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Originally Posted by Mike Cecil

Nice piece of footage. Several famous faces. Those are two of the Experimental series tanks, E1 with the big fake barrel and E2 with a 2-pdr, being demonstrated for the big wigs at Fisherman's Bend in early 1942. E1 retired hurt with a broken track. There were three AC-E series tanks built before the production run of 65 AC1 tanks.

All three if you look closely. Most of the footage is E1 and likely an incomplete E3, the one right at the end with no antennas or tool bins is probably the E2 being babied a bit as it was supposed to be sent of for gunnery trials the next day so you wouldn't want to break it.