Hanno,you wrote:
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"What we need to find out is whether these Marmon-Herrington Light Tanks shipped to China were actually tanks built for the KNIL."
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I think no MH's were shipped to China. They never left the US and were rejected by Chinese officials IN the US (well, that's how I understood it and it may be wrong of course)
The "Chinese" Marmon-Herringtons were NOT ordered by China but by the US in a later stage than the KNIL order. Of course the two orders must have messed up fragile production processes within the MH company!
So there were two orders of light tanks to MH: one KNIL of 234, one US (to be handed out in China) of 240!
Both orders were fullfilled/completed.
No KNIL tanks were shipped to China: Remember after deliveries to KNIL in Dutch East and West Indies, to Australia and after LL deliveries to Latin-America, hardly any MH tank remains unaccounted for.
Cheers,
Nuyt
Overvalwagens!