whelm

Some excellent new photos from 8Hussar's photobucket on the Gun Ram at the CWM.
http://s661.photobucket.com/user/8Hussar/library/?sort=2&page=1
 
Uploaded the turret+gun mount ones to imgur due to photobucket being a royal pain in the arse in general.
 
Album
https://imgur.com/a/JpHAxql
 



 
 

Some excellent new photos from 8Hussar's photobucket on the Gun Ram at the CWM.
http://s661.photobucket.com/user/8Hussar/library/?sort=2&page=1
 
Uploaded the turret+gun mount ones to imgur due to photobucket being a royal pain in the arse in general.
 
Album
https://imgur.com/a/JpHAxql
 



 
 

Thanks, but this one was just mostly removing lines for the image.
 
Start to finish
 
 
 
 

Logan, which was used in the M3 and Ram, some early M4's had it afaik. It had problems.

Small report on the Cletrac during WW2
 
https://imgur.com/a/WLZEpwm

Taking known dimensions from primary sources on the Ram OP and regular Ram I + II to come up with numbers. Hull height is to the highest point at the turret ring, Turret height is to top of periscope over cupola and top of periscope on turret roof. No idea on actual roof height but you could probably make a rough estimation using the known heights, the photo with the turret removed and the measurements from the suspension. Hull width is the side hull cast in bulges, versions with the door in place are wider still. You can see in the photo how the actual overall width is lower everywhere else on the hull.
 
Question remains if they had measured to the older style periscopes or the newer taller ones.
 
 

@whelm I'm finally getting around to publishing the Sexton article (it turned out to be quite huge even for a two-parter, so it took a while). Do you want an acknowledgement, and if so by what name?

The Ram makes a long dead bit of my anatomy wiggle. Just  so...
Because it is Canadian , but it is not quite ALL Canuck.
 
I want to hug it, but it says "No you are American!", and I say "But wait, so are you!".
As it waits, I say " And my relatives are Canadian (A lie, as we were chased out by the British)" Thus is the Ram lulled.

Some ram clips out of war time videos

Factory work, plane flying over formation of Ram's and then one going full tilt
 
Kangaroo crews showing how many they jammed into them
 
small clip after the sherman flail
 
Small training clip, Rams loaded with guys all over it.
 
Factory workers examining Rams at Borden
 
Shermans and Rams saluting with guns in parade.
 
couple seconds of a Ram driving by firing.
 
McNaughton looking at Ram suspension.
 
sons of King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia looking over Ram tank
 
Rams on landing ships for exercise pirate
 
Victory bond drive, Ram used as display
 
Another exercise for d-day with Rams going by
 
Rams firing smoke, crossing a bridge and the end of the video has the waterproofed ones dropping off the landing ships and lining up to fire on the beach after.
 
Ram assault bridge
 
Bonus Captured Italian SPG in use

Oh wow, that's a pretty big change. I think I spent too much time looking at the girl.

The armor is thicker in the unedited version.

Same reason the Ram I had the 2 pdr, no tank mounting existed for the 6 pdr. Canada's waiting on the UK who say they are working on it but it's not materializing so they go ahead and design their own. Australia wants the 6 pdr in their tank so they ask Canada for drawings to see how they manged it.
 

Yes they are nice stowage diagrams, I had paid to have two different 6 pdr mounting part lists scanned at the Aussie archives and they host everything like that after on their site which is nice. Bonus was the stowage stuff included in the papers.
 

 

 


 
 
they are nice for layering as well to compare and get a idea on rough slope for the different sections (in front of driver and cupola)
 
 
 

Here are some Ram diagrams that aren't shit. Click for big.
 

Well those french drawings show 1950 mm for what I assume is just the size of the cut opening on hull top.
 
Canada had the M4's outside diameter of the turret ring as 2051 mm, the inside diameter of the ring is listed as 1752.6 mm. I can only assume that is being measured from before the ring is installed and then when the ring and all the mounting equipment is installed, it also may be factoring in that 65 mm extra for the bolt down area, but I'm unsure on that.
 
I don't have many Sherman photos with the turret off showing the turret ring installed so using the Ram as an example. Using 8Haussars photos from the war museum.
 
 
Turret ring listed as having a 1832 mm lower outside diameter, and a 1537 mm upper inside diameter. You can see quite well on the third photo just how much space is eaten up by it's turret ring design.
 

 

 

 
 
 
 

Cool stuff. I had a bit of practice cleaning up one of the drawings.
 

Some ram clips out of war time videos

Factory work, plane flying over formation of Ram's and then one going full tilt
 
Kangaroo crews showing how many they jammed into them
 
small clip after the sherman flail
 
Small training clip, Rams loaded with guys all over it.
 
Factory workers examining Rams at Borden
 
Shermans and Rams saluting with guns in parade.
 
couple seconds of a Ram driving by firing.
 
McNaughton looking at Ram suspension.
 
sons of King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia looking over Ram tank
 
Rams on landing ships for exercise pirate
 
Victory bond drive, Ram used as display
 
Another exercise for d-day with Rams going by
 
Rams firing smoke, crossing a bridge and the end of the video has the waterproofed ones dropping off the landing ships and lining up to fire on the beach after.
 
Ram assault bridge
 
Bonus Captured Italian SPG in use

A chance the guys in the workshop/field messed up as well and applied the kit to a tank that was not supposed to get it.
 
Same reason some of the late turrets that had the weakspots fixed with thicker armour cast in the ended up having the extra armour welded to them anyways by mistake.

T6 pilot yes. They kept using it as a test bed as the years went on. Note it has the early/first? one piece lower front casting as well at this point.
 
The sexton pilot or not will be using whatever they had on hand that suited the conditions they wanted to test I suppose, just like the Ram or the M3 or M4.
 
 
https://imgur.com/a/4Dty1l9
 
Track types and details from the Ram manual 1943 and Canadian tank data book 1944.

1954
 

Your correct that it's related to the Ram 3.7" Evolution of that. Designed but never built.

3.7" Assault SPG
 

 
 

Shame about the quality.

Shame about the quality.

Nice work on that image clean up. Having done a few myself now, very clean work, it looks great.