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I will see if I can find some pictures.

 

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That is so cool! I'm a bit surprised that no one has tried to salvage it yet, I'm sure a lot of people would love to have one of those. Though depending on the location I guess it would be nearly impossible to get it out of there. I remember reading a reference to "tanks" being sold as army surplus in Canada after WWII, I wonder if these are what that was actually referring to? It would make a lot more sense, I can see something like this being pretty useful for civilians in a way that a real tank wouldn't be.

 

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Yes, we are trying to salvage it, but its really heavy and in a hard to get at location. It was originally flipped upside down with two trees growing through it, so we cleaned it up and this is how it looks now. They probably used it for logging. They stripped some parts of of this one which was likely to keep a small fleet running, so there could be more in the area somewhere. I was the one who discovered it.

 

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There is also the cab to a WW2 truck at the camp, so they definitely had more surplus other then the Bren Gun cairrer. They were sold cheap because they had so many and they couldn't do anything with them. People even used them as tractors on farms.