New Tank and Armoured Vehicle Data Plate Sharing Website

[AlexGreen]

Originally Posted by Mike Cecil

Thanks Alex,

You'll notice the feint "/1" adjacent to the "V" - it's on the main plate, not the raised section. Indicates the tank was upgraded at some later time to Mk5/1 standard ie the addition of an extra armoured plate to the upper glacis plate.

Nice header image too - is that a Brit Army photo or some other country like Denmark?

Regards

Mike

Great spot thank you for the information I'll add that to the post.

I believe its actually from a video game although it looks deceptively real.

[tankbarrell]

Surely the BA series tanks were new build. Any tank that had been a Txxxxxx would have become a xxZRxx, would it not?

[Mike Cecil]

Alistair & Adrian,

I think you will find that 35707T is the part number of the early pattern gunmetal plate, the much larger later pattern Aluminium plate being 44521T.

Registrations had a T prefix, rather than a suffix, whereas many Centurion (and other UK AFVs?) part numbers have a T suffix.

I agree with Adrian: this is a new build, model K tank. Not sure when the switch to the Mk V (ie co-ax .30cal M1919A4) from the Mk III ie co-ax 7.92mm BESA) occurred in production, but Nov 1951 seems too early. If I'm correct then this tank started life as a MkIII.

Regards

Mike

[AlexGreen]

Added some new plates that have been sent in:

Canadian Built Grant M3 Medium – https://militarydataplates.com/m3-grant-plate/
M3 Lee Medium Tank Plate 2 – https://militarydataplates.com/medium-m3-lee-plate-2/
M4A1 Sherman Tank – https://militarydataplates.com/m4a1-sherman-plate/
Panzer IV Ausf F Plate 2 – https://militarydataplates.com/panzer-iv-plate-2/
Panzer III – https://militarydataplates.com/panzer-iii-plate/

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Hi Alex, you wrote:

built by Montreal Locomotive works known as a Grizzly, went to Russia and Libya ,first combat Sherman

The Grizzly tank was built in Canada, retained for training there, a number were supplied to Portugal after WW2. That’s it in a nutshell....

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Where did you get this information? It is full of mistakes...

ank: M3 Grant Canada built

Tank Serial Number: 25005

Tank Builder: Baldwin Locomotive Works

Tank Build Date: March 1942

Additional Markings: Traces of Stone colour paint on edges so located on outside hull

plate made from bronze rather than brass

Plate

Plate Bring back from western desert , these Grants were shipped straight to Egypt from Canada hence no WD plate. The T serial number 25005 is very close to a known El Alamein Grant of 25016 called Robin Hood II

[Mike Cecil]

Hanno,

The Centurion MkV/I entry has not been corrected either (see my post 24/2/2020, above re the 'registration' number actually being the part number).

Mike

[AlexGreen]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

Hi Alex, you wrote:



The Grizzly tank was built in Canada, retained for training there, a number were supplied to Portugal after WW2. That’s it in a nutshell....

Yes thank you for the correction. Could you elaborate further about the wrong information on the grant plate?

[tankbarrell]

Grants were all built in the USA to UK orders, they were not Lend Lease so likely the plate was in the British style. The other M3 plate you show was to a US order.
There is no such thing as a Canadian built M3 Grant.