old 30-09-10, 10:22
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The data plate from Canadian Ram Rank 2, serial # CT159625 just sold on eBay for US$201.50 (ended Sept 28, 2010).
Brian,

Thanks for the heads up! At least we can record remains of another Ram. Last entry at www.ramtank.ca for serial number CT159625 is in June 1943, "retained in Canada for training purposes". Who can read the DND number? 56-569?

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Manufacturers Data Plate from Canadian Ram Tank
Removed from a Canadian Ram 2 tank dated 1943. Cast bronze or brass plate measuring 6"x4". Made by the Montreal Locomotive Works Ltd.
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Old 30-09-10, 13:16
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Thnx guys, I will add these when I get home this weekend.

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Old 13-10-10, 11:08
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Clive,

Here´s another picture of DND number 70-938. You already have a picture of it, listed under CT39929. Still with T&S (Training) Wing, A33, Cdn Armoured Corps, but the WE-210 tracks have been replaced with the later T54E1 track type, so I presume this picture was taken at a later date.

Click on the picture to go to the source, there are some other Ram pictures as well.

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Old 01-03-14, 13:56
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This is a Ram II with 75-mm gun in use by the Royal Netherlands Army as a molotov cocktail training aid:
Here are some more pictures of what I think is the same Ram tank:
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Old 01-03-14, 15:55
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Classic shot of Dutch Ram with 75-mm gun:
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Found this photo from CT 160077 on the website from the National Army Museum in London.
http://www.nam.ac.uk

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Old 30-04-18, 13:29
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http://www.ramtank.ca/ seems to be down....

Who is in contact with Clive's family, please? MLU could offer server space to host the website.

Please contact me if you can help.

Thanks in advance!
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Old 30-04-18, 16:32
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http://www.ramtank.ca/ seems to be down....

Who is in contact with Clive's family, please? MLU could offer server space to host the website.

Please contact me if you can help.

Thanks in advance!
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Old 01-05-18, 12:56
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Mark Tonner has some information.
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Old 11-06-18, 15:52
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Hanno - RamTank.ca is now located here: https://web.archive.org/web/20170623...ramtank.ca:80/

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Old 11-06-18, 20:37
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Hanno - RamTank.ca is now located here: https://web.archive.org/web/20170623...ramtank.ca:80/
Thanks Mark,

The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is indeed a vital resource to save valuable information once published on the internet, and of which the original webpages are no longer accessible.

See https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.ramtank.ca for the full backup of this site, which along with its owner and publisher, Clive Law, has passed away.
One will need to search to see if the individual pages of which this website consisted, were all saved. The Wayback Machine only saves pages, not complete websites per se.

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Old 11-06-18, 22:04
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Hanno

Any chance MLU could import his pages? With his families approval of course. He had a lot of valuable information on them....shame if they got dumped by the wayback one day.
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Old 11-06-18, 22:19
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Hanno

Any chance MLU could import his pages? With his families approval of course. He had a lot of valuable information on them....shame if they got dumped by the wayback one day.
Hello Rob,

Sure, see above:
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Who is in contact with Clive's family, please? MLU could offer server space to host the website.
With his family's consent and help, we would need the files from Clive's computer so we can put them on our internet server.

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Old 11-06-18, 22:49
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Hanno - I'm in contact with Clive's family - I'll get back to you.
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Old 11-06-18, 23:41
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Hanno - I'm in contact with Clive's family - I'll get back to you.
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