Otter LRC CM4647296 comes home

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Jordan Baker

Hanno. I detailed the other wartime markings found on the Otter in previous posts.

Thanks for the reminder Jordan - I wil go back and reread what you shared before.

Originally Posted by Jordan Baker

To answer your question about being stripped by the Dutch. I believe it to be yes but to a point. As things have come apart I have found near mint KG#3 everywhere. The brighter more vivid Dutch green was found deep inside some assemblies. But once taken apart it was clear things were not completely broken down. An example would be the steering column. Factory is Gm gloss black for the shaft and the wire cover was KG#3. However my example shows the whole thing was over sprayed in white. Then in the engine compartment the steering box has been oversprayed in the Dutch green.

As far as I can tell the rebuilding process in the Netherlands Army was quite artisanal in the late '40s/ early '50s. No systematic strip down repair and reassembly lines like the French had for the Willys, Ford and Hotchkiss Jeeps. So the result of each rebuild would vary.

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