# Canadian WWII Ram tank found by hikers in England **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 5, 2022, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-wwii-ram-tank-found-by-hikers-in-england/962357 "2022-04-05T22:56:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2022, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-wwii-ram-tank-found-by-hikers-in-england/962357/1 "2022-04-05T22:56:53Z")
CBC story here: > **[Hikers find rare WW II Canadian tank 'rusting peacefully' in English field |...](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/canadian-second-world-war-tank-english-field-1.6399834)** > > A group of British hikers has captured footage of a rare Canadian tank built during the Second World War and left abandoned in an English field.  The tank was likely used for target practice by the British Army after WWII, in a range in the Lake Country. May be the only surviving one of its particular production run. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-wwii-ram-tank-found-by-hikers-in-england/962357/2 "2022-04-06T03:26:43Z")
I’ll bet that one gets restored. I wonder what kind of range had them firing small at a tank. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-wwii-ram-tank-found-by-hikers-in-england/962357/3 "2022-04-06T03:34:35Z")
Sounds like your basic General Purpose Known Distance Range, used for everything from small arms to grenade launchers to mortars. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-wwii-ram-tank-found-by-hikers-in-england/962357/4 "2022-04-06T14:39:59Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > in the Lake Country. Where’s that !?! That article says “Peak District”. There is a “Lake District”, but no Lake Country. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-wwii-ram-tank-found-by-hikers-in-england/962357/5 "2022-04-06T14:45:00Z")
Sorry, I misread it. Was thinking it was the Lake District. ---
**Author:** ![Mk\_VII](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Mk\_VII](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mk_VII)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2022, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-wwii-ram-tank-found-by-hikers-in-england/962357/6 "2022-04-07T18:10:00Z")
Many temporary ranges had to be established, once the normal peacetime safety restrictions were relaxed, Much of the upland Sussex Downs was requisitioned for the purpose. Hard targets were required for antitank ranges and obsolete or beyond economic repair hulls were allocated for the purpose. A couple of Covenanter tanks have been recovered from where they were buried in pits at the end of the war once the ranges were closed down. They are the sole remaining examples of the gun-tank variants. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2022, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-wwii-ram-tank-found-by-hikers-in-england/962357/7 "2022-04-09T16:32:46Z")
A really neat discovery. I have this deluded picture of England as an industrial revolution run-amok land that long ago swallowed up any remote countryside.