Name This Photo!!! - The AFV Recognition Thread

[evil drunken-fool]

Huh ???
Are we into reruns ? 

Yeah, well that one was done 3 days ago.

If you guys want. I don't mind going through and making a list of what has been done already.

 

[McG]

We've had more than a few repeats.  It happens.

If you guys want. I don't mind going through and making a list of what has been done already.

If you really want to be keen, you could build it all into a vehicle recognition database(ish) in the Army.ca wiki.


... btw, nobody has identified the vehicle so far this time around.

 

[ironduke57]

Guy´s first look, then think, then post. That is NOT the AGM. Why you think I posted the ;D behind it? I don´t make it so easy (normally).

Regards,
ironduke57

 

[McG]

Guy´s first look, then think, then post. That is NOT the AGM. Why you think I posted the ;D behind it? I don´t make it so easy (normally).

It is AGM but on a platform other that MLRS.

 

[Blackadder1916]

Prototype for KMW & GD's "Donar"?

http://www.deagel.com/Self-Propelled-Howitzers/DONAR_a002173001.aspx

 

[ironduke57]

@MCG Well this combination has it´s own name.

@Blackadder1916 Right. I had hoped that it was too new to be widely known.

- http://www.kmweg.com/gb/pressenews_detail.php?id=112

Regards,
ironduke57

 

[Blackadder1916]

This one wasn't announced yesterday, but let's try it anyway.

 

[geo]

Oik... with those slits and the bolt on armour, looks like something out of South Africa or Rhodesia

 

[Blackadder1916]

. . .  looks like something out of South Africa or Rhodesia

No.

 

[exspy]

Looks like the barrel of a .55 calibre Boys anti-tank rifle coming out of the top front aperture.

Was this an allied forces vehicle knocked together locally in the western desert campaign?  I'm thinking of the Free French.

Dan.

 

[Blackadder1916]

Yes, it probably is a Boys.  No, it is not the western desert or Free French.

(edited to add view of the production line)

 

[larry Strong]

Early Isreali home brewed?

 

[tango22a]

Bedford 3ton 4X4 with improvised armour plate circa 1940 . Used to replace Englih armour lost in Dunkirk evacuation

 

[Blackadder1916]

Early Isreali home brewed?

Not Israeli.

Bedford 3ton 4X4 . . .

Getting closer.

 

[tango22a]

ONE ton truck converted to improvised APC in England just after Dunkirk.

 

[Blackadder1916]

ONE ton truck converted to improvised . . .

While a number of trucks of various makes and sizes were improvised as "armoured" vehicles early in the war, this veh was of a specific type and besides it's commonly used name also had an army nomenclature that referred only to that specific veh.  Over 900 were produced.

 

[NavyShooter]

Bedford OXA armoured vehicle

http://www.speedace.info/automotive_directory/bedford.htm

 

[NavyShooter]

Someone else take a turn....I'm busy packing to go to Gagetown, so I'm not able to dig out a pic for now.

NS

 

[Blackadder1916]

Bedford OXA armoured vehicle

http://www.speedace.info/automotive_directory/bedford.htm

You got it.  Official nomenclature appears to be Lorry, 30cwt, Anti-tank.  A nickname for this vehicle may have been  "meat safe".

The Bedford OXA was a British improvised armoured vehicle built during World War II by mounting an armoured body onto a Bedford OXD 1.5 ton truck chassis. 948 units were built in 1940-1941. The vehicle was used by British Home Guard units until 1942.

This from a thread on another forum provides additional information.
http://www.mapleleafup.org/forums/showthread.php?t=208

I have at last found the articles I was looking for regarding the 30cwt Bedford OXA anti-tank truck.
Source: Classic Military Vehicle March and June 2002 and Allocation by Central Census of B Vehicle WD numbers Central Ordnance Depot Chilwell, Data book of wheeled vehicles Army Transport 1939 -1945

950 units produced in two contracts:

4410861 to 4411060 orders placed 12/07/40 on contract V4104 for 200 units
4332566 to 4333315 orders placed 12/12/40 on contract V4070 for 750 units
Note the census numbers and the dates do not match, I have checked this out via another source and it seems to be correct, a warning here for those of us that try to date trucks on census numbers alone!!.

Conceived to fill the need for tanks in 1940, issued to the new Reconnaissance Regiments operating in the south east of England.

Frame and running gear standard for 30cwt Bedford

1050x16 tyres, runflat fronts, cross country rears

Bodies produced by various manufactures, Wrightson & Co Stockton on Tees, Alexander Finlay Motherwell, Wessops Darlington and Dorman Long & Co

All up weight 6 tons 9.5 cwt

Armament: 1 Boyes anti tank rifle, 1 Bren gun plus crew rifles x 4

Withdrawn for service 1941 and put into storage

200 units issued to the Air Ministry in 1941 for airfield defence

Unknown number issued to Home Guard units

Unknown number converted to GS load carries post 1942

None known to have survived

Now this would make a really interesting replica project who's up for it 

Hope this is of some use

 

[larry Strong]

Pickiong it up for Navyshooter