"1942 Marmon-Herrington ID Plate Chinese Truck" - Chinese, anyone?!?

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

Two more data plates of Dutch Marmon-Herrington tanks have surfaced at the Aberdeen Proving Ground Museum - see
http://com-central.net/index.php?nam...wtopic&p=94647

A very interesting fact is that they are in Dutch!

Saving them here as photobucket is going out of business (due to becoming unworkable):

Source: Aberdeen Proving Grounds Museum, courtesy of Neil Baumgardner

Marmon-Herrington CTMS-1TB1 ADM NR 2751-3007

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Marmon-Herrington MTLS-1G14 ADM NR 3059-4121

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[Hanno Spoelstra]

Interesting picture made ca. 1946 in Bandung, Indonesia. It shows a variety of vehicles being repaired/ overhauled in a Netherlands Army workshop: Universal Carrier, M3 Stuart, Vickers Light Tank, and a Marmon-Herrington Tractor in the foreground.

The vehicles have a variety of backgrounds, including early WW2 Netherlands Army, like the Marmon-Herrington Tractor, early WW2 British Army like the Vickers. These vehicles were first captured by the Japanese Army, then the Indonesian Army, and finally the Netherlands Army. So this was not a case of "one careful owner", and the Netherlands Army had to keep a wildly varying fleet running with limited resources.

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Source: http://proxy.handle.net/10648/1e999a...4-59a8898de3a6