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supertsar
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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 1:07 pm Post subject: Pressed Steel Car Company Chicago (Hegewisch)
Does anyone know a source for determining exactly what tanks were produced by the Pressed Steel Car Company during WWII? I have found snippets but no comprehensive list. My dad built tanks there before he enlisted in 1943. He remembers the riveted Grants, "open topped tanks" (Priests I assume), flail tanks (!), and shermans... just trying to confirm his memories.

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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 2:44 pm Post subject: Re: Pressed Steel Car Company Chicago (Hegewisch)
Just from looking up "Pressed Steel" in the index of Hunnicutt's Sherman book: M3 Lee and Grant, M4, M4A1, M7B1, M12, M40, Turrets for the CDL, T3 (Sherman Flail), M32B1, M32B3, M30. I'm not sure if they built any M4A3.

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Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 11:56 pm Post subject: Re: Pressed Steel Car Company Chicago (Hegewisch)
Thanks. Interesting. I guess his memory was pretty good. I didn't expect the M4A1s - I didn't think they had a foundry there to cast hulls - wonder where they came from. Turrets as well. There were plenty of founderies nearby in South/East Chicago.

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