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Thanks for the coin photos on Australian coins! I award you this three-cent piece for your numismatics-related contributions. --Astrokey44 11:10, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

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Sentinel tank

Thanks for adding that photo - it's very useful. Nick-D (talk) 23:36, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

No problem, I thought the article could use a decent image of 1 of the survivors Ways (talk) 07:02, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

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Australian Shermans

Australia received fewer than 10 of them, just for trials. They decided that the Churchill was more suitable for low-speed jungle use. Supposedly this was because of a better steering gearbox, with much better neutral turns on the spot. Also in some reports because the M4s were fitted with the wrong tracks (mud-chewing all steel with a raised grouser, not the flat rubber pad type).

So there were some in Australia. But as they didn't see service, I'd agree with your removal here. Andy Dingley (talk) 17:27, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

Yep, I'm aware of the three that were trialled against the Chuchill, what I'm not sure of is that somewhere at some time some M4s might have been borrowed in much the same way as the M108s and a couple of M48s with mine rollers were in Vietnam. Ways (talk) 05:25, 29 August 2015 (UTC)

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Request for citation - Tanks in the Australian Army

G'day. I've requested a citation [1] for the material you added on the Australian experimental light tank to the Tanks in the Australian Army. I've skimmed through my copies of Beale and Hopkins and couldn't find anything but I may have missed it. Thanks. Anotherclown (talk) 00:38, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

I didn't add it, I only moved it from the middle of bit about the Australian Cruisers, where it kind of messed up to flow of the text, to the end of the paragraph. Ways (talk) 02:46, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

Ok no worries, I can see that now. All the best. Anotherclown (talk) 04:16, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

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