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05-03-08, 05:31
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Sherman repaying the favour
Here are two pictures, the first is probably familiar to most MLUers. It shows trials with a Sherman traversing an obstacle on a 79th Armoured Division Churchill ARK, we all know the contribution that the Churchill ARKs made to the war effort. Perhaps not as well known is the second picture where a Sherman is repaying the favour to a Churchill tank. Anybody know what this Sherman Armored Ramp carrier is called?
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08-03-11, 22:07
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Twaby Ark
Derek
This is either the Twaby Ark or one of the similar vehicles derived from it. Not proceeded with as the Churchill was an easier shape to deal with. Chris
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21-12-11, 22:47
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LVT-1s in photo 1
The vehicles used to support the roadway in photo 1 are Amphibian Tractors T33 or LVT(1)s. These were the first of the LVTs to see service in large numbers and were quite primitive by later standards having no suspension whatever only guide rails for the track to run on. They had no road wheels or idlers, not even a return idler only a shoe that could be pushed out to tension the track which had rollers on the link pins that ran on the rails.
There are still quite a lot of them to be found abandoned on various Pacific islands such as Gasmata and they seem to have been treated as very expendable. David
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