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Kiwis making an amphibious carrier?

July 1 2012 at 4:10 PM
  (Login Francois_Gousse)
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Bonjour,

Are those Kiwis turning this carrier into an amphibious one?

http://www.g503.com/forums/download/file.php?id=27570

From this page:

http://www.g503.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=108&t=199855&start=435

Regards from Canada.
Francois Gousse
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Kapok carrier

July 1 2012, 5:46 PM 

looks like it must have floated......

http://digitalnzgeoparser.tripodtravel.co.nz/map/carrier-on-shore-after-nz-engineers-experiment-with-amphibious-bren-carrier-on-the-nile-at-maadi-egypt-photograph-taken-by-george-bull

obvously fared better than the carrier used in the British trials for rocket-assisted egress from mud.....

 
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(Login D_J_W)
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and it did Float !!!

July 1 2012, 5:57 PM 

More an be found at the NZ National Archives, here is the series of photos taken in 1943:

http://beta.natlib.govt.nz/photos?i[library_collection]=Photographic+Archive&i[subject]=Universal+carrier+%28Armoured+military+vehicle%29&i[year]=[1938+TO+1948]&text=nile+maadi

Note the safety proceduers, where are the lifejackets, although I do note there is a safety boat happy.gif

cheers
David


    
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