Bovington Carrier

[Ron Pier]

We spoke about the carrier at the tank museum recently. I've been there today and taken a few pics. Ron

[Ron Pier]

A few more. Ron

[Ron Pier]

And the Loyd carrier that we also spoke of. What about the picture of the strange wheel track arrangement taken on Salisbury plain? Ron

[Ron Pier]

And the new lottery funded £2.5 million hall built to house the reserve collection. Not generally open to the public. We got a good look round and under wraps are lots of vehicles from Beverly being stored until the Army vehicles museum can find places to house them properly. Ron

[Lynn Eades]

Ron, The Loyd you refer to is a Vickers Carden Loyd Tankette, usually called a Tankette as opposed to a Loyd carrier.

[Richard Farrant]

Originally Posted by Ron Pier

And the new lottery funded £2.5 million hall built to house the reserve collection. Not generally open to the public. We got a good look round and under wraps are lots of vehicles from Beverly being stored until the Army vehicles museum can find places to house them properly. Ron

I took some overseas friends to the museum after W&P and we were given a viewing of the new facility. The Curator said the vehicles were from the National Army Museum collection which has been in store at Stevenage, but moved whilst building work is going on up there.

[Ron Pier]

Yes Lynn remiss of me to miss out 'Carden' But the museum call it a carrier.
Yes Richard I also had a long chat with David Willy (try and stop him). and yes the vehicles came from Stevenage but lots of those were in store from Beverly. The National army museum had collected theirs after the roof had collapse! It seems they are preparing a facility at Chelsea, but the Tank museum are uncertain about the time scale and the room available. They are more than willing to house any armoured stuff and have agreed to hold the soft skin under wraps for a maximum of two years. Shame this stuff is not on display. From what I could see by peering through the poly sheets, there are some rare and interesting vehicles and nicely restored. Ron

[Kuno]

Originally Posted by Ron Pier

What about the picture of the strange wheel track arrangement taken on Salisbury plain? Ron

I guess it is a system comparable to what Saurer in Austria had used - the vehicle could be lifted up and drive on roads on its three wheels instead of on the tracks (the Saurer had four wheels though).

[shaun]

Originally Posted by Ron Pier

And the new lottery funded £2.5 million hall built to house the reserve collection. Not generally open to the public. We got a good look round and under wraps are lots of vehicles from Beverly being stored until the Army vehicles museum can find places to house them properly. Ron

It's a big building ! I was temporary storing a lot of vehicles for the NAM , then we moved them all into that building back in July. The is a carrier in the building belonging to NAM. It's a Brit built MK 2

[Ron Pier]

Yes Shaun. Those are exactly the vehicles I was looking at under poly wraps.

Oh to win the lottery and able to buy a huge shed/barn.....with a little caravan in the corner to live in Ron

[Tim Bell]

Originally Posted by shaun

It's a big building ! I was temporary storing a lot of vehicles for the NAM , then we moved them all into that building back in July. The is a carrier in the building belonging to NAM. It's a Brit built MK 2

Like the Bedford MW... is it a 25pdr Portee?

Cheers

Tim

[Ron Pier]

No that's a 2 pounder. Which is ridiculous as I have one and never saw that one. The poly was very opaque so I must have missed it. Ron

[Roddy de Normann]

Ron -

Ref the Carrier makers plate...the T No seems v strange...772152...could the 7 have been stamped twice ?

Roddy

[Ron Pier]

Well I've blown that number up and it actually reads 77ZT52 ?
I think I can see file marks. Could this be post war number from it's test bed days? Ron

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Tim Bell

Like the Bedford MW... is it a 25pdr Portee?

Like Ron said, it's a 2-pdr AT gun in the back of an MW, which is masquerading as an MWG - read more about the Bedford MWG here

Hanno

[Roddy de Normann]

Ron -

Yup...stupid me

Roddy

[shaun]

Originally Posted by Ron Pier

Yes Shaun. Those are exactly the vehicles I was looking at under poly wraps.

Oh to win the lottery and able to buy a huge shed/barn.....with a little caravan in the corner to live in Ron

Ron I had them ALL in one of my hangers for 6 months !

[shaun]

Here are a couple of photos of the vehicles and a flying carrier being unloaded in my yard.

Not quite a carrier but !