Vehicle Life Expectancies

[David Dunlop]

We have probably all heard or read comments about the fighters and bombers built during World War Two as only being expected to survive for so many hours, sorties missions etc., but that did not stop the designers from building the best possible equipment.

I was sitting here with my morning cuppa and wondered if similar expectations were ever documented about the soft skin and armour vehicles built during WW2? If you factor out war attrition and post war scrappies around the world, a surprising number of these vehicles still survive. That's probably too much thinking for one morning, but it did start me wondering.


David