_________image_________ Above: Scot tractor attached to a 16 wheeled trailer for hauling the Centurions. No road bans to worry about in March. _________image_________ Below: One of the Centurions being nudged by a Cat to load onto the trailer. Some of the tracks were seized up or the machines didn’t start, so extra encouragement was sometimes necessary to set them upon the lowbed. Art Ford began employment at Camp Wainwright in 1956 and is presently with Transport MSE (Mobile Support Equipment) Heavy Equipment. He received his 25 years of service plaque on the same night as his later-to-be wife, Kay Johnson, received hers. Art remembers the job described in the following report by WO M.A. Davis, Camp Transportation Officer. The article was submitted by Art with accompanying photos. Camp Transportation Section was tasked, at short notice, with the movement of five Centurion tanks, three tanks to CFS Dundurn, Sask. and two to CFB Shilo, Man., to be completed by 31 Mar 80. As tie-down kits were not available for shipment by rail, MSE Section transported the 55 ton tanks by truck. On 11 Mar 80 the two 92 foot rigs with a gross weight of 85 tons and the two pilot vehicles headed out for a 5-day round trip to CFB Shilo. Upon return, the drivers loaded two more tanks and headed for CFS Dundurn. All 5 tanks were moved in 10 days with only minor difficulties. Task completed, the drivers, both military and civilian, returned to their normal duties with one difference; they can now say that they drove a 42 wheel rig, 92 feet long, weighing 85 tons. Being modest, they will probably have to be coaxed to talk about the big move across the Prairies.