----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Stevens" <colin@pacdat.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 8:49 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Urban legends-buried equipment
> I've been thinking... what if we HMV types teamed up with the
> environmentalists and went in and removed these buried items and billed
the
> guilty party for the labour to clean up the sites? :-)
Funny, but almost that exact thing evidently happened in Norman Wells,
N.W.T.
I don't have any details and my memory might be a bit mixed up, but when I
worked for a pulp and paper engineering firm in Burnaby, B.C., one of the
senior engineers was looking over my M-37 one day and told me a story of
working some oilpatch or other near Norman Wells, and said that 'across the
water' (or something - not easily reachable in any event), was the extensive
remains of a U.S. Army base which I think had been used in support of the
pipeline project either during or shortly after the war. He told me that
when they went to have a look, there were still "huge warehouses with
shelves full of parts lying all over the place", lots of machinery left
behind, and "rows and rows of almost complete vehicles" left outside.
Naturally, I asked if any of the stuff was still there waiting for someone
like me to go souvenir hunting, and he replied:
"No. They (oil company? government? military?) had some U.S. contractor
go and clean the site up, and he apparently wound up with (some large
number) of complete vehicles and a lot of parts."
I suggested than any one of a hundred friends locally would've jumped at the
chance to do something like that, and he replied that "they (again, who?)
didn't want that to happen because it would disrupt the local economy."
Again, no dates, names or that sort of really useful information, but the
conversation itself happened in 1985.
Andy Hill
MVPA 9211
Vancouver, B.C.
(now Colin has a Seep, he can go amphibbing with some of our Gama Goateed
members. They can share bailers. It'll be fun!)
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