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3 unusual facts about Universal Carrier


Oshawa Military and Industrial Museum

Aside from fully restored Bren Gun Carrier and M24 Chaffee, a pair of M4A2(76)W HVSS, and one unrestored Centurion, there are also a number of foreign-operated vehicles including a Scania HLVW prototype that went unprocured by the Canadian Forces in the 1980s.

Sir Ewan Forbes, 11th Baronet

The Alford area was one of the largest medical practices in the United Kingdom, and in the winter months Dr. Forbes often had to travel through ten-foot snowdrifts in a converted Universal Carrier.

USAT Meigs

Although the superstructure of the wreck was salvaged after the war by Fujita Salvage of Osaka, Japan, the cargo of munitions, railway lines, Bren gun carriers and trucks intended for Allied forces in Portuguese Timor remains.


Churchill Crocodile

From early in the war, there had been experiments with mounting flamethrowers on British vehicles; leading to vehicles such as the Cockatrice, Basilisk and the Wasp (the latter being a flamethrower on a Universal Carrier).


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