time to strip the old girl

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally posted by Keith Webb
Have just dug up some more information about the fate of these tanks in Australian service...

Apparently we had 147 or so and their destinty was to be broken up during the war... the armour was cut up and used on landing craft to armour the helm, whilst the Hercules engines were used to power Phillipines lighters, with 4 engines going into each boat.

So the remaining mechanical parts were disposed of, probably mostly scrapped which makes this find all the more interesting.

Keith,

Seeing you draw the same conclusions, I assume you used the same sources as I did? Like
Marmon Herrington Tanks in Australia by Paul Handel, my Marmon-Herrington military vehicles site and the various threads on this forum. Or are there any new sources?

H.