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Ram: "Anglo-Canadian Cruiser"
Here’s an interesting read on the Canadian Ram Cruiser Tank:
https://warspot.net/536-anglo-canadian-Cruiser “A Ram I cruiser tank proudly shown off in the Toronto Star newspaper. As evidenced by the missing periscope in the commander’s hatch door, this tank is not yet fully assembled. The original caption refers to it as the M3”
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CWM .30-cal turret
A few years ago I met the fellow who restored the CWM's Ram's .30-cal turret. He was a former Regular Army weapons tech or vehicle mechanic (I forget which) who released and took the Algonquin College Applied Museum Studies program. As their 6th semester work placement, students have to find a job and find a project. This man's was that little turret. He had plenty of stories about how careful he had to be with the artifact and the limitations required by the restoration shop's labour and safety rules.
I had a succession of students helping me organize the Mapping and Charting archives. In one situation the royal "we" salvaged boxes of glass magic lantern slides from the old Natural Resources Canada basements. One of the co-ops realized they were published by a settlement propaganda office. That same term, the other co-op found snapshots taken by army surveyors of Inuit people with dates and places. We arranged to share those pictures with Library and Archives Canada for a "naming" project they had to return photos of previous-era subject to modern-day residents of the Arctic. Giving someone a high quality photo of their grandparents is a big deal, especially when only southerners had cameras.
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Locating the CWM .30-cal Turret
The Tank Museum in Bovington, England also has a Ram I that they have marked as a 1st Canadian Armoured Carrier Regiment vehicle.
The .30-cal turret came from the CFB Kingston training area in the mid 1990s. Barry Beldam had spotted it and showed me the location. The turret was in a debris field of FT17 running gear and tracks located behind the rifle range. The photographs show how the turret was situated and its' excellent condition once it was rolled over. I was responsible for putting the CWM onto the FT17 parts and .30-cal turret making the necessary arrangements for Range Control to allow access. |
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Where's my thumbs up icon?
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Yeah, where's that turrer?!?
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CWM .30-cal Turret
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On the plus side it describes in detail the conversion of Ram tanks with 75-mm gun, all 40 of which eventually ended up with the Netherlands Army - see attached photo.
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So I hope the auxiliary MG turret you found still sits on a shelf in a warehouse somewhere. Source: https://www.mapleleafup.nl/g104/kangaroo.htm
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