[chascbv]

Regarding the upcoming Centurion Mk6, the model is only marked with a red triangle on the left turret bin, and no unit is mentioned. Mk6s were upgunned Mk5s, and were converted from about 1956 to approx. 1960, I believe. Almost all conversions seem to have involved BAOR vehicles in Germany.

Can any of the British (or maybe non-British) members in this forum make an educated guess regarding the unit and period this Centurion might belong to? Is the red triangle a marking for "A Squadron" (I can´t see clearly the marking in Hawk's pictures)?

Thanks in advance for any intel.

[hawkonevoodoo]

Originally Posted by chascbv

Regarding the upcoming Centurion Mk6, the model is only marked with a red triangle on the left turret bin, and no unit is mentioned. Mk6s were upgunned Mk5s, and were converted from about 1956 to approx. 1960, I believe. Almost all conversions seem to have involved BAOR vehicles in Germany.

Can any of the British (or maybe non-British) members in this forum make an educated guess regarding the unit and period this Centurion might belong to? Is the red triangle a marking for "A Squadron" (I can´t see clearly the marking in Hawk's pictures)?

Thanks in advance for any intel.

It is a red triangle with 4B inside it.

[chascbv]

Thank you very much, Hawkonevoodoo. This is then the same tank included in AFV's excellent Centurion Mk.5/2 - Mk.6 NATO kit, also illustrated on the kit's box cover.

There is no way to identify this tank (AFV does not do it either) unless you have the (presumed) picture on which AFV based its choice of markings, and my books are sadly not available for the time being. Most probably this is a BAOR vehicle in Germany sometime in the late fifties or early sixties. 4B is the vehicle's call sign, the triangle denotes "A" Squadron, and the triangle's colour -- red -- denotes the senior regiment in the brigade/division. This is our sole clue. In the early sixties there were two armoured units in BAOR, namely the 7th and 20th Armoured Brigade Groups. If someone could find the id of the senior regiment in these two formations between, say, 1959 and 1965, we'd probably know the unit this tank belonged to. Could it be 1 RTR in 7ABG or QRIH in 20ABG? The Royal Scots Greys were also in the BAOR for a few years then, and would have surely been a senior regiment, but were they equipped with Centurions then (I have found no pictures of RSG Centurions thus far)?

Any ideas?

[Jet Collector]

Any chance of a Canadian version?

[smartd]

Originally Posted by Jet Collector

Any chance of a Canadian version?

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