Sherman Tank

Oh, and there's one outside the armoury in downtown Vancouver, but to be frank I like seeing it, so you'd have to bring the tank to Vancouver's remembrance day ceremonies every year:D .
 
I have been in the M4E8 outside the Beatty street armoury, the inside is completly stripped, but the RAM II appears to have most of it's interior san's engine. Now that would be a great project and I would love to see a RAM trundling down the road on Nov 11th! There is a company still making rebuilt tracks here in BC and talking to the guys that built the Kincolt-Greenville road, the old beasts are the best for the real nasty places, saw one drill there that appeared to be based on a M3 chassis.

The M4E8 at Sardis is fairly complete, missing engine, but the driveshaft is still there!
 
I seem to recall someone firebombed the Sherman outside Beatty St armoury many years ago. Anyone remember something like that?
 
desporterizer said:
There were at least two in toronto, one outside the downsview armoury & one on display on lakeshore with the lancaster. Try contacting the toronto warplane museum, they got the lanc, maybe they know what happened to the sherman. The one ouside the armoury looked so good you could almost hear it running.
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I think they went with the destroyer to hamilton
 
I'm uncomfortable with the suggestion that our CGN pal with the Sherman parts should buy one off a Legion. Those tanks were obtained and dedicated to the memory of the fallen. Buying one would be like recycling a tombstone.

There are DND owned tanks on display around the country. Most are listed as $1 value on the DA. I sincerely doubt any regiment would up and surrender its regimental artifacts at the drop of a hat. The Foot Guards in Ottawa got a Bren Carrier from the War Museum in return for their Sherman 'Forceful', a replacement Sherman planted out at Connaught and the promise of eternal care for Forceful.

The Strathconas in Edmonton have a historic vehicle troop with at least two running Shermans. I think one of theirs came off the Primrose Lake Air Weapons Range.

That fellow in Ft Mac was on TV with his Centurion and British vehicles. Birds of a feather, stick together. He might have connections.

Good luck with the logging long line machinery. Those businesses know the productivity value of their machinery to the dollar. Very little room for sentimentality. But they would likely know where to get the right parts.
 
I,ve got a 76mm lying around in my yard. It came out of a range target from CFB Suffield. A local scrap yard got it in, and I had them cut the gun from the turret. It's been shelled pretty bad, with a good hit mid barrel. Its marked Oldsmobile 1945, ect ect ect. Pm me for some pics. Wanna see my retarded Bren gun carrier restoration? Tracks and road wheels are from a scorpion cvr, and are brand new. I know where there is a ton of track from suffeild, it was dirt cheap. I got 5000lbs @5 cents a pound.I would love to hear more about your project.


sharpsguy.
 
I haven't read through this entire thread to see if anyone else has posted this suggestion ... so my apologies if it has already been mentioned ...

The best internet forum site to enquire about this sort of thing is "Maple Leaf Up" - dedicated to Canadian WWII military vehicles, including an "Armour" forum ...

http://www.mapleleafup.org/forums/

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A kangarou!! why not...

If you would trade the gun and turret for a hull, you could build a Canadian version of the first armoured pers carrier...that is a modified Sheman that carried our troops through the German line in Normandy...just an idea...a bit of research, trading and welding and a Kangarou could be reborned!
 
Hi everyone.

What a lot of great input. I have posted on Maple Leaf Up but only got one reply. Thanks to everyone that has posted. I have answered some and hope to hear back from those on any more developments. If anyone has anything else please let me know.

Thanks

Dan

danjahn@qlink.ca
 
If you thought DWJ has a steep road ahead of him finding the bottom half of a Sherman in Canada, take a look at these screen captures from the History Channel program splicing two hulls to get one hull. The lucky craftman are at a museum on the Isle of Wight. These guys had two cast hull Shermans with opposing damaged parts. They had to make a cradle to hold the pieces together for welding.

news.webshots.com/album/557774527HCxtPa
 
During the 1948 independence war, the Israelis were able to put together 3 working Shermans one part at a time from the Brit army scrapyards in Palestine. IDF then sent divers without diving equipment into the Mediterranean Sea floor to fish out abandon tank shells the Brits dumped into the ocean before their withdraw. I believe IDF also put a Spitfire back together the same way. History has shown that it can certainly be done with a lot of ingenuities, painstaking works and time.
 
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