Talk:Kangaroo (armoured personnel carrier)

Name
At a field workshop (codenamed Kangaroo, hence the name) - they weren't named after the workshop, if anything it was the other way round. 'Kangaroos' got their name because, like the animal, they have a 'pouch' to carry their 'young'.

I suspect the workshop was set up specifically to create the Kangaroo conversions and was named 'Kangaroo' because of it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.40.254.45 (talk) 19:24, 2 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Do you have a verifiable reference for this? Hohum (talk) 19:46, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

numbers
Chamberlain & Ellis in British and American Tanks of World War II on page 139 say 102 Priests were converted between October 1944 and April 1945, "carried out at various brigade workshops" GraemeLeggett (talk) 21:35, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Lorraine 37L
Deleted the mention of the Lorraine 37L from the article lead. The purpose of the lead is to introduce the topic of the article. In this case, half of it is devoted to another vehicle entirely. I also don't think the Lorraine is notably relevant as it was a small, lightly armored transport vehicle and not a converted tank. Although the Lorraine VBCP 39L may be considered a fore-runner of modern APCs, the Kangaroo is more closely related to the various tank-derived, heavy APCs used in modern times by the Israelis.Catsmeat (talk) 18:13, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

David Fletcher takes a look at the troop Ram Kangaroo
at the tank museum bovington uk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DjcNZWVa0w — Preceding unsigned comment added by Man74 (talk • contribs) 20:46, 16 February 2018 (UTC)