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Bedford MW portee
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I think they are pushing a French 47-mm gun up the ramps.
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Dear Hanno
According to Osprey New Vanguard 'British Anti-Tank Artillery 1939-45' the gun in this photo is indeed French but is a 25mm Hotchkiss. Regards Gerry McGinty |
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The following two pictures are from Pictorial History of the War, 20th December 1939 - 13th February 1940 (Virtue & Co. Ltd.), and were reprinted in MVT Windscreen issue 92.
What intrigues me is that all known pictures of Bedford MW Portees show the French 25mm SA Mle1934 / SA-L Mle1937 AT guns. Obviously these pictures were made in France in 1940. Was there a shortage of 2-pdr AT guns? H. |
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The gun is a model 34, the model 37 was a lighter version for easier handling (behind a horse-drawn cart). HTH |
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The photo he is captioning is IWM F4117 which seems to be part of a phoney war series. |
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Re: Bedford MW portee
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And another one from http://www.iwmcollections.org.uk/
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From Bart Vanderveen's Kaleidoscope of Bedford & Vauxhall Military Vehicles:
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Probably like most of these Bedfords, pictured below is one of the Hotchkiss guns which fell into the hands of the Germans.
Source: Foto Beute Bofors Pak im Einsatz bei der Wehrmacht Artikelnummer: 200070762537 |
Tac Sign
From the look of the tac sign on that truck it would appear to be the junior inf bde coy of the RASC... (that or the light ack ack unit of an armoured div :p ) It lloks like there is a diagonal seperation of the background colours... red over green?
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Captured Bedford MWD/MWG converted into a "PaK-Träger", or whatever the Germans would call a Portee (source).
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Boys for Hotchkiss
During the Polish campaign the British and French decided on closer co-operation and use of common material. One result of this was the exchange of French 25mm Hotchkiss modèle 1934 against 250 British Boys 13.9mm anti-tank rifles, ordered in March 1040, delivered in the autumn. Hence the BEF had it's 25mm's.
The French had seen that Polish Wz35 7.92mm anti-tank rifles served a purpose against lightly armoured vehicles and was more portable than it's 9mm & 13.2mm machine-guns. The Boys were issued to GRDI (groupe de reconnaissance de division d'infanterie) and air-portable infantry. For more info on the Boys watch 'Stop That Tank!' 1942 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lkc2yAaU3CY |
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See https://hmvf.co.uk/topic/33492-bedfo...tract-numbers/ for details on contracts and numbers produced
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