Mr Dawe's Centurion.

[Phil Woollard]

Michael would you have any good reference photos/ drawings of the infantry telephone and the tow rope bollard and associated rear plate area please?

[Michael Cecil]

Phil,

I've had a look through my Centurion images this morning, and the vast majority have the rear fuel tank installed with the telephone on the side of the fuel tank. Other than grainy B&W taken in the 1950s and early 1960s, I have a couple of colour images of tanks without the rear fuel tank which I will have to scan.

The best Tank Telephone image I have is below. It is the Australian modified position on the side of the fuel tank, but still provides a reasonable overview of the telephone box. When mounted on the rear plate, it was upright, ie rotated 90 degrees right of the shown position

If you PM me your email, I can send a higher resolution image of the one below, plus the other two mentioned above.

Mike

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[Phil Woollard]

That looks good Michael, my email exploration20@outlook.com.

[Stephen White]

There are a stack of pics and drawings for the inf/tk telephone on my Cent thread here, although it’s for the Mk 5/1 with external tank. The box was common to all marks though.

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And if you feel it needs the ‘phone itself, details here:

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I never met an infantryman brave or stupid enough to use it.

[Phil Dawe]

Stephen, I presume the Cent was the only tank to have this facility?

[Phil Woollard]

The Chieftain also had the very same unit, Stephen would you be so kind as to let us have the Length, width and depth of the unit please?

[Stephen White]

Phil, look at my posts as I suggested.

[Phil Woollard]

I looked ta. On with the infantry telephone unit, fiddly work in steel but satisfying

[Phil Woollard]

Finished the infantry telephone unit, lots of work and no where near as detailed as Stephens!

[Phil Woollard]

The arse is now complete, on to the gun crutch next.

[Phil Woollard]

Have a look at the new taller deflector brackets Phil.

[Phil Dawe]

That looks better Phil.

[Phil Woollard]

A couple more photos of the real thing for reference.
I may make some mid way brackets and try those.

[Phil Woollard]

Gun crotch/crutch sorted this afternoon.

[Phil Dawe]

What a great crutch