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With the reduction on the British armed forces post war and domestic production able to replace all the lend lease vehicles that would still be required (as you said, cheaper cost, reduce lend lease payments, reduce spares dependance also reducing payments to the US, newer designs like Comet and Centurion being adopted).
The Brits did sell or gift a number of Sherman Fireflys to various nations post war as well. Lots were abandoned in European scrap yards (the Dutch Armoured Forces made use of many salvaged from these sources post war), returned aircraft I have read were pushed over the sides of carriers as well as other military equipment being dumped at sea. That leads to the question of what did the US do with these returned tanks? I shall have to do more digging. I had always thought that the UK returned a good number of their M4s back to the US to reduce their Lend Lease debt. I can't find any evidence that the UK had Sherman tanks in service after WW2, let alone that they used them in Korea.
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