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August 26th, 2004, 08:28 AM
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Can anyone suggest a good technical book or website for info on the BGC?
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August 27th, 2004, 04:10 PM
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Medic,
You tried the Wheels & Tracks series?
here
Can't remember specifics offhand, but it's a good starting point.
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I've been looking around and have been amazed at being totally unable to find a really good, in-depth source about the Carrier.
Plenty of skimpy one-page stuff, but for such a widely-used pice of kit, nothing really satisfactory..... 
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August 28th, 2004, 09:14 AM
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Sounds like someone needs to write a book on them then!
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September 23rd, 2004, 10:11 PM
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I was very interested indeed to see two of these strange vehicles up-close and in running order at the Arnhem commemorations. The V8 Ford engines were extremely quiet and the driver demonstrated how to turn the Carrier 'on a sixpence' by locking one track.
Yet again, for such a ubiquitous vehicle, I wondered why so little info is available.....
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September 24th, 2004, 12:03 PM
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But apparently if you try a quick turn at speed it's easy to loose a track....
Have seen a workshop manual for them at last...
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September 24th, 2004, 06:33 PM
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Ahhh - that explains why the driver was executing a fairly gentle turn on the track running alongside Ginkel Heath.... 
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Many thanks for the link, figjam ! [img]smile.gif[/img]
It has a lot of useful information and fills in a lot of gaps in my ( very patchy ) Bren Carrier knowledge.
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no worries mate!
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Quote:
Originally posted by airborne medic:
Can anyone suggest a good technical book or website for info on the BGC?
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Go here http://www.universalcarrier.org/index.html then investigate their links.
There's enough info to get you started.
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Thought i remembered this thread. For those of you interested Osprey have got a volume coming out of in June on the Universal Carrier written by David Fletcher. See:
http://www.ospreypublishing.com/titl...hp/title=S8138 |
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