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08-12-11, 22:02
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To put Richards comments into perspective,The army left behind;
2472 artillery pieces, 20,548 motorcycles, and 63,879 vehicles This info from Richard Colliers book, The Sands Of Dunkirk If every vehicle (not including the guns and motorbikes was 2 meters wide,(my carrier is 1.9m wide) and they were parked side by side, touching. The line of vehicles would be 127.75 kilometers long.
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09-12-11, 01:56
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A great series of links - thanks Kevin.
Many of the Scout pics are new to me and I search the net fairly regularly. A lot of the frontal pics are of Scout Carriers. The giveaway is the flat armour panel above the front gun port but even that is not definative as it is a part which can be readily changed. Seems the wehrmacht got plenty of use out of their (our) carriers. I wonder if the average German soldier had as much fondness for them as many of their former allied crews... Cheers and thanks Phill
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09-12-11, 02:22
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Learning everyday...
Never realized HOW MUCH equipment got left behind...... nor the fact that the germans were that familiar with the Ford V8.
Some of the pictures show some UC with the side armour either cut off or lowered....some with sloping back...... are these the "scouts" you are referring to...? So most of that captured equipment would be Early Mark I.... Did we actually used early models with the sloping backs or was that purely a german modification...? Bob
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09-12-11, 03:06
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sloping back with only one side armour is Bren... no rear armour is scout...usually anyway
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09-12-11, 03:28
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Actually Scout = rear armour on right hand side only (from the side appears identical to later carriers) Also the rear armour top 3/4 folds down on hinges on Scout.
My hunch is that there are one or two former scout hulls still in existence with th rear armour removed (really only two main panels plus the armoured engine cover and converted to what ever use. A cut down Scout would be difficult to differentiate from any other early carrier undercarriage to the casual observer. That is probably the reason why they were all coverted and disappeared - a couple of plates off and you have yourself an instant tractor. Cheers Phill
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09-12-11, 04:05
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A couple more
Two more links i missed:
http://beute.narod.ru/Beutepanzer/uk...iversal-08.htm http://beute.narod.ru/Beutepanzer/uk...iversal-10.htm Kevin.
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